Clinical Nurse Educator RN-Outpatient Oncology Part Time Days

About the role

The Clinical Nurse Educator is an educator, consultant, role model, staff/patient advocate, change agent, and leader. In collaboration with nursing and practice leadership, peers, mentors, the quality team, and the NM Academy this role designs, develops, implements and evaluates a variety of educational offerings in order to improve clinical care and clinical/organizational outcomes. This role elevates the standard of professional nursing practice and the organization by developing, coaching and mentoring staff to become expert clinicians and leaders.

Responsibilities

• Onboarding & Competency: develops, coordinates, administers, facilitates and evaluates onboarding and competency programs
• Conducts onboarding, training and competency evaluation of new and existing staff
• Develops and evaluates initial onboarding and training programs, establishes initial competencies, continues and reinforces onboarding activities
• Evaluates orientation of staff, identifies further instructional needs
• Coordinates practice level annual competency evaluations
• Professional Development: identifies educational needs, develops evidence-based adult education strategies and project plans and implements appropriately
• Facilitates formal and informal clinical staff education for system educational initiatives
• Develops, evaluates and facilitates appropriate education program record keeping, promotes continuing staff competence
• Conducts learning needs assessments
• Provides ongoing staff clinical competency feedback, assists manager in establishing and evaluating staff clinical performance expectations
• Supports ongoing development of critical thinking skills among clinical staff
• Identifies and develops the practice level "mentor" and "preceptor", acts as a clinical resource to the practice level staff
• Supports department quality assurance programs
• Participates in the development and education of evidence informed policies, clinical guidelines, procedures, protocols and clinical tools
• Coordinates student affiliations and participates in curriculum development
• Quality Improvement: participates in assurance of regulatory requirements and training, implementation of quality metrics
• Identifies areas of opportunity to streamline work processes, improve workflow and achieve clinical staff top of license practice
• Identifies and resolves problems related to the work environment and the quality and safety of care and services, actively participates in quality and process improvement projects
• Contributes to monitoring of nursing sensitive indicators
• Contributes to innovation, knowledge dissemination, evidence-informed practice and research initiatives by participating in activities such as conferences and journal clubs
• May perform other duties as assigned

Qualifications

• Registered Professional Nurse (IL) or eligible
• Basic Life Support for Healthcare Providers (American Heart Association) certification
• Master of Science in Nursing or Bachelor of Science in Nursing with Master's degree in a related discipline (education). Candidates with at least 50% of a Master's degree program completed will be considered
• Minimum of 2 years relevant clinical experience
• Demonstrated ability to develop, implement and evaluate educational plans, with a focus on the principles of adult learning

Preferred

• Certification in related specialty or education, willing to obtain once eligible
• Ambulatory experience
• Working knowledge of Electronic Medical Record (EMR)