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Department: Corporate
Location: Philadelphia
Hours: Per Departmental Needs
Summary:
The Penn Medicine Corporate Department of Nursing Professional Development provides education, training, and professional development programs for nurses across the University of Pennsylvania Health System (UPHS). The team designs and delivers programs, including new-hire nurse orientation, nurse residency programs, and continuing education sessions, to ensure that all UPHS nurses deliver care at the same high standard and have opportunities for professional growth with the ultimate goal of improving patient outcomes. The Nursing Professional Development Specialist (NPDS) assesses the nursing staff’s learning needs, designs curricula, leads program delivery, and evaluates learning outcomes. They work to uphold research and evidence-based practice standards in support of high-quality patient care delivery and comprehensive individualized patient-and-family centered care. The Nursing Professional Development Specialist (NPDS) reports to the Associate Chief Nursing Officer (ACNO) for Nursing Professional Development.
Responsibilities:
- Needs Assessment. Identifies and prioritizes the nursing staff’s learning needs in consideration of affected patient populations, new clinical evidence, organizational goals, and changes within the health system as well as nationally or globally. Considers cultural, ethical, and generational components reflective of learners to achieve educational needs.
- Curriculum Development: Designs educational nursing curricula that is framed by appropriate teaching/ learning theories and validation methods for assessing nurse competency. Integrates action-oriented learning while ensuring the provision of quality care and protection of the public. Is guided by the domains of education, program management, career development and scholarship, and leadership, adopted from Nursing
- Professional Development: Scope and Standards of Practice (Association of Nursing Professional Development, 2022).
- Educational Program Delivery: Leads, teaches, and facilitates educational programs for a diverse audience. Demonstrates the ability to use a variety of teaching methods, both in the classroom and clinical environments. Selects appropriate program presenters (e.g. nurses, physicians, vendor, other professional) for continuing education offerings and helps with preparation and logistics coordination. Evaluates program outcomes and recommends improvements, as needed.
- Compliance: Adheres to Nursing Professional Development Department, Accreditation agencies (state and national), and ANA policies for program management and annual reporting. Program Management: Organizes work effectively, ensuring effective stakeholder management, prioritization, optimal resource allocation, quality assurance, and timely project delivery
- Collaboration: Coordinates with the department’s operations team and provides assistance to peers. Serves as a liaison to communicate and negotiate multiple diverse perspectives in a respectful and effective manner to achieve/advocate positive change and delivery of appropriate and ethical care
- Leadership: Provides leadership to promote excellence in nursing practice, facilitates change initiatives, and supports the Penn Medicine research mission. Promotes patient-and-family-centered, culturally competent, and age specific care, as appropriate, throughout the educational programs offered by the department. Cultivates an environment of inquiry and learning that supports the autonomy and accountability of the nurses' roles, excellence in nursing practice, and upholds health system strategic goals and values
- Other duties as assigned to support the Corporate Nursing Department
Credentials:
- Basic Cardiac Life Support (Required)
- Registered Nurse - PA (Required)
Education or Equivalent Experience:
- BSN and Masters Degree Required
- 2+ years of Clinical experience in specific area assigned is required.
- 2+ years of hospital based experience in Med Surg or Telemetry.
- Experience in Nursing Professional Development is preferred)
We believe that the best care for our patients starts with the best care for our employees. Our employee benefits programs help our employees get healthy and stay healthy. We offer a comprehensive compensation and benefits program that includes one of the finest prepaid tuition assistance programs in the region. Penn Medicine employees are actively engaged and committed to our mission. Together we will continue to make medical advances that help people live longer, healthier lives.
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We are an Equal Opportunity employer. Candidates are considered for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, ancestry, age, disability, marital status, familial status, genetic information, domestic or sexual violence victim status, citizenship status, military status, status as a protected veteran or any other status protected by applicable law.
