Clinical Educator Nursing Heart Lung Vascular & Neurology

Reporting To The Senior Program Director Heart, Lung, Vascular, And Neurology Program, This Role Will Primarily Be Responsible For CVICU And CICU. The Clinical Educator
- Nursing Serves As a Role Model And Leader To Support Nursing Care That Optimizes Patient Outcomes And Experiences While Enhancing The Safety, Efficiency, Effectiveness And Accessibility Of Patient Care By:

• Planning, implementing and evaluating education for nursing and the inter-professional team
• Being change agents and role models that advocate for and create learning/education environments that enhance clinical and professional practice and life-long learning
• Working with other nurse leaders to support the development of nursing staff including participation in nursing and corporate education and other initiatives
• Collaborating with inter-professional teams and external partners to influence and advance best practices in education and evidence based nursing practice

The primary role of the Clinical Educator
- Nursing is to facilitate a learning environment where evidence-based knowledge is translated via education to optimize the patients' outcomes and experiences. This includes developing educational plans and activities aimed at improving nursing/clinical knowledge, skills and competencies and in collaboration with others, supporting the ongoing professional development of unit/program staff.

The Clinical Nurse Educator has 3 main areas of responsibility.

• Education and staff development, particularly in relation to nurses
• Assess learning needs and styles of nursing staff
• Design and deliver education that is tailored to specific needs of unit/program
• Incorporates evidence, best practices, and relevant research findings
• Incorporates inter-professional core competencies where applicable
• Incorporates best practices in education
• Evaluates the effectiveness of education, revises education and learning activities to support changes
• Provides timely feedback to nursing staff on their learning and application to their practice competence
• Demonstrates Professional Standards and guidelines

• Collaborates and participates with Professional Practice to identify and support Corporate nursing initiatives
• Engages members of the intra and interdisciplinary team, management team, Professional Practice and across hospital departments in planning, developing, implementing, and evaluating Corporate and other educational initiatives
• Participates in the hospital's network of Clinical Educators
  - Nursing and works with other Clinical Educator
  - Nursing colleagues
• Collaborates with the hospital's Student Centre, Patient Care Managers/Clinical Leader Managers to facilitate nursing student placements
• Collaborates with Patient Care Managers (if posting is intended for St. Joseph's or Providence sites) /Clinical Leader Managers (if posting is intended for St. Michael's site) in interviewing, hiring and contributing to the evaluation of nursing staff
• Participates in hospital and corporate committees and other groups to represent the Educator perspective and serves as a bridge to the unit/program and Clinical Educator
  - Nursing Network by disseminating committee information and decisions

• Participates in research projects that contribute to nursing and/or inter-professional practice and education pertaining to their unit/program and the Corporation
• Supports and participates in the implementation of evidence based practice (best practice guidelines and other forms of evidence) and quality improvement initiatives on unit/in programs including Corporate initiatives

• Bachelor of Science in Nursing required
• Master's degree in nursing or education required. Candidates without this may be considered if they are currently enrolled.
• Registered with the College of Nurses of Ontario in the General Class required
• Critical Care certificate required
• Completion of a Basic Cardiac Life Support (B.C.L.S.) program, Level II:
  Basic Rescuer certification, required
• ACLS Certificate required.
• BLS Instructor Certificate an asset.
• ACLs Instructor Certificate an asset.
• Minimum 3 years experience in critical care,…