Clinical Nurse Educator - General Medicine
About The Position
UChicago Medicine is hiring a Clinical Nurse Educator in its Central Education Department. This nurse supports existing staff development and nursing education, serving as an educator, consultant, role model, staff and patient advocate, change agent, leader, and cost-effective professional. The role elevates professional nursing practice by developing, coaching, and mentoring staff to become expert clinicians and leaders. The Clinical Nurse Educator assesses staff knowledge and skills, identifies learning needs, and designs education aligned with organizational goals, healthcare trends, and current research. The educator develops and evaluates learning activities and materials, supports preceptor education, contributes to organization-wide education, and uses performance measures and findings to inform quality projects. The role also researches funding opportunities and submits proposals to support educational programs.
Requirements
- Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN).
- At least three years of clinical practice in the specialty area.
- Knowledge and prior application of adult learning principles.
- Demonstrated leadership skills, evidenced by 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 general medicine patient populations.
Responsibilities
- Use standardized and customized assessment tools and testing methods to measure staff knowledge and skills in core nursing practices and specialty areas.
- Collect data on employee learning needs at least annually through observation, interviews, focus groups, and instruments.
- Interpret the medical center’s strategic imperatives, policies, guidelines, and internal needs to design education supporting organizational goals and objectives.
- Recommend deployment of educational resources to help achieve organizational goals.
- Interpret healthcare trends and incorporate current research into learning-needs assessment and identification.
- 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 education project and program effectiveness using appropriate tools and testing methods.
- Develop knowledge- and skill-based measures to collect performance data and incorporate measurement activities and findings into quality projects.
- Research funding sources and submit proposals to support and expand programs addressing educational needs.
Benefits
- Benefits are available for eligible roles; specific benefit offerings are described on the UChicago Medicine benefits website.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
