Registered Nurse - Educator- Emergency Department

About the role

The Outpatient Medicine Department at the Long Beach VA Healthcare System is currently seeking a Registered Nurse Educator in the Emergency Department.

Responsibilities

• Provides expert, evidence-based emergency nursing education to staff
• Trains nursing staff in clinical and outpatient units
• Develops educational trainings for clinical staff within the organization
• Assists with the orientation of new employees and development of learning plans
• Serves as a trainer and consultant for the Resuscitation Education Initiative (Redi) Program, including certification as a Basic Life Support (BLS) instructor
• Maintains and tracks BLS/Advanced Life Support (ALS) compliance within the organization
• Collaborates with interdisciplinary team to support and evaluate emergency responses
• Supports nurse residency programs and develops curriculum using strategic learning methodologies
• Evaluates current practice and formulates outcomes for groups of patients and/or organizational processes
• Consults and collaborates with leadership and unit managers to identify educational training needs
• Analyzes, interprets, and evaluates data to determine outcomes and changes related to educational programs

Requirements

Basic Requirements:

• English Language Proficiency
• Graduate of a school of professional nursing approved by an accrediting agency
• Current full, active, and unrestricted registration as a graduate professional nurse
• Completion of a master's level bridge program in nursing with opportunity to become registered as a nurse before completion
• Completion of coursework equivalent to a bachelor's degree in Nursing
• Formal degree equivalency validation from a recognized equivalency evaluation accepted by VA
• Master's degree in Nursing or related field with a BSN
• Doctoral degree in Nursing or related field with a BSN

Qualifications

• Minimum 5-10 years of ED nursing experience
• Experience in curriculum development and implementation
• Experience in didactic instruction and competency management
• Technologically proficient
• Experience leading teams, projects, and multiple competing priorities
• CERTIN or CCRN experience
• CERNER experience with technological innovation

Skills

• Expert-level coaching and mentoring skills
• Systematic evaluation of current practice
• Ability to analyze, interpret, and evaluate data
• Ability to propose practice and documentation revisions based on evaluation of outcomes

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Regular salary increases
• Potential for performance awards
• 50 days of paid time off per year
• Traditional federal pension (5 years vesting)
• Federal 401K with up to 5% in contributions by VA
• Insurance: Federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care
• Telework: Not Available
• Virtual: This is not a virtual position

Pay

• Competitive salary

Schedule

• Monday thru Friday 7:00am to 3:30pm