Adventist Health is more than an award-winning health system. We provide whole-person care to our communities and champion the greater good - from the operating room to the boardroom, we are driven by our unique passion to live God's love through health, wholeness and hope. From Oregon to Oahu, we have a calling to always do more. Now is your chance to apply your passion to our mission.

We're looking for someone to join our team as a RN, Program Specialist, Nursing Education who:

Job SummaryPromotes professional development through the application of adult learning principles. Maintains responsibility for identifying, prioritizing and evaluating the educational and professional development needs of their clinical area; develops and delivers clinical educational programs, including specialty training, new graduate/hire training, and continuing education for staff. Manages nursing competence and professional development programs. Conducts ongoing assessments of proficiencies for staff and provides feedback and creates formal action plans.

Essential Functions:

• Develops, designs, evaluates and manages professional development programs based on principles of adult learning that fosters development of competence in the nursing staff. Conducts ongoing evaluation of quality/effectiveness of educational activities to ensure they maintain/enhance professional development. Formulates/coordinates education plans for orientation of new staff, initial and ongoing competency validation, education to address patient population-specific care and development of bedside leaders.
• Responds to changes in nursing practice/nursing theory and develops programs to support changes. Conducts research into professional and community practice standards and clinical innovations for improved patient care. Performs educational needs appraisal of individual departments, including assessment of needs. Formulates education plan and implements individualized educational strategies. Evaluates knowledge and practice of employees.
• Participates in interdisciplinary committees to integrate educational activities into clinical care including creating hospital policy, planning curriculum and teaching techniques, implementing and evaluating education. Investigates clinical practice concerns as they arise and evaluates clinical risk and develops corrective action plan.
• Escalates patient safety concerns, as needed. Supervises development of new gradates/hires and recommends whether the new employee meets the organizational expectations.
• Performs other job-related duties as assigned.