Summary of Essential Functions
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Responsible for assessing the educational needs of the staff and new employees.
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Designs and implements educational programs that meet identified needs.
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Continuously assists management in evaluating nursing practice and designing methodologies to improve standard of care.
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Provides leadership, clinical expertise, and functional direction to other member of the health care team.
Educational Requirements
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High school graduate or equivalent.
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Graduate of an accredited Professional Nursing Program.
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Bachelor’s degree preferred.
Licenses/Certifications
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Current licensure state of Texas as Professional Nurse.
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Specialty Certification preferred.
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Patient Care Services Educator
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Critical Care
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Emergency Services
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BLS, ACLS, TNCC, ENPC, PALS
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Women’s & Children’s Services
Qualifications/Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:
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Experiences which have provided opportunities to develop skills in teaching.
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Demonstrates strong clinical skills.
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Able to coordinate, facilitate and manage various educational activities.
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Utilizes effective communication and interpersonal skills when interacting with patients, family, visitors, health care industry representatives, physicians, department personnel and other allied health care providers.
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Adaptable, flexible, and able to set priorities using critical thinking and analytical skills.
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Skilled at effective time management, attention to detail, and multitasking.
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Communicates effectively in English, both verbally and in writing, including public speaking.
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Able to tailor education to the individual learner.
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Demonstrations strong organizational skills and ability to maintain accurate and timely recordkeeping.
Physical Requirements
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Requires walking, standing, or sitting for extensive periods of time as well as pushing and pulling of equipment.
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Medium strength requirement: Exerting 20 to 50 pounds of force occasionally, and/or 10 to 25 pounds of force frequently, and/or greater than negligible up to 10 pounds of force constantly.
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Involves minimal temperature and moderate noise level changes.
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Full range of body motion including handling and lifting patients, manual and finger dexterity, and hand-to-eye coordination.
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Corrected vision and hearing to normal range.
Duties and Responsibilities
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Assesses educational learning needs based on standards established by accrediting agencies, PI monitoring results, administration / staff request, class evaluations, and other assessment techniques.
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Demonstrates and implement development of assigned courses, classes, and activities, based on current clinical and educational practices. Ensures that content is relative to age-specific patient populations.
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Collaborates with other Educators in planning/development of orientation, in-services, and other hospital-wide educational offerings.
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Able to effectively solve problems through fact-finding, research, facilitation, forming plan of action and evaluation of outcomes. Utilizes data collection to determine if problem is structural, process or outcome based, and works with management to formulate change.
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Participates as a liaison between United Regional and the community for health-related activities.
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Able to share knowledge and skills of direct and indirect care to patients when: orienting new employees and students, identifying learning needs of the staff, providing in-service education, seminars, and workshops, and developing and initiating action plan for competence assessments.
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Serves as a liaison between providers and hospital personnel for the purposes of training and education.
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Maintains knowledge and competence for clinical practice staying abreast of nursing trends, policies, procedures, and regulations specific to area of practice.
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Collaborates with other educators to manage and maintain the Learning Management System.
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Performs all other tasks/responsibilities as necessary.
