Nurse Prof Dev Educator Specialist - CVICU

Job Summary

How would you like to work in a place where your contributions and ideas are valued? A place where you can serve with compassion, pursue excellence and honor every voice? At Wellstar, our mission is simple, yet powerful: to enhance the health and well-being of every person we serve. We are proud to have become a shining example of what's possible when the brightest professionals dedicate themselves to making a difference in the healthcare industry, and in people's lives.

Work Shift

Day (United States of America)

Core Responsibilities and Essential Functions:

Exemplary Practice

Assessment Practice Gaps: Conducts, analyzes, and synthesizes data to determine learning needs of the target audience.

Identification of Learning Needs: Assesses and identifies practice gaps related to the educational needs of the learner and other pertinent situations.

Outcomes: Identified outcomes for learning activities and programs.

Planning: Establishes a plan that prescribes strategies, alternatives, and resources to achieve expected outcomes.

Implementation: Implements the educational plan.

Coordination: Coordinates the education.

Facilitation of positive learning.

Evaluates progress toward attainment of outcomes.

Selects valid and reliable relevant methods and instruments to measure processes and outcomes.

Teamwork and Shared Leadership:

Consultation: Provides consultation to influence plans, enhance the abilities of others and effect change.

Involves learner, stakeholder, and other specialties in decision making process and negotiation of role responsibilities.

Establishes collegial partnerships with support departments including but not limited organizational learning, safety and quality, IT, BI, and other departments/roles to provide contributions and advancements in decisions regarding education.

Serves as clinical resource to nursing staff, leadership, and medical staff for interdisciplinary practice.

Demonstrates teamwork and collaboration by practicing in a manner that is fiscally responsible and promotes the recruitment and retention of all healthcare team members.

Consults with preceptors/orientees to facilitate completion of orientation.

Partners with others to effect change and generate positive outcomes.

Engages colleagues in the planning and implementation of lifelong learning activities for individuals and groups of learners.

Facilitates and supports performance improvement inclusive of all stakeholders, research and research utilization to promote safe, quality patient care.

Professional Development:

Ensures patient/family/staff confidentiality and corporate compliance for self (and accountability for team members) requirements including completing all required mandatory education and proficiencies.

Serves as a preceptor (or mentor) for other professional nurses (and staff or students for all disciplines) to ensure that there is a current and future qualified workforce, modeling the professional practice of nursing and creating a healthy work environment.

Participates in educational activities related to knowledge and skills appropriate to the specialty area, practice setting, nursing education role and learner diversity.

Applies current standards, guidelines, policies, and regulations into education that is offered.

Seeks experiences to develop, maintain and improve competence in nursing professional development.

Seeks professional certification and academic appointment when eligible.

Creative Innovations:

Promotes evidence-based practice, nursing research and performance improvement in nursing.

Participates in activities such as value analysis as part of the decision-making process in evaluating patient care products.

Advances the profession through writing, publishing, presenting, and participating within the external to the discipline of nursing.

Upholds all health care policies and procedures and clinical competencies put forth by this job description and professional association including legal, regulatory and accreditation requirements and standards ensuring by way of example, such goals as TJC Patient Safety Goals and Wellstar Health Systems safety absolutes.

Participates in data collection, poses relevant clinical questions to advance evidence-based practice. Consults appropriate experts and uses appropriate resources, data, and evidence to address practice questions.

Integrates ethics in all areas of practice.

Develops innovative solutions and strategies to secure appropriate resources and technology for professional development initiatives.

Clinical Resources and Support:

Performs the Nursing Process (assessment; diagnosis; identification of outcomes; planning; implementation and evaluation) in the performance of clinical care using evidence base practice, uses analytical/critical thinking and ensuring that care is individualized; coordinating care through effective partnerships recognizing that caring is central to achieve optimal patient care outcomes.

Practices using current clinical practice standards.

Coordinates the delivery and documentation of safe quality patient care that promotes the professional care delivery model. This includes, but is not limited to diverse and inclusive interdisciplinary communication methods (interdisciplinary rounds, case review, etc); completion of timely documentation and promotion of a respectful, inclusive clinical environment.

Completes all initial and ongoing professional competency assessment, required mandatory education, population specific education.

Support of Clinical Care:

Performs other duties as assigned.

Complies with all Wellstar Health System policies, standards of work, and code of conduct.

Required Minimum Education:

Masters Nursing

Associates Nursing

Doctorate Nursing Practice-Preferred or Doctorate Nursing-Preferred

Required Minimum License(s) and Certification(s):

All certifications are required upon hire unless otherwise stated.

RN - Reg Nurse (Single State) or RN-COMPACT - RN - Multi-state Compact

BLS - Basic Life Support or BLS-I - Basic Life Support - Instructor

Additional License(s) and Certification(s):

ACLS - Advanced Cardiac Life Support within 180 Days Preferred or ACLS-I - ACLS - Instructor within 180 Days Preferred or ACLS-P - ACLS - Provisional within 180 Days Preferred

NRP - Neonatal Resuscitation Prvdr within 180 Days Preferred or NRP-I - NRP - Instructor within 180 Days Preferred

PALS - Pediatric Adv Life Support within 180 Days Preferred and PALS-I - PALS - Instructor within 180 Days Preferred or PALS-P - PALS - Provisional within 180 Days Preferred

Required Minimum Experience:

Experience in educator role. Required and Minimum 5 years experience in related field of nursing Required and Experience with direct patient care preferred Preferred and This role may be required to support more than one facility or specialty. Required

Required Minimum Skills:

Ability to read, write, and speak English language, optimize the use of technology to support learning and holds advanced computer skills; demonstrates emotional intelligence; strong interpersonal, collaborative skills along with customer service skills required; ability to function in a fast paced environment and respond to emergencies in using a decisive, composed and respectful manner; possess excellent time management skills; possess a strong understanding of adult learning theories and can utilize multi-methods to implement training/development.

Develops tools, theories, skills, and knowledge to advance the practice of the NPD specialty. Provides consultation to influence plans, enhance the abilities of others and effect changes. Maintains educational or clinical competencies appropriate for role. Promotes concept of lifelong learning. Supports integration of research into practice. Uses appropriate measurement tools and methods in quality improvement, evidence-based practice, and research activities and shares at national forums. Involves learners in assessment of needs and identification of outcomes. Ensures educational programs are congruous with organizational mission and goals. Produces desired outcomes relevant to organization. Selects appropriate teaching strategies to facilitate behavioral change. Evaluates effectiveness and outcomes of educational endeavors. Evaluates overall program effectiveness. Promotes career development and role transition. Develop, coordinate, manage, facilitate, conduct, and evaluate onboarding, orientation, and competency programs for nursing and other healthcare personnel.

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