Ambulatory Nurse Educator (RN)- Spine Center

Responsibilities

• Collaborates with the health care team to ensure safe, effective, evidence-based and quality patient care.
• Supports the provision of patient care by working with the Senior Administrator/Department Director and Clinic Managers to provide strategies for clinic coverage when needs arise.
• Actively mentors all in ongoing development of clinical competencies and professional behaviors and communication.
• Assesses clinic and individual learning needs, considering generational and cultural differences.
• Implements alternative and varied teaching strategies to meet learner needs.
• Affirms that processes are in place for documentation of orientation and other educational activities, and that employee files meet hospital and regulatory requirements.
• Facilitates ongoing clinic education and professionalism through the provision of in-services and CEU opportunities, promoting national certification, and providing resources and support for the development of professional portfolios.
• Models evidence-based practice and participates in the development and review of policies and procedures.
• Organizes new employee orientation in department/clinic by scheduling preceptors and times, intermittent follow-up, and providing oversight of orientation and competency of clinic staff.
• Supports performance improvement initiatives and educates and facilitates performance improvement methodologies such as PDCA and small tests of change.

Requirements

• High School Graduate
• Bachelor Degree Nursing
• 2 or more years ambulatory clinic experience

Skills

• Collaborates with the health care team to ensure safe, effective, evidence-based and quality patient care.
• Supports the provision of patient care by working with the Senior Administrator/Department Director and Clinic Managers to provide strategies for clinic coverage when needs arise.
• Actively mentors all in ongoing development of clinical competencies and professional behaviors and communication.
• Assesses clinic and individual learning needs, considering generational and cultural differences.
• Implements alternative and varied teaching strategies to meet learner needs.
• Affirms that processes are in place for documentation of orientation and other educational activities, and that employee files meet hospital and regulatory requirements.
• Facilitates ongoing clinic education and professionalism through the provision of in-services and CEU opportunities, promoting national certification, and providing resources and support for the development of professional portfolios.
• Models evidence-based practice and participates in the development and review of policies and procedures.
• Organizes new employee orientation in department/clinic by scheduling preceptors and times, intermittent follow-up, and providing oversight of orientation and competency of clinic staff.
• Supports performance improvement initiatives and educates and facilitates performance improvement methodologies such as PDCA and small tests of change.

Qualifications

• Licensed Registered Nurse (LRN) - Single State - State Board of Nursing
• Must have current active multistate state Register Nurse (RN) license in good standing in state in which you live OR active single state RN license in good standing in the state you will be working with proof of application of a multistate RN license in the state in which you live.
• Staff hired prior to 2/1/2024 are required to obtain a multistate state RN license from the state in which they live at the time of their next RN license renewal by 3/31/2026.
• Basic Life Support Heartsaver (BLS HS) (Non-Clinical) - American Heart Association (AHA) within 14 days