Nurse Educator - Critical Care

One Brooklyn Health • New York, NY

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About The Position

The Nurse Educator - Critical Care Services at Brookdale Hospital Medical Center strengthens the knowledge, confidence, and clinical readiness of nurses caring for acutely ill patients. Reporting to the Director of Nursing Education, the position applies critical care expertise and adult-learning principles to design and deliver orientation, competency validation, continuing education, and practice-improvement initiatives.

The Nurse Educator serves as an educator, facilitator, change agent, leader, advisor, and resource. The role participates in developing, implementing, and evaluating onboarding, staff-development, and continuing-education programs; collaborates across nursing to support professional development; and provides mentoring and clinical coaching. In collaboration with nursing leadership teams, the educator develops learning activities to address practice gaps among licensed and non-licensed healthcare staff. The role also supports practice change and a culture of professional growth and safe, equitable, high-quality patient care.

Requirements

• Master's degree in Nursing.
• At least five years of clinical experience as a Registered Nurse, including critical care and emergency nursing experience.
• At least three years of relevant nurse educator experience.
• Advanced clinical knowledge of critical care nursing.
• Demonstrated knowledge of adult-learning principles, competency-based education, and professional development.
• Ability to design and facilitate effective learning experiences, lead educational initiatives, manage projects, analyze outcomes, and build productive relationships across the organization.
• Strong written and verbal communication, organization, initiative, adaptability, relationship-building, and change-leadership skills.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel, electronic health records, and audiovisual or virtual learning technology.
• Current New York State license and registration as a Registered Professional Nurse.
• Basic Life Support (BLS) certification.
• Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS) certification.
• Appropriate certifications for the area of expertise and/or coverage.
• Certification in the relevant specialty area; staff entering the role have up to two years from their start date to obtain the necessary certification.

Nice To Haves

• As of June 2025, current educators are strongly encouraged to pursue and obtain their relevant specialty certification.

Responsibilities

• Develop and initiate orientation, onboarding, and ongoing staff-development programs.
• Collaborate with nursing administrative and leadership staff to identify, outline, implement, and maintain standards of nursing practice.
• Identify and document nursing staff learning needs in collaboration with nursing administrative and leadership staff.
• Maintain clinical expertise through ongoing review of current literature, research, and products that affect nursing practice and patient-care outcomes.
• Provide clinical supervision, coaching, or mentoring based on individualized learning-needs assessments, and evaluate learner needs and outcomes.
• Establish methods to evaluate learning and competency plans for critical nursing staff.
• Analyze and communicate the impact of educational content, teaching methods, and evaluation strategies with educators and leadership.
• Apply knowledge of theories used in staff development and education.
• Serve as a clinical and educational resource regarding deficiencies in electronic-record documentation.
• Design, develop, and organize educational resources to support nursing staff learning needs.
• Conduct classes and training as needed.
• Evaluate staff clinical competence and participate in remediation when necessary.
• Serve as a clinical and educational resource, role model, and facilitator for staff and other departments.
• Maintain records for clinical education programs, including in-services, onboarding and orientation, staff development, and educational activities.
• Engage learners, nurse managers, and other key participants in collecting data and evaluating learner needs and outcomes.
• Lead change and improve nursing-care quality through education and other approaches.
• Participate in improvement and outcome goals and initiatives in accordance with the organization's mission and goals.
• Build constructive, respectful relationships, support diverse ideas, and contribute to team effectiveness.
• Respond to oral and written communications.
• Give and accept feedback with coworkers and management to enhance team relations.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level