Nurse Educator - Endocrinology

Responsibilities

• Involves learners and key stakeholders in learning needs assessment, formulating expected learner outcomes, establishing the educational plan, and evaluating the effectiveness of the education plan.
• Uses adult learning concepts and instructional design principles when planning an activity.
• Employs strategies to facilitate positive learning and practice environments.
• Uses various educational strategies to meet the needs of learners.
• Designs educational programs to promote critical thinking and critical reasoning skills.
• Conducts initial and ongoing assessment of competence of nursing personnel.
• Hightlights the benefits of and opportunities for life-long learning.
• Demonstrates skillful use of technology to enhance the teaching-learning process.
• Provides timely, constructive, and thoughtful feedback to the learner.
• Evaluates educational activities on an ongoing basis including participant feedback and attainment of learner outcomes.
• Disseminates the evaluation results.
• Maintains required documentation of all educational programming in accordance with organizational requirements.
• Works with others to identify problems and solutions.
• Uses an evidence-based approach to facilitate the initiation of, adoption of, and adaptation to change.
• Applies improvement processes (e.g. Lean thinking) to effect practice change.
• Exhibits creativity and flexibility through times of change.
• Serves as a resource by assisting nurses in identifying problems, identifying available internal and external resources, and selecting options.
• Fosters ongoing professional growth experiences for nurses and others.
• Provides guidance and support to nursing personnel involved in new hire/transitional orientation programs.
• Participates in organizational committees and/or shared governance councils.
• Promotes skilled oral and written communication that reflects an awareness of self and others, along with an ability to convey ideas in a variety of contexts.
• Establishes collegial working relationships with nursing staff, nursing leaders, clinical nurse specialists, and other disciplines to promote positive patient outcomes and professional nursing practice.
• Integrates ethics in all areas of practice.
• Maintains the integrity of educational activities including screening for potential or actual unethical behavior, commercial bias, compromise of intellectual property rights, or conflict of interest.
• Identifies and addresses ethical issues within the learning and practice environment.
• Implements program and project plans.
• Participates in quality initiatives.
• Disseminates research findings through educational programs, courses, and other activities.
• Uses the best available evidence to guide practice decisions.
• Supports the integration of research into practice and develops staff members’ knowledge and skills in the research process.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in nursing.
• Current NYS RN license.
• At least 5 years of clinical experience.