EDUCATOR- NURSE URPG

Summary of Essential Functions • Responsible for assessing the educational needs of the staff and new employees. • Designs and implements educational programs that meet identified needs. • Continuously assists management in evaluating nursing practice and designing methodologies to improve standard of care. • Provides leadership, clinical expertise, and functional direction to other member of the health care team. Educational Requirements • High school graduate or equivalent. • Graduate of an accredited Professional Nursing Program. • Bachelor’s degree preferred. Licenses/Certifications • Current licensure state of Texas as Professional Nurse. • Specialty Certification preferred. • Patient Care Services Educator • BLS, ACLS • Critical Care • BLS, ACLS • Emergency Services • BLS, ACLS, TNCC, ENPC, PALS • Women’s & Children’s Services • BLS, STABLE, NRP, PALS Qualifications/Knowledge/Skills/Abilities: • Experiences which have provided opportunities to develop skills in teaching. • Demonstrates strong clinical skills. • Able to coordinate, facilitate and manage various educational activities. • Utilizes effective communication and interpersonal skills when interacting with patients, family, visitors, health care industry representatives, physicians, department personnel and other allied health care providers. • Adaptable, flexible, and able to set priorities using critical thinking and analytical skills. • Skilled at effective time management, attention to detail, and multitasking. • Communicates effectively in English, both verbally and in writing, including public speaking. • Able to tailor education to the individual learner. • Demonstrations strong organizational skills and ability to maintain accurate and timely recordkeeping. Physical Requirements • Requires walking, standing, or sitting for extensive periods of time as well as pushing and pulling of equipment. • Medium strength requirement: Exerting 20 to 50 pounds of force occasionally, and/or 10 to 25 pounds of force frequently, and/or greater than negligible up to 10 pounds of force constantly. • Involves minimal temperature and moderate noise level changes. • Full range of body motion including handling and lifting patients, manual and finger dexterity, and hand-to-eye coordination. • Corrected vision and hearing to normal range. Duties and Responsibilities • Assesses educational learning needs based on standards established by accrediting agencies, PI monitoring results, administration / staff request, class evaluations, and other assessment techniques. • Demonstrates and implement development of assigned courses, classes, and activities, based on current clinical and educational practices. Ensures that content is relative to age-specific patient populations. • Collaborates with other Educators in planning/development of orientation, in-services, and other hospital-wide educational offerings. • Able to effectively solve problems through fact-finding, research, facilitation, forming plan of action and evaluation of outcomes. Utilizes data collection to determine if problem is structural, process or outcome based, and works with management to formulate change. • Participates as a liaison between United Regional and the community for health-related activities. • Able to share knowledge and skills of direct and indirect care to patients when: orienting new employees and students, identifying learning needs of the staff, providing in-service education, seminars, and workshops, and developing and initiating action plan for competence assessments. • Serves as a liaison between providers and hospital personnel for the purposes of training and education. • Maintains knowledge and competence for clinical practice staying abreast of nursing trends, policies, procedures, and regulations specific to area of practice. • Collaborates with other educators to manage and maintain the Learning Management System. • Performs all other tasks/responsibilities as necessary.