Description
Description SHIFT: No Weekends
SCHEDULE: Full-time
The HCA Center
for Clinical Advancement (CCA) is part of our strategic nursing
initiative to create an organizational structure (shared services) focused
specifically on clinical education. The CCA will develop and deploy consistent
world-class curriculum, content, and programs across HCA's 178 acute care
facilities nationwide. The strategy of our center shared services
implementation focuses on our amazing clinical educators dedicating their time
in high value-add, top of skill efforts with our clinicians. To aid in this
effort, HCA will leverage size and scale to share clinical education best
practices across the enterprise and help make decisions that will positively
impact our patient outcomes.
We’re excited to advance
and hope you will join us on our mission to support the care and improvement of
human life!
HCA's Dominion Hospital,
Reston Hospital and StoneSprings Hospital combine a
total of 240 Beds.
The Clinical
Professional Development Specialty Educator is responsible for
enhancing professional practice and the provision of quality patient care in an
identified specialty throughout hospitals in their assigned division. The
Specialty Educator will have deep subject matter expertise in nursing in
his/her professional specialty and will provide evidence-based, quality
educational programs and activities that promote professional competency for
nursing, inter-professional and non-licensed clinical staff in the identified
specialty setting.
Orientation/Onboarding
- The CPDSE actively collaborates
and may lead the development of the entire orientation/onboarding process
for nursing in the identified specialty. This includes participating
or leading the development, coordination, managing, facilitating,
conducting, and evaluating on-boarding and orientation programs for nursing
and other healthcare personnel in the critical care setting. To meet this
expectation includes the following:
- Provides and assist with
orientation/onboarding programs to promote employee retention through the
division
- Conducts orientation in a
manner that facilitates a positive learning environment
- Promotes cost effectiveness
through implementation of efficient orientation/onboarding practices
- Role models organizational and
personal commitment to new employee success
- Collaborates with the Education
Coordinator the logistics of orientation to keep all stakeholders informed
- Collaborates with the Market
Director, Clinical Professional Development (MCPD) and facility Clinical
Professional Development Educator (CPDE) to adjust the program based on
evaluation results
- Incorporates organizational
values/culture
Competency Management
The CPDSE is responsible
to have the expertise in competency assessment in order to participate in the
development, coordination, and managing, facilitating, conducting, and
evaluating competency in the critical care setting. To meet this
expectation includes the following:
- Interprets and demonstrates
competencies to the (ex. critical care, women’s services, surgical
services etc.) staff
- Role models competent practice
- Identifies learning needs of
the specialty staff either through on-site review or metrics
- Assesses practice gaps
comparing competencies to actual practice and provides direction to reduce
the gaps to practice.
- Plans educational content with
learner engagement
- Collaborates with the CPDEs,
MCPD and Director, Clinical Programs to review outcomes data to evaluate
and refine competency management activities for the identified specialty
throughout the division.
- Identifies appropriate
resources for problem solving
Education
Education is designed to
improve professional practice and provision of quality care. To
accomplish this goal the CPDSE may participate or leads the design and
identification of educational activities to address practice gaps for
identified target audiences, which may include licensed and non-licensed
healthcare personal in the critical care setting. These activities are
developed to achieve specific outcomes related to identified deficits or
opportunities for improvement in knowledge, skill and practice. To meet
this expectation includes the following:
- Assesses practice gaps.
- Identifies learning needs and
desired outcomes for area for the identified specialty
- Identifies desired outcomes
- Plans educational content
delivery with learner engagement
- Collaborates with the clinical
education team members which may include the Director, Clinical Programs
and Market Director, Clinical Professional Development and/or Clinical
Professional Development Educator to evaluate and adjust educational
programs based on evaluations and feedback
- Promotes safe, quality and
compassionate patient care.
- Aligns educational programs
with organization’s policies and procedures
- Ensures that educational
programs meet regulatory requirements.
- Incorporates organizational
values/culture.
- Supports new ideas and
innovation in educational design
- Identifies resources for
problem solving.
- Utilizes current, best evidence
to improve (insert specialty) nursing throughout the division
- Provides staff with resources
and education to implement changes
Research Evidence-based
Practice (EBP)/Quality Improvement (QI)
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