Nursing Education Leader & Practice Coach (RN)

Atlantic Health System; Summit (NJ); On-site; USD 90,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

Atlantic Health System in Summit, NJ seeks a Nursing Education Specialist to develop, implement, and evaluate orientation, in-service training, workshops, and continuing education programs to meet staff needs.

You will lead educational initiatives to ensure quality patient care and customer satisfaction, and act as a resource on nursing practice standards while supporting research activities and interprofessional collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Education: Use the Educational design process to plan, implement and evaluate educational initiatives to address practice gaps for identified target audiences, which may include licensed and non-licensed healthcare personnel.
• Competency Management: Support ongoing assessment and evaluation of Team Member performance. Responsible for measuring, documenting, and supporting competency and for addressing any deficiencies in staff members’ competence.
• Onboarding: Fluid process of hiring, orienting, socializing, and integrating an employee into the organization with a focus on retention and growth.
• Orientation: Create an individualized orientation plan to guide new hires toward job competency. Develop, coordinate, manage, facilitate, conduct and evaluate onboarding and orientation programs for nursing and other healthcare personnel.
• Inquiry: Participate in research, evidence‑based practice and quality improvement initiatives. Researches, recommends, implements and evaluates policies and standards. Acts as a resource to hospital committees by providing input regarding identified problems and practice issues, developmental and problem‑solving strategies.
• Collaborative Partnerships: Foster interprofessional collaboration to work jointly towards common goals to provide the highest quality of care. Participate in committees and task forces as appropriate.
• Role Development: Support identification and application of strategies to facilitate continuous growth through ongoing professional learning. Assist others in their professional role development, practice role transitions and succession planning. Coach, coordinate, facilitate, conduct and evaluate activities that promote professional role development and role transition.
• Compliance: Ensures compliance with organizational regulatory agencies and hospital standards.
• Emergency Response: Recognize and respond to emergency situations promptly and initiate appropriate emergency protocols and procedures effectively. Demonstrates knowledge and skill in using emergency equipment and ensures team members demonstrate competency. Work cooperatively with team members during emergencies. Appropriately uses the emergency clinical codes.
• Other Relevant Duties: Other relevant duties as assigned.

Job description

Atlantic Health System in Summit, NJ seeks a Nursing Education Specialist to develop, implement, and evaluate orientation, in-service training, workshops, and continuing education programs to meet staff needs.

You will lead educational initiatives to ensure quality patient care and customer satisfaction, and act as a resource on nursing practice standards while supporting research activities and interprofessional collaboration.