Clinical Educator Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• CA Licensed Vocational Nurse
• BLS
• Intravenous therapy certification and Blood withdrawal certification within six months of hire/transfer.
• Requires successful completion of the Language Resource Assistant (LRA) test at a General level. LRA is a language assessment test that demonstrates written and oral interpretation/translation technique skills. Test will be administered if selected.
• requires Intravenous therapy certification and Blood withdrawal certification upon hire/transfer.
• requires six months experience within the past two years working in a general acute care facility, or an acquired equivalent experience appropriate to the type of subacute patient the facility provides care for.
• requires bilingual in Spanish.
• requires a minimum of one year experience in long term care.
• Prefer current State designation as a DSD.
• prefer bilingual in Spanish.

Nice To Haves

• Hospital experience
• Intravenous therapy certification and Blood withdrawal certification within six months of hire/transfer.
• Requires successful completion of the Language Resource Assistant (LRA) test at a General level. LRA is a language assessment test that demonstrates written and oral interpretation/translation technique skills. Test will be administered if selected.
• For SRCC and Float pool: requires Intravenous therapy certification and Blood withdrawal certification upon hire/transfer.
• For Sub Acute: requires six months experience within the past two years working in a general acute care facility, or an acquired equivalent experience appropriate to the type of subacute patient the facility provides care for.
• For Chronic Disease Management Center: requires bilingual in Spanish.
• For Clinical Education/DSD: requires a minimum of one year experience in long term care. Prefer current State designation as a DSD.
• For Kaweah Health Exeter Health Clinic: prefer bilingual in Spanish.

Responsibilities

• Uses the results of quality of care/performance improvement activities to initiate changes in nursing practice.
• Collects clinical data for the RN to monitor quality and effectiveness of nursing care.
• Identifies aspects of care that are important for quality monitoring.
• Acts as a patient/resident advocate under the direction of the RN.
• Collaborates and communicates with the patient/resident, family, and other health care providers.
• Makes referrals, including provisions for continuity of care, as needed.
• Assists in development and implementation of policies, procedures, and practice guidelines to improve quality of care and nursing practice.
• Participates on interdisciplinary teams.
• Actions on behalf of patients/residents are determined in an ethical manner.
• Maintains patient confidentiality and privacy within legal and regulatory parameters.
• Delivers care in a nonjudgmental and nondiscriminatory manner that preserves patient autonomy, dignity and rights.
• Assists in the management of patient undergoing endoscopic examination and/or treatment.
• Participates in preprocedural patient preparation.
• Gathers data pertinent to preprocedural assessment.
• Provides preprocedural explanation and education.
• Under direction of the physician, administers preprocedural and topical medications within the scope of practice.
• Assists physician during endoscopic procedure.
• Sets up appropriate equipment and instrumentation.
• Provides suctioning as appropriate.
• Assists in the monitoring of patient's vital signs.
• Handles all patient specimens safely.
• Assists in obtaining specimens.
• Accurately labels specimen with patient and tissue information.
• Delivers specimen to clinical laboratory.
• Manages equipment, instrumentation, and supplies to optimize patient safety and physician support.
• Makes sure appropriate supplies will be available to support patient care and physician need.
• Orders and restocks endoscopy supplies daily.
• Ensures appropriate tracking of inventory for turnover and charging.
• Assists in the maintenance of accurate documentation of all endoscopic activity.
• Verifies and signs off Medical Assistant calculation for approved medications to be administered by Medical Assistant.
• Responsible for refill authorization requisitions and prior authorization medication requests by submitting documentation to appropriate provider.
• Screens daily lab results by placing normal results in provider's box. Abnormal are given to provider with Medical Record immediately.
• Receives critical lab values over phone and notifies provider immediately and follows up per provider instruction.
• Obtains information from patient/caregiver and presents to provider for assessment.
• Orders medical supplies, medications, and vaccines from appropriate resources.
• Assists/performs in procedures under the guidelines of the LVN Board for State of California and in compliance with Kaweah Health policy.
• Maintain logs and generate reports as assigned (Q/A, Q/C & PI).
• Provides patient education.
• Documents on all required forms.
• Administers medications as directed by the physician under the guidelines of the California State Board of Nursing and in compliance with Kaweah Health Policy.
• Responds to inquiries about services within one working day.
• Provides program information in a professional and thorough manner.
• Develops a positive working relationship with all physicians and staff involved in the referral and patient transfer process.
• Upon receiving patient referrals, performs a site visit within 24 hours.
• Reviews medical information, and assesses patient based on relevant program admission criteria.
• Documents observations on appropriate forms.
• Discusses program and patient needs with patient, family, physicians and staff to obtain a complete patient profile.
• Involves all parties, but particularly the patient and/or family in the decision making process regarding transfer.
• Communicates with psychiatrists to make final determination regarding appropriateness of admission.
• Establishes the availability of funds for the services required.
• Communicates with patient and appropriate administrative and patient accounting personnel throughout the process.
• Communicates with patient, family, referral source, physician, and/or others as appropriate regarding admission process and date.
• Provides information regarding other options if admission is not possible.
• Communicates with unit staff and leadership concerning the admission date, bed needs, and special needs/equipment of patient to be admitted.
• Represents and markets the program(s) to the community.
• Collaborates with Clinical Educator and department leadership to ensure competency of CNA staff members.
• Accurately maintains individual CNA and other staff member education files.
• Submits timely and accurate paperwork to the State for maintenance of CNA Continuing In-service Education.
• Provides ongoing education to staff based upon annual and ongoing written assessment.
• Identifies need for in-service and continued education through staff observation, information from Quality and Risk Management Departments, individual staff member performance improvement plan, professional practice standards and performance evaluations.
• In collaboration with Clinical Education and management, plans, implements and evaluates continuing education courses and in-service education for the CNAs and others as directed.
• Is knowledgeable of State and Federal regulations relating to orientation, in-service and ongoing training requirements for CNAs.
• Designs, develops, reviews and revises orientation tools and processes for newly hired/transferred staff as appropriate.
• Organizes, develops and evaluates orientation plans for newly hired staff members.
• Sets up procedure areas appropriately based on patient visit needs.
• Performs initial nursing intake.
• Prepares patients for examination reviewing current medications and documents in the medical record.
• Provides basic patient care and treatments such as taking vital signs, phlebotomy and specimen collection.
• Collaborates with the interdisciplinary team on patient’s plan of care.
• Accesses or deaccesses patient’s Port-a-Cath for treatment.
• Administers oncological medications and provides intravenous hydration.
• Demonstrates the knowledge and skills necessary to provide care and services appropriate to the population served on the assigned unit or work area.
• Knowledgeable of growth and development for all patient/family cultural, linguistic, spiritual, gender, and age specific needs.
• Able to effectively communicate and care for patient and family as reflected in the Plan for Provision of Care.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Benefits

• Benefits Eligible Full-Time