Position Summary

Position Summary: 

Prepares team members to be safe, efficient and competent in the performance of their duties by providing general and specialty specific education.

Will be assuming educational support for the following departments: Trauma ICU; Cardiovascular ICU, and Cardiac Intermediate Care.

Qualifications

Requirements:

• Minimum of 5 years experience in critical care and some level of experience as an educator (in hospital, college, training instructor, community education etc.)
• Strong positive interpersonal skills
• Self-motivated to find educational opportunities within the departments to support
• Strong collaboration skills with leadership, specialty physicians, and vendors related to specialty
• Must be willing to flex hours to meet the needs of hourly staff members, i.e. come in early, stay late, work weekends PRN
• Must be willing to drive to Orlando periodically to attend trainings, committees, and other meetings
• Prefer Trauma CC experience primarily and Open-Heart experience secondarily

Skills to obtain within the first 6 months:

• BLS/ACLS Instructor
• TNCC certification and TNCC instructor certification
• Anticipate participation in BCC instruction and ACC instruction (when live instruction is started at BHSP)
• CRRT, Impella, Balloon Pump, Advanced Hemodynamic Monitoring, Target Temperature Management, Post Pyloric Feeding Tube Placement (Iris)

Responsibilities

Essential Functions• Enhances clinical competence of team members by utilizing an Education Action Plan and annual Needs Assessment• Develops and coordinates the orientation process for assigned areas, meets with orientees, preceptors and members of the nursing leadership team as needed • Actively participates in quality and safety initiatives to ensure team members are improving practice so quality and safety standards are met• Collaborates with Corporate Education to assess ongoing competence of clinical team members• Plans, develops, coordinates and evaluates unit specific programs to maintain or increase the skill and knowledge of team members• Ensures adult learning principles are integrated into all programs • Facilitates and supports team member involvement in professional and organizational activities• Maintains proficiency in assigned role by participating in direct nursing practice • Demonstrates professional accountability by involvement in professional organizations• Provides input for the clinical evaluation of team members• Participates in the selection, evaluation and hiring of potential team members• Facilitates professional development of team members through utilization of educational courses• Assesses and provides education to maintain ongoing knowledge and compliance of organizational, regulatory policies and procedures• Utilizes evidenced based, quality clinical nursing practice consistent with nursing research, organizational and national practice standards• Effectively expresses ideas in verbal and written communication to team members and groups• Embraces, communicates and promotes change• Completes Sunrise documentation intermediate class and maintains competency in EMR systems including Sunrise documentation • Participates in formal education presentations, e.g. core specialty courses, corporate-sponsored education programs, or guest lecturing for academic courses• Develops test questions for Annual Clinical Review (ACR) online testing database, utilizing test construction principles and assembles unit specific ACR test.• Facilitates and participates in the skills portion of the ACR• Serves as a preceptor for the Learning Specialist I roles• Participates in unit-specific, site-specific or corporate committees and/or educational initiatives that influence organizational outcomes• Participates in professional development opportunities that increases his/her effectiveness in the role• Creates opportunities to develop critical thinking and critical reasoning skills for all team members• Provides development programs for preceptor growth • Utilizes critical thinking and knowledge assessments to plan orientation• Demonstrates knowledge of the research process; interprets and uses evidence based practice guidelines in addressing learningneeds• Collaborates with student coordinator for student placement and communicates with nursing instructor regarding student assignment• Maintains reasonably regular, punctual attendance consistent with Orlando Health policies, the ADA, FMLA and other federal, state and local standards.• Maintains compliance with all Orlando Health policies and procedures.