Clinical Professional Development Practitioner (PRN)

Clinical Professional Development Practitioner

Job Code: ED1027

Travel may be required between clinical locations as needed including Culpepper, Haymarket, and Manassas. 

PRN education position to support clinical orientation programs including ITO, NGO, and Nursing Skills

 

The Onboarding Professional Development Practitioner (OPDP) is a registered nurse responsible for all aspects of the administration of Interprofessional Team Orientation (ITO) and Nursing General Orientation (NGO) Programs including curricular design, program coordination, delivery, and evaluation. The OPDP fulfills the roles of learning facilitator, change agent, mentor, leader, champion for inquiry, partner for practice transition, and advocate for the nursing professional development specialty. Providing clinical and educational expertise, the OPDP facilitates orientation programs to ensure preparation of clinical team members for enculturation into the organization and adherence to regulatory standards and requirements. 

All members of the Professional Development team are expected to maintain, role model, and enforce exemplary practice in accordance with the Nursing Professional Development: Scope and Standards and the UVA Community Health ASPIRE behavioral standards.

 

ABOUT US

We are welcoming a new era in healthcare where achieving good health is just the beginning. At UVA Health Northern VA & Culpeper, we believe in caring for the whole person by getting to know – and making connections with – our patients. By combining the talent and expertise of our people, the breadth of capabilities across our system, and our commitment to helping our communities get better and stay healthy, we are improving the patient experience.

 As a UVA Health Northern VA & Culpeper team member, you will have a voice in patient care decisions, support the most advanced medical technologies and feel a strong sense of satisfaction from making a difference in people’s lives every day.

 

JOB TYPE

Classification: Exempt

Supervises Positions: No

 

JOB SUMMARY:

The Clinical Professional Development Practitioner is a registered nurse responsible for developing, coordinating, and implementing educational activities to promote individual development and competency among nursing department team members. The CPDP fulfills the roles of learning facilitator, change agent, mentor, leader, champion for inquiry, partner for practice transition, and advocate for the nursing professional development specialty. Providing clinical and educational expertise, the CPDP designs, implements, and evaluates educational programs in alignment with organizational needs and vision. 

All members of the Professional Development team are expected to maintain, role model, and enforce exemplary practice in accordance with the Nursing Professional Development: Scope and Standards and the UVA Community Health ASPIRE behavioral standards.

This position supports all of Community Health, with alignment to (a) designated to specialty area(s). 

 

JOB COMPETENCIES:

Education:

• Collaborates with organizational and nursing leaders in assigned area to identify or validate specific knowledge, skill, or practice gaps related to clinical and professional practice and develop strategies to address identified learning needs.
• Develops learning outcomes based on identified learning gaps, which align with the needs, and goals of the stakeholders and leaders.
• Utilizes best practice standards including adult learning principles in the planning, design, implementation, and evaluation of educational activities to facilitate achievement of desired learning outcomes. 
• Evaluates the impact of programming on learners, organizational resources, and patient outcomes and makes adjustments in collaboration with nursing leaders in the assigned area. 
• Respects diversity by considering cultural, ethnic, generational and other differences in educational planning and incorporating inclusive educational design to meet learner needs.

Competency Management

• Collaborates with key stakeholders, including leaders and Onboarding Professional Development Practitioners/Specialists in the assigned area to develop specialty specific competencies to be assessed during specialty orientation in clinical areas.
• Collaborates with key stakeholders and leaders within the assigned area to develop specialty specific ongoing competencies, based on needs and identified organizat