Nursing Professional Development Specialist
- Employer
- University of Virginia
- Location
- Charlottesville, VA
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- Institutional & Business Affairs, Health & Medical Services
- Employment Type
- Full Time
- Institution Type
- Four-Year Institution
Job Details
Job location: Charlottesville, VA
Employment Type: Full-time
Posted data: 2021-01-15
Req: R0020658
Nursing Professional Development Specialists are responsible for the centralized orientation, continuing education. professional development, and mandatory training of the UVA Health System nursing staff. Specifically this includes assessment of learning needs, the design, marketing, delivery, and evaluation of learning programs.
Learning Facilitator
Facilitates professional role development of Healthcare Team Members:
Collaborates with representatives of other professions to assess, identify outcomes, plan, create, coordinate, manage, facilitate, implement, and evaluate educational activities to address practice gaps for professional development and role transition, for identified target audiences (e.g., licensed and non-licensed inter-professional healthcare personnel)
- Champion for Scientific Inquiry
- Participates in evidence-based practice, quality improvement, and research activities
- Integrates research and/or Evidence-Based Practice into all aspects of role
- Promotes the generation and dissemination of new knowledge and the use of evidence to advance Nursing Professional Development (NPD) practice, guide clinical practice, develop educational programs, and improve patient care.
- Serves as an advocate for developing, integrating, and utilizing new knowledge and best available evidence into practice.
- Leader
- Embrace and exemplify ASPIRE and Be Safe Values of the organization
- Collaborates with academic and practice partners to influence educational outcomes
- Serves as a consultant for department and health care system optimization
- Provides educational support and direction to carry out organizational goals
- Demonstrates and advocates for healthy work environments
- Integrates ethics in all areas of practice
- Demonstrates emotional intelligence
- Demonstrates energy, excitement and a passion for quality work
- Supports a culture of innovation and risk taking
- Complies with regulatory body standards and guidelines
- Mentor
- Mentors team members to promote professional role development and role transition.
- Contributes to professional development of other health care team members.
- Advocates for life-long learning by encouraging continuing education, specialty certification, professional and/or academic advancement
- Identifies barriers to change
- Develops programs to educate team members and/or helps team members to cope with change
- Exhibits flexibility and creativity during times of change
- Change Agent
- Utilizes the Influencer Model to facilitate improvement in processes and organizational change
- Introduces and supports new ideas
- Works with others to identify problems and solutions
- Embraces and sustains meaningful change
- Communicates the vision for change
- Validates nurses’ skills, knowledge and abilities
- Advocates transformation of processes to bridge the KSA gaps identified through needs assessment
- Assesses, identifies outcomes, plans, creates, coordinates, manages, facilitates, implements, and evaluates competency activities.
- Develops educational programs to achieve identified outcomes related to improving knowledge, skills, or practice deficits.
MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS
Education: Graduate of accredited Nursing program required. Master’s Degree required or completion within 12 months of hire. Master’s in Nursing or Master’s in Education strongly preferred.
Experience: 3 years clinical nursing experience required. 2 years educational experience preferred
Licensure: Licensed to Practice as a Registered Nurse in the Commonwealth of Virginia required. American Heart Association (AHA) Health Care Provider BLS certification required. Certification in an associated specialty is expected within 2-3 years upon reaching eligibility requirement.
PHYSICAL DEMANDS
This is primarily a sedentary job involving extensive use of desktop computers. The job does occasionally require walking some distance to attend meetings, and programs.
The University of Virginia, including the UVA Health System which represents the UVA Medical Center, Schools of Medicine and Nursing, UVA Physician’s Group and the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, are fundamentally committed to the diversity of our faculty and staff. We believe diversity is excellence expressing itself through every person's perspectives and lived experiences. We are equal opportunity and affirmative action employers. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, color, disability, gender identity or expression, marital status, national or ethnic origin, political affiliation, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, veteran status, and family medical or genetic information.
