Why work for Nebraska Methodist Health System?
At Nebraska Methodist Health System, we focus on providing exceptional care to the communities we serve and people we employ. We call it The Meaning of Care – a culture that has and will continue to set us apart. It’s helping families grow by making each delivery special, conveying a difficult diagnosis with a compassionate touch, going above and beyond for a patient’s needs, or giving a high five when a patient beats a disease or conquers a personal health challenge. We offer competitive pay, excellent benefits and a great work environment where all employees are valued! Most importantly, our employees are part of a team that makes a real difference in the communities we live and work in.

Job Summary:

Location: Methodist Hospital
Address: 8303 Dodge St. - Omaha, NE

Work Schedule: Varied day shift hours, 36 hours per week

The Staff Development Nurse is responsible for developing, organizing, implementing, and coordinating new employee orientation and onboarding.

The role includes providing staff with evidence based unit specific education across the health system to ensure annual and ongoing skills and competencies are met.

Responsibilities:

Essential Job Functions

1. Develop and lead the clinical orientation and progression of new hires to the unit. 

• Coordinate clinical practice based learning with preceptor.

• Facilitate General Hospital Orientation. 

  • Not applicable to MFH Medical Surgical

• Facilitate, evaluate and validate new hire clinical progression and competency. 

• Develop action plans for success when needs are identified during orientation. 

• Perform documentation audit for 6 month probationary and annual evaluation of employees.

2. Identify, plan and implement staff development initiatives to enhance knowledge, validate competency and encourage personal and professional growth. 

• Perform and participate in ongoing educational and competency needs assessments.

• Participate in developing and disseminating action plans/change initiatives that address individual, unit and organizational learning and competency needs to improve the quality of care. 

• Collaborate with unit leadership to monitor completion of learning/competency requirements.

• Support and mentor unit staff in personal and professional development opportunities utilizing Benner’s Novice to Expert model.

• MFH Medical Surgical: Serve as a resource for unit staff to obtain specialty certification

3. Participate in ongoing initiatives to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of clinical orientation and ongoing competency.  

• Facilitate use of evidence based practice and adult learning principles when developing educational initiatives.

• Collaborate with unit leadership to develop and implement unit based skills and competencies. 

• Engage in and evaluate trials of educational and competency initiatives. 

• Develop and update online learning modules.

• Develop and update clinical skill critical elements.

  • Not applicable to MFH Medical Surgical

• MFH Medical Surgical: Develop and coordinate learning through use of simulation lab

4. Serve as clinical role model for staff through expert knowledge and application of the nursing process and critical thinking skills. 

• Assist, support and mentor staff in individualizing the nursing plan of care based on assessment findings and evidence based practice standards. 

• Review, modify and disseminate changes related to documentation and care planning within the Electronic Health Record.

5. Accountable for the delivery of quality care to patients and families according to the individualized needs of the patient.

• Maintain skills and competencies in the delivery of direct patient care.

• Support clinical development of direct care staff by working a minimum of two shifts per month with a patient care load on the unit.

6. MFH Medical Surgical: Facilitate unit specific opportunities for student nurse clinicals and preceptorships.

7. MFH Medical Surgical: Participate in hospital and system committees as directed by leadership

Schedule:

Varied day shift hours, 36 hours per we

Job Description:

Job Requirements

Education

• Bachelors of Science in Nursing (BSN) from an accredited scho