Educator Sterile Processing Time, Rotating

Job Description

• Collects data regarding employee learning needs, at least annually, through the methods of observation, interviewing, focus groups and instrumentation.
• Utilizes standardized and develops customized assessment tools and testing methodologies to measure staff knowledge and skill in core nursing practices and within specialty areas.
• Interprets accrediting and regulatory agencies’ guidelines as a basis for identifying education and training needs.
• Interprets the medical center’s strategic imperatives, policies, guidelines, and other internal demands in order to design education that supports these strategic goals and key objectives.
• Leads the development of tactics to achieve the organization’s strategic vision for education.
• Offers recommendations for the deployment of educational resources to enable the achievement of organizational goals.
• Interprets health care trends and incorporates current research into the design of learning needs assessments and the identification of learning needs.
• Plans and designs a variety of educational activities based on the needs assessment.
• Collaborates with key staff to develop a comprehensive annual educational calendar.
• Designs core competencies that cross the continuum of expertise and practice, using essential criteria such as: facilitation of learning, collaboration, systems thinking, and response to diversity.
• Designs specialty based orientations for sterile processing and clinic staffing.
• Designs in services and continuing education programs for staff.
• Participates in the design of centralized and unit-based preceptor education and development initiatives.
• Prepares educational objectives, lesson plans, handouts, self-learning modules, instructional manuals, and tests for programs.
• Designs programs that use a variety of learning methods and technology.
• Implements education activities
• Fosters a cultural environment promotes learning.
• Skillfully employs the full spectrum of adult learning techniques.
• Conducts a variety of learning events, based on needs assessment findings, using a variety of teaching-learning strategies
• Creates a learning environment that encourages staff to maximize level of professional practice.
• Effectively coordinates necessary support services for all education offerings.
• Maintains an accurate system of recording activities and programs.
• Serves as faculty in organization wide education events, as appropriate.
• Evaluates education and training activities
• Evaluates all learning activities using objective performance criteria and recommends corresponding changes in education plans.
• Utilizes appropriate tools and testing methodology for assessing changes in learners’ knowledge, skills, and clinical practice as well as for determining education project/program effectiveness.
• Revises programs/projects based on evaluative data.
• Provides internal and external consultation
• Provides consultation to employees on individual education and development situations, when requested by the employee or employee’s manager.
• Rounds on units/employees and audits processes to assure compliance.
• Participates and collaborates with nursing leadership in quality, research and scholarly activities and develops grant proposals as appropriate.
• Develops knowledge and skill based measures to collect performance data and integrates measurement activities and findings into quality projects.
• Recommends and leads the implementation of educationally focused improvement efforts aimed at improving key clinical/operational processes and outcomes.
• Recommends various quality projects based on information revealed in planning, conducting, and evaluating staff education.
• Publishes and/or presents information in area of expertise.

Required Qualifications

• High School Diploma or equivalent required;
  Associates Degree preferred
• Certification from IAHCSMM (CRCST) or CBSPD (CSPDT) required within 18 months of hire
• Minimum requirement of five years in Sterile Processing,
• Certified a minimum of three years
• Previous experience in a role as an educator preferred
• Knowledge and previous application of adult learning principles
• Demonstrates complex decision-making skills and problem solving ability

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