Professional Development Practitioner Nurse Educator

Job Details

• Shifts Available: Days - 10 hours; 40 hours/week; 6am-4:30pm, Monday-Friday
  
• Work Location: Onsite; Pleasanton, CA
  

• Promotes quality patient care by serving as a resource to department leaders and hospital administration regarding evidence-based practices
  
• Provides education to employees based on individual and departmental identified needs
  
• Maintains competency in professional development specialty
  
• Incorporates evidence-based practice, regulatory requirements, specialty professional organizations recommended practices when designing curriculum.
  
• Develops, implements, and evaluates cost-effective educational programs and materials.
  
• Identifies specific needs for, and means to, enhance employee development
  
• Implements education plans for specific employees based on assessed needs
  
• Teaches in formal and informal settings using appropriate methodology and strategies.
  
• Mentors employees, students, and interns.
  
• Incorporates cultural humility, demonstrating respect and empathy within all roles and responsibilities of a professional development practitioner.
  
• Develops clinical competencies that align with job specific performance criteria, evidence-based practice, and regulatory requirements
  
• Champions change within clinical practice
  
• Integrates clinical research, regulatory requirement and evidence-based practice in education and training programs to provide a scientific foundation for professional practice
  
• Collaborates with subject matter experts and department leadership on development and revisions to policies and procedures.
  
• Incorporates evidence-based practice, regulatory requirements, specialty professional organizations recommended practices when collaborating on policy, procedures and standardized procedures.
  
• Builds and maintains relationships with staff, providers, colleagues and the surrounding community
  
• Employee must perform all duties and responsibilities in accordance with the C-I-CARE Standards of the Hospital
  

Requirements

Education Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Nursing from an accredited college or university required
  
• Master s degree in Nursing preferred. Incumbents hired into this position after April 16th, 2023, must possess and present an MSN or be enrolled in an accredited Master of Science (MSN) program at the time of hire. Incumbents with a BSN must receive and present the Master s degree within three (3) years of job acceptance or will be subject to termination for failure to complete and/or provide proof of MSN
  

• Minimum of 3 years of experience in clinical nursing
  
• Experience in planning educational programs and/or teaching of clinically relevant content
  
• Participation in professional organizations preferred
  

Licenses and Certifications

• Certification in specialty, if practicing at the unit level
  
• Certification in Nurse Professional Development upon hire or obtained within 2 years
  
• Current American Heart Association BLS required with additional AHA Certification required based on role