[Hiring] Clinical Practice Specialist, Clinical Nurse Education & Content @American Association of Critical Care Nurses

Role Description

The Clinical Practice Specialist (CPS), CNECT, oversees the development, review, and validation of acute, progressive, and critical care nursing content for AACN’s products and services. This role collaborates with internal and external experts and stakeholders to deliver innovative, industry-leading, and cost-effective products and services. It operates independently and without close supervision.

• Ensures effective strategies and systems to deliver expert clinical practice knowledge across projects, programs, and services.
• Collaborates with internal and external stakeholders to build a resource network that supports the needs of various content experts.
• Actively conducts environmental scanning to provide current perspectives and address issues important to nurses and the healthcare environment.
• Synthesizes information from environmental scans and shares insights with internal stakeholders to guide AACN’s work.
• Plans and collaborates to develop new products, programs, and services, making sure current nursing practices and issues are central to planning and design.
• Assesses resource needs for internal and external projects.
• Develops and implements processes to ensure the right people with the required skills are chosen for each project.
• Serves as a liaison and facilitator with project subject matter experts (SMEs) and community groups.
• Provides leadership in ensuring content quality and integrity for clinical products, programs and services.
• Establishes and maintains systems for content-quality assessment of new products and reviews of existing products.
• Ensures accuracy, context and relevance of clinical content used in products.
• Leads clinical content review of products, programs and services, identifying needed updates.
• Ensures products and services are consistent with national standards and AACN mission, vision and values.
• Acts as a resource for the AACN community on practice issues, engaging the appropriate processes and groups to address them.
• Develops, mentors, and delivers feedback to volunteers and SMEs in order to support their professional development and contributions.
• Collaborates with internal stakeholders and/or leads project development, implementation, and evaluation processes for assigned projects.
• Organizes and leads project teams, ensuring coordination and alignment with internal departments.
• Supports and facilitates SME work on projects, providing an overarching perspective to ensure alignment with AACN project goals and objectives.
• Develops and/or collaborates on project schedules and budgets aligned with internal and external resources, coordinates to meet project goals, and manages project plans to closure.
• Facilitates project meetings, builds consensus and addresses conflict to ensure project outcomes are met.
• Collaborates to ensure an evaluation is finished following project completion.
• Applies technology solutions to support the development and representation of our content, products, services, and interactions with the community.
• Collaborates as needed to ensure the process of assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating CE activities adheres to current ANCC and CA BON program approval criteria.
• Ensures appropriate education design principles are used and processes are consistent with the requirements of the ANCC and CA BON.
• Coordinates processes to ensure proper assignment of CE to learning activities.
• Ensures that program approval processes are completed for assigned projects.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Nursing; Master’s or doctorate degree preferred with CNS/ACNP certification.
• Holds an unencumbered RN licensure in the United States.
• Creation of successful new initiatives that meet or exceed organizational objectives.
• 5-7 years’ healthcare experience.
• Experience in progressive or critical care nursing.
• Experience implementing or using eLearning programs is preferred.

Requirements

• Proven project management, with emphasis on planning, design, launch and evaluation of programs.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including strong facilitation skills.
• Proven skills in leading and collaborating within a cross-functional team environment.
• Demonstrated ability to co-create with others to cultivate engagement and develop content and services.
• Demonstrated experience providing mentorship and feedback to others.
• Ability to use and adapt to technology and willingness to develop new skills.
• Proficient or able to quickly learn various business, project, and productivity software (examples may include: Google Suite, Microsoft Office Suite, Zoom, and Smartsheet).
• Demonstrates emotional intelligence and ability to work effectively in a remote environment with diverse time zones, including time management and engagement with others in various synchronous and asynchronous platforms.

Physical Requirements

• Prolonged periods sitting/standing at a desk and working on a computer.
• Ability to operate standard office equipment and keyboards.
• Position is eligible for remote work.
• Some travel may be required for the role.

Benefits

• Generous paid time off.
• Low-cost health plans for medical and mental health services, dental, and vision.
• Company-paid life and short-term disability insurance.
• A variety of other benefits.
• A retirement savings program with employer matching and additional company contribution.
• AACN is committed to a culture of inclusive excellence and offers various alternative and flexible work arrangements to support work/life balance for our team members.

Total Compensation

The target pay range for this role is $123,992 - $154,990. In addition to the salary range listed, we offer a wealth of benefits to make working at AACN even more rewarding.