Critical Care Educator - ICU (Days)

Tanner Health; Georgia; On-site; USD 85,000 - 105,000; Full time

Job summary

Tanner Health is seeking a Critical Care Educator, a registered nurse with extensive critical care experience to lead education for bedside clinicians in the ICU. The role prioritizes emotional intelligence, situational awareness, and strong critical thinking to improve patient outcomes.

Ideal candidates will have four years of related ICU experience, a Bachelor's degree, and the ability to become an ACLS instructor within 90 days of starting.

Qualifications

• Four years of related experience in critical care.
• Broad knowledge of complex systems and procedures.
• Ability to tailor teaching to different learning styles (visual, auditory, reading/writing, kinesthetic).

Responsibilities

• Educate bedside clinicians in critical care practices.
• Coordinate and provide critical care education for staff.
• Adapt teaching plans to learners and ensure ACLS Instructor requirements are met.

Skills

Critical care nursing

Emotional intelligence

Situational awareness

Critical thinking

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Job description

The Critical Care Educator is a nurse with sound clinical experience, emotional intelligence, situational awareness and outstanding critical thinking skills lending one the ability to communicate well with his/her peer group in the Critical Care.

Required Knowledge & Skills

Education: Bachelor's Degree

Experience: Four years of related experience. Requires broad knowledge of complex systems and procedures.

Licenses and Certifications

• CRITICAL CARE REGISTERED NURSE
• ACLS INSTRUCTOR
• GEORGIA REGISTERED NURSE LICENSE OR MULTISTATE NURSING LICENSE

Qualifications

• Clinical experience to include care and management of the following patient populations: (A) Intra Aortic Balloon Pump (IABP), (B) Hemodynamic monitoring, (c) CRRT, (D) 12 lead EKG interpretation, (E) Rhythm interpretation, (F) Management of a ventilator patient, and (G) Management of patient recieving PCI.
• Documentation of experience in the provision of education for bedside clinicians. (Application requirement of 2 letters of reference related to the applicant's ability to coordinate and provide education for the critical care nurse).
• Ability to adjust the teaching plan to accommodate the visual learners, the auditory learners, the reading writing-preference learners, as well as the kinesthetic learner.
• Must receive ACLS Instructor Certification within 90 days of starting role.
• Must become Critical Care Registered Nurse within 6 months of starting role.