Clinical Educator: Simulation and Certification Coordinator

Baptist Health; Lexington (KY); On-site; USD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

Life Insurance

Disability Insurance

Tuition Reimbursement

Paid Time Off

Bereavement Leave (pets)

PTO Sell Back Program

Compassionate Leave Sharing Program

Employee Support Fund

Retirement with Company Match

Job summary

Baptist Health is seeking a Clinical Nurse Educator to lead clinical education, orientation, and ongoing competency verification across a variety of patient care settings. This full-time night-shift role emphasizes evidence-based practice, policy development, and collaboration with multidisciplinary teams.

The CNE will provide clinical consultation, mentor preceptors, and drive professional development aligned with accreditation standards, while supporting safe, high-quality patient care.

Qualifications

• Current RN license or work permit in Kentucky.
• Three (3) years of acute care experience in the designated specialty within the last five (5) years.
• BSN from accredited nursing program.
• Certification as Professional Development Specialist (PDS) preferred.
• Basic Life Support certification.
• ACLS/PALS/NRP/TNCC/ENPC certifications as required by department of assignment.

Responsibilities

• Collaborates with department directors, nursing staff, and others to identify unit-specific educational needs.
• Collaborates with other educators to prevent redundancies of educational efforts.
• Facilitates the unit/hospital orientation program for area of responsibility.
• Provides ongoing support and coaching to preceptors and/or new employees.
• Assess educational needs for orientation, in-service education and continuing education.
• Demonstrates ability to teach programs using adult learning principles and quality aids.
• Evaluates achievement of learning objectives.
• Facilitates attainment of necessary or desired educational credit from accreditation bodies.
• Participates in patient care delivery and in area of specialization.
• Acts as a resource for staff locating answers to current policies and best evidence.
• Provides clinical consultation and participates in research/evidence-based practice.

Skills

RN license

Acute care experience

BLS

PDS certification

Caring communication

Education

BSN from accredited nursing program

Job description

Summary

he Educational Development and Community Education Department provides clinical and non-clinical education, professional development, leadership development, and community education across the organization

Job Description:

Clinical Nurse Educator

Full-Time, Nights

The Clinical Nurse Educator (CNE) functions to ensure that clinicians are prepared to be responsible for promoting patient safety and high-quality patient care through clinical leadership, education, consultation, modeling, and research. The CNE incorporates evidence-based practice, theory, and research into various patient care settings according to patient needs by collaborating with multi-professional multidisciplinary groups, facilitating the development of hospital and department policies, nursing procedures, and regulatory standards and guidelines. The role also includes functioning as a community resource on topics within scope of practice and providing nursing orientation, education, and ongoing competency verification. The CNE is a role model for caring that honors the patient's mind, body, and spirit.

Job Description:

• Collaborates with department directors, nursing staff, and others to identify unit-specific educational needs.

• Collaborates with other educators to prevent redundancies of educational efforts.

• Collaborates with human resources department, nurse educators, professional development specialists, clinical nurse specialists, and department directors to facilitate the unit/hospital orientation program for area of responsibility.

• Provides ongoing support and coaching to preceptors and/or new employees.

• Assess educational needs through a variety of methods, both formal and informal, for orientation, in-service education and continuing education to preceptors, new employees, and experienced staff.

• Demonstrates ability to teach programs using adult learning principles, professional presentation skills, and quality audiovisual aids and handout materials.

• Evaluates achievement of learning objectives

• Facilitates attainment of necessary or desired educational credit from accreditation bodies for a given professional category and submits required documentation after the program

• Participates in patient care delivery

• Participates indirectly in the delivery of patient care in area of specialization.

• Acts as a resource for staff in locating answers to questions, best evidence, current policies, procedures, and protocols.

• Provides clinical consultation.

• Participates in research/evidence-based practice

• Incorporates research findings and best practice findings into the development of clinical practice guidelines/standards/policies.

Requirements:

• Current RN license or work permit in Kentucky.

• Three (3) years of acute care experience in the designated specialty within the last five (5) years

• BSN from accredited nursing program

• Certification as Professional Development Specialist (PDS) preferred

• Basic Life Support certification.

• ACLS/PALS/NRP/TNCC/ENPC certifications as required by department of assignment.

Benefits:

• Health, Vision, Dental, and Pet Insurance
• Life Insurance
• Short Term and Long-term Disability and Life Insurance
• Identity Theft Protection
• Tuition Reimbursement up to $6,000 annually
• Company paid Maternity and Paternity Leave
• 5 days of Paid Time Off available upon hire
• Bereavement Leave (includes pets)
• PTO Sell Back Program
• Compassionate Leave Sharing Program (PTO Donation)
• Employee Support Fund, for employees in need of emergency financial assistance
• Retirement with Company Match

Baptist Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer.