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Nurse Educator - Nursing Professional Development Specialist - LDRP

Advocate Health · Oshkosh, WI

Posted Sep 15, 2026 · We last checked this listing on Sep 20, 2026

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Likely interview questions for this role

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Behavioral

Walk me through your background in labor and delivery. What kind of deliveries and complications have you managed hands-on over your three years?

whether the candidate has the clinical depth in L&D specifically that this role requires to teach it credibly

Tell me about a time you had to orient a brand new grad nurse to the LDRP unit. How did you structure that orientation and how did you know it was working?

real experience designing and running orientation programs, not just talking about them

Tell me about a learner who really struggled with a new skill or process. What did you change about your teaching approach for them specifically?

whether they actually adapt to learning style, readiness, and developmental level rather than teaching one way to everyone

Describe a time you rolled out a new practice or protocol on your unit and later found out it wasn't landing the way you expected. What did you do?

whether they actually evaluate and iterate on education programs instead of treating a single training as done

Tell me about a time you had to get buy-in from unit leadership or physicians for an education initiative they weren't initially excited about.

negotiation and stakeholder management skill, since the role explicitly requires collaborating with operational leadership

Technical

What tools or methods have you used to assess a nurse's competency beyond just watching them do a skill once?

familiarity with objective and subjective competency assessment tools, a named responsibility in the posting

How do you think about adult learning principles when you're building an education session, say on a new fetal monitoring protocol or postpartum hemorrhage bundle?

whether they can name and apply adult learning theory concretely, not just as a buzzword

What's your comfort level building materials in PowerPoint or tracking competency data in Excel? Can you give an example of something you built?

basic proficiency with the stated tools since these underpin day-to-day education deliverables

How do you measure whether an education program actually improved patient outcomes, not just whether people liked the training?

ability to connect education work to outcome data, which the posting calls out explicitly

Situational

Say you have a nurse on your unit who is technically competent but keeps failing to escalate concerning fetal heart tracings in a timely way. How would you approach a competency gap like that?

ability to diagnose a practice gap and design a targeted intervention rather than generic retraining

You need to design an education program but you're new enough that you'd want to loop in an NPD Specialist for guidance. Walk me through how you'd approach that collaboration.

whether they understand the reporting and mentorship structure of this role and can work within it without ego

This unit runs 24/7 and you'll need to provide variable shift coverage on top of your day shift base. How do you plan to make sure night and weekend staff get equal access to education and competency support?

practical understanding of covering a round-the-clock unit with a mostly daytime educator role

How would you handle a situation where a physician and a nurse have very different expectations of a new protocol you're teaching, and it's creating friction on the floor?

conflict management and cross-discipline communication under real unit pressure

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The full job description

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Department: 34200 AMC Oshkosh - Clinical Education Status: Full time Benefits Eligible: Yes Hou rs Per Week: 32 Schedule Details/Additional Information: 3 years of L&D experience required. Day shift with variable shift coverage to support 24/7 unit operations and team. Pay Range: $41.10 - $61.65 Major Responsibilities: • Supports the orientation process by developing, coordinating, facilitating, conducting and evaluating orientation programs for nursing and other healthcare personnel. • Assists with competency management, which includes using tools that capture objective and subjective data regarding an individual’s knowledge base and actual performance. • Designs educational activities to address practice gaps for identified target audiences in consultation with a Nursing Professional Development (NPD) Specialist. • Utilizes best practice standards including adult learning principles in the planning, design, implementation, and evaluation of educational activities in order to facilitate the achievement of desired outcomes (for learners). • Provides strategies to facilitate a continuous process of lifelong learning which may include role transition, role integration, skill acquisition, and mastery as learners advance from novice to expert in their professions and specialties. • Collaborates with system and operational leadership to meet the education needs of the site and nursing departments. • Adjusts materials and teaching strategies appropriate to the situation and the learner’s developmental level, learning needs, readiness, ability to learn, language preference, and culture. Implementation reflects awareness of scope of practice of different employees and disciplines. Uses assisted aids/technologies as needed to meet learners needs. • Evaluates and analyzes the impact of programming on learners, organizational resources, and patient outcomes and makes adjustments in consultation with an NPD Specialist as needed. • Establishes and implements appropriate evaluation tools and methodologies to identify needs or gaps in the knowledge, skills, and competencies of nursing personnel to advance the practice of nursing in consultation with an NPD Specialist as needed. • Develops and supports education needs based on specialty or department in collaboration with regional and system teams. • Must be able to demonstrate knowledge and skills necessary to provide care appropriate to the age of the patients served. Must demonstrate knowledge of the principles of growth and development over the life span and possess the ability to assess data reflective of the patient's status and interpret the appropriate information needed to identify each patient's requirements relative to his/her age-specific needs, and to provide the care needed as described in the department's policies and procedures. Age-specific information is developed further in the departmental job standards. Licensure, Registration, and/or Certification Required: • Registered Nurse license issued by the state in which the team member practices, and Education Required: • Bachelor's Degree in Nursing. Experience Required: • Typically requires 3 years of experience in front line nursing. Knowledge, Skills & Abilities Required: • Excellent written and oral communications including strong presentation/speaking skills. • Excellent interpersonal, negotiation, planning and problem solving skills. • Critical thinking and analytical skills. • Proficient in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint). Physical Requirements and Working Conditions: • Generally exposed to a normal office environment. • Must have functional speech, hearing, and senses to allow effective communication. • Position requires travel, may be exposed to road and weather hazards. • Operates all equipment necessary to perform the job. This job description indicates the general nature and level of work expected of the incumbent. It is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities required of the incumbent. Incumbent may be required to perform other related duties. Our Commitment to You: Advocate Health offers a comprehensive suite of Total Rewards: benefits and well-being programs, competitive compensation, generous retirement offerings, programs that invest in your career development and so much more – so you can live fully at and away from work, including: Compensation • Base compensation listed within the listed pay range based on factors such as qualifications, skills, relevant experience, and/or training • Premium pay such as shift, on call, and more based on a teammate's job • Incentive pay for select positions • Opportunity for annual increases based on performance Benefits and more • Paid Time Off programs • Health and welfare benefits such as medical, dental, vision, life, and Short- and Long-Term Disability • Flexible Spending Accounts for eligible health care and dependent care expenses • Family benefits such as adoption assistance and paid parental leave • Defined contribution retirement plans with employer match and other financial wellness programs • Educational Assistance Program Note: Eligibility for programs listed above may depend on your FTE or status (e.g., full-time, part-time, per diem, temporary, etc.); please ask a Recruiter for more information during an interview. About Advocate Health  Advocate Health is the third-largest nonprofit, integrated health system in the United States, created from the combination of Advocate Aurora Health and Atrium Health. Providing care under the names Advocate Health Care in Illinois; Atrium Health in the Carolinas, Georgia and Alabama; and Aurora Health Care in Wisconsin, Advocate Health is a national leader in clinical innovation, health outcomes, consumer experience and value-based care. Headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, Advocate Health services nearly 6 million patients and is engaged in hundreds of clinical trials and research studies, with Wake Forest University School of Medicine serving as the academic core of the enterprise. It is nationally recognized for its expertise in cardiology, neurosciences, oncology, pediatrics and rehabilitation, as well as organ transplants, burn treatments and specialized musculoskeletal programs. Advocate Health employs 155,000 teammates across 69 hospitals and over 1,000 care locations, and offers one of the nation’s largest graduate medical education programs with over 2,000 residents and fellows across more than 200 programs. Committed to providing equitable care for all, Advocate Health provides more than $6 billion in annual community benefits.

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