Clinical Nurse Educator, Registry

UChicago Medicine•Chicago, IL

8d•Onsite

About The Position

The Clinical Nurse Educator (RN) at UChicago Medicine, specifically in the NICU Department, is a nurse with prior educational experience. This role focuses on supporting existing staff development and nursing education, acting as an educator, consultant, role model, staff/patient advocate, change agent, leader, and cost-effective professional. The educator's primary goal is to elevate the standard of professional nursing practice by developing, coaching, and mentoring staff to become expert clinicians and leaders. The position is within The Margaret M. and George A. Stephen Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at Comer Children’s Hospital, which provides Level IV NICU care, the highest level of newborn care. Comer Children’s offers advanced surgical procedures by pediatric surgical subspecialists and extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) for infants with heart or lung problems, located just steps away from their birth center.

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 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 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.
Participates in the design of centralized and unit-based preceptor education and development initiatives.
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.
Develops knowledge and skill based measures to collect performance data and integrates measurement activities and findings into quality projects.
Researches available funding sources and submits funding proposals in order to implement support and expand new or existing programs to meet the educational needs.