Nurse Educator: Nursing Professional Development Practitioner Med/Surg Focus

Billings Clinic; Billings (MT); On-site; USD 72,000 - 96,000; Full time

Job summary

Billings Clinic seeks an experienced Learning Facilitator to drive clinical education and nursing development. You will design and evaluate onboarding, competency programs, and continuing education to advance patient care and staff growth.

Lead interprofessional learning, support practice transitions, and apply adult learning principles to close knowledge gaps across settings. This role emphasizes evidence-based practice and process improvement within a Magnet-designated system.

Qualifications

• Education design process and adult learning principles used to bridge gaps.
• Advocates for process change using change-management theories.
• Contributes to professional development across practice, education, and leadership.
• Leads interprofessional practice and learning environments to improve care.

Responsibilities

• Designs, coordinates, and evaluates onboarding/orientation focused on retention and growth.
• Coordinates and evaluates competency continuums for staff performance.
• Develops and implements continuing nursing education aligned with goals.
• Supports transitions of nurses across practice environments and roles.
• Collaborates with management to set education priorities and outcomes.
• Promotes inquiry, evidence-based practice, and quality improvement.

Skills

Learning Facilitator

Change Agent

Mentor

Leader

Evidence-based practice

NPD specialty

Practice transitions

Onboarding/Orientation

Competency management

Education design

Role development

Collaboration

Inquiry & research

Clinical education planning

Education

BSN

Job description

Youcan make a difference as a part of our region's largest health care system, based locally in Billings, Montana. Join our amazing team with a focus on safe, high quality care and an excellent patient experience. Billings Clinic is here to take care of our community and region.

We look forward to meeting you.

About Us

Billings Clinic is a community-owned, not-for-profit, Physician-led health system based in Billings with more than 4,700 employees, including over 550 physicians and non-physician providers. Our integrated organization consists of a multi-specialty group practice and a 304-bed hospital. Learn more about Billings Clinic (our organization, history, mission, leadership and regional locations) and how we are recognized nationally for our exceptional quality.

Your Benefits

We provide a comprehensive and competitive benefits package to all full-time employees (minimum of 24 hours/week), including Medical, Dental, Vision, 403(b) Retirement Plan with employer matching, Defined Contribution Pension Plan, Paid Time Off, employee wellness program, and much more. Click here for more information or download the 2021 Employee Benefits Guide.

Magnet: Commitment to Nursing Excellence

Billings Clinic is proud to be recognized for nursing excellence as a Magnet®-designated organization, joining only 97 other organizations worldwide that have achieved this honor four times. The re‑designation process happens every four years. Click here to learn more!

Shift: Varies

Schedule: M-F varied depending on education needs

Employment Status: Full-Time (.75 or greater)

Hours per Pay Period: 1.00 = 80 hours every two weeks

Starting Wage DOE: CUSTOM.POSTING.WAGE

Responsible for applying in-depth knowledge, competencies, and skills in a clinical specialty. Assesses, plans, researches, develops, conducts, and evaluates services and continuing education programs in collaboration with management. Expertise is utilized in all settings for the organization. Establishes goals and priorities in accordance with patient care, staff needs and organizational objectives and in accordance with age appropriate care criteria for services ranging from infant to geriatric.

Essential Job Functions

• Learning Facilitator: Uses the educational design processand adult learning principles to bridge identified gaps in knowledge, skills,and/or practice.(Maloney & Harper, 2022) Gaps are identified through a variety of means (examples include environmentalscanning, learning needs assessments, quality outcomes.) Is an expert in and a resource in the process of designing education.
• Change Agent: Advocates for process change at all levels using changemanagement strategies and theories.(Maloney & Harper, 2022) Supports the adaptation of new behaviors and processes in practice to drivedesired outcomes.
• Mentor: Advances the nursing profession and the NPD specialty by contributingto the professional development of others and supporting ongoing learning asindividuals develop across practice, professional, and educational settings.
• Leader: Influences the interprofessional practice and learning environments,the NPD specialty, the profession of nursing, and healthcare through creativeproblem solving and innovation.(Maloney & Harper, 2022)
• Champion for scientific inquiry: Promotes the generation and dissemination ofnew knowledge and the use of evidence to advance NPD practice, guide clinicalpractice, and improve the quality of care for the healthcare consumer/partner.(Maloney & Harper, 2022)
• Advocate for NPD specialty: Supports, promotes, and demonstrates nursingprofessional development as a nursing practice specialty. (Maloney &Harper, 2022)
• Partner for practice transitions: Supports the transition of nurses and otherhealthcare personnel across learning and practice environments, roles, andprofessional stages (examples include transition to practice programs for newgraduates, advanced practitioners, or transitioning into a new clinical practicearea.) Evaluates nursing practice and identifies opportunities for modification thatwould enhance professional practice, maintain/improve patient care whileremaining fiscally sound.
• Onboarding/Orientation: Develops, coordinates, manages, facilitates, conducts,and evaluates clinical onboarding/orientation programs focused on retention andgrowth for nursing and other healthcare personnel.
• Competency Management: Demonstrates expertise in competency management byaccepting responsibility for measuring, documenting, and supporting thecompetency process through assessing, developing, coordinating, managing,facilitating, conducting, and evaluating competency continuums to address staffand team performance. (Maloney & Harper, 2022)
• Education: Uses the education design process for planning, implementing,coordinating, and evaluating educational activities that address gaps inknowledge, skills, and/or practice for the target audience to achieve specificoutcomes. Continuing nursing education - supports awarded continuing education contacthours based on the regulations and standards of the accrediting body. Interprofessional continuing education - promotes collaboration with otherhealthcare professionals to design, manage, implement, coordinate, and evaluateeducation when appropriate.
• Role Development: Assists staff by coaching, coordinating, facilitating,conducting, and evaluating activities to navigate role transitions, roleintegration, skill acquisition, and succession planning (examples include theRN becoming a preceptor, charge nurse, leader, or joining a transition topractice program).
• Collaborative Partnerships: Seeks internal and external collaboration foropportunities to teach, coordinate, serve as liaison, and/or advise nurses andother learners regarding education and learning (examples include working withother healthcare/leadership professionals, community partners, emergencymedical services, public health departments, disaster management services,academic partnerships.) (Maloney & Harper, 2022)
• Inquiry: Promotes and applies professional curiosity using research,evidence-based practice, and quality improvement initiatives to discover,teach, practice, and integrate the best available evidence to transformhealthcare delivery and outcomes. (AACN, 2019, p.3)
• Personal Professional Role Competence and Growth: Demonstrates competence in knowledge, skills, and practice as outlined in theNursing Professional Development Scope & Standards of Practice. Identifies personal needs and sets goals for own growth and development incollaboration with department manager.

Minimum Qualifications

Education:

• BSN - Application may be considered if currently enrolled in a BSN program with a defined date of completion within 18 months of application.

Experience:

• 5 years of RN experience
• Teaching experience preferred

Licensure:

• Current Montana and/or Wyoming license as a Registered Nurse

Billings Clinic is Montana’s largest health system serving Montana, Wyoming and the western Dakotas. A not-for-profit organization led by a physician CEO, the health system is governed by a board of community members, nurses and physicians. Billings Clinic includes an integrated multi-specialty group practice, tertiary care hospital and trauma center, based in Billings, Montana. Learn more at www.billingsclinic.com/aboutus

Billings Clinic is committed to being an inclusive andwelcoming employer, that strives to be kind, safe, and courageous in all we do.As an equal opportunity employer, our policies and processes are designed toachieve fair and equitable treatment of all employees and job applicants. Allemployees and job applicants will be provided the same treatment in all aspectsof the employment relationship, regardless of race, color, religion, sex,gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, pregnancy and familystatus, national origin, spoken language, neurodiversity, age, and/or disability.To ensure we provide an accessible candidate experience for prospectiveemployees, please let us know if you need any accommodations during therecruitment process.