Clinical Nurse Educator - Cardiac ICU/Non-ICU
About The Position
UChicago Medicine is hiring a Clinical Nurse Educator in its Central Education Department. The educator supports staff development and nursing education, elevating professional nursing practice by developing, coaching, and mentoring staff to become expert clinicians and leaders. The role functions as an educator, consultant, role model, staff and patient advocate, change agent, leader, and cost-effective professional. The Clinical Nurse Educator assesses staff knowledge and learning needs, designs and delivers education aligned with organizational goals and current healthcare trends, and evaluates the effectiveness of learning activities. The position also supports preceptor development, contributes to educational planning and quality projects, and researches funding to support educational programs.
Requirements
- Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN).
- At least three years of clinical practice in the specialty area.
- Knowledge and previous application of adult learning principles.
- Demonstrated leadership skills, such as serving as a charge nurse, preceptor, or episodic teacher.
- Complex decision-making skills and problem-solving ability.
Nice To Haves
- Master of Science in Nursing or a related education field.
- Certification in a specialty area.
- Previous experience in an educator role.
- Previous experience working with Cardiac ICU and non-ICU patient populations.
Responsibilities
- Assess staff knowledge and skills in core nursing practices and specialty areas using standardized and customized tools and testing methods.
- Collect employee learning-needs data at least annually through observation, interviews, focus groups, and assessment instruments.
- Interpret organizational priorities, policies, guidelines, and other internal needs to design education that supports strategic goals and objectives.
- Recommend deployment of educational resources to help achieve organizational goals.
- Interpret healthcare trends and incorporate current research into learning-needs assessments and identification of learning needs.
- Collaborate with key staff to develop a comprehensive annual educational calendar.
- Participate in designing centralized and unit-based preceptor education and development initiatives.
- Prepare educational objectives, lesson plans, handouts, self-learning modules, instructional manuals, and tests.
- Serve as faculty at organization-wide education events, as appropriate.
- Evaluate learning activities using objective performance criteria and recommend changes to education plans.
- Assess changes in learners’ knowledge, skills, and clinical practice, and determine the effectiveness of education projects and programs using appropriate tools and testing methods.
- Develop knowledge- and skill-based measures, collect performance data, and integrate measurement activities and findings into quality projects.
- Research funding sources and submit funding proposals to support and expand educational programs.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
