The Nurse Professional Development Practitioner manages, teaches, and oversees high school students enrolled in the Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) dual-credit or career pathway program through Vincennes University Jasper. This role coordinates classroom instruction, lab simulations, and off-site clinical rotations. The educator ensures full compliance with the Indiana Department of Health nurse aide training standards.
The Nurse Professional Development Practitioner assesses, develops, implements and evaluates educational offerings for the Deaconess Interprofessional team and community health care professionals. The Nursing Professional Development Practitioner positively affects the quality of patient care by functioning as a learning facilitator, change agent, mentor, leader, champion for scientific inquiry, advocate for NPD specialty and partner for practice transitions throughout the Department of Nursing and other hospital areas. Must be able to demonstrate knowledge of growth and development and skills to provide or direct patient care appropriate to the age of patients served.
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Deaconess Health System is the premiere provider of health care services to a population of more than 1.5 million in southwestern Indiana, western Kentucky and southeastern Illinois. Serving a population of more than 1.5 million residents, the system consists of 20 wholly owned, joint ventured, sponsored or affiliated hospital locations situated throughout the Tri-State.
Deaconess Health System is the largest employer in the tri-state region, and operates under the direction of a local board, with a local focus. Deaconess is widely recognized for its commitment to excellence. Named the #2 Hospital in Indiana by US News & World Report for the past six years, Deaconess was also named to the Forbes list of America’s Best Employers in 2022 and 2023, 2024 and 2025.
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