Full Time Nursing Faculty

**Clinical Education Specialist** **Job Summary:** Develop and implement educational programs for nursing staff to enhance patient care and safety, while maintaining current knowledge and competency in the field of expertise. Ensure adherence to Hospital and departmental policies and procedures. Patient care assignment may include neonate, pediatric, adolescent, adult and geriatric age groups. **Key Responsibilities:** * **Patient Safety:** * Follow patient safety-related policies, procedures and protocols * Demonstrate proactive approach to patient safety by seeking opportunities to improve patient safety through questioning of current policies and processes * Identify and report/correct environmental conditions and/or situations that may put a patient at undue risk * Report potential or actual patient safety concerns, medical errors and/or near misses in a timely manner * Encourage patients to actively participate in their own care by asking questions and reporting treatment or situations that they don't understand or may "not seem right" * **Education Assessment:** * Identify educational needs, practice gaps and issues of staff by collecting data and related information * Analyze issues, trends, and supporting evidence to determine needs of individuals, departments, and the organization * **Education Plan:** * Develop instructional program(s), in collaboration with others and based on identified learning needs * Take into account quality indicators and policies, procedures, guidelines * Integrate research findings into plan * **Instruction:** * Implement or coordinate the implementation of the educational curricula utilizing adult learning principles * Employ the most appropriate methodology(ies) to meet goals and objectives * Teach relevant content * Revise plans accordingly * **Quality:** * Maintain and systematically enhance the quality of instructional programs and effectiveness of the nursing professional development (NPD) practitioner * Apply quality improvement processes * Act as a change agent by identifying solutions to problems, addressing barriers, and supporting implementation of new ideas based on evidence * Educate staff on change * Exhibit flexibility * **Professional Practice:** * Maintain current knowledge and competency in field of expertise and professional development practice * Enhance professional growth through participation in educational programs, reading current literature, and attending in-services * Attend meetings and represent department or hospital on committees as assigned * Demonstrate a passion for quality * **Evidence-Based Practice & Research:** * Integrate best practice based on evidence into all educational activities * Demonstrate ability to conduct a thorough literature review * Demonstrate inclusion of up-to-date evidence in educational activity development * Promote scientific inquiry * Disseminate research findings * **Collaboration:** * Establish collegial partnerships with other professionals, leaders, stakeholders, and others who contribute to the development of peers, staff, students, colleagues, and others * Collaborate with individuals and groups to facilitate practice and promote quality outcomes * Influence organizational plans to include education throughout planning and implementation phases * Participate in the design, development, implementation, and/or evaluation of education * **Resource Utilization:** * Consider factors related to safety, effectiveness, efficiency, quantity, and cost in regard to instructional programs and desired outcomes * Demonstrate achievement of productivity goals * **Continuing Nursing Education (CNE) Units:** * Provide for CNE contact hours following procedure mandated to maintain hospital as an approved provider * Demonstrate proficiency in writing CNE planning forms * **Records:** * Maintain documentation and records of instructional programs as required by hospital policy and regulatory agencies * Produce reports of educational programs by collecting statistical data for administrative and quality improvement purposes * **Communication:** * Establish and maintain open and effective communication patterns with peers, colleagues, students, administrators, and others using the chain of command **Qualifications:** * **Education:** Bachelor's Degree or Master's Degree in Nursing or related field * **Experience:** 3 years directly related experience * **Credentials:** RN in NM or as allowed by reciprocal agreement by NM * **Physical Conditions:** Chemicals, Bio Hazardous Materials require PPE