Clinical Education Specialist

Creating Life Better Here Starts With You

At San Juan Regional Medical Center, we're more than a healthcare provider—we're a values-driven organization dedicated to delivering exceptional care. As a team member, you help fulfill our mission to make life better here for our community.

The Nursing Professional Development Practitioner is a dedicated clinical expert and positive role model who inspires and motivates members of the healthcare team to optimize patient care outcomes.

Required Behaviors:

As you go about fulfilling this mission, your work habits and work relationships should embody SJRMC's values.

These values are our culture, our identity as an organization. Sacred Trust, Personal Reverence, Thoughtful Anticipation, Team Accountability, and Creative Vitality ask more of us than merely completing some list of tasks. Our values ask for a deeper level of commitment, and what is asked of us we freely give because we believe in our mission.

Required Qualifications:

• Registered nurse licensure in New Mexico
• BSN within five (5) years of hire
• Clinical experience in acute care
• Demonstrated leadership, organizational, interpersonal, and communication skills
• Working knowledge of adult learning principles
• Self-motivation and accountability
• Team orientation
• Advanced certifications as required according to the Life support certification for patient care providers policy for specific department

Preferred Qualifications:

• Masters in Nursing (Education focus)
• Five (5) years clinical experience

Follow the Nursing Professional Development Scope and Standards of Practice in the following Roles:

• Learning Facilitator
• Change Agent
• Mentor
• Leader
• Champion for inquiry
• Advocate for NPD specialty
• Partner for Practice Transition

Responsibilities include:

• Onboarding/Orientation
• Competency management
• Education
• Nurse Residency Program
• Professional development

Other Duties/Responsibilities:

• ASSIST—Functions as a clinical resource to assist nursing staff, physicians, and other ancillary staff as appropriate.
• COLLABORATE—Collaborates with unit leadership to assess, plan, and implement pertinent protocols and practices.
• MONITOR—Audits and evaluates staff competency in care delivery using approved methods of verification. Provides results to appropriate leadership.
• PATIENT CARE—Maintains the ability to provide safe direct care to a group of patients and perform all RN nursing duties.
• PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT—Maintains clinical competency and knowledge of current trends in area of specialty. Evaluates and disseminates current literature to nursing staff, physicians, etc.
• Patient Safety 1:
  Follows patient safety-related policies, procedures, and protocols.
• Patient Safety 2:
  Demonstrates proactive approach to patient safety by seeking opportunities to improve patient safety through questioning of current policies and processes.
• Patient Safety 3:
  Identifies, and reports correct environmental conditions and/or situations that may put a patient at undue risk.
• Patient Safety 4:
  Reports potential or actual patient safety concerns, medical errors, and/or near misses in a timely manner.
• Patient Safety 5:
  Encourages patients to actively participate in their own care by asking questions and reporting treatment or situations that they do not understand or may not seem right.
• Works within assigned units but collaborates with other Clinical Educators to provide hospital-wide education as needed.
• Actively participates in providing input for staff evaluation and goal setting.
• Provides input as relevant with performance improvement plans and/or corrective action.
• Supports the Director of Nursing Professional Development and unit leadership in assessing, goal setting, and monitoring progress with new staff members and their clinical coaches.
• Identifies and assesses the need for changes in services provided to improve quality and/or improve efficiencies, based on patient satisfaction core measures and results.
• Actively participates in the Nursing Professional Development Committee.
• Organizes work schedule to provide the necessary education for all staff on all shifts.
• Each employee is responsible for implementing SJRMC’s Service Standards in their daily work:
  Safety, Courtesy, Effectiveness, and Stewardship.
• Other duties as assigned

Physical Demands and Environmental Work Conditions:

• Handles emergent and/or crisis situations.
• Exposure to infectious waste and communicable disease.
• Flexible hours; must be able to work all shifts and days of the week.
• Ability to speak in public forums.
• Accepts legal accountability for decisions and actions.