Emergency Nurse Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS), Master of Science in Nursing (MSN), APRN, or Clinical Nurse Leader (CNL) qualification required.
• At least 3 years of bedside nursing experience required.
• Current Kentucky RN license or a valid multistate RN license recognized by Kentucky required.
• BLS, ACLS, PALS, and other certifications as required for the assigned clinical area or patient population.

Nice To Haves

• At least 1 year of experience as a clinical educator or nursing instructor preferred.
• Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) certification preferred.

Responsibilities

• Conduct needs assessments and analyze clinical, quality, and performance data to identify education, competency, and practice gaps.
• Plan, develop, implement, and evaluate evidence-based educational programs using adult-learning principles and strategies suited to learners and clinical settings.
• Coordinate nursing orientation, onboarding, continuing education, competency validation, remediation, certification, nurse residency, and other professional-development activities.
• Develop and maintain educational materials and resources supporting patient-population-specific care, leadership development, clinical competency, and safe nursing practice.
• Provide education, consultation, mentoring, and individualized learning support to nurses throughout their professional development.
• Lead and support quality-improvement and patient-safety initiatives through data analysis, clinical audits, gap assessments, root-cause evaluation, and monitoring practice standards.
• Collaborate with nursing leadership, physicians, infection prevention, quality improvement, and other healthcare professionals to address educational, clinical, regulatory, and patient-care needs.
• Translate research and best evidence into clinical practice, educational programming, policies, procedures, protocols, and practice guidelines.
• Support the development, implementation, and evaluation of clinical standards, policies, procedures, and practice changes to improve quality, safety, and patient outcomes.
• Serve as a nursing professional-development and clinical-practice resource to staff, leaders, committees, task forces, councils, and interdisciplinary teams.
• Support shared governance, professional practice, frontline staff engagement, leadership development, and unit-based quality-improvement activities.
• Coordinate and support continuing-education, clinical-affiliation, life-support-training, accreditation, and regulatory requirements.
• Participate in or lead committees, work groups, departmental initiatives, research activities, and projects related to nursing education, professional practice, quality, and patient safety.
• Demonstrate advanced clinical knowledge, effective interdisciplinary communication, ethical practice, lifelong learning, and professional role modeling.
• Maintain required educational and clinical competencies, promote a safe and healthy work environment, support departmental operations and leadership as needed, and perform related duties as assigned.