Pediatric Nurse Educator R39398

Baystate Health•Springfield, MA

65d•Onsite

About The Position

Baystate Health, western Massachusetts's premier healthcare provider, and home to Baystate Medical Center (BMC), a Magnet Hospital for Nursing Excellence is looking for a Nurse Educator supporting Baystate Children's Hospital. This role supports all inpatient areas of Baystate Children's Hospital and the pediatric flex team. This position would additionally provide consultation support to the pediatric hematology/oncology unit, pediatric surgery, as well as the Baystate Health organization hospitals including Baystate Noble, Baystate Wing, Baystate Franklin, and our ambulatory sites. POSITION HIGHLIGHTS A PASSION FOR EDUCATION. In this role you will be training all newly hired staff for the first six months. This facilitates continuous performance feedback for new hires during the initial orientation phase, and you are essential to all new employees' growth during the first year of their experience at Baystate Medical Center. SHARED GOVERNANCE. Baystate Health believes in your voice to facilitate team work, problem-solving, and accountability, with the goals of improved staff satisfaction, productivity, and patient outcomes. In this role you are collaborating with nursing leadership in the participation and interview selection of new unit staff. Once staff is hired, you are collaborating with nursing leadership and the manager to ensure excellence for patient outcomes by developing staff and creating continued education based on needs. ABUNDANT BENEFITS, SALARY & SO MUCH MORE! Generous compensation package, CEU allowance, high quality, low cost medical/dental, robust paid time off.

Requirements

Successfully passed Board of Registration in Nursing Examination and licensed in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Current American Heart Association Health Care Provider CPR certification required.
PALS Certification Required
Experience: Pediatric Intensive Care Experience required
Education: Master's Degree in Nursing required.
Leadership capabilities and skills required.

Nice To Haves

Doctorate in Education or Clinical Nurse Leadership preferred.
Prior teaching experience preferred.
Prior experience with publication and research preferred.

Responsibilities

Demonstrated knowledge of developmental stages for all age groups, and applies developmental theories and concepts when planning and implementing education for patients, families, and staff.
Develops individual goals and objectives that are reflective of departmental, divisional and organizational goals and objectives and to their ongoing evaluation. Provides leadership and direction to staff in the achievement of special project goals and objectives as noted by periodic and annual review.
Functions as a consultant to all members of the health care team in his/her area of expertise in professional practice, education, and improvement. Develops clinical resources and guidelines for patients and their families based on personal observations, staff input, research and/or QA findings as indicated by personal log and/or review of materials.
Utilizes theories and principles of learning and nursing science to foster the attainment of knowledge and skills by nursing staff, as evidenced by program and/or evaluation materials. Collaborates with nursing administration, nursing management, and nursing personnel to identify and meet the professional development needs of staff as evidenced by personal log.
Assists nursing staff with the interpretation and communication of pertinent research and QA findings as documented through meetings and/or personal log. Assists nursing staff to incorporate research and QA findings to support change in clinical practice as evidenced by personal log and clinical practice documents. Conducts, facilitates, and/or participates as appropriate in studies as evidenced by proposal review, sponsorship, data collection, personal log and other related material.
Provides nursing consultation to members of the health care team to enhance patient care records, staff feedback and personal log. Engages in ongoing communication with the staff for the purpose of addressing patient care problems as evidenced by involvement in patient care rounds, observation, staff feedback and personal log. Acts as a clinical resource to faculty and students of selected institutions via established contact mechanisms as evidenced by personal log and related materials.
Collaborates with multidisciplinary teams to define strategies for educational initiatives related to quality improvement. Participates with staff to identify the need for change in the delivery of patient care as demonstrated by personal log and related material. Utilizes theory when developing, implementing and/or evaluating projects as evidenced by personal log and related materials. Demonstrates leadership in the facilitation of staff efforts to create change as evidenced by personal log and related materials.
In collaboration with Leadership, the NE is responsible for participation in the interview and selection of staff within their assigned unit or patient populations. For the first 6 months to 1 year, based on advancement with competencies, all staff newly hired with have a dotted line reporting relationship with the NE for their area and a direct line reporting relationship with the Unit Manager. This will facilitate continuous performance feedback for new hires during the initial orientation phase and pivotal first year of employment at BMC and will ensure successful professional enculturation and specialty nursing advancement and performance.