Nursing Prof Dev Practitioner (RN) / Nursing Admin Staff Dev
Company: Hartford HealthCare
Location: Naugatuck
Posted on: April 17, 2024
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Job Description:
Description Job Schedule: Full Time Standard Hours: 40 Job
Shift: Shift 1 Shift Details: 40 hours Nursing Prof Development
Practitioner (RN) - Emergency Department
Work where every moment matters.Every day, over 30,000 Hartford
HealthCare colleagues come to work with one thing in common: Pride
in what we do, knowing every moment matters here. We invite you to
become part of Connecticut's most comprehensive healthcare
network.St. Vincent's Medical Center in Bridgeport has more than
3,200 employees. It includes a 473-bed community teaching hospital,
a 76-bed inpatient psychiatric facility in Westport, a large
multispecialty provider group, and special needs services for
adults and children. St. Vincent's is the first hospital in
Fairfield County to be integrated into the Hartford HealthCare
network, and is the system's second-largest hospital.
Job Summary:
The Nursing Professional Development (NPD) Practitioner is a
Registered Nurse with NPD practice judgement and expertise who
influences professional role competence and growth of learners. The
NPD practitioner is responsible for supporting learners within the
context and framework of the Nursing Professional Development,
Scope and Standards practice as approved by the American Nurses
Association.
This position works in collaboration with nursing leadership to
foster and influence competency management, clinical nursing
education, professional role development, policy standardization,
collaborative partnerships, scientific inquiry, transition to
practice and onboarding/orientation of new Hartford HealthCare
colleagues.
The practitioner is an essential member of the nursing leadership
team who promotes the alignment of regional NPD and practice
excellence with the HHC system as a whole.
Responsibilities:
- 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.
- Collaborative Partner: Collaborates with members of the nursing
leadership team to assess learning needs, develops programs,
monitors clinical competency and supports action plans. Represents
nursing in the development of inter-professional learning
activities.
- Role Development: Promotes professional nursing practice and
quality patient care according to the ANA standards of practice.
Endorses the theory-based approach through the continuum of
practice from novice to expert.
- Mentor: Advances the profession of nursing and the NPD specialty
by contributing to the professional development of others and
supporting the ongoing professional learning as individuals develop
across practice, professional and educational settings.
- Orientation: Develops, facilitates, conducts and evaluates
programs during the onboarding phase and when changes in roles,
responsibilities and practice occur.
- Change Agent: Works to transform processes at micro, meso and/or
macro system levels. Uses change management strategies and theories
to drive desired outcomes.
- Champion of Scientific 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.
- Competency Management: Utilizes tools to capture knowledge,
skill, ability judgment and performance during the situational or
dynamic phases of practice (i.e. initial and ongoing
competencies).Qualifications - Minimum of 3 years of active
clinical nursing experience. At least 1 year of experience in an
acute care environment. Experience as a preceptor.
- Previous Emergency Department clinical experience required for
this position.
- One year of relevant teaching experience preferred, nursing
professional development experience preferred.
- Licensed Registered Nurse from the CT DPH obtained prior to hire
date.
- NPD or Clinical Specialty Certification required within two years
of hire hire/transfer
- BLS required.
- Minimum of BSN required. MSN preferred.
We take great care of careers.
With locations around the state, Hartford HealthCare offers
exciting opportunities for career development and growth. Here, you
are part of an organization on the cutting edge - helping to bring
new technologies, breakthrough treatments and community education
to countless men, women and children. We know that a thriving
organization starts with thriving employees-- we provide a
competitive benefits program designed to ensure work/life balance.
Every moment matters. And this is your moment.
Keywords: Hartford HealthCare, New England , Nursing Prof Dev Practitioner (RN) / Nursing Admin Staff Dev, Administration, Clerical , Naugatuck, Northeast
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