The Educational Development and Community Education Department provides clinical and non-clinical education, professional development, leadership development, and community education across the organization.
Professional Development Specialist
Full-Time|FirstShift | Telemetry (4 G/H and 2 F/G)
Educationaland Development|Lexington
The Professional Development Specialist (PDS) supports clinicians through orientation, education, and ongoing competency validation to ensure safe, high-quality patient care. This role provides clinical leadership, mentoring, and consultation to help staff grow professionally and deliver excellent care.The PDS collaborates with multidisciplinary teams to develop policies, procedures, and educational programs based on evidence-based practice and regulatory standards. This position promotes continuous learning and serves as a valuable resource for staff and leaders.
The Professional Development Specialist (PDS) functions to ensure that clinicians are prepared tobe responsible forpromoting patient safety and high-quality patient care through clinical leadership, education, consultation, modeling, and research.
The PDS incorporates evidence-based practice, theory, and research into various patient care settings according to patient needs by collaborating with multi-professional multidisciplinary groups,facilitatingthe development of hospital and department policies, nursing procedures, regulatory standards and guidelines, and research.
The role also includes functioning as a community resource on topics withinscopeof practice and providing nursing orientation, education, and ongoing competency verification.
The PDS is a role model for caring that honors the patient’s mind, body, and spirit.
Requirements:
Master’s Degree in Nursing
Current Ky RN license
Three (3) years of acute care experience in the designated specialty within the last five (5) years
ACLS, PALS, NRP, TNCC, ENPC certifications as required by department of assignment
BLS within30 daysfrom date of hire
Certification as Professional Development Specialist (PDS) preferred
Benefits:
Founded in 1924 in Louisville, Kentucky, Baptist Health is a full-spectrum health system dedicated to improving the health of the communities it serves. The Baptist Health family consists of nine hospitals, employed and independent physicians, and more than 400 points of care, including outpatient facilities, physician practices and services, urgent care clinics, outpatient diagnostic and surgery centers, home care, fitness centers, and occupational medicine and physical therapy clinics.
Baptist Health’s eight owned hospitals include more than 2,300 licensed beds in Corbin, Elizabethtown, La Grange, Lexington, Louisville, Paducah, Richmond and New Albany, Indiana. Baptist Health also operates the 410-bed Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville in Madisonville, Kentucky in a joint venture with Deaconess Health System based in Evansville, Indiana. Baptist Health employs more than 23,000 people in Kentucky and surrounding states.
Baptist Health is the first health system in the U.S. to have all of its hospitals recognized by the American Nursing Credentialing Center with either a Magnet® or Pathway to Excellence® designation for nursing excellence.
Baptist Health’s employed provider network, Baptist Health Medical Group, has nearly 1,500 providers, including more than 750 physicians and more than 740 advanced practice clinicians. Baptist Health’s physician network also includes more than 2,000 independent physicians.
Learn more at BaptistHealth.com.
