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Day - 10 Hour (United States of America)
**This is a Stanford Health Care job.**
**A Brief Overview**
The Nursing Professional Development Specialist I (NPDP I) is a registered nurse with NPD practice judgment and expertise who influences professional role competence and growth of learners in a variety of settings with the desired outcome of improved population health. The NPDP I supports learners in interprofessional practice and learning environments to facilitate continuous development and learning for the healthcare team. The NPDP I is responsible for utilizing the Scope and Standards of NPD Practice and Professional Performance to provide the framework that delineates the expected level of professional performance as an NPD practitioner; describes the duties that all NPD practitioners are expected to perform competently as the minimum guidelines for practice. Additionally, the NPDP I assumes seven key roles including a learning facilitator, change agent, mentor, leader, champion for inquiry, advocate for NPD specialty, and partner for practice transitions to support the organization in the provision of quality patient care by helping to ensure the clinical competence of nursing staff and foster the delivery of compassionate, evidence-based nursing practice.
**Locations**
Stanford Health Care
**What you will do**
Learning Facilitator: Uses the educational design process and adult learning principles to bridge the knowledge, skills, and/or practice gaps identified through learning needs assessment and evaluation of outcomes.
Change Agent: Actively works to transform processes at micro, meso, and macro systems. The NPDS uses change management strategies and theories to drive desired outcomes.
Mentor: Advances the profession of nursing and the NPD specialty by contributing to the professional development of others and supporting ongoing professional learning as individuals develop across practice, professional and educational settings.
Leader: Influences the interprofessional practice and learning environments, the NPD specialty, the profession of nursing, and healthcare.
Champion for inquiry: Promotes a spirit of inquiry, the generation and dissemination of new knowledge, and the use of evidence to advance NPD practice, guide clinical practice, and improve the quality of care for the healthcare consumer/partner.
Advocate for NPD specialty: Actively supports, promotes, and demonstrates nursing professional development as a nursing practice specialty.
Partner for practice transitions: Supports the transition of nurses and other healthcare team members across practice and learning environments, roles, and professional stages.
Responsibilities are the required duties of the NPDP I including onboarding/orientation, competency management, education, professional role development, integration of research/evidence-informed practice/quality improvement, and collaborative partnerships. The NPDS I collaborates with the leadership team and staff regarding patient care and staff performance issues participates in setting standards and maintains knowledge and skills in the areas to which assigned.
Responsibilities filled by the NPDS I include:
Onboarding/orientation: Develops, coordinates, manages, facilitates, conducts, and evaluates onboarding and orientation programs for nursing & other healthcare personnel.
Competency management: Assesses, measures, documents, and supports competency, and addresses deficiencies in staff members and team competence.
Education: Uses educational design process to plan, implement, and evaluate educational initiatives to address practice gaps for identified target audiences to achieve specific outcomes related to identified deficits or opportunities for improvement in knowledge, skill, and/or practice. Uses knowledge and skills to evaluate how educational initiatives enhance the professional development of nurses and other healthcare personnel. Supports the provision of continuing nursing education and collaborates with other professions to design, manage, implement, coordinate, and evaluate interprofessional continuing education. If employed at CEPD, functions in the capacity of Nurse Planner for SHC ANCC Accredited Provider Unit Program for Continuing Nursing Education Credits and CA BRN.
Professional Role Development: Assists others in their professional role development, practice role transitions, and succession planning. NPDS I may coach others, and coordinate, facilitate conduct, and evaluation activities that promote professional role development and role transition.
Collaborative Partnerships: Teaches, coordinates, serves as liaison, and/or advises nurses and other learners concerning education and learning. NPDS I enters intro collaborative partnerships both within and external to the organization.
Inquiry: Promotes and integrates the science of NPD specialty to continuously improve practice and promote inquiry in patient care settings. NPDS I may conduct, evaluate, encourage, consume, facilitate, and/or participate in the inquiry, including dissemination of findings
In addition, as a role model of professional behavior, the Nursing Professional Development Specialist I is instrumental in creating a professional nursing environment within the organization contributing to the provision of optimal care and promotion of health at an individual and global level by supporting learning, change, and professional role competence and growth to meet the needs of diverse units and departments.
The primary outcomes of NPDS I practice include learning, change, and professional role competence and growth. The NPDS I contributes to the provision of optimal care and promotion of health at an individual and global level.
1. Learning: Supports the acquisition of knowledge, skills, abilities, and attitudes upon which to base practice.
2. Change: Supports the adaptation of new behaviors and processes in practice.
3. Professional role competence and growth: Supports performance that meets defined criteria based on specialty areas, content, and model of practice in addition to advancement through Benner's stages of clinical development or progression.
**Education Qualifications**
BACHELOR'S DEGREE IN NURSING FROM AN ACCREDITED UNIVERSITY Required or
MASTERS IN NURSING AND EQUIVALENT COURSEWORK IN CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT, ADULT LEARNING THEORY, LEARNING NEEDS ASSESSMENT, AND LEARNING OUTCOME MEASUREMENT FROM AN ACCREDITED COLLEGE OR UNIVERSITY Required
**Experience Qualifications**
FOUR (4) YEARS OF PROGRESSIVELY RESPO
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