Unit-Based Clinical Nurse Educator CCC, PCU, Cath Lab

Beth Israel Lahey Health • Plymouth, MN

9d • $80,350 - $164,590 • Onsite

About The Position

When you join the growing BILH team, you're not just taking a job, you’re making a difference in people’s lives. This role involves formulating and raising vital clinical questions, bringing practice issues to the attention of others, and utilizing reliable sources for current standards of practice. The educator will establish and maintain a system for assessing quality nursing care, use QI tools to assess performance, and provide leadership in generating clinical inquiry and critical thinking among staff. They will systematically evaluate the quality, cost, and effectiveness of nursing practice, participate in the development and sustainability of standards for professional practice and nursing education programs, and actively build effective interdisciplinary relationships. The role also contributes to the design of an evidence-based continuing education curriculum, creates learning opportunities, and fosters improvement in patient care by helping professional staff develop systematic ways of studying and resolving clinical/systems challenges. The educator serves as a resource for policies, procedures, protocols, and guidelines, maintains clinical expertise, assesses educational needs, and collaborates with directors and managers to develop and implement staff orientation, competency, continuing education, and in-service programs. They contribute to curricula for team leaders, charge nurses, preceptors, and super-users, and develop/conduct educational programs on quality improvement and evidence-based practice. Principles of adult learning and multigenerational differences are incorporated into program planning, implementation, and evaluation. Classes are taught related to patient care in the practice area, ensuring culturally appropriate and age-specific content. Instructional materials from various media and formats are used, and staff are assisted to utilize quality improvement data to drive practice changes. Recommendations are made for changes in educational goals based on evaluation data. The educator facilitates the implementation of new health care technology through training programs and monitors evaluation. Educational opportunities are provided for nurses at all career stages, and teaching strategies are tailored to learner needs. The role acts as an effective role model and resource for nursing students and clinical affiliations, demonstrates engagement in lifelong learning, and shares new knowledge at professional conferences or through publications. A practice and learning environment that adapts to change is created, and the educator is known as a "relationship builder" who champions working together and creating synergy. They participate in the development, implementation, and monitoring of practice standards, collaborate with unit managers/directors on staff performance reviews and selection, and lead committees/work groups related to educational activities and quality improvement. The educator participates in the change process and development of innovative solutions, supports the integration of quality, audit, evaluation data, and research into practice and educational programs, and facilitates teambuilding and leadership development. An environment that recognizes, encourages, and rewards excellent clinical nursing practice performance is created. Occasional travel may be required.

Requirements

• BSN required
• Two years of progressively responsible education and/or leadership experience
• Five years acute care nursing experience with 2 of the 5 preferable in practice area directly related to role assignment.
• Demonstrated ability to apply principles of adult learning to the development of effective staff, patient and/or family education programs.
• Experience in program development and evaluation.
• Analytical ability to solve systems issues, interpret available data and design/conduct quality improvement projects.
• Demonstrated critical thinking and problem solving ability.
• Organizational skill to appropriately set priorities and efficiently complete work.
• Advanced verbal, interpersonal, and writing skills in order to perform required leadership duties.
• Demonstrated ability as an effective public speaker and presenter.
• Computer proficiency inclusive of ability to access and enter data from computerized information systems e.g. Meditech and Microsoft Office programs.
• Willingness to work flexible hours to meet educational needs of the staff.
• Physical ability to perform core job responsibilities in accordance with practice setting demands for patient and staff populations regularly served.
• Current RN license through the Commonwealth of MA
• BLS and ACLS
• BLS, ACLS, PALS, and/or NRP instructor level certification is required based on practice area within 6 months of employment.
• Specialty or educator certification (NPD/RN-BC) required within one year of hire or as soon as eligible per national standards.

