Nurse Educator Women's Labor and Delivery

About the role

Nurse Educator for Women's Services and Labor & Delivery at Reston Hospital (may support peer facilities within the NOVA market as needed). The Nurse Educator enhances professional practice and the provision of quality patient care by providing evidence-based quality educational programs and activities that promote professional competency for nursing, inter-professional, and non-licensed clinical staff at the assigned facility.

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.
• Participates in the development, coordination, and management of facilitating, conducting, and evaluating competency.
• Designs and identifies educational 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.
• Develops 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 (Required)
• 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)
• Currently licensed as an RN in the state of practice or has an active compact state license (Required)
• Nationally Recognized Specialty certification (Preferred)