Nurse Educator - Nursing Admin

Position: Nurse Educator - Nursing Admin - Full Time Day
Description

Nurse Educator at Healdsburg Hospital in Healdsburg, CA. This position will work Full Time, 8-hour Day shifts.

The Nurse Educator at Healdsburg Hospital is responsible for leading clinical education, competency validation, and regulatory readiness across acute care and subacute (SNF) services. This role oversees onboarding, annual competencies, and ongoing staff development while ensuring compliance with California Department of Public Health (CDPH) and Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) requirements and highly regulated subacute standards. The Educator also serves as the Director of Staff Development (DSD) for the subacute unit, supporting CNA training, orientation programs, outpatient clinics, and survey preparedness.

The Nurse Educator/ Nursing Professional Development Practitioner is a professional nurse with advanced clinical, leadership, and staff development knowledge and skills. Supports the professional and clinical development of the bedside nurse and fosters empowerment through knowledge to achieve excellence in the delivery of evidence-based nursing care. Facilitates the educational process through assessment of learning needs; and development, planning, implementation, and evaluation of educational programs and activities, in collaboration with multidisciplinary care teams.

Facilitates all levels of competency validation, from orientation through advanced. Collaborates with leadership to ensure regulatory compliance with respect to clinical practice through education and competency validation. Participates in strategic planning to achieve outcomes. Leads groups working on projects related to staff development. Acts as a consultant to committees and teams; and makes recommendations for improving the quality of patient care through the development and revision of policies, procedures, and programs.

Supports the integration of research into practice. Is a resource and mentor to staff.

Providence caregivers are not simply valued - they're invaluable. Join our team at Nor Cal Health Connect and thrive in our culture of patient-focused, whole-person care built on understanding, commitment, and mutual respect. Your voice matters here, because we know that to inspire and retain the best people, we must empower them.

Required qualifications:

+ Bachelor's Degree in Nursing or Bachelor's Degree in a related field.

+ California Registered Nurse License upon hire

+ National Provider BLS - American Heart Association upon hire.

+ Nursing Professional Development Board Certification or Nursing Education Required within 2 years of hire.

+ 3 years of Acute Care experience

+ 1 year of Staff Development activities

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Experience with simulation in healthcare.

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Experience with interactive, case-based online teaching/learning methods.

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Experience with both knowledge and skills based competency validation.

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Experience with outcomes measurement to evaluate effectiveness of education.

Preferred qualifications:

+ Master's Degree in Nursing or related professional development field

+ Additional certification in one Specialty applicable to practice

+ 3 years in area of specialization

Why Join Providence?

Our best-in-class benefits are uniquely designed to support you and your family in staying well, growing professionally, and achieving financial security. We take care of you, so you can focus on delivering our Mission of caring for everyone, especially the most vulnerable in our communities.

Accepting a new position at another facility that is part of the Providence family of organizations may change your current benefits. Changes in benefits, including paid time-off, happen for various reasons. These reasons can include changes of Legal Employer, FTE, Union, location, time-off plan policies, availability of health and welfare benefit plan offerings, and other various reasons.

About Providence

At Providence, our strength lies in Our Promise of "Know me, care for me, ease my way." Working at our family of organizations means that regardless of your role, we'll walk alongside you in your career, supporting you so you can support others. We provide best-in-class benefits and we foster an inclusive workplace where diversity is valued, and everyone is essential, heard and respected.

Together, our 120,000 caregivers (all employees) serve in over 50 hospitals, over 1,000 clinics and a full range of health and social services across Alaska, California, Montana, New Mexico, Oregon, Texas and Washington. As a comprehensive health care organization, we are serving more people, advancing best practices and continuing our more than 100-year tradition of serving the poor and vulnerable.

Posted are the minimum and the maximum wage rates on the wage range for this position. The successful candidate's placement on the wage range for this position will be determined based upon relevant job experience and other applicable factors. These amounts are the base pay range; additional compensation may be available for this role, such as shift…