Nurse Educator - UNC Health Cancer Care Job Raleigh area,North Carolina USA,Nursing

Description

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UNC Health Cancer Care is looking for a Nurse Educator to join their team. This position will provide support to all clinical roles (such as RN, LPN, CMA and radiation therapists) across 16+ clinics in the Triangle area. The preferred candidate will have prior experience as a nurse educator and be familiar with the specialty areas of care provided at the Cancer Care clinics.

Summary: 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 may be performed collaboratively for multiple disciplines across the continuum of care or for a specific patient population or service area.

Responsibilities:

Acts as resource and role model in use of evidence based practice. Leads unit/service based clinical practice groups

Assists in orientation and placement of nursing students in clinical units. Serves as resource to faculty. Mentors graduate students

Assists nursing staff in design and implementation of clinical nursing research/performance improvement projects.

Assists nursing units with preceptor responsibilities to ensure that all new staff are oriented and meeting competency expectations

Conducts learning needs assessments to plan staff educational programs

Coordinates orientation, staff development and continuing education for nursing staff

Develops evidence-based standards of care, comprehensive nursing plans, clinical pathways for patients and families and facilitates implementation of same.

Develops, implements, and evaluates educational materials, self instructional programs, teaching protocols, and e-learning programs for nursing staff.

In conjunction with other subject matter experts, develops and evaluates patient family education materials.

Serves as a clinical resource and role model, provides clinical supervision to staff in developing clinical knowledge, skills and abilities

Other Information

Education Requirements:

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

Licensure/Certification Requirements:

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

Professional Experience Requirements:

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

Knowledge/Skills/and Abilities Requirements:

Job Details

Legal

Employer:

NCHEALTH

Entity: UNC REX Healthcare

Organization Unit:
Cancer Center Raleigh

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:
Onsite

Work Schedule:

Day Job

Location of Job: US:

NC:

Raleigh

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 identity, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, status as a protected veteran or political affiliation.

UNC Health makes reasonable accommodations for applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as applicants and employees with disabilities. Please email applicant.accommodations.edu if you need a reasonable accommodation to search and/or to apply for a career opportunity.

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