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Nursing Professional Development Specialist: Emergency Services

LOCATION: Akron, Ohio

CATEGORY: nursing

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Overview

At Akron Children’s, careers in nursing feel different. You make an impact on a daily basis, face-to-face, on children and their families. You do much more than treat patients. As the individual your patients come to recognize, rely on and smile at, you go beyond the title of nurse. Because this is more than a job. It’s what you were meant to do.

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What makes a successful nurse at Akron Children's? Check out the top traits we’re looking for and see if you have the right mix.

  • Compassionate
  • Helpful
  • Personable
  • Positive
  • Sincere
  • Understanding

Job Description

Full-time, 40 hours/week 

Variable Hours

Onsite


Summary:

The NPD specialist will adhere to the Scope and Standards of NPD practice and develop tools, theories, skills and knowledge to improve the practice of staff.

Responsibilities:

  1. The NPD specialist advances the profession by contributing to the professional development of others, supporting collaborative relationships and supporting life-long learning.
  2. Uses the educational design process to bridge the knowledge, skills and practice gaps identified through needs assessment.
  3. Influences the inter-professional practice and learning environments, the NPD specialty, and the profession of nursing and healthcare through collaboration with leadership in planning and decision making to achieve desired results.
  4. Actively works to transform processes at all levels through inspiration, initiation, adoption and sustainment of and adaptation to change using project management and improvement processes.
  5. Promotes the generation and dissemination of new knowledge and the use of evidence to advance NPD practice, guide clinical practice and improve patient care.
  6. Actively supports, promotes, and demonstrates nursing professional development as a nursing practice specialty through promotion of research, EBP, and QI.
  7. Supports the transitions of nurses and other healthcare team members across learning and practice environments, roles and professional stages.
  8. Other duties as required.

Other information:

Technical Expertise

  1. Experience in project management with interdisciplinary team is required.
  2. Experience in data analysis and presentations is required.
  3. Experience working with all levels within an organization is required.
  4. Experience in healthcare is preferred.
  5. Proficiency in MS Office [Outlook, Excel, Word] or similar software is required.

Education and Experience

  1. Education: Master’s degree in Nursing. Completion of Nurse Education track of MSN program is preferred.
  2. Certification: Registered Nurse licensure is required; BLS certification is required; PALS certification may be required by area of service. Nursing Professional Development certification required.
  3. Years of relevant experience: 5 to 7 years is preferred. Years of nursing professional development: minimum 1 year required.
  4. Years of experience supervising: None.

Full Time

FTE: 1.000000


Status: Onsite


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Grow Your Career with Akron Children’s

Here at Akron Children's, we offer many ways for our nurses to succeed and grow professionally. There are multiple ways to grow your nursing career into areas such as leadership, education/professional development, advanced practice, informatics, research, quality, and more.

Benefits

Benefits for Akron Children’s team members go far beyond their compensation. Our comprehensive benefits program offers coverage, connections and resources that enable you to live your best life while growing your career.

  • Nurse Residency
    Program

  • Health and
    Wellness Programs

  • Education
    Assistance

  • Career
    Development

  • Ascend
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  • Awards and
    Recognition

Our Promises

  • To treat every child as we would our own.

  • To treat others as they would like to be treated.

  • To turn no child away.

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