Specialty Clinical Educators

Care Well Health is currently hiring for department clinical educators for the following specialties:

• Behavioral Health & Detox Services
• Emergency Department Services
• In-patient Care Services

Treat actual or potential health problems using nursing diagnosis and case management. Teach, counsel and provide supportive care to the patient and their significant other.

• Guides new nurses and students thorough and timely assessment of patient’s condition including physical, psychological, social and rehabilitative aspects.
• Assists in helping new nurses and students to identify problems/nursing needs including discharge needs.
• Guides new nurses and students to intervene appropriately to address identified problems and needs. Plans care according to standards of care. Manages time efficiently/sets priorities appropriately.
• Assists new nurses and students to evaluates effectiveness of care and revises plan if necessary.
• Provides education consistent with the patient/family’s learning abilities and preferences; evaluates outcomes.
• Reports pertinent observations regarding patients to physicians and other health care team members.
• Helps to assure that shift report is given on time, accurately and concisely.
• Reinforces that the documentation on the patient’s medical record is accurate, complete and concise.
• Maintains National Patient Safety Goals.
• Assists new nurses and students to verify, coordinate and carry out physicians orders accurately.
• Assures that Charge Nurse can coordinate interdepartmental transfers smoothly and efficiently.
• Assures that Charge Nurse can coordinate interdepartmental activities (e.g. lab, radiology, etc.) to ensure timely efficient care.
• Communicates and coordinates with Case Manager and Nurse manager to ensure timely discharge, patient satisfaction and quality care along the continuum of care.
• Practices Universal Standard Precautions.
• Demonstrated knowledge of and practices department safety procedures, including safe handling of equipment and hazardous substances.
• Initiates incident reports appropriately.
• Follows the 5 “rights” when administering medications.
• Uses 2 patient identifiers before administering medications.
• Initiates and effectively maintains IV therapy.
• Verbalizes unit specific quality improvement projects.
• Verbalizes hospital-wide quality improvement initiatives.
• Collects, interprets or relays quality improvement data for the unit.
• Gathers learning needs from staff and managers and prioritizes needs.
• Prepares program objectives to meet identified learning need.
• Matches program content outline to objectives.
• Selects teaching methods that are appropriate for achieving program objectives.
• Prepares program, evaluation forms and registration.
• Creates audio visuals and handouts that highlight important concepts.
• Delivers lecture/in-service presentation that is clear, logical and uses principles of adult learning.
• Summarizes evaluations within 7 days of end of program and uses information to revise program as needed.
• Coordinates schedule of new orientee with nurse manager and preceptor based on the experience and learning needs of the orientee.
• Reviews orientee-preceptor schedule.
• Meets regularly with orientee and preceptor to determine learning needs and ways to achieve them.
• Participates in frequent and objective evaluations of the orientee.
• Assists in planning remediation for orienteer’s deficits.
• Facilitates removing orientee from orientation as soon as orientee’s practice meets the standard for independent, safe practice.
• Compiles 1 complete orientation file and signs off with Nurse Manager.
• Contributes to solving educational problems and issues.
• Build a working rapport with the staff.
• Prioritizes needs based on emergent educational or administrative needs.
• Shares clinical expertise with other educators in program preparation.
• Mentors preceptors in their ability to evaluate orientees effectively.
• Prepares posters to meet an identified need.
• Prepares self-learning packet to meet an identified need.
• Works with Nurse manager to identify appropriate competencies/learning needs of staff.
• Writes critical elements for a competency.
• Assures protocol is followed throughout competency testing.
• Completes required paperwork/reports (due by 5th of every month).

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

• Graduate of an accredited School of Nursing. Current NJ license.
• BLS, ACLS preferred.
• BSN, Master’s Degree preferred.

• 3-5 years specialty experience in acute care as related to department of interest.
• Preferred 3-5 years experience as an Educator.