Clinical Nurse Educator & Patient-Safety Leader

Baptist Health; Lexington (KY); On-site; USD 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Preventive Plan

Retirement Plans

Job summary

Baptist Health in Kentucky is seeking a Community Nurse Educator (PRN) to advance clinical education, staff development, and evidence-based practice hospital-wide.

The role focuses on promoting patient safety and high-quality care through education, consultation, leadership, and collaboration with multidisciplinary teams, including policy and guideline development.

Qualifications

• RN license in Kentucky and active, unencumbered practice.
• BSN from an accredited nursing program.
• 3 years acute care experience in the designated specialty within the last 5 years.
• Basic Life Support certification; ACLS/PALS/NRP/ENPC as required by assignment.

Responsibilities

• Collaborates with department directors and nursing staff to identify unit-specific educational needs.
• Prepares and delivers education using adult learning principles and effective presentations.
• Provides ongoing coaching to preceptors and new employees.
• Assesses educational needs and evaluates learning objectives for competency and implementation.
• Supports orientation and ongoing professional development within the hospital.

Skills

Clinical education

Adult education principles

Educational coaching

Evidence-based practice

Education

BSN from accredited nursing program

RN license in Kentucky

Basic Life Support (BLS)

PDS certification (preferred)

Job description

Summary

Job Description:

Community Nurse Educator

PRN

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

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.

• Assesses 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:

• Preventive Plan
• Retirement Plans

If you would like to be part of a growing family focused on supporting clinical excellence, teamwork and innovation, we urge you to apply now! Baptist Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer.