Registered Nurse - Clinical Nurse Educator

The LTC Charles S. Kettles VA Medical Center is seeking a Full‑Time Registered Nurse (RN) - Clinical Nurse Educator, aligned under Patient Care Services.

The Clinical Nurse Educator focus is on individual growth and development in practice with increased levels of self‑direction and limited critical thinking skills. Provides educational instruction and training for nursing staff in clinical and outpatient units. The Clinical Nurse Educator understands instructional design, implementation, and application related to education and training. Performs learning needs assessments, develops educational trainings for staff within the organization.

Assists with the orientation of new employees, evaluation of their progress in the orientation process, and development and implementation of a learning plan for improving identified deficiencies. Serves as a trainer and consultant for the Resuscitation Education Initiative (Redi) Program including certification as Basic Life Support (BLS) instructor. Monitors and tracks BLS/Advanced Life Support (ALS) compliance within the organization. Collaborates with an interdisciplinary team to support and evaluate responses to emergency responses in the facility, including BLS and ALS.

Organizes, participates, and evaluates mock codes. Supports nurse residency programs, including the development of curriculum utilizing strategic learning methodologies such as simulation, lecture case studies, and virtual reality. Develops entry‑level coaching and mentoring skills. Systematically evaluates current practice, formulates 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 current and new staff nursing skills.

Reviews current nursing literature for new trends and changes based on evidence‑based research with the ability to propose practice and documentation revisions based on evaluation of outcomes. Collaborates with leadership and unit managers to identify educational training needs for staff while supporting activities that foster competence, critical thinking skills, and decision‑making.

• VA offers a comprehensive total rewards package: VA Nurse Total Rewards
• Pay:
  Competitive salary, regular salary increases, potential for performance awards
• Paid Time Off: 50 days of paid time off per year (26 days of annual leave, 13 days of sick leave, 11 paid Federal holidays per year)
• Retirement:
  Traditional federal pension (5 years vesting) and federal 401K with up to 5% in contributions by VA
• Insurance:
  Federal health/vision/dental/term life/long‑term care (many federal insurance programs can be carried into retirement)

• Licensure: 1 full and unrestricted license from any US State or territory
• Work Schedule:
  
  0600 – 1700, Monday – Friday, Weekends as needed
• Compressed/Flexible:
  Available
• Telework:
  Not Available
• Virtual:
  This is not a virtual position.