RN Nurse Educator - Education

UNC REX Healthcare; North Carolina; On-site; USD 4,822,000 - 7,104,000; Full time

Job summary

UNC Health Rex Healthcare is seeking a Nurse Educator to coordinate and teach New Teammate Orientation and Nursing Orientation every 2 weeks. The role includes BLS and CPI instruction, teaching 2–4 classes per month, and providing clinical supervision.

Responsibilities include coordinating staff development, designing education materials, mentoring staff, and leading education initiatives across service areas. Position is full-time, onsite, Smithfield, NC with day schedule.

Qualifications

• Leads and coordinates staff education programs.
• Manages orientation and clinical teaching activities.
• Develops and implements education materials and programs.

Responsibilities

• Leads unit/service based clinical practice groups.
• Assists in orientation and placement of nursing students.
• Mentors graduate students and new staff.
• Designs and implements nursing research and performance improvement projects.
• Coordinates orientation, staff development and continuing education.

Skills

Evidence-based practice

Staff development

Mentoring

Precepting

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.

Nurse Educator coordinating and teaching New Teammate Orientation and Nursing Orientation every 2 weeks. BLS Instructor, CPI Instructor teaching 2-4 classes per month.

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: NCHEALTH

Entity: Johnston Health

Organization Unit: Education

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:Smithfield

Exempt From Overtime: Exempt: Yes

This position is employed by NC Health (Rex Healthcare, Inc., d/b/a NC Health), a private, fully-owned subsidiary of UNC Heath Care System. This is not a State employed position.

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. Please email [e-mail] if you need a reasonable accommodation to search and/or to apply for a career opportunity.