Nursing Professional Development Generalist - Forensic Nurse Examiners Program

Overview

🚨 Aurora Forensic Nurse Examiners Program is Hiring! 🚨
Part-Time Nursing Professional Development Generalist
📍 Primary Office:
Aurora Sinai Medical Center (Not Remote)
🧳 Travel required across Wisconsin sites

Are you a visionary, outgoing nurse with a passion for education, growth, and impact in the forensic nursing space?

The Aurora Forensic Nurse Examiners (FNE) Program is seeking a dynamic Part-Time Nursing Professional Development Generalist to help shape the future of forensic nursing in the state of Wisconsin. In this brand-new, highly visible role, you’ll partner directly with the Director and managers of the FNE/SANE Nursing program to support onboarding, education, and the ongoing professional development of Forensic Nurse Examiners across all our sites.

You’ll also collaborate with internal teams and external partners to ensure nurses are well-prepared, trauma-informed, and equipped to provide outstanding care to survivors of violence.

This role is ideal for a nurse leader who is
:

• A change agent with vision, creativity, and the ability to drive initiatives forward
• Highly organized
  , adaptable, and thrives in a fast-evolving environment
• Skilled in education, mentorship, and collaboration across interdisciplinary teams
• Passionate about nursing excellence
  , trauma-informed care, and supporting justice-involved populations

• Design, implement, and evaluate orientation and development programs for new and current staff
• Support centralization and streamlining of onboarding across forensic nursing sites
• Travel to sites throughout Wisconsin to provide hands-on education and support
• Partner on both internal and external educational initiatives
• Collaborate closely with leadership to optimize professional development strategies

Please note – To Be Considered, Candidates Must Have

• Minimum of 2 years of experience as a Forensic Nurse Examiner
• RN License in the state of Wisconsin (or eligible)
• Bachelor’s degree in Nursing
• Flexibility for statewide travel and in-person work (this is not a remote role)

This is an exciting season of growth for the FNE Program — and this role will be instrumental in shaping the next generation of forensic nursing across our health system.

If you're ready to make an impact, grow others, and lead change, we’d love to hear from you.

• Supports the orientation process by developing, coordinating, facilitating, conducting and evaluating orientation programs for nursing and other healthcare personnel.
• Assists with competency management, which includes using tools that capture objective and subjective data regarding an individual’s knowledge base and actual performance.
• Designs educational activities to address practice gaps for identified target audiences in consultation with a Nursing Professional Development (NPD) Specialist.
• Utilizes best practice standards including adult learning principles in the planning, design, implementation, and evaluation of educational activities in order to facilitate the achievement of desired outcomes (for learners).
• Provides strategies to facilitate a continuous process of lifelong learning which may include role transition, role integration, skill acquisition, and mastery as learners advance from novice to expert in their professions and specialties.
• Collaborates with system and operational leadership to meet the education needs of the site and nursing departments.
• Adjusts materials and teaching strategies appropriate to the situation and the learner’s developmental level, learning needs, readiness, ability to learn, language preference, and culture. Implementation reflects awareness of scope of practice of different employees and disciplines. Uses assisted aids/technologies as needed to meet learners needs.
• Evaluates and analyzes the impact of programming on learners, organizational resources, and patient outcomes and makes adjustments in consultation with an NPD Specialist as needed.
• Establishes and implements appropriate evaluation tools and methodologies to identify needs or gaps in the knowledge, skills, and competencies of nursing personnel to advance the practice of nursing in…