Description

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.

• 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

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 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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