What are the responsibilities and job description for the Registered Nurse (RN) Educator - Emergency Department (Days)) position at Tanner Health?
The ED Nurse Educator is responsible for the planning, development, implementation, and evaluation of educational programs and professional development initiatives for nursing staff across the health system's emergency departments. This role ensures clinical competency, fosters evidence-based practice, and supports onboarding, continuing education, and quality improvement efforts in alignment with organizational goals and regulatory requirements.
Required Knowledge & Skills
Education: Bachelor's Degree
Experience: Three years of related experience. Requires working knowledge of specialized practices, equipment, and procedures.
Licenses and Certifications
GEORGIA REGISTERED NURSE LICENSE OR MULTISTATE NURSING LICENSE
ACLS INSTRUCTOR
PEDIATRICS ADVANCED LIFE SUPPORT INSTRUCTOR
Qualifications
Minimum 3--5 years of clinical experience in emergency nursing.
Prior experience in education, training, or clinical leadership strongly preferred.
Knowledge of adult and child learning principles, curriculum development, and simulation-based training.
BLS, ACLS, PALS required. TNCC preferred. Instructor status for BLS, ACLS, PALS will be required
Qualifications:
Statement Of Employment Philosophy
Being a part of Tanner Health System is more than a job, it is a promise we make to treat every patient with exceptional service every time they walk through our doors. Service excellence is the foundation of our organizational culture and the expectations we all set for each other, our patients, physicians and our community. All employees agree to abide by a set of service standards. These standards are the promise we make to provide the best care possible, and represent our beliefs, values and who we strive to become. We each commit to making Tanner Health System a great place for our employees to work, for patients to receive care and for physicians to practice medicine.
Functions
Area of Responsibilities
Education & Training: Develop and deliver orientation programs for new emergency department nurses. Design and implement continuing education, skills training, and competency validation. Provide education on clinical practices, equipment use, patient safety, and policy updates. Serve as a resource for certifications such as ACLS, PALS, BLS, and TNCC.
Quality & Compliance: Assist with regulatory readiness, ensuring staff education is aligned with Joint Commission, CMS, and state standards. Support quality improvement initiatives by integrating data-driven education and remediation strategies. Track and report competency completion and compliance metrics
Clinical Practice Support: Act as a clinical expert and mentor for ED nursing staff. Promote evidence-based practice and support the integration of clinical guidelines. Collaborate with ED leaders to identify knowledge gaps and improve clinical outcomes.
System Coordination: Standardize education and training across multiple ED sites within the health system. Coordinate with other nurse educators, quality leaders, and professional development staff to align curricula and practices.
Leadership & Collaboration: Contribute to policy and procedure development. Represent the ED in system-wide education committees, initiatives, and shared governance.
Compliance Statement
Employee performs within the prescribed limits of Tanner Health System's Ethics and Compliance program. Is responsible to detect, observe, and report compliance variances to their immediate supervisor, the Compliance Officer, or the Hotline.
Required Knowledge & Skills
Education: Bachelor's Degree
Experience: Three years of related experience. Requires working knowledge of specialized practices, equipment, and procedures.
Licenses and Certifications
GEORGIA REGISTERED NURSE LICENSE OR MULTISTATE NURSING LICENSE
ACLS INSTRUCTOR
PEDIATRICS ADVANCED LIFE SUPPORT INSTRUCTOR
Supervision
Coordinate, Collaborate, and Support standardized education across the system emergency departments. Work with other clinical nurse educators to provide education that foster better clinical outcomes.
Qualifications
Minimum 3--5 years of clinical experience in emergency nursing.
Prior experience in education, training, or clinical leadership strongly preferred.
Knowledge of adult and child learning principles, curriculum development, and simulation-based training.
BLS, ACLS, PALS required. TNCC preferred. Instructor status for BLS, ACLS, PALS will be required
Definitions
The ED Nurse Educator is responsible for the planning, development, implementation, and evaluation of educational programs and professional development initiatives for nursing staff across the health system's emergency departments. This role ensures clinical competency, fosters evidence-based practice, and supports onboarding, continuing education, and quality improvement efforts in alignment with organizational goals and regulatory requirements.
