Job Description

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Schedule Weekly Hours:

Job Description:

The Professional Development Nurse facilitates professional role development and growth of nurses and other healthcare personnel along the continuum from novice to expert. They function as a change agent, mentor, facilitator of learning, leader, champion for scientific inquiry, partner for practice transitions, and advocate for the nursing professional development (NPD) specialty. 

Major Responsibilities:

1. Onboarding/Orientation: Develops, implements and evaluates orientation and onboarding processes that lead to successful integration of the employee in the organization and effective job performance.

2. Clinical Guidance: Engages with staff to provide point in time guidance and/or applicable resources to support safe patient care.

3. Competency Management: Leads ongoing assessment and evaluation of practice. Responsible to develop, coordinate, facilitate, and evaluate competency assessment process to assure the delivery of safe patient care.

4. Education:

• Assesses issues, trends, and data to identify practice gaps and educational opportunities within the organization.  Plans, implements and evaluates educational programs according to the principles of adult learning to close the identified gap or opportunity.  
• Demonstrates the ability to utilize a variety of teaching/learning methodologies. 

5. Quality and Process Improvement/Change Management: 

• Acts as a change agent within all settings. Works with others to identify problems and solutions, develops goals for change processes, applies improvement processes to effect practice change, monitors effectiveness and progress throughout practice change, assists to sustain change.  
• Encourages, facilitates and participates in research, and evidence-based practice in patient care settings including the dissemination of findings.

6. Collaborative Partnership: Engages in collaborative relationships within and external to the organization to promote patient safety and population health within the community.

7. Professional role development/performance: Identifies and develops strategies to facilitate a continuous process of learning for staff to achieve professional role competence and growth. Supports staff in role transition, role integration, skill acquisition and mastery to advance from novice to expert in their profession.  Promotes and integrates the science of the NPD specialty to continuously improve practice, maintain competency and contribute to the GHS mission, vision, values and strategic plan.

8. Adheres to regular and predictable attendance.

9. Personally interacts, engages with and cares for patients.

10. Ensures patient safety.

Education and Learning:

REQUIRED

Bachelor's degree in Nursing + a Master's degree in Nursing required within five years of hire date.

Work Experience:

REQUIRED

3-4 years flight RN experience or equivalent

License and Certifications:

REQUIRED

• Registered Nurse (RN) licensed minimally in the state of practice, some positions may require additional state RN licenses.

• Certified Flight Registered Nurse (CFRN) within 24 months of hire date

• Certified Medical Transport Executive (CMTE) within 3 years of hire date

• Certified Healthcare Simulation Educator (CHSE) within 2 years of hire date

• Emergency Medical Technician (WI, IA, MN or National) certification required with 12 months of hire date.

• Current Infant-Adult Basic Life Support for Health Care Providers (with hands on learning) from one of the following programs; American Heart Association or American Red Cross.

• Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP) certification required within 18 months of hire date

• Transport Professional Advanced Trauma Course (TPATC) within 18 months of hire

• Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS)

• Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS)

• Basic Life Support for Obstetrics (BLSO) or Advanced Life Support for Obstetrics (ALSO) within 18 months of hire

Age Specific Population Served:

Infant (less than 1 year)

Pediatric (1 - 12 years)

Adolescent (13 - 17 years)

Adult (18 - 64 years)

Geriatric (65 years & older)

OSHA Category:

Category I - All Employees in this job title have a reasonably anticipated risk of occupational exposure to blood and/or other potentially infectious materials.

Environmental Conditions:

Exposed to infectious diseases.

Physical Requirements/Demands Of The Position:

Sitting Frequently (34-66% or 5.5 hours)

Static Standing Frequently (34-66% or 5.5 hours)

Walking/Standing Frequently (34-66% or 5.5 hours)

Stooping/Bending Occasionally (6-33% or 3 hours)

Squatting Occasionally (6-33% or 3 hours)

Kneeling/Half Kneel Occasionally (6-33% or 3 hours)

Climbing Stair Rarely (1-5% or .5 hours)

Climbing Ladder Rarely (1-5% or .5 hours)

Reaching - Shoulder Level Rarely (1-5% or .5 hours)

Reaching - Below Shoulder Rarely (1-5% or .5 hours)

Reaching - Above Shoulder Rarely (1-5% or .5 hours)

Repetitive Actions - Pinch Forces Occasionally (6-33% or 3 hours) Pounds of force 0-25

Repetitive Actions - Grip Forces Occasionally (6-33% or 3 hours) Pounds of force 0-25

Repetitive Actions - Fine Manipulation Occasionally (6-33% or 3 hours)

Lifting - Floor to Waist Rarely (1-5% or .5 hours) Number of lbs 0-25

Lifting - Waist to Overhead Rarely (1-5% or .5 hours) Number of lbs 0-25

Lifting - Other Rarely (1-5% or .5 hours) Number of lbs 0-25

Carrying - Long Carry (>50 feet) Rarely (1-5% or .5 hours) Number of lbs 0-25

Carrying - Short Carry Occasionally (6-33% or 3 hours) Number of lbs 0-25

Push/Pull (Static Force) Rarely (1-5% or .5 hours) Number of lbs 0-25

If you need assistance with any portion of the application or have questions about the position, please contact HR-Recruitment@gundersenhealth.org or call 608-775-0267

Equal Opportunity Employer