Clinical Educator

Center for Best Practice  
Full Time
Day Shift 
730-4

Consistently named best hospital, Lexington Medical Center dedicates itself to providing quality health services that meet the needs of its communities. Ranked #2 in the state and #1 in the Columbia metro area by U.S. News & World Report, Lexington Medical Center is the only hospital named one of the Best Places to Work in South Carolina.

The 607-bed teaching hospital anchors a health care network that includes five community medical centers and employs more than 8,000 health care professionals. The network includes a cardiovascular program recognized by the American College of Cardiology as South Carolina’s first HeartCARE CenterTM and an accredited Cancer Center of Excellence affiliated with MUSC Hollings Cancer Center for research and education. The network also features an occupational health center, the largest skilled nursing facility in the Carolinas, an Alzheimer’s care center and nearly 80 physician practices.  Its postgraduate medical education programs include family medicine and transitional year.

 

 

 

 

Job Summary

Facilitates the delivery of quality patient care through practice as an educator and leader. The clinical educator is an expert practitioner who demonstrates departmental and unit based leadership, excellent communication skills, proficient knowledge and decision-making skills in a specialty. Clinical educators are exceptional teachers, critical thinkers and exhibit collaboration with nursing leadership, direct care nursing staff and physicians. Responsible and accountable for clinical development activities to include structured programs, in-services, patient care orientation and ongoing educational programs based on learner and organizational needs that foster the development of competence in the direct care clinical nursing staff. Facilitates achievement of annual organizational quality goals as evidenced by patient outcomes. Provides effective training to direct care clinical nursing staff and nursing support staff for Epic EHR Inpatient ClinDoc and/or Stork.
 

Minimum Qualifications

Minimum Education: Bachelors of Science in Nursing
Minimum Education: Bachelors of Science in Nursing
Substitutable Education & Experience (Optional): None.
Required Certifications/Licensure: Currently licensed as a Registered Nurse by the South Carolina Board of Nursing; Instructor status in mandatory certification programs (CPR, ACLS, NRP, or PALS) -  may be obtained within six months of entering role; Certification in Nursing Professional Development - may be obtained within 3 years of entering role; Epic Credentialed Trainer certification(Inpatient ClinDoc and/or Stork) - may be obtained within 6 months of entering role; Certification in CPR.
Required Training: Experience teaching adult learners.

Essential Functions

• The Clinical Educator facilitates the direct care clinical nursing staff’s acquisition of knowledge and skills needed to provide cost-effective, quality patient care.
• Develops, coordinates, implements, evaluates and revises patient care and nursing orientation.
• Assesses, plans, implements and evaluates educational programs and activities to meet the needs of clinical nursing staff. 
• Works effectively with team/work groups to accomplish organizational goals.
• Utilizes principles of Adult Learning Theory in developing educational programs.    
• Demonstrates competence in critical thinking and problem solving skills to assist staff in providing care and treatment for the patient populations served.
• Effectively collaborates with learners and supervisors utilizing outcomes data to plan and present educational activities that foster competency in staff.    
• Provides oversight to nursing students, nursing residents and high school health science students in their clinical rotations in patient care units.    
• Facilitates orientation for clinical staff and students prior to patient care experiences.
• Promotes evidence-based nursing practice utilizing current research.
• Provides assessment and/or implementation of changes to practice, policy and procedure to improve nursing practice and patient outcomes.
• Achieves and maintains a satisfactory level of technical skills and knowledge related to education technology and Epic EHR Inpatient ClinDoc and/or Stork.
• Maintains confidentiality.
• Exhibits telephone courtesy.
• Utilizes the service recovery process to resolve complaints.
• Directly influences policy, procedures, and educational strategies for unit, organization, and community.
• This role encompasses that of an educator, facilitator, project manager, consultant, change agent, and researcher.
• Serves as resource and role model for clinical nursing staff, o