Nursing Professional, Development Specialist

Company Overview Shriners Children’s is an organization that respects, supports, and values each other. Named as the 2025 best mid-sized employer by Forbes, we are engaged in providing excellence in patient care, embracing multi-disciplinary education, and research with global impact. We foster a learning environment that values evidenced based practice, experience, innovation, and critical thinking.

Our compassion, integrity, accountability, and resilience define us as leaders in pediatric specialty care for our children and their families. With 20+ hospitals, outpatient clinics, ambulatory care centers and outreach locations across the globe, we provide excellent care to children up to age 18 regardless of their family’s ability to pay or insurance status.

Please click here to learn more about our locations. Job Description Onboarding/Orientation 20%Onboarding/Orientation: Develops, coordinates, manages, facilitates, conducts, and evaluates clinical onboarding/orientation programs for nursing & other healthcare personnel. Competency Management 20%Competency Management: Assesses, measures, documents and supports competency, and addresses deficiencies in staff members’ competence.

Education

20%Education: Creates, manages, implements, coordinates, and evaluates continuing educational activities to address practice gaps for identified target audience developed to achieve specific outcomes to identified gaps in knowledge, skills, or practice. Professional Role Development: 20%Professional Role Development: Identification and development of strategies to facilitate a continuous process of maturation through lifelong learning that allows for role transition, role integration, skill acquisition and succession planning Research/Evidence-based Practice/Quality Improvement (QI) 20%Research/Evidence-based Practice/Quality Improvement (QI): Promotes and integrates the science of NPD specialty to continuously improve practice.

In addition, promotes research, EBP, QI in patient care settings. NPD Specialist may conduct, encourage, participate in research, EBP, QI, including dissemination of findings. The pay range for this position is $107,719.04 - $161,578.56.

Compensation

is determined based on years of relevant experience and departmental equity.