Clinical Educator - NICU

Clinical Educator

Where compassion meets innovation and technology and our employees are family.

Job Description:

• Provide and coordinate education support for service line staff
• Offer service line specific professional development under the supervision of the Director of Professional Development & Practice
• Ensure effective and efficient implementation of key educational processes at the unit level
• Assist in implementing designated centralized components of key educational processes
• Lead organizational change, orientation, and annual competence assessment
• Develop preceptor programs and conduct required ongoing training
• Facilitate patient education, student affiliations, and promote evidence-based practice

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Assess, plan, implement, coordinate, evaluate, and document age/population appropriate patient care
• Design, implement, and evaluate a cost-effective unit-based orientation process
• Develop preceptors and coordinate the annual assessment of high-risk skills
• Conduct required training to close performance gaps in knowledge and skills
• Implement a unit-based plan for advancing staff competence across all shifts
• Coordinate unit-based clinical experience for students
• Facilitate the unit-based PI process
• Provide administrative support for unit-based operations

Requirements:

• Current RN license in the State of Texas
• Minimum Bachelor's degree in nursing required; MSN or equivalent preferred
• Broad knowledge of nursing functions and specific knowledge of patient care activities
• Five years of clinical nursing experience, with two years as a preceptor preferred
• Education and/or presentation skills preferred

Certificates, Licenses, Registrations:

• Current RN Texas license
• Basic Life Support Provider
• Pediatric Advanced Life Support Provider
• Neonatal Resuscitation Provider (if applicable to unit)
• Advanced Cardiac Life Support Provider (if applicable to unit)
• BLS and/or ALS Instructor status as appropriate within 1 year of employment
• Specialty certification in clinical area and/or professional development required upon reaching eligibility