Nursing Professional Development Specialist

American Nurses Association ANA

$75K — $95K *
Healthcare
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in nursing (BSN) required
  • NPD-BC or equivalent certification required within one year of employment
  • Unencumbered RN license
  • 2 years of experience in nursing professional development or education
  • Excellent proficiency in Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Excel
  • Strong understanding of learning management systems (LMS)
  • Experience in educational content development or consulting in health care.

Responsibilities

  • Assess educational needs by systematically collecting and analyzing data
  • Identify practice gaps through data analysis and stakeholder collaboration
  • Develop measurable outcomes aligned with educational plans
  • Lead design processes to address identified practice gaps
  • Implement educational strategies effectively, engaging learners
  • Create evaluation processes involving stakeholder feedback
  • Foster collaboration across departments to enhance educational initiatives.

Benefits

  • 401K retirement contributions of up to 7%
  • Generous Paid Time Off (PTO), including a week-off between Dec 25 and Jan 1
  • 11 paid Holidays
  • Excellent health and medical benefits
  • Commitment to career development through learning programs
  • Opportunities to support over 5 million Registered Nurses in the U.S.
Full Job Description
Career Title: Nursing Professional Development Specialist

Department: Education and Resources

Salary: Competitive salary commensurate with experience

FLSA: Exempt

Note: Union dues are 1.44% of bi-weekly pay as a member of the Baltimore-Washington News Guild.

Career Summary:

The Nursing Professional Development Specialist assesses, designs, implements manages professional development products and content supporting American Nurses Enterprise (ANE) and its subsidiaries. Departmental priorities support credentialing and programmatic-related initiatives and products and are driven by the ANE strategic plan. Serves as the primary point for specific educational products and services. Collaborate with staff across the ANE to develop high-quality educational programs, products, and services.

What You Will Do:

Assessment:

  • Systematically collects and analyzes educational and product data aligned with organizational priorities.


Diagnosis:

  • Analyzes assessment data to identify practice gaps and collaborates with stakeholders for validation.
  • Prioritizes and analyzes practice gaps in alignment with organizational goals. Outcomes Identification:
  • Identifies desired outcomes for education plans aligned with assessment and practice gap analysis.
  • Defines and documents measurable outcomes, ensuring alignment with organizational goals.


Planning:

  • Leads design processes to address practice gaps.
  • Assesses communication needs of learners, applying adult learning concepts.
  • Designs inclusive and culturally sensitive NPD activities.
  • Establish collaborative plans for achieving outcomes.
  • Plans for potential barriers at various levels of implementation.


Implementation:

  • Implement plans with judgment and innovative solutions.
  • Engages learners in educational activities, evaluating strategy effectiveness.


Evaluation:

  • Creates processes for stakeholder involvement in evaluation.
  • Utilizes valid methods to measure behavior change and impact.
  • Uses evaluation results for research and process improvements.


Collaboration and Communication:

  • Demonstrates ethical decision-making and fosters effective working relationships.
  • Collaborates across the enterprise to facilitate teamwork.
  • Utilizes negotiation skills for collaborative partnerships and resource acquisition.
  • Assesses and improves communication skills continuously.
  • Represents the division at national conferences and trade shows. Develops and delivers presentations at relevant local, state, regional & national me


Professional Development:

  • Engages in continuous professional development to enhance role performance.
  • Acquires knowledge and skills relevant to the specialty area.
  • Utilizes environmental scanning for personal professional development needs.


What you bring to the American Nurses Enterprise:

Education

  • Bachelor's degree in nursing (BSN) required


Certificates, licenses and registrations required:

  • NPD-BC or equivalent advanced certification or must be eligible or obtain certification within one year of employment
  • Unencumbered RN license


Related Work Experience

  • 2 years of experience in nursing professional development or education.


Computer skills required:

  • Excellent knowledge of Microsoft word, PowerPoint and Excel with strong willingness to learn new technologies as needed.
  • Ability to understand and discuss technical platform concepts related to content delivery including learning management systems (LMS).


Other skills required:

  • Knowledge of distribution modes supporting content delivery, web accessible and mobile applications, LMS platforms with a global view of evolving customer needs.
  • Experience in related duties with responsibility for educational content development/programming in health care, nursing continuing education programs, or consulting services. A minimum of 1 year of experience managing and leading a cross-functional project team to meet aggressive goals with high judgment applied on how products are prioritized and developed.


What ANE Offers You:

Join us and support more than 5 million Registered Nurses in the United States.

Every role within ANE contributes to a healthier world through The Power of Nurses™.

An opportunity to help transform a 129-year-old organization to meet the future needs and demands within Health Care.

Be a role model for embracing and empowering the uniqueness of every employee.

Continuously innovating through creative and strategic initiatives.

Exceptional benefits including but not limited to 401K retirement contributions of up to 7%, generous PTO which includes the week-off between Dec 25 and Jan 1, in addition to Personal Days-off, 11 paid Holidays, excellent health/medical benefits, and much more.

Commitment to your career development and advancement through ANE learning and development programs (internally and externally).

Work Schedule:

Hybrid employees must work a minimum of 20% in the office.

Location:

ANE Headquarters office located at: 8403 Colesville Road, Suite 500, Silver Spring, MD 20906

Learn more about the American Nurses Enterprise:

https://www.nursingworld.org/ana-enterprise-jobs/

https://www.linkedin.com/company/american-nurses-association

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