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At Cedars-Sinai, the work you do every day directly affects others' lives. Our passionate and dedicated culture has earned us six Magnet designations for nursing excellence. Join us and experience why U.S. News & World Report recognizes us as one of America's Best Hospitals.
This Nurse Professional Development (NPD) Practitioner role provides overall outputs the practices of learning, change, professional role competence and growth, which supports the optimal patient care, population health, and protection of the public within a unit/department, inter-departmental, or house-wide level in select cases. As a learning facilitator, the NPD practitioner uses the educational design process to bridge the knowledge, skills, and/or practice gaps identified through needs assessment. As a change agent, the NPD practitioner actively works to transform processes at micro and mesosystem levels through inspiration, initiation, adoption, and sustainment of and adaptation to change using project management and improvement processes. As a mentor to clinical nurses and other inter-professionals, the NPD practitioner advances the profession by contributing to the professional development of others and supporting life-long learning as individuals develop across practice, professional and educational settings. As a leader, the NPD practitioner influences the interprofessional practice and learning environments, the NPD specialty, the profession of nursing, and healthcare.
The NPD practitioner is a champion for scientific inquiry, promoting the generation and dissemination of new knowledge and the use of evidence to advance NPD practice, guide clinical practice, and improve patient care. The NPD practitioner is an advocate for NPD specialty actively supporting, promoting, and demonstrating nursing professional development as a nursing practice specialty. Additionally, the NPD practitioner is a partner for practice transitions, supporting the transition of nurses and other healthcare team members across learning and practice environments, roles, and professional stages.
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Since its beginning in 1902, Cedars-Sinai has evolved to meet the healthcare needs of one of the most diverse regions in the nation, continually setting new standards for quality and innovation in patient care, research, teaching and community service.
Today, Cedars-Sinai is widely known for its national leadership in transforming healthcare for the benefit of patients.
Cedars-Sinai receives consistent recognition for our excellence. Our awards include; being named one of America’s Best Hospitals by U.S. News & World Report, receiving the National Research Corporation’s Consumer Choice Award 19 years in a row for providing the highest-quality medical care in Los Angeles, achieving the longest-running Magnet designation for nursing excellence in California, and being recognized as The Advisory Board Company’s 2017 Workplace of the Year, an award Cedars-Sinai has won three years in a row. This annual award recognizes hospitals and health systems nationwide that have outstanding levels of employee engagement.
Cedars-Sinai is a leader in the clinical care and research of heart disease, cancer and brain disorders, among other areas. Pioneering research achievements include using cardiac stem cells to repair damaged hearts, developing minimally invasive surgical techniques and discovering new types of drugs to target cancer more precisely.
Cedars-Sinai also impacts the future of healthcare through education programs that encompass everything from highly competitive medical residency and fellowship programs to a biomedical science and translational medicine PhD program, advanced training for nurses and educational opportunities for allied health professionals. Most notably, Cedars-Sinai demonstrates a longstanding commitment to strengthening the Los Angeles community through wide-ranging programs that improve the health of its most vulnerable residents.
