Responsibilities of Nursing Professional Development Specialist

Nursing Professional Development Specialist Role
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A Nursing Professional Development Specialist or NPDS is primarily administrative personnel whose knowledge in both clinical and educational practice allows them to mentor and provide guidance to junior nurses. In the hospital setting, NPDS is responsible for assessing, developing, and making decisions that foster professional development in the nursing department (Jasper, Rooser & Mooney, 2013). This is through in-training activities such that continuing nurses are offered challenges on topics based on individual specialty thus address specialized educational needs amongst the nurses. Hence, the NPDS has taken on a role of a trainer who avails opportunities for growth among his staff as opposed to doing things for them. Through such initiatives, the nurses have managed to stay current with the latest nursing practices thus enabling them remain relevant.
In terms of the optimization, the NPDS of late has taken on the role of a change agent by influencing both behavioral and professional characteristics among the nurses by becoming the role model. When a staff makes a mistake, e.g. one time a nurse did not offer the correct assistance to a kidney dialysis patient such that the appropriate catheters were...