Nurse Educator; Per-Diem

Job Title: Nurse Educator Department: ETW RRH Extended Care Admin Location: St. Mary's Campus Hours Per Week: 0 Schedule: Monday-Friday, 7am-3:30pm or 8am-4:30pm

SUMMARY: The Nurse Educator is responsible for identifying, developing, facilitating and evaluating educational activities for nursing and clinical staff. This position provides opportunities to promote life‑long learning for employees and lends to safe, quality patient care.

• Facilitates the orientation process for all new nurses and patient care technicians in the acute care area settings. Develops, organizes and delivers all classroom orientation lesson plans.
• Maintains American Heart Association Basic Life Support instructor status and provides regular class instruction. Supports staff educational needs for emergency response measures.
• Provides ongoing educational needs assessment to identify relevant educational activities such as new diagnoses, new equipment, policy and procedure expectations, quality outcome data.
• In collaboration with Director/Managers, provides support and education remediation, as appropriate.
• Assesses staff competency levels and facilitates various methods to accomplish competency completion.
• Develops quality educational activities that includes all aspects of eligibility for ANCC contact hours. This includes advertisement, measurable objectives, content outline that is based on current, evidenced‑based literature, evaluation and certificate.
• Maintains strict recordkeeping of all educational activities with attendance as required by regulatory agencies such as Joint Commission, NYDOH.
• Utilizes a variety of learning methods such as Powerpoint presentations, on-line computer programs, self-learning packets, demo/re-demonstration, simulation training.

• Bachelor Degree in Nursing
• 2 years of clinical nursing experience.

• Master's Degree preferred.
• Able to perform instructional inservice programs before potentially large groups.
• Very good working knowledge of basic computer skills (Word, Powerpoint, Excel).

• BS:
  Nursing (Required)
• MS:
  Nursing

Medium Work
- Exerting 20 to 50 pounds of force occasionally, and/or 10 to 25 pounds of force frequently, and/or greater than negligible up to 10 pounds of force constantly to move objects;
Requires frequent walking, standing or squatting.

• BLS
  - Basic Life Support
  - American Heart Association (AHA)
• RN
  - Registered Nurse
  - New York State Education Department (NYSED)

$82,742.00 - $