Nurse Educator - Military Civilian Program

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Join a brand-new UNC Health program created through a unique partnership supporting military healthcare personnel. Such an exciting opportunity to combine clinical expertise, education, mentorship, and military healthcare partnerships in a role unlike a traditional Nurse Educator position

• Educator for military medics and nurses
• Coordinate and support clinical rotations across high-acuity areas, including the ED, BICU, STICU, and other critical care units
• Partner with clinical leaders, educators, and preceptors across UNC Medical Center to create meaningful, specialty-specific learning experiences
• Help build and shape the program from the ground up, including developing clinical experiences, educational processes, and program workflows

• Ideal candidate will have experience in Emergency Nursing and/or Critical Care, along with a strong background in education, preceptorship, and clinical mentorship
• Military healthcare experience is highly valued and would be a significant asset in this role

• Will be based in the Hedrick Office Building in Chapel Hill, NC, but you will spend a significant time at UNC Medical Center
• Hybrid flexibility is available, with remote work when clinical and program responsibilities permit

Coordinates staff development and educational needs of patient care nursing staff, patients, and families. This is an advanced level position in education, which is performed under minimal supervision. Assignments may be characterized as those requiring collaboration to address staff educational needs within a specialty practice area and/or service. Serves in a lead capacity over others as it relates to special projects or subject matter expertise.

Work maybe performed collaboratively for multiple disciplines across the continuum of care or for a specific patient population or service area.

Responsibilities:
1. Acts as resource and role model in use of evidence based practice. Leads unit/service based clinical practice groups
2. Assists in orientation and placement of nursing students in clinical units. Serves as resource to faculty. Mentors graduate students
3. Assists nursing staff in design and implementation of clinical nursing research/performance improvement projects.
4. Assists nursing units with preceptor responsibilities to ensure that all new staff are oriented and meeting competency expectations
5. Conducts learning needs assessments to plan staff educational programs
6. Coordinates orientation, staff development and continuing education for nursing staff
7. Develops evidence-based standards of care, comprehensive nursing plans, clinical pathways for patients and families and facilitates implementation of same.
8. Develops, implements, and evaluates educational materials, self instructional programs, teaching protocols, and e-learning programs for nursing staff.
9. In conjunction with other subject matter experts, develops and evaluates patient family education materials.
10. Serves as a clinical resource and role model, provides clinical supervision to staff in developing clinical knowledge, skills and abilities

• Bachelor's degree in Nursing (BSN) from a state-accredited school of professional nursing.

• Licensed to practice as a Registered Nurse in the state of North Carolina.
• For Home Health/Hospice:
  Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) certification
• For Home Health/Hospice:
  Valid NC Driver's License

• Three (3) years of experience in tertiary care with two (2) years clinical experience in the assigned specialty.

Legal

Employer:

NCHEALTH

Entity:
Shared Services

Organization Unit:
Military Civilian Program Admin

Work Type:
Full Time

Standard Hours Per Week: 40.00

Salary Range:$35.87 - $51.57 per hour (Hiring Range)

Pay offers are determined by experience and internal equity

Work Assignment Type:
Hybrid

Work Schedule:

Day Job

Location of Job: US:

NC:

Chapel Hill

Exempt From Overtime:
Exempt:
Yes

This position is employed by NC Health (Rex Healthcare, Inc., d/b/a NC Health), a private, fully-owned subsidiary of UNC Heath Care System. This is not a State employed position.

Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender…