Professional Development Specialist RN - Pediatric

SUMMARY JOB DETAILS Department: Practice/Development (PPDR) FTE: 0.8 (64 hours per pay period) Shift(s): Days, Monday-Friday This is a part time (0.8FTE, 64 hours per pay period) benefit earning position that will support the Pediatric specialties. The Professional Development Specialist manifests a high level of expertise in professional clinical practice, educational design and patient and family education. Provides skillful consultation and facilitation skills that impact processes and outcomes of patient care.

Contributes to the overall success of the organization through leadership in the workforce strategies and care and service to patients and families. Educates providers and other staff on the importance of patient education and health literacy. RESPONSIBILITIES - Applies appropriate education theory and adult learning principles to education activities - Uses appropriate materials and teaching methods to assure delivery of consistent, value-added and reliable content to employees, patients and their families - Consults on new employee individual education plans based on evaluation/outcome criteria - Addresses urgent education needs and demonstrates ability to increase the overall competencies of staff and novice-to-expert development - Evaluates education outcomes of training and development activities - Consults to make recommendations for systems and structures to support individual/unit/service professional and clinical development - Simplifies and clarifies complex materials - Demonstrates skills for effective presentation and delivery of programs - Prioritizes learning needs from a variety of sources in the provision of relevant and timely education - Utilizes current research findings to increase the knowledge and competency of the workforce - Provides project management for clinical patient care and patient/family education initiatives - Develops programs to support nursing practice and Patient & Family Centered care (PFCC) - Imbeds PFCC and evidence based practice into appropriate work product - Explores and implements new patient education technologies - Manages production and maintenance of educational content of patient education materials including evaluation, creation and revision of education content - Serves as consultant to nursing staff, providers and multidisciplinary team in development of patient education materials