FSH-Hospital Educator

Overview

Fresno Surgical Hospital is an extraordinary hospital created entirely to deliver excellence and quality in surgical care to each patient. Our unique facility and staff provide a hospitality-inspired, healing environment unlike anything experienced in a traditional hospital. Our commitment to innovation, shared values, and excellence can be reflected in exceptional satisfaction scores from patients, physicians, and staff.

• Knowledge of adult learning methods.
• Ability to maintain collaborative working relationships to ensure a positive and productive work environment.
• Strong communication and integration skills.
• Ability to train and effectively communicate with customers, including listening, asking relevant questions, giving appropriate guidance, and providing feedback.
• Ability to make learning fun. Ability to plan and prioritize work with frequent interruptions.
• Ability to provide exceptional customer service.
• Ability to set up clinical education classes with goals and objectives.
• Able to adapt in response to new information, shifting priorities, changing conditions, or unexpected obstacles.
• Willingness and understanding of completing time-critical projects/tasks.
• Ability to work independently with only general direction and minimal supervision.
• Uses skills and abilities to complete complex tasks, including deciding which processes to use.
• Conceptual skills: understanding how decisions impact projects, other modules, and third-party systems.
• Effective verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong knowledge of hospital clinical policies and procedures.
• Ability to identify workflows affecting patient care.
• 5 Years Of OR Experience Is Required

• Conducts a needs assessment of each department annually.
• Develops and directs orientation programs, in‑services, and continuing education of nursing and ancillary staff of the clinical areas.
• Conducts classes and/or provides individual instruction.
• Develops objectives for each in‑service and evaluates presentation and teaching material through staff input and suggestions.
• Interacts professionally with the nursing staff and nurse managers to determine specific educational needs and to coordinate educational programs to meet those needs.
• Develops and reviews instructional materials; set up and demonstrate patient care equipment.
• Interacts professionally with vendor/manufacturer sales representatives; coordinates equipment demonstrations in collaboration with Materials Management/Director of Surgical Services.
• Assigns in‑service topics to staff members to develop and teach.
• Implement and supervise nurse preceptor program; supervises all students and new graduates in the clinical areas in coordination with Clinical Managers/Leads.
• Conducts clinical rounds on a regular basis; enhance open communication with clinical departments.
• Assists with the coordination of performance improvement and continuous quality improvement activities.
• Works with CNO to develop a budget for educational programs; ability to write grant proposals and manage the grant requirements.
• Assists with organization‑wide education projects.
• Documents staff attendance at in‑services; ensures educational requirements, organization requirements, and standards are met on an annual basis by all staff members.
• Evaluates and documents staff performance of clinical skills.
• Assists nurse managers with the planning and implementation of staff development programs.
• Incorporates principles of adult learning in the planning, implementation, and evaluation of education programs.
• Serves as a resource person, consultant to nursing and medical staff, students, and ancillary staff members.
• May perform clinical duties if needed. If so, performs all aspects of patient care in an environment that optimizes patient safety and reduces the likelihood of medical/health care errors; follows the five medication rights and reduces the potential for medication errors.
• Studies current trends, new technology/development, teaching methodologies through professional journals, seminars/conferences, professional associations, etc.
• Performs administrative duties as needed; management reports; maintains in‑service,…