Organization
In 1819, the University of Virginia established a new model for intellectual exchange and cross-disciplinary collaboration in higher education. Two hundred years later, as a major research institution, we continue to challenge conventions, lead with ingenuity and advance knowledge for the common good.
What began as an innovative idea has become one of the nation’s leading public research universities, with over 21,000 undergraduate, graduate and professional students. UVA also has over 3,000 full-time faculty offering more than 400 degrees.
Each of the University’s eleven schools has its own distinctive mission, working together to garner consistently high rankings—including #2 Best Value Public College (Princeton Review, 2016), #3 Public University in the Nation (U.S. News & World Report, 2016), and #3 Best Value Among Public Colleges (Kiplinger’s, 2016).
As we invest in and strengthen our research capabilities, UVA seeks new faculty ready to uncover new insights, rewrite old rules and collaborate on intellectual discoveries.
RESEARCH COLLABORATIONS THAT CROSS DISCIPLINES
As an R1 institution, the University’s research centers, consortia and laboratories are on the leading edge of discovery and technology, offering collaborative spaces for students and faculty to solve global problems.
Our professors are recognized members of major national scholarly and professional organizations, including the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Our faculty’s engagement in interdisciplinary research is being facilitated by new research institutes specializing in everything from big data to brain functioning, and by cluster hires across schools.
NATIONALLY RANKED HEALTH SYSTEM
UVA is also home to a nationally renowned academic medical center and the UVA Health System, which serves a three-part mission to treat patients, conduct translational research and train medical practitioners in a wide variety of disciplines.
Established as the nation’s 10th medical school in 1825, the institution has since grown to include a 612-bed hospital and a Level I trauma center, nationally recognized cancer and heart centers, a Children’s Hospital, and primary and specialty clinics throughout Central Virginia.
The UVA Medical Center is consistently ranked among the nation’s best hospitals by the U.S. News & World Report magazine and has been named among the top 25 percent in seven specialties.
INSPIRING STUDENTS, INSPIRED TEACHING
The vast majority of UVA students come from the top 10% of their high school class, as well as from all 50 states, over 142 countries and a variety of socioeconomic backgrounds. Despite their diversity, all UVA students share a love of learning and a drive to achieve.
One of the reasons students choose Virginia is our unique residential culture. At UVA, the community of students, faculty and staff personifies the Jeffersonian idea that living and learning are connected. The Academical Village was constructed to support a unique residential experience, with faculty living in the Pavilions, students occupying Lawn rooms and the world-famous Rotunda at its heart. The University’s residential culture continues to support this experience today—strengthened by students, faculty and staff rich in backgrounds, ideas and perspectives. Our unique culture is also paying dividends in innovation: UVA’s faculty have generated more than 130 patents since 2010.
Perhaps most importantly, faculty come to UVA knowing that instruction is as important as research, and they pride themselves on their many teaching awards. Our best professors look for ways to encourage, mentor and develop tomorrow’s leaders inside and outside the classroom.
LIFE IN CHARLOTTESVILLE
Living in Charlottesville you’ll find sophisticated restaurants, world-renowned wineries and breweries, cosmopolitan arts and music, friendly urban and suburban neighborhoods and a Piedmont landscape that has lured adventurous souls for centuries. No wonder the U.S. National Bureau of Economic Research named Charlottesville the “happiest city in America” in 2014.
In addition to UVA and its health system, several major employers have facilities in Charlottesville, including State Farm, Northrop Grumman, the U.S. Department of Defense, GE and others. Charlottesville is also becoming a center for innovative start-up businesses. The University also actively helps spouses and partners of faculty members build their networks and pursue employment opportunities with a wide variety of area employers.
The University of Virginia is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. Women, minorities, veterans, and persons with disabilities are encouraged to apply. In accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act Amendments Act of 2008 (ADAAA) and the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, qualified individuals with disabilities are protected from discrimination and may be entitled to reasonable accommodations to assist in their pursuit of employment at the University. This includes assistance in completing the online job application as well as reasonable accommodations during the interview process. Please contact the UHR Service Center: 434.982.0123 orAskHR@virginia.edu to request assistance.
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