Sr Specialist/Nursing Educator - Long Term Care - Sharp Coronado - FT - Days

Facility:

City Coronado

Department

Job Status

Regular

Shift

Day

FTE

1

Shift Start Time

Shift End Time

California Registered Nurse (RN) - CA Board of Registered Nursing; AHA Basic Life Support for Healthcare Professional (AHA BLS Healthcare) - American Heart Association; Master's Degree; Nursing Professional Development Certification (NPD-BC) - American Nurses Credentialing Center

Hours :

Shift Start Time:

8 AM

Shift End Time:

4:30 PM

AWS Hours Requirement:

8/40 - 8 Hour Shift

Additional Shift Information:

Weekend Requirements:

No Weekends

On-Call Required:

No

Hourly Pay Range (Minimum - Midpoint - Maximum):

$72.290 - $93.280 - $104.470

The stated pay scale reflects the range that Sharp reasonably expects to pay for this position.? The actual pay rate and pay grade for this position will be dependent on a variety of factors, including an applicant's years of experience, unique skills and abilities, education, alignment with similar internal candidates, marketplace factors, other requirements for the position, and employer business practices.

What You Will Do

Masters or doctoral prepared nurse who applies clinical expertise within a specialty area and leads in the following functions: care coordination and management, education, outcome management, research/evidence-based practice and professional development. Leadership skills (system thinker and change agent) are role assumptions.

Required Qualifications

• Master's Degree or doctoral prepared nurse.

• 2 Years recent pertinent clinical experience.

• California Registered Nurse (RN) - CA Board of Registered Nursing -REQUIRED

• AHA Basic Life Support for Healthcare Professional (AHA BLS Healthcare) - American Heart Association -REQUIRED

Preferred Qualifications

• Previous educator experience.

• Nursing Professional Development Certification (NPD-BC) - American Nurses Credentialing Center -PREFERRED

Other Qualification Requirements

• Certification in specialty area of practice highly desired.

Essential Functions

• Care Coordination and Advocacy: Serves as a leader and partner on the interprofessional healthcare team to enhance care coordination across settings and among caregivers. Provides consultation and collaboration to design, coordinate, and evaluate plans of care. Mentors and leads staff to be patient advocates to actively involve the patient/family in the care plan development.

• Care Environment Management: Delegates and uses nursing team resources and services as a partner in the interprofessional healthcare team. Evaluates clinical and cost outcomes and identifies needed changes in systems and processes supporting the care environment to improve safety, effectiveness, timeliness, efficiency, quality, and patient centered care. Uses information systems and technology to improve outcomes.

• Education: Systematically plans and evaluates overall nursing staff development in response to patient and healthcare trends, regulatory requirements, and organizational strategic priorities. Uses appropriate teaching/learning principles and strategies and current information, standards, and technologies to facilitate learning of patient/family and healthcare team. Conducts and communicates comprehensive outcome evaluation of educational activities on learner and organization.

• Outcomes Management: Assumes accountability for outcomes for specific populations within a unit or setting. Designs/redesigns client patient care based on analysis of outcomes and evidence-based knowledge. Uses performance improvement methodologies (DMAIC, RCA, etc.) to improve quality, cost efficient care.

• Research and Evidence-Based Practice: Raises questions to challenge existing practices to promote evidence-based practice (EBP). Synthesizes literature and research findings to design, implement, and evaluate interventions for selected problems or populations. Fosters staff's knowledge and skill in the research/EBP process and the application of EBP and research.

• Professional Development: Effects change through advocacy for the profession, interprofessional healthcare team and patient. Promotes professional nursing role competence. Fosters a climate which promotes open communication, learning and professional growth. Facilitates the implementation of change at the organizational level. Enhances own professional growth through self-evaluation, setting and meeting own developmental goals. Participates in professional nursing organizations and partners with community organizations and schools. Commits to practice self-care, manage stress, and connect with self and others.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Demonstrates advanced competencies in all areas of unit skills.

• Demonstrates complex problem solving, critical thinking skills and serves as a role model.

• Assumes the responsibility of resource and teaching roles.

• Demonstrates leadership skills which allows the nurse to positively influence the practice of others.

• Applies knowledge and expertise to achieve outcomes for the unit, department, hospital, organization and community.

Sharp HealthCare is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, status as a protected veteran, among other things, or status as a qualified individual with disability or any other protected class