Clinical Nurse Educator, Adult Emergency Department - Registry

University of Chicago Medical Center • Chicago, IL

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About The Position

Join UChicago Medicine, as a Clinical Nurse Educator (RN) in our Adult Emergency Department. As a Clinical Nurse Educator, you will design, develop, implement, and evaluate a variety of educational offerings in order to improve nursing care and clinical/organizational outcomes. In this role, the Clinical Nurse Educator is a nurse with previous educational experience whose focus is on staff development and nursing education. This nurse is an educator, consultant, role model, staff/patient advocate, change agent, leader and cost effective professional. The Clinical Nurse Educator elevates the standard of professional nursing practice at UCM by developing, coaching and mentoring staff to become expert clinicians and leaders.

Requirements

• BSN required
• Minimum requirement of three years of clinical practice in specialty area
• Knowledge and previous application of adult learning principles
• Demonstrated leadership skills evidenced by serving as a charge nurse, preceptor or episodic teacher
• Demonstrates complex decision-making skills and problem solving ability

Nice To Haves

• Master of Science in Nursing or related education field preferred
• Certification in specialty area preferred
• Previous experience in a role as an educator preferred
• Previous experience working within multidisciplinary teams or nursing leadership committees preferred

Responsibilities

• Utilizes standardized and develops customized assessment tools and testing methodologies to measure staff knowledge and skill in core nursing practices and within specialty areas.
• Collects data regarding employee learning needs, at least annually, through the methods of observation, interviewing, focus groups and instrumentation.
• Interprets both the accrediting and regulatory agencies' and the medical center's strategic imperatives, policies, guidelines, and other internal demands in order to design education that supports these strategic goals and key objectives.
• Offers recommendations for the deployment of educational resources to enable the achievement of organizational goals.
• Interprets health care trends and incorporates current research into the design of learning needs assessments and the identification of learning needs.
• Collaborates with key staff to develop a comprehensive annual educational calendar.
• Designs core nursing competencies that cross the continuum of clinical expertise and practice, using essential criteria such as: clinical judgment, advocacy/moral agency, caring practices, facilitation of learning, collaboration, systems thinking, response to diversity, clinical inquiry, and contemporary standards of practice and care.
• Prepares educational objectives, lesson plans, handouts, self-learning modules, instructional manuals, and tests for programs.
• Serves as faculty in organization wide education events, as appropriate.
• Evaluates all learning activities using objective performance criteria and recommends corresponding changes in education plans.
• Utilizes appropriate tools and testing methodology for assessing changes in learners' knowledge, skills, and clinical practice as well as for determining education project/program effectiveness.
• Recommends various quality projects based on information revealed in planning, conducting, and evaluating staff education.
• Researches available funding sources and submits funding proposals in order to implement support and expand new or existing programs to meet the educational needs.

What This Job Offers

• Industry: Hospitals
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree