About the job
Clinical Practice Specialist (CPS), Practice Excellence
About the Organization: The American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN) is the largest specialty nursing organization in the world, representing the interests of more than 550,000 nurses who are charged with caring for acutely and critically ill patients. AACN is dedicated to creating a healthcare system driven by the needs of patients and families where acute and critical care nurses make their optimal contribution. Visit us online at http://www.aacn.org.
Application Instructions: To view the full job description and apply, please visit our Careers Page here and search for the “Clinical Practice Specialist, Practice Excellence (PE)” job posting. You can also email [email protected] with any questions. The position can be performed remotely and/or hybrid on-site at the Aliso Viejo, CA national office. Some travel may be required.
Position Purpose: The Clinical Practice Specialist (CPS), Practice Excellence (PE) leads the development, review, and validation of acute, progressive, and critical care nursing content for AACN’s products and services. This position works collaboratively with internal and external experts and stakeholders in the provision of innovative, standard-setting, and cost-effective products and services. This position works independently and without close supervision.
Main Accountabilities:
- Ensures effective strategies and systems to facilitate the delivery of expert clinical practice knowledge for projects, programs and services.
- Working with internal and external stakeholders, builds a resource network to support a variety of content expert needs.
- Actively engages in environmental scanning to bring current perspectives and issues important to nurses and the healthcare environment.
- Synthesizes information from environmental scanning and shares with internal stakeholders to inform AACN’s work.
- Strategizes and collaborates to envision new products, programs, and services, ensuring the perspective of current nursing practice and issues are integral to the planning and design.
- Assesses needs for internal and external resources requirements for projects.
- Develops and implements processes to ensure the right people with the right competencies are selected for each project.
- Acts as liaison/facilitator with project subject matter experts (SME) and community groups.
- Provides leadership in ensuring content quality and integrity for clinical products, programs and services.
- Working collaboratively, establishes and maintains systems for content quality assessment of new products and review 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 to the AACN community regarding practice issues, engaging the appropriate processes and groups to address these issues.
- 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 in support of projects, providing the overarching perspective to ensure projects remain aligned 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 is in adherence with current ANCC and CA BON program approval criteria.
- Ensures appropriate education design principles are used and processes are consistent with 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.
Skills Required:
- 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
Education and/or Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree in Nursing; Master’s or doctorate degree preferred with CNS/ACNP certification
- Holds unencumbered RN licensure in the United States
- Creation of successful new initiatives that meet or exceed organizational objectives
- 7 years’ healthcare experience
- Experience in progressive, or critical care nursing
- Experience implementing or using eLearning programs is preferred
Physical Requirements:
The physical demands described here represent those that must be met by an individual to successfully perform the essential responsibilities of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Position is eligible for remote work.
- Some travel may be required for the role.
- Prolonged periods sitting/standing at a desk and working on a computer.
- Ability to operate standard office equipment and keyboards.
Candidates selected for the interview process are welcome to request accommodations through their designated recruiter/AACN contact.
Total Compensation:
The target pay range for this role is $114,568 – $143,210**
** In addition to the salary range listed, we offer a wealth of benefits to make working at AACN even more rewarding. Benefits include 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, and 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.
Conditions of Employment:
Any candidates selected for hire with AACN must be able to satisfactorily complete a background check clearance and provide proof of eligibility to work in the U.S. Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.
Under Federal Law, AACN may only employ individuals who are legally able to work in the United States as established by providing documentation specified in the Immigration and Control Act of 1986. Upon employment, individuals will be required to provide documentation to verify their identity and eligibility to work in the U.S. AACN participates in E-Verify.
Closing Statement:
AACN is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination against or harassment of any person employed by or seeking employment with AACN on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding or related medical conditions), gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, national origin and ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, age (40 and above), military and veteran status, or any other status protected by federal, state or local law.