The Transition-to-Practice (TTP) role is responsible for the development, coordination, and oversight of structured onboarding and professional transition programs for newly licensed nurses entering practice settings. This includes designing curriculum, orientation pathways, competency plans, learning activities, and programming that support clinical competence, professional role development, and successful transition into practice.
Key responsibilities include facilitating educational experiences such as classroom instruction, simulation, clinical workshops, competency validation, debriefing, and reflective learning while integrating evidence-based practice, patient safety principles, clinical judgment development, and transition-to-practice standards, The role collaborates closely with nursing leadership, educators, preceptors, mentors, human resources, workforce development teams, and academic partners to strengthen onboarding processes.
The position also supports preceptor and mentor development, monitors learner progression, provides coaching and remediation support, and promotes professional skills such as communication, prioritization, delegation, leadership, resilience, and interdisciplinary collaboration. Responsibilities extend to maintaining educational records, competency tracking systems, accreditation readiness, orientation resources, and alignment with organizational goals, Magnet principles, nursing strategic priorities, and professional standards.
Additionally, the role evaluates program effectiveness through data analysis, reporting, retention and engagement metrics, competency completion tracking, and quality indicators while contributing to accreditation processes, quality improvement efforts, shared governance activities, workforce initiatives, and evidence-based practice completion projects. A central focus of the role is fostering psychological safety, engagement, professional growth, and a supportive learning environment that promotes successful transition into clinical practice and long-term workforce retention.
The Educational Training and Development Department provides clinical and non-clinical education, professional development, leadership development, and community education across the organization.
Professional Development Specialist, Transition to Practice Coordinator
Full-Time, Days
Requirements:
Benefits:
Work Experience
Education
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.
