Clinical Professional Development Specialist - RN

Overview

The Clinical Professional Development Specialist serves as educator, consultant, researcher, instructional and evaluation designer, clinical practice expert, and interprofessional collaborator supporting the clinical development needs of staff throughout the Presbyterian Healthcare Services (PHS) enterprise. This RN supports the educational components of the organizations clinical initiatives and practices. 

 

Why work at Presbyterian?

As an organization, we are committed to improving the health of our communities. From hosting growers' markets to partnering with local communities, Presbyterian is taking active steps to improve the health of New Mexicans. For our employees, we offer a robust wellness program, including free access to our on-site and community-based gyms, nutrition coaching and classes, wellness challenges and more.

 

Presbyterian's story is really the story of the remarkable people who choose to work here. The hard work of our physicians, nurses, employees, board members and volunteers grew Presbyterian from a tiny tuberculosis sanatorium to a statewide healthcare system that serves more than 875,000 New Mexicans.

Qualifications

• Licensure: State of New Mexico or Compact State Nursing
• Academic Preparation:
  • Bachelors Degree in Nursing required.
  • Masters and Doctoral Degrees in Nursing, Nursing Education, Education, Instructional Design, Informatics Business, Leadership, Informatics, or Administration required.
  • Specialty Certifications: Specialty certification in nursing, informatics, education or equivalent certification preferred
• Professional Requirements/Emergency Response:
  • Maintains current training in following:
    • BLS
    • ACLS, PALS, NRP, TNCC, and other emergency response certification may be required depending upon area of assignment.
• Experience: Minimum At least 3 years of clinical care expertise required in clinical specialty. 

Responsibilities

Educator:

• Provides educational activities based on learning needs assessments, utilizing the right instructional design, training delivery, learning technology, and evaluation methodology to provide learning opportunities with high impact.
• Teaches and coaches learning / performance needs assessment.
• Leads projects to bridge performance gaps system-wide using optimal, budget-conscious instructional design, incorporating evidence-based data to structure instructional design and performance content.
• Identifies national trends in education design, measurement, and reporting outcomes.
• May participate in local, state, and national speaking engagement.
• Mentors team and clinical staff in informatics systems.

Performance Evaluator:

• Applies a systematic process for analyzing human performance or practice gaps and develops and implements a plan to effectively close the gaps.
• Builds and implements Levels 1-5 evaluation tools to measure satisfaction, learning, and transfer to performance based upon performance objectives.

Clinical Practitioner:

• Acts as a role model for high standards of practice, coaches to resolve practice issues or foster professional growth, and implements evidence-based practice changes to improve patient outcomes or enhance staff knowledge and skills.
• Role models continuous learning within Clin Ed team and across the learning community.
• Measures impact of Clinical Education services and compares to local, state, and national benchmarks.
• Mentors evidence-based-practice integration into services.
• Mentors learning community in optimizing clinical practice leaders in partnership.
• Publishes evidence to enhance national knowledge.

Consultant / Collaborator:

• Engages intra- and interprofessional groups in practice or process/workflow-related problem-solving through data analysis, development of an action plan, consensus and commitment building, and incorporation and evaluation of changes.
• Mentors and leads team to accelerate clinical performance.
• Initiates and/or supports changes in practice through the clinical governance process.
• Participates/leads local, state and/or national committees, specialty groups.

Researcher:

• Incorporates a problem-solving approach to produce better patient and/or educational outcomes that incorporates the best evidence, is cost effective, acknowledges patient / learner knowledge, and results in more individualized, streamlined, effective and dynamic nursing care and/or education.
• Leads research, quality improvement projects.