Peds/PICU RN Educator Nursing Education
About The Position
The Peds/PICU RN Educator is responsible for nursing program and course development and classroom instruction, including assessment, problem identification, planning, implementation, and evaluation. The educator acts as a consultant for teaching programs and projects, serves as an expert practice nurse, and provides leadership at the unit, service-line, and organizational levels. The role provides specialty clinical expertise and education, supports evidence-based practice, and collaborates with interdisciplinary teams and organizational leaders. The educator also maintains clinical competence by providing nursing care and coordinating patient care plans with physicians.
Requirements
- Current State of Iowa registered nurse license.
- Bachelor’s degree in nursing, or active enrollment in an MSN program.
- Master’s degree must be obtained within five years of hire.
- At least three years of acute-care clinical nursing experience.
Nice To Haves
- Degree in Nursing Education preferred.
Responsibilities
- Functions as an expert clinician in a specialty or subspecialty of nursing practice.
- Determines and evaluates patient-specific and population-based programs of care.
- Helps identify needs for new organizational and system-wide standards, policies, guidelines, and procedures; serves as a change agent to improve critical-thinking, interpersonal, and technical skills.
- Develops educational plans and learning resources and provides orientation and education for staff, students, and community organizations as requested, using adult learning principles.
- Provides frequent feedback to build knowledge and clinical-practice competency.
- Facilitates evidence-based practice by bringing nursing research to the point of care.
- Mentors and supports the development of professional unit preceptors.
- Advises, collaborates on, translates, integrates, and evaluates nursing research through practice, education, and reflective discussion with staff.
- Maintains up-to-date knowledge of the Iowa Nurse Practice Act, Joint Commission requirements, and American Nurses Association accepted standards of nursing practice.
- Serves as a specialty resource and collaborates with interdisciplinary teams while maintaining current clinical and theoretical knowledge.
- Uses information technology for data input, analysis, retrieval, and program development and presentation.
- Collaborates with leaders to oversee and support onboarding and orientation plans for new hires.
- Maintains clinical competence by providing nursing care, including assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating patient care in coordination with the physician.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
