Clinical Educator: Simulation and Certification Coordinator

Clinical Nurse Educator

The Clinical Nurse Educator (CNE) functions to ensure that clinicians are prepared to be responsible for promoting patient safety and high-quality patient care through clinical leadership, education, consultation, modeling, and research. The CNE incorporates evidence-based practice, theory, and research into various patient care settings according to patient needs by collaborating with multi-professional multidisciplinary groups, facilitating the development of hospital and department policies, nursing procedures, and regulatory standards and guidelines.

The role also includes functioning as a community resource on topics within scope of practice and providing nursing orientation, education, and ongoing competency verification. The CNE is a role model for caring that honors the patient's mind, body, and spirit.

Job responsibilities include:

• Collaborating with department directors, nursing staff, and others to identify unit-specific educational needs.
• Collaborating with other educators to prevent redundancies of educational efforts.
• Collaborating with human resources department, nurse educators, professional development specialists, clinical nurse specialists, and department directors to facilitate the unit/hospital orientation program for area of responsibility.
• Providing ongoing support and coaching to preceptors and/or new employees.
• Assessing educational needs through a variety of methods, both formal and informal, for orientation, in-service education and continuing education to preceptors, new employees, and experienced staff.
• Demonstrating ability to teach programs using adult learning principles, professional presentation skills, and quality audiovisual aids and handout materials.
• Evaluating achievement of learning objectives.
• Facilitating attainment of necessary or desired educational credit from accreditation bodies for a given professional category and submitting required documentation after the program.
• Participating in patient care delivery.
• Acting as a resource for staff in locating answers to questions, best evidence, current policies, procedures, and protocols.
• Providing clinical consultation.
• Participating in research/evidence-based practice.
• Incorporating research findings and best practice findings into the development of clinical practice guidelines/standards/policies.

Requirements:

• Current RN license or work permit in Kentucky.
• Three (3) years of acute care experience in the designated specialty within the last five (5) years.
• BSN from accredited nursing program.
• Certification as Professional Development Specialist (PDS) preferred.
• Basic Life Support certification.
• ACLS/PALS/NRP/TNCC/ENPC certifications as required by department of assignment.

Benefits:

• Health, Vision, Dental, and Pet Insurance
• Life Insurance
• Short Term and Long-term Disability and Life Insurance
• Identity Theft Protection
• Tuition Reimbursement up to $6,000 annually
• Company paid Maternity and Paternity Leave
• 5 days of Paid Time Off available upon hire
• Bereavement Leave (includes pets)
• PTO Sell Back Program
• Compassionate Leave Sharing Program (PTO Donation)
• Employee Support Fund, for employees in need of emergency financial assistance
• Retirement with Company Match