RN Clinical Nurse Education Specialist - Critical Care

Description

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• Champion education and competency for Critical Care departments
• Influence service line and organization‑wide initiatives, policies, and innovation
• Partner with Educators and Nursing Leadership to inspire growth

• Nursing professional development experience
• Recent critical care or intermediate care direct patient care experience (Required)

The Clinical Nurse Education Specialist is an advanced level of nursing practice that facilitates the professional development of licensed and unlicensed employees to enhance professional competency including (but not limited to) educational assessment, planning and outcome evaluation. Coordinates staff development and educational needs of patient care nursing staff, patients, and families. This advanced level position in clinical education, performed under minimal supervision, addresses staff educational needs within a specialty practice area and/or service and/or across the hospital.

Serve as a subject matter expert in a lead capacity for house‑wide initiatives, including those in conjunction with hospital accreditation. May collaborate across disciplines or for a specific patient population or service area.

• Clinical Resource – Serves as a clinical resource and role model, provides clinical supervision to staff in developing clinical knowledge, skills and abilities.
• Competencies – Participate in the identification of essential competencies for clinical areas/service lines. Develop educational programs to maintain or develop the identified competencies. Work with preceptors and nursing unit leadership to develop knowledge and skills of nursing staff.
• Educational Consultation – Provide consultation to UNC Health Care system and UNC Hospitals, and nursing leadership for program development. Partner with committees, councils and other departments in the identification and development of educational programs, training for new products, and development of competence assessment.
• Educational Programs – Independently plan and deliver an array of educational programs to hospital employees in clinical, department or hospital‑wide groups with a primary focus on nursing staff. Develop, coordinate, administer, facilitate, conduct and evaluate Nursing Orientation programs including skill‑based residency programs and the Nurse Residency Program.
• Evidence‑Based Practice – Develop evidence‑based standards of care, comprehensive nursing plans, clinical pathways for patients and families and facilitate implementation of the same.
• Nursing Educational Programs – Develop educational programs designed to augment the knowledge, skills and attitudes of nursing staff. Assist in the development of Clinical Nurse III and IV educational skills to plan, develop, and present continuing education content/programs. Evaluate the outcomes of all educational programs. Participate in point‑of‑care research.
• Placement of Nursing Students – Assist in orientation and placement of nursing students in clinical units. Serve as resource to faculty. Mentor graduate students.
• Professional growth and development – Demonstrate responsibility for own professional growth and development. Maintain current certification in clinical specialty or Nursing Professional Development.
• Research, Policies and Procedures – Evaluate current research to maintain knowledge of practice trends. Guide the development and revision of standards, policies and procedures for the Department of Nursing. Facilitate dissemination of practice changes through Nursing Standards Committee and the Shared Governance Councils. Develop and maintain relationships with faculty and students from nursing and other clinical disciplines.

• Graduation from a state‑accredited school of professional nursing.
• Bachelor's degree and Master's degree of which one must be in Nursing.