Community Nurse Educator PRN

Community Nurse Educator

The Educational Development and Community Education Department provides clinical and non-clinical education, professional development, leadership development, and community education across the organization.

The Clinical Nurse Educator (CNE) functions to ensure that clinicians are prepared to be responsible for promoting patient safety and high-quality patient care through clinical leadership, education, consultation, modeling, and research. The CNE incorporates evidence-based practice, theory, and research into various patient care settings according to patient needs by collaborating with multi-professional multidisciplinary groups, facilitating the development of hospital and department policies, nursing procedures, and regulatory standards and guidelines. The role also includes functioning as a community resource on topics within scope of practice and providing nursing orientation, education, and ongoing competency verification. The CNE is a role model for caring that honors the patient's mind, body, and spirit.

Job responsibilities include:

• Collaborating with department directors, nursing staff, and others to identify unit-specific educational needs.
• Collaborating with other educators to prevent redundancies of educational efforts.
• Collaborating with human resources department, nurse educators, professional development specialists, clinical nurse specialists, and department directors to facilitate the unit/hospital orientation program for area of responsibility.
• Providing ongoing support and coaching to preceptors and/or new employees.
• Assessing educational needs through a variety of methods, both formal and informal, for orientation, in-service education and continuing education to preceptors, new employees, and experienced staff.
• Demonstrating ability to teach programs using adult learning principles, professional presentation skills, and quality audiovisual aids and handout materials.
• Evaluating achievement of learning objectives.
• Facilitating attainment of necessary or desired educational credit from accreditation bodies for a given professional category and submitting required documentation after the program.
• Participating in patient care delivery.
• Acting as a resource for staff in locating answers to questions, best evidence, current policies, procedures, and protocols.
• Providing clinical consultation.
• Participating in research/evidence-based practice.
• Incorporating research findings and best practice findings into the development of clinical practice guidelines/standards/policies.

Requirements include:

• Current RN license or work permit in Kentucky.
• Three (3) years of acute care experience in the designated specialty within the last five (5) years.
• BSN from accredited nursing program.
• Certification as Professional Development Specialist (PDS) preferred.
• Basic Life Support certification.
• ACLS/PALS/NRP/TNCC/ENPC certifications as required by department of assignment.

Benefits include:

• Preventive Plan
• Retirement Plans

If you would like to be part of a growing family focused on supporting clinical excellence, teamwork, and innovation, we urge you to apply now!

Baptist Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer.