Nurse Educator

ER/ED Clinical Nurse Educator (RN) – Aiken Regional Medical Centers, located in Aiken, South Carolina, is a 273‑bed acute care facility dedicated to delivering high‑quality, safe healthcare to the community. This role supports the Emergency Department by providing education, expertise, and professional development to nursing staff.

• Consistently exercises appropriate judgment and discretion in the provision of duties.
• Provides leadership in assessing, providing, and evaluating education and practice needs. Utilizes internal and external resources to enhance nursing practice and staff development.
• Participates/Leads various committees as needed with focus on nursing practice and bedside consultation.
• Serves as a role model, clinical expert, and mentor.
• Maintains/facilitates compliance with regulatory standards.
• Assists with development and coordination of competency‑based orientation programs.
• Facilitates competency evaluation, unit orientation, and the preceptor program for assigned areas.
• Collaborates with members of the health care team to plan and implement changes in practice to improve quality of care.
• Participates in hospital clinical orientation and the nurse residency program.
• Coordinates and teaches ACLS, BLS, PALS, TNCC, Basic Arrhythmia, and other courses as appropriate.
• Provides direction and consultation to staff and nursing directors, managers, supervisors regarding review and revision of nursing practice policies and procedures.
• Participates and coordinates with staff development on student rotations, education offerings, and orientation.
• Completes frequent staff needs assessment and gap analysis of practice standards and quality outcomes.
• Supports staff by assisting them to identify their needs as they progress from novice to experts.
• Assists in the development of patient education materials.
• Collaborates with transition coordinators to identify patient needs and education requirements for patients and staff.
• Utilizes direct adult learning principles in educational offers for staff.
• Assists nurses to increase their skills in assessment, planning, implementation, evaluation, and documentation of patient care through individual instruction, in‑service education and patient care conferences.
• Plans and presents professional nursing programs.
• Functions as role model and clinical preceptor for professional nursing students affiliated with ARMC.
• Collaborates with community organizations as a resource for health education.
• Identifies relevant clinical practice questions and uses evidence‑based implementation practices.
• Utilizes evidence‑based practice findings to assist staff to improve quality of care for patients.
• Performs direct patient education activities.
• Facilitates orientation, annual competencies and continuing education for individual departments.
• Facilitates PI projects based on clinical evidence.
• Facilitates communication of policy, procedure and protocol changes that affect practice in each area where identified.
• Identifies department‑specific equipment and products requiring education.
• Facilitates education on new equipment and products.
• Works with other educators and clinical nurse practice coordinators to develop cross‑departmental educational programs.
• Responsible for education tracking of assigned employees while communicating delinquencies to employee, ED director and staff development manager.
• Assumes responsibility for own professional growth and clinical competency by obtaining a minimum of 15 continuing education contact hours on an annual basis.

• Sign‑on bonuses for select positions
• Unlimited employee referral bonus program
• Competitive compensation & generous paid time off
• Excellent medical, dental, vision and prescription drug plans
• Tuition/certification reimbursement after 6 months
• Culture of excellence – employee recognition program
• Challenging and rewarding work environment
• Clinical nursing ladder opportunities
• SoFi student loan refinancing program
• 401(k) with company match and discounted stock plan
• Career development opportunities within UHS and its 300+ subsidiaries

• BSN required; master’s in a related field preferred.
• South Carolina RN license (or qualifying…