Clinical Nurse Educator - Obstetric-Newborn

University of Chicago•Chicago, IL

About The Position

UChicago Medicine is hiring a Clinical Nurse Educator (RN) for its Family Birth and Labor & Delivery Center. The educator designs, develops, implements, and evaluates educational offerings intended to improve nursing care and clinical and organizational outcomes. The role focuses on staff development and nursing education, elevating professional nursing practice by developing, coaching, and mentoring staff to become expert clinicians and leaders. The educator also serves as a consultant, role model, staff and patient advocate, change agent, and leader. The position includes responsibilities related to Medical Assistant education, including orientation, onboarding, and support with competencies. The role is full-time, on the day shift from 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., in the Family Birth Center. It is non-union.

Requirements

Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN).
Current Illinois RN license.
Obstetric-Newborn RN experience.
At least three years of clinical practice in the specialty area.
Knowledge and previous 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 within multidisciplinary teams or nursing leadership committees.

Responsibilities

Use standardized and develop customized assessment tools and testing methods to measure staff knowledge and skill in core nursing practices and specialty areas.
Collect employee learning-needs data at least annually through observation, interviews, focus groups, and instrumentation.
Interpret accrediting and regulatory guidelines to identify education and training needs.
Interpret the medical center’s strategic priorities, policies, guidelines, and internal needs to design education that supports organizational goals.
Lead development of tactics to achieve the organization’s strategic vision for education and recommend deployment of educational resources.
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.
Design core nursing competencies across clinical expertise and practice, specialty-based orientations, in-services, and continuing education programs.
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.
Apply for nursing contact-hour approval for appropriate coursework.
Design educational programs using varied learning methods and technology, and apply adult-learning techniques.
Conduct learning events based on needs assessments and serve as faculty at organization-wide education events as appropriate.
Evaluate learning activities against objective performance criteria and recommend changes to education plans.
Assess changes in learners’ knowledge, skills, and clinical practice, and determine education program effectiveness using appropriate tools and testing methods.
Develop knowledge- and skill-based measures, collect performance data, and integrate measurement activities and findings into quality projects.
Recommend and lead educational improvement efforts aimed at improving clinical and operational processes and outcomes.
Recommend quality projects based on information gathered through planning, conducting, and evaluating staff education.
Research funding sources and submit proposals to support and expand educational programs.
Support Medical Assistant education, including orientation, onboarding, and competencies.