Registered Nurse Clinical Educator Oncology Unit

Registered Nurse Clinical Educator Oncology Unit

Job Category:
Professional

Schedule:

Full time

Shift: 1 - Day Shift

Provides on-going orientation and professional development for all levels of personnel within a clinical department or hospital wide.

Provides clinical orientations, competency assurance and on-going education opportunities.

Works in collaboration with other Clinical Educators in development and implementation of hospital-wide education programs.

Unit 650 is a 28-bed inpatient Oncology and Hematology unit dedicated to providing specialized, compassionate care for patients throughout their cancer journey. Nurses on Unit 650 care for a diverse population, including oncology, hematology, chemotherapy, rheumatology, and endocrinology patients, while working alongside a highly collaborative multidisciplinary team. This is an exciting opportunity to help shape a growing oncology program, develop advanced clinical expertise, pursue specialty certification, and make a meaningful impact on the lives of patients and families.

• Acts as clinical role model through 1:1 clinical time with staff to assess and teach critical thinking, priority setting, time management and “culture of patient safety” practices.
• Maintains records of training activities and employee progress; monitors effectiveness of programs.
• Prepares, organizes, directs, conducts, and supervises programs for orientation, training and in-service education; ensures the educational needs of staff are identified and met. Acts as an education resource to nursing community and health care team.
• Assists learners to identify learning needs and guides them to appropriate resources.
• Evaluates new employees’ performance and schedules regular meetings with them, according to the preceptor program, as well as the individual needs of the nurse, as identified by the unit based educators.
• Serves as a liaison to new employees and actively participates in retention initiatives.
• Maintains computer-based tracking system and compiles required reports and records.
• Evaluates effectiveness of learning strategies and outcomes of educational activities.
• Develops, executes and coordinates nursing orientation program.
• Plans education around new and existing hospital-wide nursing policies and procedures. Advocates standardization of nursing performance and standards of practice.
  
  Evaluates unit-based procedures and policies and standing orders to meet the goal of standardization. Organizes the unit-based educators’ participation in hospital wide initiatives, such as CPR, JIREH, and CBT training.
• Participates in Leadership Councils as membership requires.
• Maintains clinical expertise through a variety if methods, including direct patient care as necessary.
• Participates in professional organizations and actively networks to share information and ideas.
• Develops unit competencies related to findings.
• Coordinates classroom/meeting room facilities and instructional aids.
• Creates objectives, lesson plans, and evaluation strategies; present and coordinate in-service and continuing education programs.
• Formulates and develops plans, procedures and programs to meet specific training needs and problems.
• Uses information from QI data, need assessments, risk management concerns, safety issues, and infection control, and JCAHO, HCFA and OSHA requirements to create education programs.
• Collaborates with internal and external trainers and educators to present courses within the hospital.
• Participates in and coordinate unit Quality Improvement Program on a regular and continuing basis.
• Assists in research and development directly related to department services.
• Implements and maintains established department, unit, and hospital policies, procedures, and objectives as well as quality improvement, environmental, safety, and infection control policies.
• Adheres to TMC organizational and department-specific safety, confidentiality, values policies and standards.
• Performs related duties as assigned.

EDUCATION: Bachelor's degree in Nursing required, preferred Master’s degree.

EXPERIENCE: Three (3) years of RN experience preferably in a related unit/department…