Clinical Practice Nurse Educator Leader Inpatient Care Services

The Clinical Practice Nurse Educator functions across Carewell Health by providing staff development expertise as an educator, consultant, facilitator, change agent, leader, and researcher. The Clinical Educator strives for quality outcomes and innovative practice in accordance with the NJ Nursing Practice Act and the Hospital/departmental policies. The Clinical Practice Nurse Educator supports the development of bedside nurses and fosters empowerment through knowledge to achieve excellence in the delivery of evidence-based nursing practice. This occurs through the facilitation of the educational process, including the assessment, development, planning, implementation, and evaluation of competency assessment, continuing education, and leadership development. Accountable for the quality of nursing services delivered by self (or others who are under her/his direction). This is done through participation in quality-assurance or performance-improvement initiatives.

The Clinical Practice Nurse Educator reports to the Director of Education or Designee and provides care in collaboration with other disciplines to ensure optimal, individualized patient care and outcomes. In managing patient care, the Clinical Practice Nurse Educator/Leader will take a leadership role, coordinating the interdisciplinary team and collaborating with other health team members to enhance patient outcomes. In addition, as a role model of professional behavior, the Clinical Practice Nurse Educator is instrumental in creating a professional nursing climate within Carewell Health.

Educator

• Conducts needs assessments using a variety of strategic tools.

• Assists learners in the assessment of needs and identification of outcomes.

• Incorporates principles of adult learning in the planning, implementation, and evaluation of education programs

• Coordinates orientation of new staff to the organization

• Develops/coordinates education plans related to initial and ongoing competency validation.

• Develops/coordinates core education to address patient population-specific nursing care.

• Develops/coordinates core education for the development of beside leaders.

• Plans, prepares, and maintains materials for use in educational programs for accuracy and relevance to the target audience.

• Identifies and evaluates instructional materials in all types of media and formats.

• Adjusts content and teaching strategies to meet the learner's needs.

• Provides educational opportunities that benefit nurses at all stages of their career development.

• Delivers competence-based programs for nursing staff with a focus upon improvement of skills and retention of knowledge.

• Develops evidence-based educational materials.

• Supports staff development with educational activities (which include remediation, certification, mentoring, life support, TJC, DOH, OSHA, and other regulatory requirements, product rollouts, etc.)

• Evaluates the effectiveness of educational programming.

• Prepares short- and long-term planning and programs to address identified needs.

• Teaches content as needed and/or assigned within clinical expertise to facilitate orientation, staff development, and/or safe practice.

Consultant

• Serves as an educational consultant to facilities, task forces, committees, and projects relating to policy, procedure, and program development.

• Responses to regulatory mandates for research and management of sentinel events

• Responds to