RN- Registered Nurse Professional Development Practitioner

RN
- Registered Nurse Professional Development Practitioner at Geisinger summary:

The RN-Registered Nurse Professional Development Practitioner supports nursing staff by coordinating and delivering educational programs, onboarding, and competency development to promote professional growth within a healthcare system. This role involves mentoring, collaboration, and implementation of evidence-based practices to enhance nursing skills and improve patient care. The position requires a nursing background with experience in professional development and leadership, and involves travel among multiple healthcare campuses.

Job Title: RN
- Registered Nurse Professional Development Practitioner
Location: Danville, Pennsylvania
Job Category: Inpatient RN - Registered Nurse, Nursing and Nursing Support, Nurse Practitioner, Advanced Practice
Schedule: Days
Work Type: Full time
Department: Nursing Professional Development Division
Date Posted: 11/04/2025
Job : R-87590

Job Summary At Geisinger, the Nursing Professional Development Practitioner helps shape the future of nursing by supporting growth, learning, and excellence across the system. This dynamic role champions education for our vascular access teams, our Geisinger Internal Travel program, and our internationally educated nurses—ensuring every nurse feels confident, competent, and connected from day one through impactful onboarding, competency development and lifelong learning strategies.

With a focus on evidence-based practice, collaboration, and continuous improvement, this role helps nurses thrive in a fast-changing healthcare environment. If you're passionate about transforming healthcare through education, mentoring, and evidence-based practice—this is your opportunity to make a difference at one of the nation's leading integrated health systems.

Job Duties

Coordinates and supervises the delivery of educational activities on assigned unit. Collaborates with managers to supervise the orientation process. Develops educational programs and processes to promote professional development for nurses throughout the organization. Assists in the implementation and continuing support of the electronic medical record. Uses tools, skills and knowledge to improve the healthcare practice of learners.

• Uses educational design process to bridge the knowledge, skills, and practice gaps identified through a need assessment.
• Provides classroom instruction using these techniques and innovative processes.
• Actively works to transform processes through inspiration, initiation, adaptation and sustainment of and adaptation to change using project management and improvement process.
• Provide leadership on unit, councils and committees.
• Influences the inter-professional practice and learning environments in nursing and healthcare.
• Assists others in their professional role development, practice role transitions, and succession planning.
• Professional role development involves identification and development of strategies to facilitate a continuous process of maturation through lifelong learning.
• Promotes the generation and dissemination of new knowledge and the use of evidence to advance the NPD practice, guide clinical practice and improve patient care.
• Actively supports, promotes and demonstrates nursing professional development as a nursing practice specialty.
• Develops, coordinates, manages, facilitates, conducts and evaluates onboarding and orientation programs for nursing and other healthcare personnel.
• Provides direct supervision to assigned personnel, assists with orientation and integration of new employees, and builds a sense of pride in employees and promotes good morale.
• Communicates significant issues on units to Operations Manager in a timely manner. Assists Operations Managers by carrying out the process improvement plan and/or educational plan with staff completing documentation of remediation.
• Actively supports the transition of nurses and other healthcare team members across learning and practice environments, roles and professional stages.
• Coordinates the attendance of personnel at internal and external educational programs. Provides ongoing education based on educational needs assessment, unit needs, staff request and management request.
• Develops, coordinates, manages, facilitates, conducts and evaluates competency programs. Supervise annual unit-based skills assessment and competency completion.
• Design educational activities to address practice gaps for identified target audiences, which may include continuing nursing education, inter-professional continuing education and education for non-licensed healthcare personnel.
• Establish, teach, and evaluate professional development activities.
• Collaborates with Career Enhancement Program Staff in meeting the educational needs of Intermediate Staff.
• Participates in the active mentoring and coaching of Career Enhancement Program staff.
• Participation in research, evidence-based practice, and quality improvement activities is expected. Participates in the…