Education Coordinator - Inpat

We’re looking for an Inpatient Education Coordinator for PICU/CICU, someone who’s ready to grow with our company. In this position, you will provide education and administrative support for unit operations under the supervision of Manager or above and ensure effective and efficient implementation of the various key educational processes at the unit level. Also, assists in the implementation of designated centralized components of the key educational processes.

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Job Duties & Responsibilities:

• Ensures the design, implementation, and evaluation of a cost-effective unit-based orientation process that focuses on knowledge, skills, and relationships.
• Designs, implements and evaluates on an annual basis, a cost-effective unit-based orientation pathway for each job as measured by feedback from the leadership team.
• Individualizes the unit-based orientation pathways to meet the specific learning needs of staff, as measured by feedback from orientees, preceptors, and leadership team.
• Creates and maintains orientation schedules and accurately inputs preceptor and orientee schedules.
• Calculates monthly orientation hours.
• Ensures that appropriate communication has occurred regarding orientation schedules, as measured by feedback from orientees, preceptors, and leadership team.
• Acts as a role model in building supportive and collaborative work relationships with new employees, as measured by feedback from staff, orientee, preceptors, and leadership team.
• Teaches, facilitates, or develops staff designees to participate in 32-36 hours of centralized courses/centralized planning activity annually, as measured by Nursing Professional Development reports.
• Reviews and discusses with orientee and manages the orientee’s progress at least weekly, as measured by feedback from preceptors, orientees, and leadership team.
• Monitors orientation processes and identify and improve problematic trends, as measured by preceptor, staff, orientee, and leadership team feedback.
• Updates unit-based orientation pathways at least quarterly and reviews with leadership team.
• Provides feedback to NURSING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT to improve centralized orientation pathways, as measured by feedback from the leadership team and NURSING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT.
• Coordinates/Conducts required training to close performance gaps in knowledge and skills.
• Implements a unit-based plan for advancing competence of staff on all shifts that results in improved performance.
• Assesses, plans, implements, coordinates, evaluates, and documents for patient care.
• Orients and develops preceptors.
• Coordinates the annual assessment and validation of priority high-risk skills.
• Coordinates the unit-based clinical experience for students.
• Participates in the Quality Outcomes Program and/or unit-based quality initiatives for the purpose of educating staff and monitoring clinical outcomes that demonstrate nursing excellence.
• Provides administrative support for unit-based operations.

Skills & Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree Nursing required
• MSN - Nursing Education - preferred
• RN - Lic-Registered Nurses by the Texas Board of Nursing or Nursing Licensure Compact required
• BLS - Cert-Basic Life Support by the American Heart Association required
• 2 years Clinical nursing experience required (PICU and/or CICU)
• 1 year Preceptor or educator experience preferred 

Texas Children’s presence in Austin helps support a pediatric population of more than half a million and keeps kids healthy and happy from birth to adulthood. Texas Children’s first health care location in Austin, Texas Children’s Urgent Care West Gate, opened in March 2018, providing high quality pediatric-focused care after hours and on weekends. There are now more than 15 Texas Children’s Pediatric primary care practices in the greater Austin area providing full-service family care including routine childhood immunizations, well visits, and sick care. Our Specialty Care Center in Austin includes a multidisciplinary group of pediatric specialists committed to providing comprehensive care across a wide spectrum of services. Texas Children’s Hospital North Austin, is our new state-of-the-art facility providing world-class pediatric and maternal care to Austin families.

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