Nurse Educator - Patient Education

UNC Health Care; Chapel Hill (NC); On-site; USD 75,000 - 107,000; Full time

Job summary

UNC Health Care in Chapel Hill is seeking a lead role in nursing education to coordinate staff development, clinical education, and dissemination of best practices across nursing units. This advanced education position operates with minimal supervision and collaborates across disciplines to meet patient care education needs.

The role focuses on developing educational materials, implementing competency assessments, and guiding clinical pathways for patients and families.

Qualifications

• BSN from a state-accredited nursing program.
• Licensed RN in North Carolina.
• CPR certification for Home Health/Hospice.
• Three years of tertiary care experience with two years in the assigned specialty.

Responsibilities

• Act as resource and role model in evidence-based practice; leads unit/service-based clinical practice groups.
• Assist in orientation and placement of nursing students in clinical units; mentor graduate students.
• Design and implement nursing research/performance improvement projects.
• Coordinate orientation, staff development and continuing education for nursing staff.
• Develop evidence-based standards of care and clinical pathways for patients and families.

Skills

Staff development

Education planning

Mentoring

Learning needs assessment

Evidence-based practice

Education

BSN

Job description

Description

Your passion belongs at UNC Health. Join more than 56,000 teammates working together to improve the health and well-being of the communities we serve across North Carolina.

At UNC's Center of Nursing Excellence we focus on empowering patients with knowledge and support.

What You'll Do

• Track key data, identify areas for improvement, and develop staff education programs to enhance patient outcomes and care processes
• Facilitate improvements in patient care through education and continuous support
• Specialize in patient education and engagement

Preferred Experience

• 2 years of experience in patient/nurse education

Become a part of the Center for Nursing Excellence, a group of leaders focused on practice, professional development, innovation, research and quality.

Summary

Coordinates staff development and educational needs of patient care nursing staff, patients, and families. This is an advanced level position in education, which is performed under minimal supervision. Assignments may be characterized as those requiring collaboration to address staff educational needs within a specialty practice area and/or service. Serves in a lead capacity over others as it relates to special projects or subject matter expertise. Work maybe performed collaboratively for multiple disciplines across the continuum of care or for a specific patient population or service area.

Responsibilities

• 1. Acts as resource and role model in use of evidence based practice. Leads unit/service based clinical practice groups
• 2. Assists in orientation and placement of nursing students in clinical units. Serves as resource to faculty. Mentors graduate students
• 3. Assists nursing staff in design and implementation of clinical nursing research/performance improvement projects.
• 4. Assists nursing units with preceptor responsibilities to ensure that all new staff are oriented and meeting competency expectations
• 5. Conducts learning needs assessments to plan staff educational programs
• 6. Coordinates orientation, staff development and continuing education for nursing staff
• 7. Develops evidence-based standards of care, comprehensive nursing plans, clinical pathways for patients and families and facilitates implementation of same.
• 8. Develops, implements, and evaluates educational materials, self instructional programs, teaching protocols, and e-learning programs for nursing staff.
• 9. In conjunction with other subject matter experts, develops and evaluates patient family education materials.
• 10. Serves as a clinical resource and role model, provides clinical supervision to staff in developing clinical knowledge, skills and abilities

Other Information

Other information:

Education Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Nursing (BSN) from a state-accredited school of professional nursing.

Licensure/Certification Requirements

• Licensed to practice as a Registered Nurse in the state of North Carolina.
• For Home Health/Hospice: Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) certification
• For Home Health/Hospice: Valid NC Driver's License

Professional Experience Requirements

• Three (3) years of experience in tertiary care with two (2) years clinical experience in the assigned specialty.

Knowledge/Skills/and Abilities Requirements

Job Details

Legal Employer: STATE

Entity: UNC Medical Center

Organization Unit: Center of Nursing Excellence

Work Type: Full Time

Standard Hours Per Week: 40.00

Salary Range:$35.87 - $51.57 per hour (Hiring Range)

Pay offers are determined by experience and internal equity

Work Assignment Type: Onsite

Work Schedule: Day Job

Location of Job: US:NC:Chapel Hill

Exempt From Overtime: Exempt: Yes

This is a State position employed by UNC Health Care System with UNC Health benefits. If, however, you are presently an employee of another North Carolina agency and currently participate in TSERS or the ORP, you will be eligible to continue participating in those plans at UNC Health.

Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, status as a protected veteran or political affiliation.

UNC Health makes reasonable accommodations for applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as applicants and employees with disabilities. All interested applicants are invited to apply for career opportunities. Please email [e-mail] if you need a reasonable accommodation to search and/or to apply for a career opportunity.