Position Summary
Prepares team members to be safe, efficient and competent in the performance of their duties by providing general and specialty specific education.
Minimum Qualifications:
• 2 years of critical care experience
Responsibilities
Education/Training
Graduate from an approved school of nursing with a Master in Science in Nursing degree.
Licensure/Certification
• Current licensure as a registered nurse in the State of Florida required.
• National specialty certification in area of practice must be obtained within two (2) years of hire, except in cases where there is no certification available.
• Basic life support, advanced life support, pediatric advanced life support, neonatal resuscitation program certification as required by department or unit.
Experience
• Five years of acute care hospital experience required including three years in functional area of assignment.
• One year of experience in an education role is required.
Essential Functions
- Enhances clinical competence of team members by utilizing an Education Action Plan and annual Needs Assessment.
- Develops and coordinates the orientation process for assigned areas, meets with orientees, preceptors and members of the nursing leadership team as needed.
- Actively participates in quality and safety initiatives to ensure team members are improving practice so quality and safety standards are met.
- Collaborates with Corporate Education to assess ongoing competence of clinical team members.
- Plans, develops, coordinates and evaluates unit specific programs to maintain or increase the skill and knowledge of team members.
- Ensures adult learning principles are integrated into all programs.
- Facilitates and supports team member involvement in professional and organizational activities.
- Maintains proficiency in assigned role by participating in direct nursing practice.
- Demonstrates professional accountability by involvement in professional organizations.
- Provides input for the clinical evaluation of team members.
- Participates in the selection, evaluation and hiring of potential team members.
- Facilitates professional development of team members through utilization of educational courses.
- Assesses and provides education to maintain ongoing knowledge and compliance of organizational, regulatory policies and procedures.
- Utilizes evidenced based, quality clinical nursing practice consistent with nursing research, organizational and national practice standards.
- Effectively expresses ideas in verbal and written communication to team members and groups.
- Embraces, communicates and promotes change.
- Completes Sunrise documentation intermediate class and maintains competency in EMR systems including Sunrise documentation.
- Participates in formal education presentations, e.g. core specialty courses, corporate-sponsored education programs, or guest lecturing for academic courses.
- Develops test questions for Annual Clinical Review (ACR) online testing database, utilizing test construction principles and assembles unit specific ACR test.
- Facilitates and participates in the skills portion of the ACR.
- Serves as a preceptor for the Learning Specialist I roles.
- Participates in unit-specific, site-specific or corporate committees and/or educational initiatives that influence organizational outcomes.
- Participates in professional development opportunities that increases his/her effectiveness in the role.
- Creates opportunities to develop critical thinking and critical reasoning skills for all team members.
- Provides development programs for preceptor growth.
- Utilizes critical thinking and knowledge assessments to plan orientation.
- Demonstrates knowledge of the research process; interprets and uses evidence based practice guidelines in addressing learning needs.
- Collaborates with student coordinator for student placement and communicates with nursing instructor regarding student assignment.
- Maintains reasonably regular, punctual attendance consistent with Orlando Health policies, the ADA, FMLA and other federal, state and local standards.
- Maintains compliance with all Orlando Health policies and procedures.