RN Clinical Nurse Education Specialist - Critical Care

UNC Health•Chapel Hill, NC

10d•Onsite

About The Position

The Clinical Nurse Education Specialist is an advanced-level nursing practice role that facilitates the professional development of licensed and unlicensed employees, enhancing their professional competency through educational assessment, planning, and outcome evaluation. The specialist coordinates staff development and educational needs for patient-care nursing staff, patients, and families, and performs under minimal supervision. The position collaborates to address educational needs within a specialty practice area, service line, or across the hospital, and serves as a subject matter expert and lead for hospital-wide initiatives, including accreditation-related work. Work may span multiple disciplines and the continuum of care or focus on a specific patient population or service area. For Critical Care services, the specialist champions education and competency, helps shape service-line and organization-wide initiatives, policies, and innovation, and partners with educators and nursing leadership to support professional growth. The role develops and delivers educational programs, supports evidence-based practice, and collaborates with multidisciplinary teams to advance nursing excellence.

Requirements

Graduation from a state-accredited school of professional nursing.
Bachelor's degree and master's degree, with at least one degree in Nursing.
Licensed to practice as a Registered Nurse in North Carolina.
Certification in the area of specialization within 12 months of hire.
Two years of clinical experience in the clinical specialty.
Recent direct patient-care experience in critical care or intermediate care.

Nice To Haves

Experience in nursing professional development.

Responsibilities

Serve as a clinical resource and role model, providing clinical supervision to help staff develop clinical knowledge, skills, and abilities.
Participate in identifying essential competencies for clinical areas and service lines, and develop educational programs to maintain or develop those competencies.
Work with preceptors and nursing unit leadership to develop nursing staff knowledge and skills.
Consult with UNC Health Care System, UNC Hospitals, and nursing leadership on program development.
Partner with committees, councils, and departments to identify and develop educational programs, new-product training, and competence assessments.
Independently plan and deliver educational programs to hospital employees, primarily nursing staff, in clinical, department, or hospital-wide groups.
Develop, coordinate, administer, facilitate, conduct, and evaluate Nursing Orientation programs, including skill-based residency programs and the Nurse Residency Program.
Develop evidence-based standards of care, comprehensive nursing plans, and clinical pathways for patients and families, and facilitate their implementation.
Develop educational programs to augment nursing staff knowledge, skills, and attitudes; assist Clinical Nurse III and Clinical Nurse IV staff with developing and presenting continuing-education content and programs; and evaluate program outcomes.
Participate in point-of-care research.
Assist with orientation and placement of nursing students in clinical units, serve as a resource to faculty, and mentor graduate students.
Maintain responsibility for personal professional growth and development and maintain current certification in the clinical specialty or Nursing Professional Development.
Evaluate current research to remain informed about practice trends.
Guide development and revision of Department of Nursing standards, policies, and procedures.
Facilitate dissemination of practice changes through the Nursing Standards Committee and Shared Governance Councils.
Develop and maintain relationships with faculty and students from nursing and other clinical disciplines.