RN Nurse Educator Acute Care

RN Educator PCU/Med Surg

All the benefits and perks you need for you and your family:

• Benefits from Day One
• Paid Days Off from Day One
• Student Loan Repayment Program
• Career Development
• Whole Person Wellbeing Resources
• Debt-free Education* (Certifications and Degrees without out-of-pocket tuition expense)

• Our promise to you:

Joining AdventHealth is about being part of something bigger. It's about belonging to a community that believes in the wholeness of each person, and serves to uplift others in body, mind and spirit. AdventHealth is a place where you can thrive professionally, and grow spiritually, by Extending the Healing Ministry of Christ. Where you will be valued for who you are and the unique experiences you bring to our purpose-minded team. All while understanding that together we are even better.

Schedule: 40 hours week

Shift : Days

Location: 501 Redmond Road, Rome, GA 30165

The community you'll be caring for: AdventHealth Redmond

• Rome's historical markers help document the city's history and gives insight into the culturally rich heritage.
• Population- 36,332 (2019 census)
• Developed a regional center for the fields of medical care and education
• In addition to its public-school system, it has several private schools. Higher-level educational institutions include private Berry College and Shorter University, and the public Georgia Northwestern Technical College and Georgia Highlands College.
• Largest city near the center of the triangular area defined by the Interstate highways between Atlanta, GA, Birmingham, AL, and Chattanooga, TN.

The role you'll contribute:

GENERAL SUMMARY:

This position is responsible for enhancing professional practice and the provision of quality patient care by providing evidence-based, quality educational programs and activities that promote professional competency for nursing, interprofessional and non-licensed clinical staff on his/her designated unit.

PRINCIPAL DUTIES AND JOB RESPONSIBILITIES :

Competency Management :

The CPDE is responsible to have the expertise in competency assessment in order to participate in the development, coordination, and managing, facilitating, conducting, and evaluating competency. To meet this expectation includes the following:

• Comprehends and interprets competencies to staff
• Role models competent practice
• Identifies learning needs of staff
• Assesses practice gaps comparing competencies to actual practice
• Plans educational content with learner engagement
• Collaborates with the Clinical Education Market Director to review outcomes data to evaluate and refine competency management activities.
• Identifies appropriate resources for problem solving

Education :

Education is designed to improve professional practice and provision of quality care. To accomplish this goal the CPDE participates in designing and identifying educational activities to address practice gaps for identified target audiences, which may include licensed and non-licensed healthcare personal in alignment with AdventHealth and division clinical education request and development processes. These activities are developed to achieve specific outcomes related to identified deficits or opportunities for improvement in knowledge, skill and practice. To meet this expectation includes the following:

• Assesses practice gaps.
• Identifies learning needs.
• Identifies desired outcomes
• Plans educational content delivery with learner engagement.
• Collaborates with Facility Clinical Professional Development Educator to evaluate and adjust educational programs based on evaluations and feedback
• Promotes safe, quality and compassionate patient care.
• Aligns educational programs with organization's policies and procedures
• Ensures that educational programs meet regulatory requirements.
• Understands adult educational theory and able to apply to the development of educational programs.
• Demonstrates an understanding and ability to apply evaluation methodologies, (i.e., Kirkpatrick) into courses and curriculum to refine clinical programs.
• Incorporates organizational values/culture.
• Supports new ideas and innovation in educational design
• Identifies resources for problem solving.
• Utilizes current, best evidence.
• Provides staff with resources and education to implement changes

Research Evidence-based Practice (EBP)/Quality Improvement (QI) :

The CPDE must promote and integrate the EBP in order to continuously improve practice. In addition, they promote research, EBP, and QI in patient care settings. CPDE may conduct, encourage, facilitate, and/or participate in research, EBP, and QI, including dissemination of findings. To meet this expectation includes the following:

• Works with others to identify problems and solutions and collaboratively create the change strategy
• Assists in the implementation of change strategies
• Embraces meaningful change and fosters acceptance, adoption and action toward change in others
• Identifies appropriate evidence to guide practice decisions
• Creates a supportive environment for nursing research, scientific inquiry, quality improvement and evidenced-base practice
• Supports research activities that align with the organizational strategic plan
• Disseminates research findings through educational programs, courses, and other activities
• Consistently maintains and sustain practice changes using principles of implementation science
• Exhibits creativity and flexibility through times of change

