Clinical Nurse Educator- Procedural- 40hr Days

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Under the general supervision of the Nurse Manager and in collaboration with the Associate Chief for the Center for Clinical and Professional Development, the Nurse Manager and Assistant Nurse Manager, the clinical educator practices within the Lahey Clinic Professional Practice Model, MA Nurse Practice Act, ANA Standards of Practice and Code of Ethics and demonstrates Lahey Clinic’s core values that reflect its Mission. The Clinical Educator promotes excellence in nursing practice by providing expert nursing care to patients and functions as a clinical/educational resource to nursing staff. The nurse-patient/family relationship, continuity of care and accountability are central to the delivery of individualized high quality patient care.
The Clinical Educator facilitates the coordination of care across the continuum and demonstrates safe practice within the domains of:
● Clinical judgment and decision making
● Nurse-patient/family relationship
● Clinical leadership
● Clinical scholarship
The Clinical Educato

Job Description:

Essential Duties & Responsibilities including but not limited to:
Clinical Judgment and Decision Making: Ways in which nurses come to understand the problems, issues or concerns of patients/families, to attend to salient/critical information, and to respond in concerned and involved ways.
A.    Facilitates the nursing process (as outlined in the Tertiary RN job description):
1. Providing safe patient care -Demonstrates organizational skills that maintain safe delivery of standard care for assigned patients/families.
2. Performing systematic patient and family assessment relevant to practice settings.
3. Evaluating effectiveness of care and adapts plan based on patient/family response.
4. Effectively communicating plan of care and patient/family response

B.    Collaborates with staff nurses on the assessment, planning, intervention, evaluation and documentation of nursing care. 
1.    Performs routine rounds to observe the delivery of care and to offer guidance to staff, especially for complex or difficult patient problems.
2.    Provides the staff with available resources and information to improve patient care outcomes as well as to develop their skills.
3.    Collaborates with nurses in coordinating patient teaching as well as discharge planning.

C.    Improves nursing practice by assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating patient outcomes and standards of care. 
1.    Works with Nurse Manager, Assistant Nurse Manager and staff nurses to plan, implement and evaluate changes in practice on each unit.
2.    Develops unit-based standards of practice/protocols, which are compatible with the philosophy and goals of the Nursing Department.
3.    Educates nurses about standards of practice/protocols.
4.    Coordinates and implements unit-based nursing education on new or revised policies, procedures, products and equipment.
5.    Participates in hospital and nursing committees
6.    Develops and monitors continuous improvement initiatives on the unit.
7.    Assures maintenance of educational files, bulletin boards and literary resources for the unit

D.    Promotes excellence in nursing practice by providing expert nursing care to patients and functioning as a clinical resource to nursing staff
1.    Guides and instructs staff in their role as direct caregivers
2.    Evaluates nursing practice to provide clinical learning opportunities for staff.
3.    Assist staff to incorporate evidence-based knowledge into their daily nursing practice

Nurse-patient/family relationship: A relationship that extends beyond formal assessment to integrate the particular patient’s response and his/her religious/spiritual, ethnic and cultural beliefs into the plan of care.

A.    Facilitates the establishment of a professional relationship with patients and family.
1.    Communicates RN role to patient and family
2.    Elicits questions and concerns from patients and family members.
3.    Orients patient/family to the roles of each member of the health care team and unit environment.
4.    Respects the values (religious/spiritual, ethnic, cultural) of the patient and family.
5.    Communicates with the patient and family appropriate to the age of the patient and family members.
6.    Presents patient/family values to other members of the health care team.
7.    Maintains confidentiality and patient rights in interactions with the patient/family and other health care workers.
8.    Inform patients of their rights as a patient.

B.    Teaches the patient and family about the patient’s illness and trea