Position Responsibilities
Contact with Others: Requires frequent contact with many persons at different levels inside and outside of the organization to carry out organization policies and programs and obtain willing acceptance, consent, or action.
Effect of Error: Probable error usually detected in succeeding operations and generally confined to a single department or phase of organization activities. Practically all work is subject to verification or check. Occasional work with some confidential data where the effect of any disclosure would be negligible or where the full import is not apparent in the routines performed.
People Management Responsibilities
Supervisory Responsibility: Regularly uses assistance of aide or helper or leads the work of one to four co-employees; checks performance of work assigned as to accuracy and time, doing same work, it's more difficult aspects, or other related work
Work Environment/Physical Effort
Mental Demands: Assignment requires planning and arranging own work to reach definite objectives. Applies knowledge of a specific field using several varied procedures or techniques. Solves non-routine technical, treatment, or operational problems under general guides
Working Conditions: Minor - Occasionally involved in exposure to dirt, odors, noise, or some work is performed with exposure to temperature/weather extremes/occupational risk and probability of coming into contact with blood borne pathogens, other potentially infectious diseases, or biomedical/bio-hazardous materials.
Working Conditions Aspects for Immunizations
Performs tasks involving contact with blood, blood-contaminated body fluids, other body fluids, or sharps (needles): Yes
Directly works with Patients less than 12 months of age: Yes
Physical Effort: Minor physical effort - Job requires person to stand and/or walk frequently. Lifts, carries, or uses lightweight (1 to 25 lbs.) materials or equipment less than half of the day. Works in reaching or strained position intermittently. Office or laboratory work requires close visual effort less than half of day. Office or Laboratory work with concentration on a monotonous, repetitious procedure or skill most of day, where speed and accuracy are essential.
Physical Aspects
Bending: Frequent = 34% - 66% of the time
Typing: Frequent = 34% - 66% of the time
Manual Dexterity -- picking, pinching with fingers etc.: Frequent = 34% - 66% of the time
Feeling (Touch) -- determining temperature, texture, by touching: Occasional = 1% - 33% of the time
Hearing: Constant = 67% - 100% of the time.
Reaching -- above shoulder: Occasional = 1% - 33% of the time
Reaching -- below shoulder: Frequent = 34% - 66% of the time
Visual: Constant = 67% - 100% of the time.
Color Vision: Constant = 67% - 100% of the time.
Speaking: Constant = 67% - 100% of the time.
Standing: Frequent = 34% - 66% of the time
Balancing: Occasional = 1% - 33% of the time
Walking: Frequent = 34% - 66% of the time
Crawling: Occasional = 1% - 33% of the time
Running - in response to an emergency: Frequent = 34% - 66% of the time
Lifting up to 25 lbs.: Frequent = 34% - 66% of the time
Lifting 25 to 60 lbs.: Occasional = 1% - 33% of the time
Lifting over 60 lbs.: Occasional = 1% - 33% of the time
Handling -- seizing, holding, grasping: Frequent = 34% - 66% of the time
Carrying: Frequent = 34% - 66% of the time
Climbing: Occasional = 1% - 33% of the time
Kneeling: Frequent = 34% - 66% of the time
Squatting: Frequent = 34% - 66% of the time
Tasting: Not required
Smelling: Not required
Driving -- Utility vehicles such as golf carts, Gators, ATV, riding lawnmowers, skid steer, aerial lift: Not required
Driving -- Class C vehicles: Not required
Driving -- CDL class vehicles: Not required
N95 Respirator usage (PPE): Occasional = 1% - 33% of the time
Hazmat suit usage (PPE): Occasional = 1% - 33% of the time
Pushing/Pulling -- up to 25 lbs.: Frequent = 34% - 66% of the time
Pushing/Pulling -- 25 to 60 lbs.: Frequent = 34% - 66% of the time
Pushing/Pulling -- over 60 lbs. : Occasional = 1% - 33% of the time