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Clinical Nurse Educator Surgical Services at Rapides Regional Medical Center in Alexandria, Louisiana

Posted in Other 30+ days ago.

Type: Full Time





Job Description:

DESCRIPTION SHIFT: No Weekends

SCHEDULE: Full-time

Are you passionate about delivering superior, patient-centered care? At HCA Healthcare, we are committed to caring for patients with purpose and integrity. We care like family! Jump-start your career in our HCA Center for Clinical Advancement department as an Educator at Rapides Regional Medical Center.

At Rapides Regional, we want to ensure your needs are met. We offer a variety of comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans along with some unique benefits including:

* Tuition Reimbursement/Assistance Programs

* Paid Personal Leave

* 401k (100% annual match - 3%-9% of pay based on years of service)

* Identity Theft Protection discounts

* Auto, Home, and Life Insurance options

* Adoption Assistance

* Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP)

You contribute to our success. Every role has an impact on our patients' lives and you have the opportunity to make a difference. We are looking for a dedicated Clinical Nurse Educator in our HCA Center for Clinical Advancement.
The HCA CENTER FOR CLINICAL ADVANCEMENT is part of our strategic nursing initiative to create an organizational structure (shared services) focused specifically on clinical education. The Center for Clinical Advancement will develop and deploy consistent world-class curriculum, content, and programs across HCA's 178 acute care facilities nationwide. The strategy of our center shared services implementation focuses on our amazing clinical educators dedicating their time in high value-add, top of skill efforts with our clinicians. To aid in this effort, HCA will leverage size and scale to share clinical education best practices across the enterprise and help make decisions that will positively impact our patient outcomes. We're excited to advance and hope you will join us on our mission to support the care and improvement of human life!

RESPONSIBILITIES:

* The Clinical Professional Development Educator is responsible for enhancing 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 assigned facility.

ORIENTATION/ONBOARDING

The CPDE actively collaborates in the entire orientation/onboarding process. This includes participating in the development, coordination, managing, facilitating, conducting, and evaluating on-boarding and orientation programs for nursing and other healthcare personnel. To meet this expectation includes the following:

* Provides orientation/onboarding programs to promote employee retention

* Conducts orientation in a manner that facilitates a positive learning environment

* Role models organizational and personal commitment to new employee success

* Collaborates with the Education Coordinator the logistics of orientation to keep all stakeholders informed

COMPETENCY MANAGEMENT
The CPDE is responsible to have the expertise in competency assessment in order to participate in the development, coordination, and managing, facilitating, conducting, and evaluating competency. To meet this expectation includes the following:

* Comprehends and interprets competencies to staff and role model competent practice

* Identifies learning needs of staff and assesses practice caps

* Plans educational content with learner engagement

* Collaborates with the Clinical Education Market Director to review outcomes data to evaluate and refine competency management activities.

EDUCATION
Education is designed to improve professional practice and provision of quality care. To accomplish this goal the CPDS participates in designing and identifying educational activities to address practice gaps for identified target audiences, which may include licensed and non-licensed healthcare personal in alignment with HCA and division clinical education request and development processes. These activities are developed to achieve specific outcomes related to identified deficits or opportunities for improvement in knowledge, skill and practice. To meet this expectation includes the following:

* Assesses practice gaps and identify learning needs and identifies desired outcomes

* Plans educational content delivery with learner engagement and ensures that education programs meet regulatory requirements.

* Promotes safe, quality and compassionate patient care.

* Understands adult educational theory and able to apply to the development of educational programs.

* Demonstrates an understanding and ability to apply evaluation methodologies, (i.e., Kirkpatrick) into courses and curriculum to refine clinical programs.

RESEARCH EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE (EBP)/QUALITY IMPROVEMENT (QI)
The CPDE must promote and integrate the EBP in order to continuously improve practice. In addition, they promote research, EBP, and QI in patient care settings. CPDS may conduct, encourage, facilitate, and/or participate in research, EBP, and QI, including dissemination of findings. To meet this expectation includes the following:

* Works with others to identify problems and solutions and collaboratively create the change strategy and exhibit creativity and flexibility through times of change

* Embraces meaningful change and fosters acceptance, adoption and action toward change in others

* Identifies appropriate evidence to guide practice decisions

* Creates a supportive environment for nursing research, scientific inquiry, quality improvement and evidenced-base practice

* Supports research activities that align with the organizational strategic plan

* Disseminates research findings through educational programs, courses, and other activities

* Consistently maintains and sustain practice changes using principles of implementation science

COLLABORATIVE PARTNERSHIPS
The CPDE collaborates with partners to share experience in planning and decision making to achieve the desired results. Interprofessional collaboration involves multiple healthcare personnel from different professional backgrounds collaborating to deliver the highest quality

* Works collaboratively with interprofessional teams as assigned

* Identifies opportunities for collaboration; initiates collaborative efforts i.e., facility Chief Nursing Officer (CNO), Associate CNO and Nursing Directors

* Demonstrates the ability to utilize evidence-based simulation models to design, implement, evaluate, and standardize educational programs for staff in the use of clinical simulation, debriefing and assessment.

PROFESSIONAL ROLE DEVELOPMENT
Professional role development involves identification and development of strategies to facilitate a continuous process of maturation through lifelong learning. This type of development allows for role transition, role integration, skill acquisition and mastery as learners advance from novice to expert in their professions and specialties.

We are committed to:

Providing an inclusive work environment where everyone is treated with fairness, dignity and respect.
Recruiting and retaining a diverse staff reflective of the patients and communities we serve.
Equal employment opportunities are provided to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, citizenship, age, disability, sexual orientation, genetic information, gender identity, protected veteran status, or any other legally protected category in accordance to applicable federal, state, or local laws.


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