Registered Nurse Clinical Educator

• 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
• 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

• 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
• current Basic Life Support (BLS) certification required
• 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
• 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

Master’s degree