Rn Npd Iii, Or

uoflhealth; Louisville (KY); On-site; USD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

UofL Health in Louisville is seeking an RN Educator III to lead nursing professional development programs across the system. The role collaborates with leadership and the Office of Professional Practice to elevate practice and improve patient outcomes.

You will support quality improvement, evidence-based practice, and nursing research while guiding staff education and competency initiatives across multiple facilities.

Qualifications

• Facilitates BLS & ACLS for staff
• Collaborates across professional levels to support nursing education

Responsibilities

• Develops and implements nursing education programs across UofL Health
• Leads competency-based education and assessment for staff
• Maintains evidence-based knowledge in nursing professional development
• Uses simulations, LMS, and multimedia for learning
• Mentors staff and supports professional development and certification

Skills

BLS & ACLS

Interprofessional collaboration

Education program facilitation

Tools

LMS

Job description

Primary Location

UofL Hospital - UMC

Address: 530 South Jackson Street, Louisville, KY 40202

Shift

Job Description Summary

About UofL Health: UofL Health is a fully integrated regional academic health system with five hospitals, four medical centers, nearly 200 physician practice locations, more than 700 providers, the Frazier Rehab Institute and Brown Cancer Center.

With more than 12,000 team members-physicians, surgeons, nurses, pharmacists and other highly skilled health care professionals-UofL Health is focused on one mission: delivering patient-centered care to each and every patient each and every day.

Job Description

Position Summary and Purpose: The RN Educator III-works collaboratively with leadership and the Office of Professional Practice to drive key nursing professional development programs designed to elevate practice across UofL Health. This employee works dynamically, collaboratively and inter-professionally to be responsive to professional development needs across the system, supporting the highest standards of quality and safety in patient care and nursing practice with resultant improved patient outcomes. This employee ensures that professional development programs are facilitated by appropriately prepared educational professionals using evidence based best practices, including technology, to meet the needs of nursing staff and interdisciplinary partners in order to accomplish organizational, facility and Office of Professional Practice strategic goals. The employee actively participates in quality improvement (QI), EBP, and nursing research processes across the system. The employee supports the core behaviors, standards, values, and missions of the organization, accrediting bodies, and profession of nursing as a professional role model.

Essential Functions

Clinical Expert

• Facilitates BLS & ACLS for staff, initial and renewal as appropriate


• Serves as an example to nursing staff in the delivery of excellent patient care


• Collaborates with leadership to develop, evaluate, and implement standards of patient care / care planning and professional practice with attention to quality, service, cost effectiveness, comfort, safety, age specific implications, and cultural competence


• Serves as a patient / family advocate, incorporating respect for and acknowledgement of cultural diversity and individual patient needs


• Promotes an environment consistent with the core concepts of Patient Centered Care, and demonstration of the core values

Educator

• Develops action plans, obtains resources, and completes evaluation metrics in a timely manner to ensure workplace learning and performance goals are achieved


• Facilitates the ongoing education, competency and professional development of the staff to meet competency requirements in accordance with departmental objectives and appropriate accreditation standards


• Plans, prepares, and maintains materials for use in competency based educational programs, utilizing current standards, regulations, and evidenced based resources


• Maintains current evidence-based knowledge in nursing professional development


• Collaborates with stakeholders to assess learning needs for staff of all levels, designs and implements programs and competency strategies to address identified learning needs


• Incorporates principles of adult learning and evidence-based education in the planning, implementation, and evaluation of education and competency programs


• Participates in learning technologies via simulation, LMS, virtual classroom, and multimedia


• Communicates effectively in visual, oral, and written form and demonstrates effective presentation skills

Development of Self and Others

• Maintains affiliation with professional organizations


• Obtains and maintains professional nursing certification in professional development and/or education


• Fosters attainment of professional development and certification for bedside nursing staff through mentoring, classes, programs, and study groups


• Selects, develops, evaluates and mentors staff in the areas of education and research


• Facilitates a high-quality work environment that is participatory, productive, safe and healthy


• Assures effective open communication both within the department and across the system


• Promotes and role models lifelong learning

Leader

• Strives for congruence between educational activities and organization mission and goals


• Demonstrates support for professional organizations and excellence in professional practice


• Serves as a professional role model


• Integrates ethical principles in all areas of clinical practice


• Demonstrates the value of nursing professional development in assisting with the achievement of department, facility and organizational goals


• Assists in the fiscal and administrative operations through cost effective use of resources


• Demonstrate enthusiasm for the pursuit of nursing excellence and the advancement of professional practice


• Identifies opportunities and facilitat