Nurse Educator

Summary Job Description Community Nurse Educator PRN 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 Description Collaborates with department directors, nursing staff, and others to identify unit-specific educational needs. Collaborates with other educators to prevent redundancies of educational efforts. Collaborates 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. Provides ongoing support and coaching to preceptors and/or new employees. Assesses 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. Demonstrates ability to teach programs using adult learning principles, professional presentation skills, and quality audiovisual aids and handout materials. Evaluates achievement of learning objectives Facilitates attainment of necessary or desired educational credit from accreditation bodies for a given professional category and submits required documentation after the program Participates in patient care delivery Participates indirectly in the delivery of patient care in area of specialization. Acts as a resource for staff in locating answers to questions, best evidence, current policies, procedures, and protocols. Provides clinical consultation. Participates in research/evidence-based practice Incorporates research findings and best practice findings into the development of clinical practice guidelines/standards/policies. Requirements 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 Preventive Plan Retirement Plans Company Overview Baptist Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. Founded in 1924 in Louisville, Kentucky, Baptist Health is a full-spectrum health system dedicated to improving the health of the communities it serves. The Baptist Health family consists of 10 hospitals, employed and independent physicians, and more than 470 points of care, including outpatient facilities, physician practices and services, urgent care clinics, outpatient diagnostic and surgery centers, home care, fitness centers, and occupational medicine and physical therapy clinics. Baptist Health's eight owned hospitals include more than 2,300 licensed beds in Corbin, Elizabethtown, La Grange, Lexington, Louisville, Paducah, Richmond and New Albany, Indiana. Baptist Health also operates two joint venture hospitals: the 410‑bed Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville in Madisonville, Kentucky with Deaconess Health System based in Evansville, Indiana, and the Baptist Health Rehabilitation Hospital, a 40‑bed inpatient rehabilitation facility with Encompass Health, based in Birmingham, Alabama. Baptist Health employs more than 24,000 people in Kentucky and surrounding states. Baptist Health is the first health system in the U.S. to have all of its hospitals recognized by the American Nursing Credentialing Center with either a Magnet® or Pathway to Excellence® designation for nursing excellence. Baptist Health's employed provider network, Baptist Health Medical Group, has more than 1,820 employed providers offering care in 78 specialties, including approximately 862 physicians and 958 advanced practice clinicians. Baptist Health's physician network also includes more than 2,000 independent physicians. EEO Statement Baptist Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer, and seeks to employ individuals without regard to race, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, marital status, citizenship status, military status, religious or political beliefs, protected veteran status, employment status or any other protected class identified in any federal, state, or local law. Baptist Health specifically encourages minority, female, disabled, veteran and other candidates from diverse backgrounds to apply and strengthen our team. NOTICE OF NONDISCRMISSION AND ACCESSIBILITY TO SERVICES Persons with hearing and speech impairments can contact Baptist Health facilities by using the Kentucky Relay Service, a toll‑free telecommunication device for the deaf (TDD). For voice to TDD, call View phone number on click.appcast.io. For TDD to voice, call View phone number on click.appcast.io. 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