Clinical Nurse Educator, Peri-Operative Services

Nursing Educator

We are a small community hospital where your voice is heard! We believe in sharing ideas and working with staff to create innovative ideas to improve employee engagement and patient care.

Job Description

• Provides clinical expertise, education, consultation, leadership, and research in selected clinical areas to benefit patients, staff, and the organization.
• Promotes compliance with regulations by working with ECHN staff to develop practices that are relevant and compliant.
• Facilitates project teams as well as organizational department efforts to improve systems and processes within ECHN.
• Provides educational leadership to direct care providers to enhance specialized patient care within the Intensive Care Units and Step Down Units.
• Assesses the quality of care for a specific patient population.
• Creates an environment of nursing excellence in which high-quality care can be provided.
• Coordinates and implements orientation of nursing staff. Collaborates to develop individualized orientation programs and monitors orientee's progress.
• Collaborates with medical providers, patient care staff, and unit management in the planning, implementation, and delivery of educational curricula.
• Plans and implements annual competencies through collaboration with the Nurse Manager and Medical providers.
• Monitors trends and implements educational strategies to ensure compliance with quality standards and parameters.
• Uses a comprehensive approach, a high level of discriminative judgment, advanced knowledge, and expert skill to identify problems and issues that interfere with patient care.
• Provides clinical practice interventions that result in improvements in clinical outcomes, patient/family satisfaction, resource allocation, staff knowledge and skills, healthcare team collaboration, and organizational efficiency.
• Collaborates with members of the healthcare team to develop standards of care, clinical procedures, or quality improvement plans.
• Participates in system evaluation of technology and its impact on patients and resources.
• Acts as an expert resource that provides pertinent information which enables nurses and others to make decisions based on a wide range of relevant and appropriate alternatives.
• Participates in both formal and informal teaching and coaching of staff nurses, graduate nursing students, other healthcare professionals, and patients/families.
• Demonstrates commitment to career development and professional practice of self and staff.
• Fosters a spirit of inquiry by documenting problems to determine research needs or by generating or refining identified research problems.
• Collaborates with nurses, nurse educators, physicians, and other healthcare providers and patients and their families to result in teambuilding, synergism, and integrative solutions.
• Acts as a positive role model for nurses demonstrating practical integration of theory and evidence-based practice.
• Utilizes evidence-based practice in clinical procedures, administrative policies, and educational materials for patients, staff, and others.
• Acts as a change agent to provide a link between a variety of resources and staff.

Requirements

• Must be a graduate of an accredited School of Nursing and hold and maintain a current Registered Nurse license in the State of Connecticut.
• Must hold a BSN from an accredited University.
• Master's Degree in Nursing preferred - matriculation required after one year in position.
• Basic certification in area of specialty is preferred: Education/Critical Care Nursing.
• Must have at least five (5) years or more of progressive experience in clinical practice, nursing education, and/or nursing management in an acute care setting.

Benefits

• $8,000 bonus
• Generous vacation that is front-loaded based on budgeted hours (e.g., 40 hours/week = 26 days a year)
• Sick time on an accrual basis
• 401(k), medical, dental, vision insurance, employee assistance program, voluntary benefit options
• Tuition reimbursement - eligible after 3 months of employment
• Free parking at all work sites
• Perk spots (discounts at local retailers, restaurants, travel, and childcare centers)
• Career growth within the organization via career ladders, committee involvement, and more.

Location

Eastern Connecticut Health Network Nursing Education, MMH

Schedule

Full-time, Variable, 40