Nurse Educator (Per-Diem, Days)

Rochester Regional Health•Auburn, NY

1d•Onsite

About The Position

The Nurse Educator is responsible for identifying, developing, facilitating and evaluating educational activities for nursing and clinical staff. This position provides opportunities to promote life-long learning for employees and lends to safe, quality patient care.

Requirements

Bachelor Degree in Nursing
2 years of clinical nursing experience
BLS - Basic Life Support - American Heart Association (AHA)
RN - Registered Nurse - New York State Education Department (NYSED)

Nice To Haves

Master's Degree preferred
Able to perform instructional inservice programs before potentially large groups
Very good working knowledge of basic computer skills (Word, Powerpoint, Excel)

Responsibilities

Facilitates the orientation process for all new nurses and patient care technicians in the acute care area settings.
Develops, organizes and delivers all classroom orientation lesson plans.
Maintains American Heart Association Basic Life Support instructor status and provides regular class instruction.
Supports staff educational needs for emergency response measures.
Provides ongoing educational needs assessment to identify relevant educational activities such as new diagnoses, new equipment, policy and procedure expectations, quality outcome data.
In collaboration with Director/Managers, provides support and education remediation, as appropriate.
Assesses staff competency levels and facilitates various methods to accomplish competency completion.
Develops quality educational activities that includes all aspects of eligibility for ANCC contact hours. This includes advertisement, measurable objectives, content outline that is based on current, evidenced-based literature, evaluation and certificate.
Maintains strict recordkeeping of all educational activities with attendance as required by regulatory agencies such as Joint Commission, NYDOH.
Utilizes a variety of learning methods such as Powerpoint presentations, on-line computer programs, self-learning packets, demo/re-demonstration, simulation training.