Registered Nurse Staff Educator

Responsibilities

• Provides expert, evidence-based education to staff.
• Performs learning needs assessments and develops educational trainings for clinical staff within the organization.
• Aids in the orientation of new employees, evaluating their progress, and developing a learning plan for identified deficiencies.
• 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 teams to support and evaluate emergency responses, including BLS and ALS.
• Organizes, participates, and evaluates mock codes.
• Supports nurse residency programs, developing curriculum using strategic learning methodologies like simulation, lecture case studies, and virtual reality.
• Evaluates current practice, formulating outcomes for groups of patients and/or organizational processes within the area of expertise.
• Collaborates with other Clinical Nurse Educators and interprofessional healthcare teams in ongoing clinical education activities, including in-services, training, competency assessment, and evaluations of both current and new staff nursing skills.
• Analyzes, interprets, and evaluates data to determine outcomes and changes related to educational programs.
• Consults and collaborates through participation in organizational committees.

Qualifications

• Basic Requirements: English Language Proficiency, Graduate of a school of professional nursing, Current full active unrestricted registration as a graduate professional nurse, Possession of a current full active unrestricted registration as a graduate professional nurse in a State, Territory, or Commonwealth of the United States, or the District of Columbia, Graduate Nurse Technician (GNT) Exception, Credit for foreign nursing education higher than associate degree/entry level requires a formal degree equivalency validation from a recognized equivalency evaluation accepted by VA such as International Consultants of Delaware (ICD).
• Dimension Requirements: Practice, Veteran/Patient Driven Care, Leadership, Professional Development and Evidence-Based Practice/Research.

Skills

• Expertise in instructional design, implementation, and application related to education and training.
• Ability to perform learning needs assessments and develop educational trainings for clinical staff.
• Knowledge of current nursing literature for new trends and changes based on evidence-based research.
• Ability to analyze, interpret, and evaluate data to determine outcomes and changes related to educational programs.
• Collaboration with interdisciplinary teams and other Clinical Nurse Educators.

Benefits

• Competitive salary with regular salary increases and potential for performance awards.
• 50 days of paid time off per year (26 days of annual leave, 13 days of sick leave, 11 paid Federal holidays per year).
• Traditional federal pension (5 years vesting) and federal 401K with up to 5% in contributions by VA.
• Insurance benefits including federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care.
• Variable work schedule.

Pay

• Competitive salary with regular salary increases and potential for performance awards.

Schedule

• Variable work schedule.