Nurse Educator & Clinical Education Specialist

Hugh Chatham Health; Oak Lawn (IL); On-site; USD 56,000 - 84,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Paid time off

Educational assistance

Job summary

Advocate Health is seeking a Nursing Professional Development and Education professional to lead orientation and education for nursing staff across the site. The role emphasizes competency assessment, curriculum design, and applying adult learning principles to improve patient care outcomes.

The position requires a BSN, an active RN license, and roughly 3 years of frontline nursing experience; regular collaboration with NPD specialists and leadership. Exempt, 40-hour work week in Illinois.

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse license issued by the state of practice.
• Bachelor's Degree in Nursing is required.
• Typically requires 3 years of front-line nursing experience.

Responsibilities

• Supports the orientation process by developing, coordinating, facilitating, conducting and evaluating orientation programs for nursing and other healthcare personnel.
• Assists with competency management, which includes using tools that capture objective and subjective data regarding an individual’s knowledge base and actual performance.
• Designs educational activities to address practice gaps for identified target audiences in consultation with a Nursing Professional Development (NPD) Specialist.
• Utilizes best practice standards including adult learning principles in the planning, design, implementation, and evaluation of educational activities in order to facilitate the achievement of desired outcomes for learners.
• Provides strategies to facilitate a continuous process of lifelong learning which may include role transition, role integration, skill acquisition, and mastery as learners advance from novice to expert in their professions and specialties.
• Collaborates with system and operational leadership to meet the education needs of the site and nursing departments.
• Adjusts materials and teaching strategies appropriate to the situation and the learner’s developmental level, learning needs, readiness, ability to learn, language preference, and culture.
• Evaluates and analyzes the impact of programming on learners, organizational resources, and patient outcomes and makes adjustments in consultation with an NPD Specialist as needed.
• Establishes and implements appropriate evaluation tools and methodologies to identify needs or gaps in the knowledge, skills, and competencies of nursing personnel to advance the practice of nursing in consultation with an NPD Specialist as needed.
• Develops and supports education needs based on specialty or department in collaboration with regional and system teams.
• Must be able to demonstrate knowledge and skills necessary to provide care appropriate to the age of the patients served.

Skills

Excellent written & oral communication

Interpersonal skills

Negotiation

Planning

Problem solving

Critical thinking

Microsoft Office

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Nursing

Job description

Advocate Health is seeking a Nursing Professional Development and Education professional to lead orientation and education for nursing staff across the site. The role emphasizes competency assessment, curriculum design, and applying adult learning principles to improve patient care outcomes.

The position requires a BSN, an active RN license, and roughly 3 years of frontline nursing experience; regular collaboration with NPD specialists and leadership. Exempt, 40-hour work week in Illinois.