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Are you ready to take the next step in your career?

Have a passion for rural healthcare and emergency services nursing?

Gundersen Health System is seeking a RN, Professional Development Nurse (Nurse Educator) to support our six Gundersen Affiliate Hospital, Emergency Services and Urgent Care Departments. This is your opportunity to work in a highly adaptable and mission driven organization while doing the work you love in the beautiful Coulee region.  

What you will do:

• 1.0 FTE, salaried role
• Lead nursing orientation, education, competency, and professional development for RNs and EMTs in the Emergency Services setting with our Critical Access Hospitals.
• WI- St. Joesph Hillsboro, Boscobel, Moundview/Adams Friendship, Tri-county Memorial Whitehall
• MN- St. Elizabeths Wabasha
• IA- Palmer Lutheran West Union
• Evaluate nursing practice, assess practice gaps, identify learning needs, participate in process improvement projects and initiatives both within area of responsibility and at the system level
• Prepare frontline staff with the knowledge and skills to provide high quality care and outstanding care experience in a supportive, professionally satisfying environment
• Work closely with amazing teams:
• Emergency Services (Clinical Operations Director, Clinical Managers, Clinical Nurse Leader, and Quality Nurse)
• Collaborate with other emergency focused PDNs with access to 40+ highly skilled Professional Development Nurse partners

What you will get:

• Meaningful work in a highly adaptable and mission-driven organization
• Partnership and collaboration with a team of professional development nurses
• Gundersen's generous compensation and benefit package, including our top-rated retirement plan
• Growth opportunities and access to Gundersen's Career Development Center to help you navigate your career

What you need:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing required
• Master’s degree in Nursing required within 5 years
• 3-4 years RN experience in Emergency Services or Urgent Care required
• RN licensure to practice in the state of Wisconsin, IA and Minnesota upon hire

Gundersen Health System Hospital and Clinics comprises 7 hospitals and 33 clinics. We bring care close to home for our patients in Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Iowa.  Inside our walls and our neighborhoods, we deliver world-class medical care and the right amount of love. We call it love + medicine and it’s more than our practice. It is who we are.

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 and a Master's degree in Nursing is required within five years of hire date.

Work Experience:
REQUIRED 3-4 years of relevant RN experience
DESIRED 1 year nursing management experience.

License and Certifications:
REQUIRED
Registered Nurse (RN) licensed minimally in the state of practice, some positions may require additional state RN licenses.
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.

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)
Unit/Department Specific

OSHA Category:
Category II - Some (but not all) employees in this job title may have a reasonably anticipated risk of occupational exposure to blood and/or other potentially infectious materials, usually by location or specific departments.

Environmental Conditions:
Exposed to infectious diseases.

Physical Requirements/Demands Of The Position:
Sitting Occasionally (6-33% or 3 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)
Reaching - Shoulder Level Occasionally (6-33% or 3 hours)
Reaching - Below Shoulder Occasionally (6-33% or 3 hours)
Reaching - Above Shoulder Occasionally (6-33% or 3 hours)
Repetitive Actions - Pinch Forces Rarely (1-5% or .5 hours) Pounds of force 0-25
Repetitive Actions - Grip Forces Rarely (1-5% or .5 hours) Pounds of force 0-25
Repetitive Actions - Fine Manipulation Frequently (34-66% or 5.5 hours)
Lifting - Other Occasionally (6-33% or 3 hours) Number of lbs 0-25
Carrying - Short Carry Occasionally (6-33% or 3 hours) Number of lbs 0-25
Push/Pull (Static Force) Occasionally (6-33% or 3 hours) Number of lbs 0-25

If you need assistance with any portion of the application or have questions about the position, please contact [email protected] or call 608-775-0267

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