Education Coordinator, Inpatient - Acute Care

Texas Children's Medical Center•Conroe, TX

About The Position

The Education Coordinator - Inpatient provides education and administrative support to promote effective unit operations and high-quality patient care. The role coordinates orientation, training, competency development, preceptor support, and clinical education activities while continuing to provide direct patient care. The position is guided by the company's HEART values: Humility, Excellence, Accountability, Respect, and Trust.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in nursing.
Registered Nurse license issued by the Texas Board of Nursing or through the Nursing Licensure Compact.
Basic Life Support certification from the American Heart Association.
Two years of clinical nursing experience.

Nice To Haves

One year of preceptor or educator experience.

Responsibilities

Design, implement, evaluate, and update cost-effective, unit-based orientation pathways for each role.
Individualize orientation plans to address staff learning needs and coordinate orientation and preceptor schedules.
Monitor orientee progress, review progress with orientees and leaders, and identify opportunities to improve the orientation process.
Teach, facilitate, or develop staff participation in centralized courses and educational planning activities.
Identify knowledge and skill gaps using policies, performance-improvement data, regulatory requirements, and accreditation standards.
Develop, implement, evaluate, and report outcomes of required unit-specific training to address identified performance gaps.
Track and report compliance with unit-based and organization-wide required training.
Assess staff development needs and design interactive, cost-effective learning activities for all shifts.
Provide individualized performance feedback and communicate competency, high-risk skill, and patient-safety concerns to leadership.
Collaborate with practice council members and leaders to develop, implement, and monitor plans addressing clinical development needs.
Assess, plan, implement, coordinate, evaluate, educate, and document individualized, developmentally appropriate patient and family care.
Develop, implement, and sustain processes for preceptor orientation, development, coaching, support, and competency documentation.
Coordinate annual assessment and validation of unit-based and organization-wide high-risk skills.
Coordinate unit-based clinical experiences and orientations for students and faculty.
Participate in quality-outcomes and unit-based improvement initiatives and integrate improvement findings into educational offerings.
Adjust schedules to support new-employee orientation, assume on-call responsibilities as needed, and participate in hiring and selection activities.
Communicate unit, departmental, and organizational information as delegated by leadership.