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Nurse (Professional Development Practitioner)
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 53 days ago
On-site East Orange, NJ $96K – $162K Apply by Aug 3, 2026 Nurse ESFJINFJISFJISTJ HealthcareEducation
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The New Jersey VA Healthcare System's Nursing Education Service is seeking an experienced and dynamic Registered Nurse Nursing Professional Development Practitioner (NPDP)/Educator. Delivers a fundamental understanding of adult learning principles and a lifelong learner that can practice with flexibility to adapt or change learning strategies based on the assessment of learning needs within the healthcare organization.
What You'll Do
- →Major duties include, but are not limited to: The Nurse III Nursing Professional Development Practitioner (NPDP) is responsible for providing expert, evidence-based education to staff.
- →Provides educational instruction and training for nursing staff in clinical and outpatient units.
- →The NPDP understands instructional design, implementation, and application related to education and training.
- →Performs learning needs assessments, develops educational trainings for clinical staff within organization.
- →Assists with the orientation of new employees, evaluation of their progress in the orientation process, and development and implementation of a learning plan for improving identified deficiencies.
- →Serves as a trainer and consultant for Resuscitation Education Initiative (Redi) Program including certification as Basic Life Support (BLS) instructor.
- →Monitors and tracks BLS/Advanced Life Support (ALS) compliance within the organization.
- →Collaborates with interdisciplinary team to support and evaluate responses to emergency responses in the facility to include BLS and ALS.
- →Organizes, participates, and evaluates mock codes.
- →Supports nurse residency programs including the development of curriculum utilizing strategic learning methodologies such as simulation, lecture case studies and virtual reality.
- →Develops expert level coaching and mentoring skills.
- →Systematically evaluates current practice, formulate outcomes for groups of patients and/or organizational processes within area of expertise.
- →Collaborates with other NPD Team Members and interprofessional healthcare teams in the ongoing clinical education activities including in-services, training, competency assessment, and evaluations of both current and new staff nursing skills.
- →Reviews current nursing literature for new trends and changes based on evidence-based research with the ability to propose practice and documentation revisions based on evaluation of outcomes.
Requirements
- ✓Citizenship; non-citizens may only be appointed when it is not possible to recruit qualified citizens in accordance with VA Policy.
- ✓All applicants tentatively selected for VA employment in a testing designated position are subject to urinalysis to screen for illegal drug use prior to appointment.
- ✓Applicants who refuse to be tested will be denied employment with VA.
- ✓Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959.
- ✓Subject to background/security investigation.
- ✓Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process.
- ✓Acceptable form(s) of identification will be required to complete pre-employment requirements (https://www.uscis.gov/i-9-central/form-i-9-acceptable-documents).
- ✓Effective May 7, 2025, driver's licenses or state-issued identification cards that are not REAL ID compliant cannot be utilized as an acceptable form of identification for employment.
- ✓Must pass pre-employment physical examination.
- ✓Participation in the seasonal influenza vaccination program is a requirement for all Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Personnel (HCP).
- ✓You may be required to serve a probationary period.
- ✓Complete all application requirements detailed in the "Required Documents" section of this announcement.
- ✓IMPORTANT: A transcript must be submitted with your application if you are basing all or part of your qualifications on education.
- ✓Note: Only education or degrees recognized by the U.S.
Personality Fit
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