Advanced Practice Provider - Professional Development Specialist

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A Brief Overview
CHOP is hiring for an experienced Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant to work as an APP Professional Development Specialist. The Advanced Practice Provider professional development specialist (APP PDS) is an educational planner responsible for assuring that educational outcomes are measurable and are in alignment with the educational design and planning of programming. They serve as a consultant, role model, change agent, mentor, collaborator, and facilitator of learning.

What you will do

• Education:
• Education is designed to improve professional practice and the provision of quality patient care. To accomplish this goal, APP PD specialists design educational activities to address practice gaps for identified target audiences, which may include licensed and non-licensed healthcare personnel. These activities are developed to achieve specific outcomes related to identified deficits or opportunities for improvement in knowledge, skill, or practice.
• Assessment of Practice Gaps:
• Prioritizes department, hospital, and enterprise needs (Macro system) aligning hospital initiatives and environmental scanning in the community, state, national, and international level to prioritize and address practice gaps.
• Identification of Learning Needs:
• Assesses knowledge, skill, and practice gaps within the macro system differentiating between practice gaps, performance issues, and process/system issues.
• Outcomes Identification:
• Ensures realistic, achievable outcomes that are created in collaboration with key stakeholders and subject matter experts.
• Planning:
• Determines appropriate interventions incorporating theories pertaining to learning, behavioral change, and motivation. Analyzes cost and anticipated return on investment for learning activities, programs, and projects determining cost effectiveness of educational methodology.
• Implementation:
• Demonstrates use of current evidence-based education guidelines (adult learning theory, brain based learning, etc.) during implementation of educational programs. Uses the CHOP improvement framework in the implementation of system-wide programs and projects to continuously improve programs.
• Clinical Fellowship Program: The clinical fellowship program is the Prerequisite program for new to practice APP's and APP's without acute care clinical experience in Pediatrics. The APP PD specialist will be responsible for developing the program's tracts and developing an ideal state to transition, APP's to permanent positions.
• Orientation/Onboarding: Orientation is one facet of the onboarding process and is comprised of an individualized program to guide the new hire towards job competency. The APP PDS may develop, coordinate, manage, facilitate, conduct, and evaluate orientation programs for nursing and other healthcare personnel.
• Competency Management: Competency management is a dynamic process designed to support ongoing assessment and evaluation of performance. This responsibility requires the APP PDS is able to assist in assisting department leadership teams in prioritizing competency selection and assisting with selection of instructional strategies to meet learning objectives.
• Professional Role Development: Professional role development involves identification and development of strategies to facilitate a continuous process of maturation through lifelong learning. This type of development allows for role transition, role integration, skill acquisition, and mastery as learners advance from novice to expert in their professions and specialties.
• Research/ Evidence Based Practice/Quality Improvement: APP PDS must promote and integrate the science of the NPD specialty in order to continuously improve their practice. In addition, they promote research, EBP, and QI in patient care settings. APP PDS may conduct, encourage, facilitate and/or participate in research, EBP, and QI, including dissemination of findings.
• Collaborative Partnerships: APP PDS collaborate with partners to share expertise in planning and decision making to achieve the desired results. Interprofessional collaboration involves multiple healthcare personnel from different professional backgrounds collaborating to deliver the highest quality of care.

Education Qualifications

• Master's Degree Nursing or Physician Assistant Sciences Required
• Master's Degree Nursing, Nursing Education Preferred

Experience Qualifications

• At least two (2) years experience in a clinical, leadership, or education role as an APP Required
• At least five (5) years in an acute care hospital setting in an educator role for APPs with an active license in PA Preferred

Skills and Abilities

• Proficient with Microsoft Excel, Word and PowerPoint preferred. (Required proficiency)
• Ability to work independently and take initiative when necessary (Required proficiency)
• Strong interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills are required. (Required proficiency)
• Teaching/presentation skills are required. (Required proficiency)

Licenses and Certifications

• Registered Nurse (Pennsylvania) - Pennsylvania State Licensing Board - upon hire - Required and
• Certified Registered Nurse Practitioner (CRNP) (Pennsylvania) - Pennsylvania State Licensing Board - upon hire - Required and
• Specialty Certification - in area of expertise - upon hire - Required and
• Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) - issued through on organization that requires a hands-on instructor lead psychomotor skills verification (ex. American Heart Association or Red Cross). - upon hire - Required

Licenses and Certifications

• Required (upon hire in Pennsylvania): Certified Physician Assistant (PA-C) (Pennsylvania) - Pennsylvania State Licensing Board
• Required (upon hire in New Jersey): Certified Physician Assistant (PA-C) (New Jersey) - New Jersey State Licensing Board
• Required (upon hire): Certified Physician Assistant (PA-C) - National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants

To carry out its mission, CHOP is committed to supporting the health of our patients, families, workforce, and global community. As a condition of employment, CHOP employees who work in patient care buildings or who have patient facing responsibilities must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and receive an annual influenza vaccine. Learn more.

Employees may request exemptions for valid religious and medical reasons. Start dates may be delayed until candidates are immunized or exemption requests are reviewed.

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