Education Coordinator, Inpatient - Acute Care
About The Position
The Education Coordinator - Inpatient provides education and administrative support to promote effective unit operations and high-quality patient care while continuing to provide direct patient care. The coordinator manages orientation, training, competency development, preceptor support, and clinical education activities for inpatient staff. The role designs and evaluates unit-based orientation and training, monitors staff development and required-training compliance, and uses identified performance gaps and improvement findings to shape educational offerings. The coordinator also supports preceptors, students, and faculty; collaborates with leaders and practice council members; and contributes to quality and unit-improvement initiatives. The position may adjust schedules to support new-employee orientation, assume on-call responsibilities as needed, and participate in hiring and selection activities.
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 meet staff learning needs and coordinate orientation and preceptor schedules.
- Monitor orientee progress, review it with orientees and leaders, and identify opportunities to improve orientation.
- 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 incorporate 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.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
