Family Birthing Center Nurse Educator

Job Summary and Responsibilities

As our RN Educator, you will design, organize, implement, and evaluate evidence-based educational programs, orientations, and continuing education. Every day you will facilitate the professional growth, skill development, and competency of staff, ensuring these programs primarily support the organization's mission, vision, values, and strategic goals. Your work will directly contribute to ensuring quality, safety, and service in patient and family-centered care.

To be successful in this role, you will demonstrate strong instructional design capabilities, expert clinical knowledge, and the ability to effectively engage and develop healthcare professionals, ultimately enhancing the standards of patient care.

• Performs initial and ongoing educational needs assessment.
• Collaborates with department leaders in the identification and development of initial and on-going competencies.
• Creates and documents education plans in partnership with leadership team to meet strategic and operational initiatives of the organization.
• Utilizes adult education theories and principles to foster the educational development of participants.
• Authors curriculum and implements educational in-services, classes, courses and programs based upon identified education needs and utilizing traditional, non-traditional and innovative methods of instruction including the use of technology and simulation.
• Submits documentation in support of education to include attendance roster, course evaluation documents and competency validation tools.

Required

• Bachelor's degree of Nursing
• Five (5) years clinical practice in area of specialty
• Registered Nurse: AZ
• American Heart Association Basic Life Support certification
• American Heart Association Advanced Cardiac Life Support certification

Preferred

• Master's degree of Nursing
• Specialty certification and/or two (2) years teaching
• Three years (3) Labor and Delivery experience

Location:

Dignity Health – Yavapai Regional Medical Center (DH-YRMC), part of Common Spirit Health.