Nurse Educator Clinical Laboratory​/Presbyterian Hospital

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A career at New Mexico’s largest laboratory means you’re pivotal to advancing medicine and creating healthier communities. But we’re also dedicated to improving the wellness of our employees. With excellent benefits, a culture of integrity, strong work/life balance, and numerous opportunities for career advancement and professional development, we’re confident you’ll love working at Tri Core.

Robust medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and many supplemental plans

401(k) Retirement Plan with employer matching

Lucrative Paid Time Off (PTO) and nine paid holidays per year

Nurse Educator Clinical Laboratory/ Presbyterian Hospital, (1539)

Schedule:
Monday-Friday,  with other shifts as needed.

Location:
Presbyterian Hospital

The Nurse Educator for Clinical Laboratory Processes is responsible for developing, implementing, and evaluating educational programs that bridge the gap between clinical nursing practice and laboratory operations. This role ensures nursing staff understand and adhere to laboratory-related protocols, including specimen collection, labeling, transport, and result interpretation to support safe, efficient patient care. The educator also partners with laboratory leadership to improve cross-disciplinary collaboration, quality outcomes, and compliance with regulatory standards.

• Design and deliver evidence-based training programs on laboratory specimen collection and delivery, labeling standards, point-of-care testing (POCT), transfusion medicine practices, and anatomic/surgical pathology practices.
• Collaborate with clinical and laboratory teams to standardize best practices for lab-related workflows in nursing units and clinics to include but not limited to order management, specimen collection and specimen labeling.
• Design onboarding and competency validation for new nursing staff specific to laboratory processes.
• When appropriate, coordinate policy and procedure updates in Tri Core and hospital document control system.
• Participate in new employee orientation training for Division as requested.
• Conduct gap analyses to identify knowledge or compliance issues related to lab procedures across care teams. Review hospital system non-conforming events and Tri Core exceptions to determine areas of opportunity.
• Lead educational initiatives to reduce specimen rejection rates, and improve turnaround times.
• Participate in quality assurance projects tied to lab and nursing collaboration, i.e., specimen identification, processing, and stabilization.
• Ensure training aligns with regulatory standards (e.g., CLIA, CAP, The Joint Commission) and institutional policies.
• Educate staff on the impact of pre-analytical errors and mitigation strategies.
• Support POCT education, competency, and audit readiness in coordination with the POCT or Lab Manager.
• Participate in quality assurance processes including root cause analysis and non-conforming event investigations.
• Act as a liaison between nursing units, clinics and laboratory departments to foster mutual understanding and operational alignment.
• Attend interdisciplinary meetings to represent nursing education needs in lab-related topics.
• Provide real-time coaching during audits, investigations, or workflow changes.
• Collaborate with nursing leadership on a training program to better identify transfusion reactions.
• Educate on proper specimen identification for type and screen/cross match to prevent WBIT (Wrong Blood In Tube) events.
• Reduce blood product wastage through establishing training which supports nursing adherence to blood product storage, transport, verification, and infusion timelines.
• Assist in mock codes, emergency release protocols, and massive transfusion protocol (MTP) training.

• Registered Nurse (RN) licensed in New Mexico
• Bachelor’s/associate’s degree in nursing

• Three (3) years of acute care clinical experience including performance of point of care testing and laboratory specimen collection.
• Experience in clinical education or staff development

• Certification in Nursing Professional Development (NPD-BC) or similar credential