Clinical Educator: Simulation and Certification Coordinator

he Educational Development and Community Education Department provides clinical and non-clinical education, professional development, leadership development, and community education across the organization

Clinical Nurse Educator

Full-Time, Nights

The Clinical Nurse Educator (CNE) functions to ensure that clinicians are prepared to be responsible for promoting patient safety and high-quality patient care through clinical leadership, education, consultation, modeling, and research. The CNE incorporates evidence-based practice, theory, and research into various patient care settings according to patient needs by collaborating with multi-professional multidisciplinary groups, facilitating the development of hospital and department policies, nursing procedures, and regulatory standards and guidelines. The role also includes functioning as a community resource on topics within scope of practice and providing nursing orientation, education, and ongoing competency verification. The CNE is a role model for caring that honors the patient’s mind, body, and spirit.

Job Description:

• Collaborates with department directors, nursing staff, and others to identify unit-specific educational needs.

• Collaborates with other educators to prevent redundancies of educational efforts.

• Collaborates with human resources department, nurse educators, professional development specialists, clinical nurse specialists, and department directors to facilitate the unit/hospital orientation program for area of responsibility.

• Provides ongoing support and coaching to preceptors and/or new employees.

• Assesses educational needs through a variety of methods, both formal and informal, for orientation, in-service education and continuing education to preceptors, new employees, and experienced staff.

• Demonstrates ability to teach programs using adult learning principles, professional presentation skills, and quality audiovisual aids and handout materials.

• Evaluates achievement of learning objectives

• Facilitates attainment of necessary or desired educational credit from accreditation bodies for a given professional category and submits required documentation after the program

• Participates in patient care delivery

• Participates indirectly in the delivery of patient care in area of specialization.

• Acts as a resource for staff in locating answers to questions, best evidence, current policies, procedures, and protocols.

• Provides clinical consultation.

• Participates in research/evidence-based practice

• Incorporates research findings and best practice findings into the development of clinical practice guidelines/standards/policies.

Requirements:

• Current RN license or work permit in Kentucky.

• Three (3) years of acute care experience in the designated specialty within the last five (5) years

• BSN from accredited nursing program

• Certification as Professional Development Specialist (PDS) preferred

• Basic Life Support certification.

• ACLS/PALS/NRP/TNCC/ENPC certifications as required by department of assignment.

Benefits:

• Health, Vision, Dental, and Pet Insurance

• Life Insurance

• Short Term and Long-term Disability and Life Insurance

• Identity Theft Protection

• Tuition Reimbursement up to $6,000 annually

• Company paid Maternity and Paternity Leave

• 5 days of Paid Time Off available upon hire

• Bereavement Leave (includes pets)

• PTO Sell Back Program

• Compassionate Leave Sharing Program (PTO Donation)

• Employee Support Fund, for employees in need of emergency financial assistance

• Retirement with Company Match