Nurse Educator, Emergency Department-FT (Columbia County)

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Work Shift

Nurse Educator-emergency Department-Columbia County

Shift: FT

The Nurse Educator is a clinical practitioner who possesses advanced skill and expertise in nursing care and education. The Nurse Educator plans, creates, and facilitates mandatory and non-mandatory education classes for nurses. The Nurse Educator works with departments and units to identify ways to fulfill training needs. The Nurse Educator is responsible for the onboarding of Patient Care Services employees. The Nurse Educator will take an active role in Shared Governance at Wellstar MCG Health.

Core Responsibilities and Essential Functions:

Educational Assessment: Partners with departments and units to identify training needs and competency requirements. Designs training curricula to fulfill needs and collaborates with leadership to refine training objectives and delivery. Conducts annual educational needs assessments and builds year-long program plans to fill education gaps.
Training Delivery: Facilitates training courses for nurses. Provides feedback to trainees, as appropriate. Works in collaboration with other nursing educators to enhance delivery quality and streamline efforts
Quality of Care: Maintains cooperative relationships and supports healthy work environment concepts. Fosters a collaborative work environment for nurses, physicians, and other care providers who are part of the multidisciplinary care delivery team. Sustains a culture of inquiry and excellence in clinical nursing and ensures excellent implementation of care delivery.
Plans and organizes onboarding education of Patient Care Services employees throughout the year providing them a beginning knowledge base to become successful Wellstar MCG Health employees.
Performs other duties as assigned
Complies with all Wellstar Health System policies, standards of work, and code of conduct.

Required Minimum Education:

• Bachelors Degree in Nursing or Masters Nursing-Preferred

Required Minimum License(s) and Certification(s):

All certifications are required upon hire unless otherwise stated.

• RN - Reg Nurse (Single State) or RN-COMPACT - RN - Multi-state Compact
• BLS - Basic Life Support or ARC-BLS - Amer Red Cross Basic Life Support or BLS-I - Basic Life Support - Instructor

Required Minimum Experience:

Minimum 3 years experience in clinical nursing. Required

Required Minimum Skills:
Ability to collaborate with other health care providers in the provision of patient care
Ability to delegate to other team members as required
Ability to multi-task essential
Ability to function in stressful and emergency situations essential
Strong detail orientation required
Skill and ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in-writing.
Skill and ability to handle multiple priorities, self-direct, and apply independent judgment.
Ability to think critically and adapt quickly to changing situations.

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