All the benefits and perks you need for you and your family:

·         Benefits from Day One

·         Paid Days Off from Day One

·         Debt-free Education (Certifications and Degrees without out-of-pocket tuition expense)

·         Whole Person Wellbeing and Mental Health Resources

·         Employee Discount Program, including tickets, travel, Pet Insurance, and More!

Our promise to you:

Joining AdventHealth is about being part of something bigger. It’s about belonging to a community that believes in the wholeness of each person, and serves to uplift others in body, mind, and spirit. AdventHealth is a place where you can thrive professionally, and grow spiritually, by Extending the Healing Ministry of Christ. Where you will be valued for who you are and the unique experiences you bring to our purpose-minded team. All while understanding that together we are even better.

Schedule: Full Time

Shift: Days

Location: AdventHealth Apopka, 2100 Ocoee Apopka Road, Apopka, FL 32703

Unit Highlights: 

• The Intensive Care Unit at AdventHealth Apopka is a 19-bed unit caring for a wide array of high-acuity cases
• Diverse patient population with cases including renal failure, respiratory failure with ventilator management, septic shock with MODS, hypovolemic shock, DKA with severe acidosis, and more!
• A strong, multi-disciplinary team of highly engaged nurses with dedicated preceptors who love to teach eager new nurses

The community you’ll be caring for: 

• AdventHealth Apopka is a seven-story, 120-bed hospital offering an extensive range of services including expanded surgical services, advanced surgical suites and a catheterization lab.
• The hospital also features a 30,000-square-foot emergency department with pediatric-friendly beds, imaging services, a full-service cafeteria, chapel, gift shop and on-site fire station.
• The hospital opened in December 2017, replacing the 50-bed hospital that AdventHealth had operated in downtown Apopka for more than four decades. 

The role you’ll contribute:

The Nursing Professional Development (NPD) Practitioner functions as a learning facilitator, change agent, mentor, leader, champion for inquiry, advocate for NPD specialty and partner for practice transitions as they guide the learner toward desired outcomes. The NPD Practitioner continuously uses environmental scanning to intentionally assess opportunities and challenges within and externally to the organization, and identifies opportunities based on global and national healthcare trends, legislative changes, needs of collaborative partners, educational gaps, emerging technologies, and the clinical staff member’s desire for growth. The NPD Practitioner actively interacts with learners to contribute to nursing professional development processes and ensures the achievement of measurable outcomes, influences professional role competence and growth of learners in a variety of settings. 

The value you’ll bring to the team:

§  Orientation: Creates, plans, implements and coordinates orientation for individuals new to the nursing unit/department. Monitors and reports compliance with required documentation for orientation. Evaluates unit/department orientation process based on health care trends, learning needs and organizational goals.

·         Research/Evidence-Based Practice (EBP)/Quality Improvement (QI): Serves as a resource for clinical inquiry, including identification of potential projects, and/or subject matter expertise. Demonstrates a “spirit of inquiry” to support professional curiosity including research, evidence-based practice, and quality improvement initiatives using the organization’s preferred structure, i.e. PDSA (plan, do, study, act). Works with others to identify problems and solutions and collaboratively create and assists in the implementation of the changes planned. Creates a supportive environment for nursing research, scientific inquiry, quality improvement, and evidence-based practice. Disseminates evidence-based practice findings through educational programs, courses, and other activities

·         Professional Role Development: NPD Practitioner may assist others in their professional role development, practice role transitions, and succession planning. Assists staff to identify areas for individual growth, including opportunities for advancement. Provides resources for role transition. Promotes certification and advanced formal education.

·         Continuing Nursing Education: Designs engaging, interactive, state of the art educational activities/plans rooted in adult learning principles; implements and coordinates activities related to clinical practice and lifelong career development. Integrates regulatory standards to meet the requirements for continuing education contact hours, when appropriate.

The expertise and experiences you’ll need to succeed:

Minimum qualifications:

·         Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN)

·         Two years of nursing experience

·         Current, valid Florida State of Nursing license as a registered professional nurse

·         Basic Life Support (BLS) Provider Certification

·         Advanced Life Support Provider Certification, per specialty

·         Working knowledge of Microsoft Office programs such as Outlook, Word, Power Point and Excel

Preferred qualifications: 

·        3 Years of ICU Exp

Master’s degree in nursing or related field

·         Prior experience as a preceptor/educator

·         Previous teaching experience in formal/informal settings

·         Experience in specialty area applying for

·         Certification as Nursing Professional Development Educator

·         Certification in clinical or educator specialty

·         Basic or advanced life support instructor, depending on specialty (Instructor certification overrides Provider certification)

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About AdventHealth

At AdventHealth, Extending the Healing Ministry of Christ is our mission. It calls us to be His hands and feet in helping people feel whole. Our story is one of hope — one that strives to heal and restore the body, mind and spirit. More than 100,000 skilled and compassionate caregivers in physician practices, hospitals, outpatient clinics, skilled nursing facilities, home health agencies and hospice centers provide individualized, wholistic care.Our Christian mission, shared vision, common values and focus on whole-person health is our commitment to making communities healthier with a unified system: 51 hospital campuses and hundreds of care sites in diverse markets throughout nine states.

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