RN Education Coordinator, Adult Critical Care (ICU & Step-Down ICU)

• Employee engagement, empowerment and growth
• Teamwork toward our common goal – providing exceptional health care services with a passion for making lives better
• An atmosphere of caring and quality that cascades throughout the organization

• Serves as primary educator for new staff in their entity and coordinates with each unit preceptor
• Participates in education as appropriate for the Electronic Medical Record, especially as it relates to clinical content
• Is a mentor for new employees and new graduate nurses by supporting the new employee through programs such as the new grad support group and the preceptor group.
• Conducts periodic educational needs assessments and develops educational programs based on the identified needs.
• Identifies clinical learning needs through use of a variety of methods including observation, staff meetings, occurrences, unit-based data and partner input
• In collaboration with unit leadership, creates an annual calendar of planned educational offerings and updates throughout the year
• Enhances partner growth through promoting clinical ladder level advancement and attainment of national certification.
• Assists partners in portfolio development and in attaining education required to achieve national specialty certification
• Participates in unit-based meetings including Nurse Practice Council, Professional Development Council and routine staff meetings, sharing upcoming learning opportunities along with identified needs within the department
• Implements innovative instructional methods for use in meeting the educational needs of all nursing department personnel.
• Coordinates outside consultants and trainers who conduct training on specific topics (i.e. vendors whose new products have been selected for use within the hospital).
• Maintains class evaluations of instructors, consultants, and trainers.
• Assists directors and clinical nurse specialists in maintaining unit bulletin boards.
• Obtains CEU's for programs as appropriate
• Collaborates with others in order to provide monthly newsletters
• Facilitates Evidence Based Practice initiatives by providing resources and direction to nurses and dissemination of other entity research and best practice initiatives.
• Assists in coordinating education as requested to all components of the health system (i.e. Harvard, Walworth, clinics).
• Participates as a member of the Education Team for house wide education and dissemination of information.
• Collaborates with Clinical Nurse Specialists and system education coordinators in coordinating annual nursing documentation and skills fair.
• Plans and hosts unit-based skills validations as appropriate to the department
• Coordinates and participates in teaching programs as appropriate for areas of expertise such as EKG Class, CCRN review, monthly nursing education classes.
• Participates in writing and updating policies/procedures as appropriate
• Maintains records for mandatory certifications of staff as appropriate for their units

• BSN from an accredited BSN Completion Program required.
• MSN preferred.
• Two or more years RN experience, or one or more years RN experience in area of specialty.

• Licensed as an RN in state of practice
• Approved BLS certification required within 90 days
• Other certification per unit requirements; For example: ACLS, PALS, PEARS, NRP

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