ICU Nurse Educator

Summary of Essential Functions

• Responsible for assessing the educational needs of the staff and new employees.
• Designs and implements educational programs that meet identified needs.
• Continuously assists management in evaluating nursing practice and designing methodologies to improve standard of care.
• Provides leadership, clinical expertise, and functional direction to other member of the health care team.

 

Educational Requirements

• High school graduate or equivalent.
• Graduate of an accredited Professional Nursing Program.
• Bachelor’s degree preferred.

 

Licenses/Certifications

• Current licensure state of Texas as Professional Nurse.
• Specialty Certification preferred.
• Patient Care Services Educator
  • BLS, ACLS
• Critical Care
  • BLS, ACLS
• Emergency Services
  • BLS, ACLS, TNCC, ENPC, PALS
• Women’s & Children’s Services
  • BLS, STABLE, NRP, PALS

 

Qualifications/Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:

• Experiences which have provided opportunities to develop skills in teaching.
• Demonstrates strong clinical skills.
• Able to coordinate, facilitate and manage various educational activities.
• 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.
• Adaptable, flexible, and able to set priorities using critical thinking and analytical skills.
• Skilled at effective time management, attention to detail, and multitasking.
• Communicates effectively in English, both verbally and in writing, including public speaking.
• Able to tailor education to the individual learner.
• Demonstrations strong organizational skills and ability to maintain accurate and timely recordkeeping.

 

Physical Requirements

• Requires walking, standing, or sitting for extensive periods of time as well as pushing and pulling of equipment.
• 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.
• Involves minimal temperature and moderate noise level changes.
• Full range of body motion including handling and lifting patients, manual and finger dexterity, and hand-to-eye coordination.
• Corrected vision and hearing to normal range.

 

Duties and Responsibilities

• Assesses educational learning needs based on standards established by accrediting agencies, PI monitoring results, administration / staff request, class evaluations, and other assessment techniques.
• 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.
• Collaborates with other Educators in planning/development of orientation, in-services, and other hospital-wide educational offerings.
• 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.
• Participates as a liaison between United Regional and the community for health-related activities.
• 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.
• Serves as a liaison between providers and hospital personnel for the purposes of training and education.
• Maintains knowledge and competence for clinical practice staying abreast of nursing trends, policies, procedures, and regulations specific to area of practice.
• Collaborates with other educators to manage and maintain the Learning Management System.
• Performs all other tasks/responsibilities as necessary.