RN - UNIT BASED EDUCATOR

Job Description\n\n\n\nCompensation Disclaimer\n\nCompensation for this role is based on a number of factors, including but not limited to experience, education, and other business and organizational considerations.\nDepartment: Staffing Department - SRMC\nFTE: 1.00\n Full Time\n Shift: Days\nPosition Summary:\n Function as unit educator, master teacher, master preceptor and facilitates evidenced-based research into specialized areas of nursing. Utilize the expertise of a practitioner to incorporate nursing processes into the plan of care for a specialized group of patients. Perform as a unit educator while maintaining clinical skills by performing as a clinical instructor for students from the CON on home unit and/or assisting in staffing on unit. Ensure adherence to Hospitals and departmental policies, procedures and guidelines. Patient care assignment may include neonate, pediatric, adolescent, adult and geriatric age groups.\nDetailed responsibilities:\n * PATIENT SAFETY 1 - Follow patient safety-related policies, procedures and protocols\n * DEVELOPMENT - Enhance professional growth and development through participation in educational programs, reading current literature, attending in-services, meetings and workshops\n * PATIENT SAFETY 2 - Demonstrate proactive approach to patient safety by seeking opportunities to improve patient safety through questioning of current policies and processes\n * PATIENT SAFETY 3 - Identify and report/correct environmental conditions and/or situations that may put a patient at undue risk\n * PATIENT SAFETY 4 - Report potential or actual patient safety concerns, medical errors and/or near misses in a timely manner\n * PATIENT SAFETY 5 - Encourage patients to actively participate in their own care by asking questions and reporting treatment or situations that they don't understand or may "not seem right"\n * LEAD - Provide educational leadership to enhance specialized patient care within clinical protocols\n * INITIATE - Initiate unit-based strategies for developing clinical skills through the master clinician, master preceptor model\n * PLAN - Develop patient plans of care incorporating evidenced-based research and national standards\n * CONSULTS - Consult with and serve as a clinical resource for the multidisciplinary team to ensure quality patient care\n * ASSIST - Assist patient and caregivers with educational needs, problem solving, and health management aspects across the continuum of care\n * MONITOR - Monitor trends and implement educational strategies to ensure quality standards and parameters are achieved\n * COLLABORATE - Collaborate with the Clinical Educator as well as the Clinical Nurse Specialist, Specialty RN, or Unit Director to plan and implement pertinent curricula\n * PATIENT CARE - Deliver safe direct care to an assigned group of patients, providing specialized patient care within nursing protocols and assisting the admission, transfer and discharge process performing all RN nursing duties\n * EDUCATE - Educate appropriate staff in the use of new equipment, supplies, and instruments for their service; coordinates in-service training/workshops for appropriate staff\n * PERFORM - Perform as a unit educator while maintaining clinical skills by performing as a clinical instructor for students from the CON on home unit and/or assisting in staffing on unit Qualifications\n\nEducation:\n Essential:\n * Bachelor's Degree\n Nonessential:\n * Master's Degree\n Education specialization:\n Essential:\n * BSN or MSN\n Nonessential:\n * Nursing\nExperience:\n Essential:\n 18 months directly related experience\n Nonessential:\n Bilingual English, Spanish, Keres, Tewa, Tiwa, Towa, Zuni, or Navajo 3 years directly related experience 2 years specialty area experience \nCredentials:\n Essential:\n * CPR for Healthcare/BLS Prov or Prof Rescuers w/in 30 days\n * RN in NM or as allowed by reciprocal agreement by NM\n * Advanced Cardiac Life Support Certification w/in 6 months\n * Basic Arrhythmia Cert w/in 1 year\n Nonessential:\n * Instructor in Unit-Required Certifications w/in 90 Days\n * Current Instructor in BLS, ACLS, NRP or other instruct cert\n Credential equivalent experience:\n Nonessential:\n * Instructor in Unit-Required Certifications or obtained within one year of position (BLS, ILS, NRP, PALS, ACLS, TNCC, etc)\nPhysical Conditions:\n Heavy Work: Exerting 50 to 100 pounds of force occasionally, and/or 25 to 50 pounds of force frequently, and/or 10 to 20 pounds of force constantly to move objects or people. Physical Demand requirements are in excess of those for Medium Work.\nWorking conditions:\n Essential:\n * Sig Hazard: Chemicals, Bio Hazardous Materials req PPE \n * Tuberculosis testing is completed upon hire and additionally as required\n#SRMC\nSign On Bonus\nRELOCATION ASSITANCE AVALIABLE\nDepartment: Registered Nurse