Registered Nurse (RN) Educator - Emergency Department (Days))

The ED Nurse Educator is responsible for the planning, development, implementation, and evaluation of educational programs and professional development initiatives for nursing staff across the health system's emergency departments. This role ensures clinical competency, fosters evidence-based practice, and supports onboarding, continuing education, and quality improvement efforts in alignment with organizational goals and regulatory requirements.

Required Knowledge & Skills

Education: Bachelor's Degree

Experience: Three years of related experience. Requires working knowledge of specialized practices, equipment, and procedures.

Licenses and Certifications

GEORGIA REGISTERED NURSE LICENSE OR MULTISTATE NURSING LICENSE

ACLS INSTRUCTOR

PEDIATRICS ADVANCED LIFE SUPPORT INSTRUCTOR

Qualifications

Minimum 3--5 years of clinical experience in emergency nursing.

Prior experience in education, training, or clinical leadership strongly preferred.

Knowledge of adult and child learning principles, curriculum development, and simulation-based training.

BLS, ACLS, PALS required. TNCC preferred. Instructor status for BLS, ACLS, PALS will be required

Statement Of Employment Philosophy

Being a part of Tanner Health System is more than a job, it is a promise we make to treat every patient with exceptional service every time they walk through our doors. Service excellence is the foundation of our organizational culture and the expectations we all set for each other, our patients, physicians and our community. All employees agree to abide by a set of service standards. These standards are the promise we make to provide the best care possible, and represent our beliefs, values and who we strive to become. We each commit to making Tanner Health System a great place for our employees to work, for patients to receive care and for physicians to practice medicine.

Functions

Area of Responsibilities

Education & Training: Develop and deliver orientation programs for new emergency department nurses. Design and implement continuing education, skills training, and competency validation. Provide education on clinical practices, equipment use, patient safety, and policy updates. Serve as a resource for certifications such as ACLS, PALS, BLS, and TNCC.

Quality & Compliance: Assist with regulatory readiness, ensuring staff education is aligned with Joint Commission, CMS, and state standards. Support quality improvement initiatives by integrating data-driven education and remediation strategies. Track and report competency completion and compliance metrics

Clinical Practice Support: Act as a clinical expert and mentor for ED nursing staff. Promote evidence-based practice and support the integration of clinical guidelines. Collaborate with ED leaders to identify knowledge gaps and improve clinical outcomes.

System Coordination: Standardize education and training across multiple ED sites within the health system. Coordinate with other nurse educators, quality leaders, and professional development staff to align curricula and practices.

Leadership & Collaboration: Contribute to policy and procedure development. Represent the ED in system-wide education committees, initiatives, and shared governance.

Compliance Statement

Employee performs within the prescribed limits of Tanner Health System's Ethics and Compliance program. Is responsible to detect, observe, and report compliance variances to their immediate supervisor, the Compliance Officer, or the Hotline.

Required Knowledge & Skills

Education: Bachelor's Degree

Experience: Three years of related experience. Requires working knowledge of specialized practices, equipment, and procedures.

Licenses and Certifications

GEORGIA REGISTERED NURSE LICENSE OR MULTISTATE NURSING LICENSE

ACLS INSTRUCTOR

PEDIATRICS ADVANCED LIFE SUPPORT INSTRUCTOR

Supervision

Coordinate, Collaborate, and Support standardized education across the system emergency departments. Work with other clinical nurse educators to provide education that foster better clinical outcomes.

Qualifications

Minimum 3--5 years of clinical experience in emergency nursing.

Prior experience in education, training, or clinical leadership strongly preferred.

Knowledge of adult and child learning principles, curriculum development, and simulation-based training.

BLS, ACLS, PALS required. TNCC preferred. Instructor status for BLS, ACLS, PALS will be required

Definitions

The ED Nurse Educator is responsible for the planning, development, implementation, and evaluation of educational programs and professional development initiatives for nursing staff across the health system's emergency departments. This role ensures clinical competency, fosters evidence-based practice, and supports onboarding, continuing education, and quality improvement efforts in alignment with organizational goals and regulatory requirements.

