RN Clinical Educator

Education Program Coordinator

Sanford Health, the largest rural health system in the United States, is dedicated to transforming the health care experience and providing access to world-class health care in America's heartland.

Facility: Black Hills Surg Hosp

Location: Rapid City, SD

Shift: 8 Hours - Day Shifts

Job Schedule: Full time

Weekly Hours: 40.00

Salary Range: $32.00 - $48.00

Department Details

Great work life balance

Flexibility, you create your day to day schedule

Monday - Friday schedule with the occasional weekend/ evenings

Opportunity to influence the education strategic plan for the market and region

Impact the confidence and capability of frontline caregivers

Job Summary

Responsible for assessing, planning, coordinating, teaching, and/or evaluating education and training programs for designated area and audience. Develops alternative methodologies for education based on learning principles. Collaborates with clinical partners, educational facilities, and/or other community agencies and consortium institutions when applicable to curriculum. Responsible to manage the orientation, staff development and ongoing professional development, education, and mentoring for new, transferring, and existing clinical staff and/or partners. May also participate in coordinating orientation schedules with managers, preceptors, orientees and/or clinical partners; coordinates and/or provides skills immersion and lab experiences; provides feedback, coaching, and mentors designated audience; ensures orientation documentation processes are complete and filed; follows up at regular intervals to evaluate continued progress; and ongoing collaborates with managers and preceptors as to needs and concerns. Expected to continuously develop, monitor, and evaluate all programs related to orientation, professional development, education, and mentoring for quality improvement opportunities and other initiatives. Additional focus may center on the facilitation of consensus building around an educational intervention amount subject matter experts and leadership. Included in this role are the development, coordination, assisting and/or teaching of programs or classes related to new clinical staff and/or partner's orientation/professional development and preceptor development. Expected to build strong alliances with department leaders, clinical partners, community agencies and consortium institutions when applicable. Must be able to organize, plan, coordinate, and facilitate educational programs, utilize adult learning principles, use various teaching/learning methodologies and provide role modeling and leadership.

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in nursing required, Master's preferred. Graduate from a nationally accredited nursing program preferred, including, but not limited to, Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE), Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing (ACEN), and National League for Nursing Commission for Nursing Education Accreditation (NLN CNEA). Three years clinical experience required. Requires current unencumbered license as a Registered Nurse in the state(s) of practice and/or possess multi-state licensure privileges as required by position. Obtains and subsequently maintains required department specific competencies and certifications.

Benefits

Sanford offers an attractive benefits package for qualifying full-time and part-time employees. Depending on eligibility, a variety of benefits include health insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, life insurance, a 401(k) retirement plan, work/life balance benefits, and a generous time off package to maintain a healthy home-work balance.