Nurse Educator Surgical Services

About the role

Your voice to influence patient care is valued and empowered at every turn – whether through open, collaborative relationships with your direct manager or more formal opportunities through hospital councils and national nursing initiatives. You'll help shape decisions that elevate both patient outcomes and the future of nursing.

Responsibilities

• Participates in the development, coordination, managing, facilitating, conducting, and evaluating of onboarding and orientation programs for nursing and other healthcare personnel.
• Provides orientation/onboarding programs to promote employee retention.
• Collaborates with the Director of Clinical Professional Development to adjust the program based on evaluation results.
• Develops activities to address practice gaps for identified target audiences, including licensed and non-licensed healthcare personnel, in alignment with HCA and division clinical education request and development processes.
• Designs and identifies educational activities to achieve specific outcomes related to identified deficits or opportunities for improvement in knowledge, skill and practice.
• Plans educational content delivery that encourages learner engagement.
• Promotes and integrates the EBP in order to continuously improve practice.
• Conducts, encourages, facilitates, and/or participates in research, EBP, and QI in patient care settings.
• Identifies and develops strategies to facilitate a continuous process of maturation through lifelong learning.
• Utilizes novice-to-expert continuum when developing staff.
• Identifies and provides opportunities for skill enhancement and mastery.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in nursing
• Master’s degree in nursing preferred
• 2+ years of experience in clinical education, CSC, academia or leadership preferred
• 2+ years of experience in acute care hospital preferred
• Nationally Recognized Specialty certification preferred
• Basic Life Saving (BLS) required

Qualifications

• Currently licensed as an RN in the state of practice or has an active compact state license in accordance with law and regulation

Skills

• Knowledge of Evidence-Based Practice (EBP)
• Ability to conduct research and QI in patient care settings
• Ability to facilitate and participate in research and QI
• Ability to design and identify educational activities
• Ability to plan educational content delivery that encourages learner engagement
• Ability to promote and integrate EBP in practice
• Ability to utilize novice-to-expert continuum when developing staff
• Ability to identify and provide opportunities for skill enhancement and mastery

Benefits

Rapides Regional Medical Center offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career and retirement of our colleagues. The available plans and programs include:

• Comprehensive benefits for medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, behavioral health and telemedicine services
• Wellbeing support, including free counseling and referral services
• Time away from work programs for paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage and leaves of absence
• Savings and retirement resources, including a 401(k) Plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service), Employee Stock Purchase Plan, flexible spending accounts, preferred banking partnerships, retirement readiness tools, rollover support and financial wellbeing counseling
• Education support through tuition assistance, student loan assistance, certification support, dependent scholarships and a partnership with Galen College of Nursing

Note: Eligibility for benefits may vary by location.