Registered Nurse-Nurse CBOC Ambulatory Educator

Registered Nurse-Nurse Educator

The Registered Nurse-Nurse Educator duties include but are not limited:

• Provide educational instruction and training for nursing staff in clinical and outpatient units.
• Apply instructional design principles to develop, implement, and evaluate education and training programs.
• Conduct learning needs assessments and create targeted educational trainings for clinical staff.
• Assist with new employee orientation, evaluate progress, and develop learning plans to address performance gaps.
• Support nurse residency programs through curriculum development using simulation, lectures, case studies, and virtual reality.
• Evaluate current clinical practices and develop outcomes for patient groups or organizational processes within area of expertise.
• Collaborate with Clinical Nurse Educators and interprofessional teams on in-services, training, competency assessments, and skill evaluations for new and existing staff.
• Review current nursing literature to identify evidence-based trends and propose practice or documentation updates based on outcomes.
• Partner with leadership and unit managers to identify staff education needs and support initiatives that foster competence, critical thinking, and decision-making.
• Analyze, interpret, and evaluate data to determine outcomes and recommend improvements for educational programs.

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:

Monday-Friday, 7:30 a.m.

-4:00 p.m.; occasional nights and weekends as needed.

Telework:
Not available

Virtual:
This is not a virtual position.

Relocation/Recruitment

Incentives:

Not authorized

Permanent Change of Station (PCS):
Not authorized