Registered Nurse - Education

Veterans Health Administration • Northport, NY

1d • Onsite

About The Position

The Department of Veterans Affairs is seeking a Registered Nurse Clinical Nurse Educator for the Education service at the VA Medical Center in Northport, New York. The role provides expert, evidence-based education and training to nursing staff in clinical and outpatient units. The educator uses instructional design and conducts learning-needs assessments to develop and evaluate staff education and training.

The Clinical Nurse Educator supports new-employee orientation, evaluates progress, and develops learning plans to address identified deficiencies. The role also serves as a Resuscitation Education Initiative (Redi) trainer and consultant, including serving as a Basic Life Support (BLS) instructor; monitors BLS and Advanced Life Support (ALS) compliance; collaborates on facility emergency-response evaluation; and organizes, participates in, and evaluates mock codes.

The position supports nurse residency programs and develops curricula using methods such as simulation, lectures, case studies, and virtual reality. It involves coaching and mentoring, assessing practice and outcomes, collaborating with educators and interprofessional teams on in-services, training, competency assessments, and staff evaluations, and reviewing nursing literature to recommend evidence-based practice or documentation revisions. The educator works with leadership and unit managers to identify training needs, participates in organizational committees, analyzes education-program data, and documents program- or service-level outcomes.

The work schedule is Monday through Friday, 7:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Relocation and recruitment incentives and permanent change of station are not authorized. The VA offers a total rewards package that includes competitive salary, regular salary increases, potential performance awards, 50 days of paid time off per year (26 annual-leave days, 13 sick-leave days, and 11 federal holidays), a federal pension with five-year vesting, a federal 401(k) with up to 5% in VA contributions, and federal health, vision, dental, term-life, and long-term-care insurance. The position requires a full, unrestricted nursing license from a U.S. state or territory.

Requirements

• Proficiency in basic written and spoken English.
• Graduation from an appropriately accredited school of professional nursing, subject to the stated VA provisions for bridge-program candidates and foreign nursing education.
• Current, full, active, and unrestricted registered professional nurse licensure in a U.S. state, territory, commonwealth, or the District of Columbia; the announcement describes a limited Graduate Nurse Technician exception for candidates actively pursuing licensure.
• Meet the applicable education, experience, and dimension criteria for the assigned Nurse grade and level. Requirements vary by grade and may include an ADN or nursing diploma, BSN, MSN, doctoral degree, and specified professional or specialized nursing experience.
• Meet the physical requirements, including lifting, prolonged standing and sitting, bending, walking, climbing, reaching, pulling, pushing, repetitive motion, and stooping.
• Meet the position's mental and sensory requirements, including recall, reasoning, problem-solving, hearing, speaking, writing, keyboarding, reading, logical thinking, depth perception, and specified correctable vision.
• U.S. citizenship, except that non-citizens may be appointed when qualified citizens cannot be recruited in accordance with VA policy.
• Complete required pre-employment screening and processes, including drug testing for tentatively selected applicants in testing-designated positions, background/security investigation, onboarding, and pre-employment physical evaluation.
• Comply with the seasonal influenza vaccination program requirement for VA health care personnel.
• Selective Service registration is required for males born after December 31, 1959.
• Complete the application requirements detailed in the announcement's Required Documents section.

Nice To Haves

• Education experience.

Responsibilities

• Provide expert, evidence-based education and training to nursing staff in clinical and outpatient units.
• Conduct learning-needs assessments and design, develop, implement, and evaluate educational training for clinical staff.
• Assist with new-employee orientation, evaluate employees' progress, and develop and implement learning plans to address identified deficiencies.
• Serve as a Resuscitation Education Initiative (Redi) trainer and consultant, including as a Basic Life Support (BLS) instructor.
• Monitor and track BLS and Advanced Life Support (ALS) compliance within the organization.
• Collaborate with interdisciplinary teams to support and evaluate facility emergency responses, including BLS and ALS responses.
• Organize, participate in, and evaluate mock codes.
• Support nurse residency programs and develop curricula using strategic learning methods such as simulation, lectures, case studies, and virtual reality.
• Develop coaching and mentoring skills and systematically evaluate current practice and outcomes for patient groups or organizational processes.
• Collaborate with Clinical Nurse Educators and interprofessional healthcare teams on in-services, training, competency assessments, and evaluations of current and new nursing staff skills.
• Review nursing literature and evidence-based research, and propose practice or documentation revisions based on outcomes.
• Collaborate with leadership and unit managers to identify staff education needs and foster competence, critical thinking, and decision-making.
• Provide consultation and collaborate through participation in organizational committees.
• Analyze, interpret, and evaluate data to determine educational program outcomes and changes, and document outcomes at the program or service level.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and regular salary increases.
• Potential performance awards.
• 50 days of paid time off per year, including 26 days of annual leave, 13 days of sick leave, and 11 paid federal holidays.
• Traditional federal pension with five-year vesting.
• Federal 401(k) with up to 5% in contributions by VA.
• Federal health, vision, dental, term-life, and long-term-care insurance; many federal insurance programs can be carried into retirement.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Associate degree