Registered Nurse Staff Educator

Job Title

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Duties

The duties include:

• Providing expert, evidence-based education to staff.
• Providing educational instruction and training for nursing staff in clinical and outpatient units.
• Understanding instructional design, implementation, and application related to education and training.
• Performing learning needs assessments and developing educational trainings for clinical staff within the organization.
• Assisting with orientation of new employees, evaluating their progress in the orientation process, and developing and implementing a learning plan for improving identified deficiencies.
• Serving as a trainer and consultant for Resuscitation Education Initiative (Redi) Program including certification as a Basic Life Support (BLS) instructor.
• Monitoring and tracking BLS/Advanced Life Support (ALS) compliance within the organization.
• Collaborating with interdisciplinary team to support and evaluate responses to emergency responses in the facility to include BLS and ALS.
• Organizing, participating, and evaluating mock codes.
• Supporting nurse residency programs including the development of curriculum utilizing strategic learning methodologies such as simulation, lecture case studies and virtual reality.
• Developing expert level coaching and mentoring skills.
• Systematically evaluating current practice, formulating outcomes for groups of patients and/or organizational processes within area of expertise.
• Collaborating with other Clinical Nurse Educators 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.
• Reviewing 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.
• Collaborating with leadership and unit managers to identify educational training needs for staff, while supporting activities that foster competence, critical thinking, and decision-making skills.
• Providing consultation and collaboration through the participation within organizational committees.
• Having ability to analyze, interpret, and evaluate data to determine outcomes and changes related to educational programs.
• Being responsible for the documented outcomes at the program or service level.

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: Variable

Telework: Not available

Virtual: This is not a virtual position.

Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized.

Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized.