Nursing Professional Development Specialist

Cleveland Clinic

1d•Onsite

About The Position

At Cleveland Clinic Health System, we believe in a better future for healthcare. And each of us is responsible for honoring our commitment to excellence, pushing the boundaries and transforming the patient experience, every day. We all have the power to help, heal and change lives — beginning with our own. That’s the power of the Cleveland Clinic Health System team, and The Power of Every One. Performs the planning and evaluation of Nursing orientation as well as ongoing professionals development of nurses for all on-site nursing programs.

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree in Nursing required.
Current state licensure as an Registered Nurse (RN).
Requires critical thinking skills, decisive judgment and the ability to work with minimal supervision.
Must be able to work in a stressful environment and take appropriate action.
Demonstrated knowledge of educational methodology such as needs assessment, curriculum development, instructional design and principles of adult learning.
Presentation skills required.
Minimum two years recent nursing experience required with demonstrated clinical expertise to include clinical nursing experience as an academic instructor or staff development educator, preceptor of BCLS or ACLS instructor.
Requires full range of motion; manual and finger dexterity and eye-hand coordination.
Requires standing and walking for extensive periods of time.
Requires corrected hearing and vision to normal range.
Requires some exposure to communicable diseases or bodily fluids.

Nice To Haves

Master's Degree strongly preferred.
Master’s Degree in Nursing with a non-nursing Bachelor’s degree is acceptable.

Responsibilities

Plans and evaluates Nursing orientation as well as ongoing professionals development of nurses for all on-site nursing programs.
Designs, directs, implements and evaluates educational offerings based on knowledge, skills and learning levels of nursing staff.
Identifies learning needs and desires of nursing personnel.
Develops and utilizes appropriate evaluation systems to determine the effectiveness of educational activities.
Consults with individuals within the Nursing Institute and Ambulatory Nursing, CCF and the community regarding professional nursing practice and roles.
Assists in the development of department specific orientation and competencies as required.
May assist departments in orientation of staff.
Makes recommendations regarding employment, performance appraisals, promotions and terminations.
Develops and maintains a cataloging system for tracking and retrieval of all available teaching-learning resources.
Collaborates with clinical instructors, preceptors and project managers in setting educational goals for the individual student.
Other duties as assigned.