Registered Nurse - Clinical Nurse Educator

Department of Veterans Affairs • Syracuse, NY

46d • Onsite

About The Position

Responsible and accountable for all elements of the nursing process when providing and/or supervising staff education. Delivers a fundamental understanding of adult learning principles and a lifelong learner that can practice with flexibility to adapt or change learning strategies based on the assessment of learning needs within the healthcare organization. The Clinical Nurse Educator is responsible for providing expert, evidence-based education to staff. Provides educational instruction and training for nursing staff in clinical and outpatient units. The Clinical Nurse Educator understands instructional design, implementation, and application related to education and training. Performs learning needs assessments, develops educational trainings for clinical staff within organization. Assists with the orientation of new employees, evaluation of their progress in the orientation process, and development and implementation of a learning plan for improving identified deficiencies. Serves as a trainer and consultant for Resuscitation Education Initiative (Redi) Program including certification as Basic Life Support (BLS) instructor. Monitors and tracks BLS/Advanced Life Support (ALS) compliance within the organization. Collaborates with interdisciplinary team to support and evaluate responses to emergency responses in the facility to include BLS and ALS. Organizes, participates, and evaluates mock codes. Supports nurse residency programs including the development of curriculum utilizing strategic learning methodologies such as simulation, lecture case studies and virtual reality. Develops expert level coaching and mentoring skills. Systematically evaluates current practice, formulate outcomes for groups of patients and/or organizational processes within area of expertise. Collaborates with other Clinical Nurse Educators and interprofessional healthcare teams in the ongoing clinical education activities including in-services, training, competency assessment, and evaluations of both current and new staff nursing skills. Reviews current nursing literature for new trends and changes based on evidence-based research with the ability to propose practice and documentation revisions based on evaluation of outcomes. Collaborates with leadership and unit managers to identify educational training needs for staff, while supporting activities that foster competence, critical thinking, and decision making. Provides consultation and collaboration through the participation within organizational committees. Ability to analyze, interpret, and evaluate data to determine outcomes and changes related to educational programs. Responsible for the documented outcomes at the program or service level.

Requirements

• Understanding of adult learning principles
• Understanding of instructional design, implementation, and application related to education and training
• Certification as Basic Life Support (BLS) instructor
• Ability to analyze, interpret, and evaluate data to determine outcomes and changes related to educational programs

Responsibilities

• Providing and/or supervising staff education
• Delivering a fundamental understanding of adult learning principles
• Providing expert, evidence-based education to staff
• Providing educational instruction and training for nursing staff in clinical and outpatient units
• Performing learning needs assessments
• Developing educational trainings for clinical staff within organization
• Assisting with the orientation of new employees
• Evaluating progress in the orientation process
• Developing and implementing a learning plan for improving identified deficiencies
• Serving as a trainer and consultant for Resuscitation Education Initiative (Redi) Program including certification as Basic Life Support (BLS) instructor
• Monitoring and tracking BLS/Advanced Life Support (ALS) compliance within the organization
• Collaborating with interdisciplinary team to support and evaluate responses to emergency responses in the facility to include BLS and ALS
• Organizing, participating, and evaluating mock codes
• Supporting nurse residency programs including the development of curriculum utilizing strategic learning methodologies such as simulation, lecture case studies and virtual reality
• Developing expert level coaching and mentoring skills
• Systematically evaluating current practice
• Formulating outcomes for groups of patients and/or organizational processes within area of expertise
• Collaborating with other Clinical Nurse Educators and interprofessional healthcare teams in the ongoing clinical education activities including in-services, training, competency assessment, and evaluations of both current and new staff nursing skills
• Reviewing current nursing literature for new trends and changes based on evidence-based research with the ability to propose practice and documentation revisions based on evaluation of outcomes
• Collaborating with leadership and unit managers to identify educational training needs for staff, while supporting activities that foster competence, critical thinking, and decision making
• Providing consultation and collaboration through the participation within organizational committees
• Analyzing, interpreting, and evaluating data to determine outcomes and changes related to educational programs
• Responsible for the documented outcomes at the program or service level

Benefits

• Competitive salary, regular salary increases, potential for performance awards
• 50 days of paid time off per year (26 days of annual leave, 13 days of sick leave, 11 paid Federal holidays per year)
• Traditional federal pension (5 years vesting) and federal 401K with up to 5% in contributions by VA
• Federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care (many federal insurance programs can be carried into retirement)
• 1 full and unrestricted license from any US State or territory

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Industry: Administration of Human Resource Programs
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees