Clinical Educator

Clinical Educator

St. Elizabeth Healthcare is hiring a Clinical Educator for our Cancer Center service line. Shift/Hours: Part-Time – 24 hours/week, 1st Shift

The Clinical Educator is responsible for providing individualized education based on assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating in collaboration with managers in an area of specialty. The Clinical Educator serves as a resource to all staff. The clinical educator participates in planning, implementing, and evaluating orientation for new clinical staff. Demonstrate respect, dignity, kindness, and empathy in each encounter with all patients, families, visitors, and other employees regardless of cultural background.

The Clinical Educator must be able to provide support to all shifts and weekends as needed to ensure that all shifts have the benefit of education resources.

• Assesses needs of staff to enhance learning at all campuses. Interacts with staff to maintain knowledge of workflow, completes leadership rounds, assesses clinical and educational needs, and provides education on the unit.
• Develops a plan to enhance education and staff competencies, revises educational plan based on assessment of nurse skills/needs as needed.
• Mentors staff and oversees planning and implementation of specialty Skills Day. Collaborates with Nursing Staff Development to meet regulatory requirements. Collaborates with managers to assist in maintaining competency record keeping.
• Responsible for keeping planning meetings on track, helping to arrange meeting times and places.
• Responsible for assuring staff involved in skills day planning have all the necessary supplies and information needed to complete projects.
• Works in collaboration with managers on special projects, serving on committees as necessary.
• Works in collaboration with managers in providing staff orientation and advanced training specific to the area of expertise.
• Serves as a resource to other departments.
• Assesses current nursing practice and uses disease specific to evaluate and implements best practices to further enhance patient outcomes. Works to promote best practices and nursing research within the area of expertise.

Performs other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required
• Graduate from an accredited school of nursing.
• If eligible, must have a Compact (multi-state) License in their primary state of residence.
• Current license to practice nursing in the state where work is being performed.
• Certification in area of specialty.

Specialized Knowledge

• Knowledge and application of the adult educational process required.

Kind and Length of Experience

• 2 years recent clinical experience including teaching in his/her clinical area.

FLSA Status: Exempt

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