Nice To Haves

• Master’s degree preferred

Responsibilities

• Formulates and raises vital clinical questions and issues clearly and precisely.
• Brings practice issues to the attention of others when assistance is needed to facilitate resolution.
• Utilizes reliable sources for locating current standards of practice, research, evidence reports and clinical guidelines.
• Establishes and maintains a system for assessment of quality nursing care that complies with evolving regulatory agency requirements.
• Uses QI tools and methodologies to assess performance and identify gaps between current unit & best practice related to key clinical outcome measures.
• Provides leadership in generating clinical inquiry and critical thinking among staff by developing mechanisms that effectively translate available data into information used by staff for clinical decision making.
• Systematically evaluates the quality, cost, and effectiveness of nursing practice through identification of nursing phenomena and/or systems issues appropriate for study.
• Participates in the development and sustainability of standards for professional practice and nursing education programs designed to facilitate high quality patient care.
• Actively builds effective interdisciplinary relationships to assure dialogue around patient care and issues in an effort to enhance evidence based, outcome driven patient care.
• Contributes to the design of a continuing education curriculum that is evidence based and reflects contemporary and innovative nursing practice.
• Creates learning opportunities to expand the evidence based knowledge and skills of nursing staff.
• Fosters improvement in patient care by helping professional staff develop systematic ways of studying and resolving clinical/systems challenges.
• Serves as a resource for interpretation and integration of current policies, procedures, protocols and guidelines into practice within area of nursing expertise.
• Maintains own clinical expertise and practices as an autonomous clinical decision maker within their scope of licensure, certification, and training.
• Assesses individual, unit based, and department educational needs and develops evidence based educational curricula to support accomplishment of annual educational goals.
• Collaborates with directors and managers to develop and implement a staff orientation, competency, continuing education and in-service programs that support safe practice.
• Contributes to the formulation of the curricula aimed at supporting the development of bedside team leaders, charge nurses, preceptors, super-users, clinical champions.
• Develops and conducts educational programs designed to support and enhance their understanding of the quality improvement process, evidence based practice and its link to enhanced patient care outcomes; servers as a “Nurse Planner” for MARN contact hour programs.
• Incorporates principles of adult learning and multigenerational differences in the planning, implementation, and evaluation of education programs.
• Teaches classes related to the care of patients in the practice area directly related to role assignment ensuring that education program materials include culturally appropriate and age specific content.
• Uses instructional materials from various media and formats as appropriate to learning environment.
• Assists staff to utilize quality improvement data to drive practice changes and achieve optimal patient outcomes.
• Recommends changes in educational goals, priorities, and/or strategies based on evaluation of effectiveness of educational programming using process and outcome data.
• Facilitates the implementation of new health care technology through design of effective training programs and evaluation monitoring.
• Provides educational opportunities that benefit nurses at all stages of their career development and tailors teaching strategies appropriate to learner needs.
• Acts as an effective role model and resource for nursing students and clinical affiliations.
• Demonstrates engagement in lifelong learning and independently identifies own learning needs; participates in educational activities to enable competent performance of assigned duties.
• Shares new knowledge or practice outcomes at professional conferences and/or publishes in peer-review journals.
• Creates a practice and learning environment that is capable of adapting to and sustaining change; is flexible and open to new ideas.
• Known as a “relationship builder” in the practice area – champions working together and creating synergy.
• Participates in the development, implementation and monitoring of practice standards to assure continuous improvement in the quality of service and care.
• Collaborates with unit manager/director to contribute to staff performance reviews and selection of new staff and internal transfer candidates based upon evaluation of their qualifications and skills in relation to patient care needs.
• Leads committees, work groups and/or projects related to the implementation of educational activities and quality improvement work focused on enhancing nursing practice, systems, patient care outcomes.
• Participates in change process and development of innovative solutions to clinical issues that improve patient care, the work environment, and patient and staff satisfaction.
• Supports the integration of quality, audit, evaluation data and research into practice and educational programs.
• Facilitates teambuilding and leadership development and seeks out opportunities to serve as change leader for assigned practice areas.
• Creates an environment that recognizes, encourages and rewards excellent clinical nursing practice performance.
• Occasional travel may be required to facilitate collaboration with entities across BID system or attend external meetings.

Benefits

• The pay range listed for this position is the annual base salary range the organization reasonably and in good faith expects to pay for this position at this time. Actual compensation is determined based on several factors, that may include seniority, education, training, relevant experience, relevant certifications, geography of work location, job responsibilities, or other applicable factors permissible by law.
• Beth Israel Lahey Health requires that all staff be vaccinated against influenza (flu) as a condition of employment.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior