Registered Nurse Clinical Educator - Peds/PICU Job at Tucson Medical Center (Tucson)

Job Description

Provides on-going orientation and professional development for all levels of personnel within a clinical department or hospital wide. Provides clinical orientations, competency assurance and on-going education opportunities. Works in collaboration with other Clinical Educators in development and implementation of hospital-wide education programs.

Job Responsibility

Acts as clinical role model through 1:1 clinical time with staff to assess and teach critical thinking, priority setting, time management and 'culture of patient safety' practices
Maintains records of training activities and employee progress
monitors effectiveness of programs
Prepares, organizes, directs, conducts, and supervises programs for orientation, training and in-service education
ensures the educational needs of staff are identified and met
Acts as an education resource to nursing community and health care team
Assists learners to identify learning needs and guides them to appropriate resources
Evaluates new employees' performance and schedules regular meetings with them, according to the preceptor program, as well as the individual needs of the nurse, as identified by the unit based educators
Serves as a liaison to new employees and actively participates in retention initiatives
Maintains computer-based tracking system and compiles required reports and records
Evaluates effectiveness of learning strategies and outcomes of educational activities
Develops, executes and coordinates nursing orientation program
Plans education around new and existing hospital-wide nursing policies and procedures
Advocates standardization of nursing performance and standards of practice
Evaluates unit-based procedures and policies and standing orders to meet the goal of standardization
Organizes the unit-based educators' participation in hospital wide initiatives, such as CPR, JIREH, and CBT training
Participates in Leadership Councils as membership requires
Maintains clinical expertise through a variety if methods, including direct patient care as necessary
Participates in professional organizations and actively networks to share information and ideas
Develops unit competencies related to findings
Coordinates classroom/meeting room facilities and instructional aids
Creates objectives, lesson plans, and evaluation strategies
present and coordinate in-service and continuing education programs
Formulates and develops plans, procedures and programs to meet specific training needs and problems
Uses information from QI data, need assessments, risk management concerns, safety issues, and infection control, and JCAHO, HCFA and OSHA requirements to create education programs
Collaborates with internal and external trainers and educators to present courses within the hospital
Participates in and coordinate unit Quality Improvement Program on a regular and continuing basis
Assists in research and development directly related to department services
Implements and maintains established department, unit, and hospital policies, procedures, and objectives as well as quality improvement, environmental, safety, and infection control policies
Adheres to TMC organizational and department-specific safety, confidentiality, values policies and standards
Performs related duties as assigned

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Nursing required, preferred Master's degree
Three (3) years of RN experience preferably in a related unit/department within an acute care setting
Current RN licensure permitting work in the state of Arizona and current Basic Life Support (BLS) certification required
Additional certification may be required per department
Knowledge of critical care techniques, tools and responses required to ensure optimal patient care
Knowledge of nursing protocols and patient care practices that ensures optimum care
Skill in developing educational programs including training materials and educating staff in a variety of subjects
Skill in evaluating performance and recommending improvements
Skill in the use and maintenance of computer systems and programs, especially NRCPR, PC File and Folder, Word, EXCEL, e-mail and attachment capabilities, Outlook, and PowerPoint
Skill in communicating with staff involved in critical care, and physicians to ensure the proper care of patients
Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations
Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals
Ability to effectively present information and respond to inquiries or complaints from employees, patients and/or their representatives, and the general public
Ability to work with concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios, and proportions, and to apply mathematical operations to solve or analyze job-related situations
Ability to identify positive or negative variances from expected outcomes
Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions
Ability to interpret an extensive variety of instructions and deal with several abstract and concrete

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