Position Responsibilities

Contact with Others: Requires frequent contact with many persons at different levels inside and outside of the organization to carry out organization policies and programs and obtain willing acceptance, consent, or action.

Effect of Error: Probable error usually detected in succeeding operations and generally confined to a single department or phase of organization activities. Practically all work is subject to verification or check. Occasional work with some confidential data where the effect of any disclosure would be negligible or where the full import is not apparent in the routines performed.

People Management Responsibilities

Supervisory Responsibility: Regularly uses assistance of aide or helper or leads the work of one to four co-employees; checks performance of work assigned as to accuracy and time, doing same work, it's more difficult aspects, or other related work

Work Environment/Physical Effort

Mental Demands: Assignment requires planning and arranging own work to reach definite objectives. Applies knowledge of a specific field using several varied procedures or techniques. Solves non-routine technical, treatment, or operational problems under general guides

Working Conditions: Minor - Occasionally involved in exposure to dirt, odors, noise, or some work is performed with exposure to temperature/weather extremes/occupational risk and probability of coming into contact with blood borne pathogens, other potentially infectious diseases, or biomedical/bio-hazardous materials.

Working Conditions Aspects for Immunizations

Performs tasks involving contact with blood, blood-contaminated body fluids, other body fluids, or sharps (needles): Yes

Directly works with Patients less than 12 months of age: Yes

Physical Effort: Minor physical effort - Job requires person to stand and/or walk frequently. Lifts, carries, or uses lightweight (1 to 25 lbs.) materials or equipment less than half of the day. Works in reaching or strained position intermittently. Office or laboratory work requires close visual effort less than half of day. Office or Laboratory work with concentration on a monotonous, repetitious procedure or skill most of day, where speed and accuracy are essential.

Physical Aspects

Bending: Frequent = 34% - 66% of the time

Typing: Frequent = 34% - 66% of the time

Manual Dexterity -- picking, pinching with fingers etc.: Frequent = 34% - 66% of the time

Feeling (Touch) -- determining temperature, texture, by touching: Occasional = 1% - 33% of the time

Hearing: Constant = 67% - 100% of the time.

Reaching -- above shoulder: Occasional = 1% - 33% of the time

Reaching -- below shoulder: Frequent = 34% - 66% of the time

Visual: Constant = 67% - 100% of the time.

Color Vision: Constant = 67% - 100% of the time.

Speaking: Constant = 67% - 100% of the time.

Standing: Frequent = 34% - 66% of the time

Balancing: Occasional = 1% - 33% of the time

Walking: Frequent = 34% - 66% of the time

Crawling: Occasional = 1% - 33% of the time

Running - in response to an emergency: Frequent = 34% - 66% of the time

Lifting up to 25 lbs.: Frequent = 34% - 66% of the time

Lifting 25 to 60 lbs.: Occasional = 1% - 33% of the time

Lifting over 60 lbs.: Occasional = 1% - 33% of the time

Handling -- seizing, holding, grasping: Frequent = 34% - 66% of the time

Carrying: Frequent = 34% - 66% of the time

Climbing: Occasional = 1% - 33% of the time

Kneeling: Frequent = 34% - 66% of the time

Squatting: Frequent = 34% - 66% of the time

Tasting: Not required

Smelling: Not required

Driving -- Utility vehicles such as golf carts, Gators, ATV, riding lawnmowers, skid steer, aerial lift: Not required

Driving -- Class C vehicles: Not required

Driving -- CDL class vehicles: Not required

N95 Respirator usage (PPE): Occasional = 1% - 33% of the time

Hazmat suit usage (PPE): Occasional = 1% - 33% of the time

Pushing/Pulling -- up to 25 lbs.: Frequent = 34% - 66% of the time

Pushing/Pulling -- 25 to 60 lbs.: Frequent = 34% - 66% of the time

Pushing/Pulling -- over 60 lbs. : Occasional = 1% - 33% of the time