Registered Nurse Clinical Nurse Educator

Clinical Nurse Educator

The Clinical Nurse Educator is responsible for providing competent, evidence-based education to staff. Provides educational instruction and training for nursing staff in Emergency Department, clinical and outpatient units. Duties include, but are not limited to:

• Performs learning needs assessments, develops educational training for clinical staff within organization.
• Assists with the orientation of new employees, evaluation of their progress in the orientation process, and development and implementation of a learning plan for improving identified deficiencies.
• Serves as a trainer and consultant for Resuscitation Education Initiative (Redi) Program including certification as Basic Life Support (BLS) instructor.
• Monitors and tracks BLS/Advanced Life Support (ALS) compliance within the organization.
• Collaborates with interdisciplinary team to support and evaluate responses to emergency responses in the facility to include BLS and ALS.
• Organizes, participates, and evaluates mock codes. Supports nurse residency programs including the development of curriculum utilizing strategic learning methodologies such as simulation, lecture case studies and virtual reality.
• Develops proficient level coaching and mentoring skills Systematically evaluates current practice, formulates outcomes for groups of patients and/or organizational processes within area of expertise.
• Collaborates with other Clinical Nurse Educators/UBES and interprofessional healthcare teams in the ongoing clinical education activities including in-services, training, competency assessment, and evaluations of both current and new staff nursing skills.
• Reviews current nursing literature for new trends and changes based on evidence-based research with the ability to propose practice and documentation revisions based on evaluation of outcomes.
• Collaborates with leadership and unit managers to identify educational training needs for staff, while supporting activities that foster competence, critical thinking, and decision making.
• Provides consultation and collaboration through participation within organizational committees.
• Posses ability to analyze, interpret, and evaluate data to determine outcomes and changes related to educational programs.
• The selectee will demonstrate the ability to function as a G/LTC RN and be amenable to cross training to all RN assigned areas.
• Performs other related duties as assigned by supervisor or designee to meet the needs of the unit and organization.

VA offers a comprehensive total rewards package: VA Nurse Total Rewards

Pay: Competitive salary, regular salary increases, potential for performance awards

Paid Time Off: 50 days of paid time off per year (26 days of annual leave, 13 days of sick leave, 11 paid Federal holidays per year)

Retirement: Traditional federal pension (5 years vesting) and federal 401K with up to 5% in contributions by VA

Insurance: Federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care (many federal insurance programs can be carried into retirement)

Licensure: 1 full and unrestricted license from any US State or territory

Work Schedule: 07:30-4pm; M-F

Compressed/Flexible: May be available

Telework: AD-HOC Approved with supervisory discretion

Virtual: This is not a virtual position.

Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized

Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized

US Department of Veterans Affairs