RN Nurse Educator Behavioral Health

Overview

Registered Nurse Educator / Infection Preventionist opportunity at River Place Behavioral Health, LaPlace, LA

• $15k Bonus
• Full-time Day Shift
• Monday-Friday with weekends as needed. This position requires flexibility to adjust hours as needed to provide training, support, and communications to staff on other shifts.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Nursing or commensurate experience required
• Minimum of three years as a Registered Nurse (RN) required
• Two years of behavioral health nursing experience required

 

Responsible for planning and delivering continuing education programs for nursing staff, enhancing clinical skills and professional development. Lead and manage the facility’s infection prevention and control efforts, promptly addressing and containing infectious outbreaks. Maintain a positive, empathetic, and professional approach while prioritizing patient safety and quality care.

 

River Place Behavioral Health, a service of Ochsner Health System, provides state-of-the-art psychiatric care for adults who are struggling with depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, and other mental health concerns. Conveniently located in LaPlace, Louisiana, just 20 minutes west of New Orleans and 40 minutes east of Baton Rouge.

 

The Nurse Educator/Infection Preventionist plays a critical role in ensuring that behavioral health staff are well-equipped to provide safe, high-quality patient care. This hands-on position will plan, develop and coordinate continuing nursing in-service education programs within the facility for all clinical and non-clinical nursing staff in a positive, empathetic, and professional manner at all times. This position is responsible for enhancing professional practice and the provision of quality patient care by providing evidence-based, quality educational programs and activities that promote professional competency for nursing, inter-professional, and non-licensed clinical staff at an assigned facility. Coordinate and lead the facility’s infection prevention and control program. Responsible for determining, preventing and containing infectious outbreaks within the facility. Performs duties with a positive, empathetic, and professional attitude. Recognizes that patient safety is a top priority.

 

At Acadia Healthcare, we offer a comprehensive benefits package including medical, prescription drug plan, flexible spending accounts, health savings accounts, vision, dental, and voluntary short-term and long-term disability coverage. Additionally, our well-being programs encompass employee assistance programs, financial support, tuition reimbursement, and much more.

 

 

Applicants from New Orleans are encouraged to apply.

 

Responsibilities

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

· Facilitates orientation/onboarding program to promote employee retention.

· Conducts orientation in a manner that fosters a positive learning environment.

· Role models organizational and personal commitment to new employee success.

· Participates in designing and identifying educational activities to address practice gaps for identified target audiences, which may include licensed and non-licensed healthcare personnel.

· Identifies learning needs of staff and/or facility

· Role models competent practice through demonstration or simulation activities

· Assess practice gaps/Crosswalk competencies to practice

· Collaborates with Corporate Nursing Director /Educator to review outcomes data to evaluate and refine competency management activities

· Assist with development and/or instruction of didactic content and clinical skills for designated competencies

· Develops education plan according to gap assessment or quality data/safety outcomes

· Aligns educational programs with facility and/or organization policies and procedures

· Implement and deliver educational curricula as required by regulatory agencies such as Joint Commission, CARF, CMS and State agencies.

· Creates engaging, evidence-based educational content to meet the specific needs of the intended audience

· Demonstrates exceptional instructional skills while maintaining learner engagement

· Act a general resource for nursing staff.

· Collaborate with medical practitioners and CNO/DON to incorporate nursing processes into the plan of care for patients.

· Provide educational leadership to patients and care providers to enhance specialized patient care within established clinical protocol.

· Promotes safe, quality, and compassionate patient care

· Assist patient and caregivers with educat