Collaborative Internal and External Partnerships :

The CPDE collaborates with partners to share experience in planning and decision making to achieve the desired results. Interprofessional collaboration involves multiple healthcare personnel from different professional backgrounds collaborating to deliver the highest quality

• Works collaboratively with interprofessional teams as assigned
• Identifies opportunities for collaboration; initiates collaborative efforts i.e., facility Chief Nursing Officer (CNO), Associate CNO and Nursing Directors
• Considers and communicates impact of activities on other departments/professions/community
• Demonstrates the ability to utilize evidence-based simulation models to design, implement, evaluate, and standardize educational programs for staff in the use of clinical simulation, debriefing and assessment.
• Communicates professionally using appropriate methods
• Collaborates with the Market Director, Clinical Professional Development on a regular basis to review outcomes data to evaluate and refine educational activities.
• Contributes to organizational initiatives/strategic planning as appropriate

Professional Role Development :

Professional role development involves identification and development of strategies to facilitate a continuous process of maturation through lifelong learning. This type of development allows for role transition, role integration, skill acquisition and mastery as learners advance from novice to expert in their professions and specialties. To meet this expectation includes the following:

• Participates in lifelong learning; provides lifelong learning
• Provides expertise in identifying professional development needs of individual staff
• Assists staff to identify areas for individual growth in current role
• Directs staff to career advancement resources
• Utilizes novice to expert continuum when developing staff
• Contributes insights and feedback for succession planning
• Identifies and provides opportunities for skill enhancement and mastery
• Promotes certification

Quality:

• Monitors the practices or operations with reference to laws, regulations, guidelines, or industry practices to assess compliance, risk, or exposure while communicating key performance indicators for clinical education service line within their division.
• Ensures that the work of the clinical education team develops educational content to meets the accreditation standards of the Joint Commission, Medicare, Medicaid and similar organizations from an educational perspective.
• Accountable for delivery of clinical education services and practices that create a patient-centered organization, driven by customer feedback and data.
• Ensures efficient and effective delivery of quality clinical education content and programs to drive improved clinical metrics.
• Contributes and works collaboratively with division and facility education team to support hospital wide improvement in meeting core measures, patient safety, and service excellence goals through clinical education.

Services:

• Fosters a Service Excellence culture
• Understand nursing unit's results to identify opportunities to support improvement in internal or external customer satisfaction and/or patient experience.
• Inspires pride in AdventHealth and organizational outcomes by developing a superior clinical identity and culture-ofexcellence which inspires higher expectations for care in the physicians, nurses and other clinicians than externally imposed standards.
• Promotes consistent positive patient interactions when coaching clinical staff that advance the agenda of unparalleled patient service.
• Establishes a culture of accountability for effectively managing expenses and delivering cost-effective healthcare in the communities we serve.

Growth :

• Supports strategic planning and business development within the clinical education area of responsibility that may include technology advances and other opportunities to drive differentiation support the growth agenda.
• Represents the organization positively within the community; participates in company supported community/patient events and in-services.
• Supports external relationships which advances the organization's position within the community, grows the business and improves the health of communities served.
• Stays abreast of regulatory changes, emerging technology, and advancements in healthcare delivery.
• Stays abreast of external factors and opportunities impacting healthcare; to include political, legislative and regulatory changes, emerging technologies, and advancements in healthcare delivery. Understands the competitive landscape. Supports the organization to be positioned strategically to respond to these changing healthcare dynamics and market environments.

Qualifications
EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:

• Bachelor's degree in Nursing, Healthcare Administration, Education or other clinical related field.
• 3+ years of experience in clinical education; 5+ years' experience in an acute care hospital

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE PREFERRED:

• Master's degree in Nursing, Healthcare Administration, Education or other clinical field

LICENSURE, CERTIFICATION OR REGISTRATION REQUIRED:

• Currently licensed as appropriate to education in the state(s) in which he or she practices, in accordance with law and regulation.
• BLS

LICENSURE, CERTIFICATION OR REGISTRATION PREFERRED:

• Certification as NPD Practitioner and/or clinical certification as recognized by American Nurse Credentialing Center.

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