EDUCATOR- NURSE URPG

United Regional•Wichita Falls, TX

3d•Onsite

About The Position

This role is responsible for assessing the educational needs of staff and new employees, designing and implementing educational programs, and assisting management in evaluating and improving nursing practice. The Educator provides leadership, clinical expertise, and functional direction to the healthcare team.

Requirements

High school graduate or equivalent.
Graduate of an accredited Professional Nursing Program.
Current licensure state of Texas as Professional Nurse.
Experiences which have provided opportunities to develop skills in teaching.
Demonstrates strong clinical skills.
Able to coordinate, facilitate and manage various educational activities.
Utilizes effective communication and interpersonal skills when interacting with patients, family, visitors, health care industry representatives, physicians, department personnel and other allied health care providers.
Adaptable, flexible, and able to set priorities using critical thinking and analytical skills.
Skilled at effective time management, attention to detail, and multitasking.
Communicates effectively in English, both verbally and in writing, including public speaking.
Able to tailor education to the individual learner.
Demonstrations strong organizational skills and ability to maintain accurate and timely recordkeeping.
Requires walking, standing, or sitting for extensive periods of time as well as pushing and pulling of equipment.
Medium strength requirement: Exerting 20 to 50 pounds of force occasionally, and/or 10 to 25 pounds of force frequently, and/or greater than negligible up to 10 pounds of force constantly.
Full range of body motion including handling and lifting patients, manual and finger dexterity, and hand-to-eye coordination.
Corrected vision and hearing to normal range.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor’s degree preferred.
Specialty Certification preferred.
BLS, ACLS (for Patient Care Services Educator, Critical Care, Emergency Services, Women’s & Children’s Services).
TNCC, ENPC, PALS (for Emergency Services).
STABLE, NRP, PALS (for Women’s & Children’s Services).

Responsibilities

Assessing the educational needs of staff and new employees.
Designing and implementing educational programs to meet identified needs.
Assisting management in evaluating nursing practice and designing methodologies to improve the standard of care.
Providing leadership, clinical expertise, and functional direction to other members of the health care team.
Assessing educational learning needs based on standards from accrediting agencies, PI monitoring results, administration/staff requests, class evaluations, and other assessment techniques.
Demonstrating and implementing development of assigned courses, classes, and activities based on current clinical and educational practices, ensuring content is relevant to age-specific patient populations.
Collaborating with other Educators in planning and development of orientation, in-services, and other hospital-wide educational offerings.
Effectively solving problems through fact-finding, research, facilitation, forming a plan of action, and evaluation of outcomes, utilizing data collection to determine problem type and working with management to formulate change.
Serving as a liaison between United Regional and the community for health-related activities.
Sharing knowledge and skills of direct and indirect care to patients when orienting new employees and students, identifying learning needs of staff, providing in-service education, seminars, and workshops, and developing and initiating action plans for competence assessments.
Serving as a liaison between providers and hospital personnel for training and education purposes.
Maintaining knowledge and competence for clinical practice, staying abreast of nursing trends, policies, procedures, and regulations specific to the area of practice.
Collaborating with other educators to manage and maintain the Learning Management System.
Performing all other tasks/responsibilities as necessary.