Nurse; RN Educator - Neonatal Intensive Care Unit; NICU

Cobb Hospital

Work Shift:

Day (United States of America)

Wellstar Cobb Medical Center has an exciting opportunity for Nurse (RN) Educator - Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU)!
Sign on bonus and relocation assistance eligible role.
This position is Full-Time/Day shift.

The Clinical Nurse Professional Development Educator Advanced works collaboratively to assess, identify, plan, implement, coordinate, facilitate, and evaluate educational activities through a systems model. This includes the tools, theories, skills, and knowledge of the specialty to improve healthcare practice of learners based on the Association of Nurse Professional Development (ANPD) Practice Model. Using expertise in education and professional development practices, the Clinical NPD Educator Advanced leads staff, leadership, faculty and researchers to implement and evaluate professional development programs that influence professional role competence, continuous learning and growth, promotes synergistic practices and patient outcomes throughout the organization, and advances Wellstar's Nursing Professional Practice Model in accordance with Association Nursing Professional Development Scope and Standards of Professional Nursing Practice.

Roles include learning facilitator, change agent, mentor, leader, champion for scientific inquiry, advocate for Nurse Professional Development specialty and partner for practice transitions.

The Clinical Nursing Professional Development Specialist leads and supports the Nursing Professional Development Generalist, clinical manager, and interprofessional team to implement, document, and modify evidence-based, quality, and educational programs and activities that promote professional competency and role performance for nursing and non-licensed staff.

The Clinical NPD Educator Advanced also supports patient care as a proactive member of an interdisciplinary team of licensed and unlicensed care givers who ensure that patients, families and significant others receive individualized high quality, safe patient care. They practice in a clinical environment in a functional role. All Clinical NPD Educators are licensed, knowledgeable and uphold the practice of nursing as outlined by the Georgia Professional Nurse Practice Act and implement the Scope of Practice and Code of Ethics Standards of the American Nurses Association.

As a member of the patient services team, the individual upholds the voice of the patient, system policies and procedures while supporting service excellence goals.

• Exemplary Practice
  • Assessment Practice Gaps:
    Conducts, analyzes, and synthesizes data to determine learning needs of the target audience.
  • Validates identified needs with learner, content experts and nurse leaders when appropriate.
  • Prioritizes anticipated needs in alignment with system strategic goals.
  • Uses data to identify future trends and issues.
  • Documents identified needs that facilitate documentation of purpose statements, educational objectives, program content and evaluation criteria.
  • Determines needs from current issues and trends (falls, infections, new equipment, regulatory changes, etc.).
  • Prioritizes data collection based on the immediate or anticipated needs and documents evidence of professional practice gaps in a retrievable manner that facilitates educational planning.
  • Conducts initial and ongoing assessment of competence.
  • Identified outcomes for learning activities and programs reflect professional role competence, learning and change, involve learners/stakeholder in formulation of desired outcomes, and are used to demonstrate learning activities and programs are meeting their intended purpose and quality. Revise based on changes in trends, evidence, or stakeholder expectations.
  • Establishes a plan that prescribes strategies, alternatives, and resources to achieve expected outcomes. Educational objectives are developed to meet needs of learner and reflect adult learning and instructional design principles in planning and resource availability.
  • Incorporates diverse learners in planning education to meet gender, race, culture, generational differences within target audience, collaborates with other disciplines to enhance comprehensiveness of the plan, and documents planning process.
  • Demonstrates return on investment, enhanced quality of care, and improved patient outcomes, analyzes cost and anticipated return on investment on learning activities, programs, and projects.
  • Implements the educational plan, coordinates the education, facilitates positive learning, evaluates progress toward attainment of outcomes, selects valid and reliable relevant methods and instruments to measure processes and outcomes, involves learner and stakeholder and implements evaluation plan to measure processes and outcomes relevant to program.
  • Synthesizes evaluation data to guide future decision making for changes and improvement, disseminates results of the evaluation of learning activities and educational…