Registered Nurse Clinical Educator - Ortho

The Orthopedic unit is located on the 4th floor of TMC’s tower. It is a 40-bed post-surgical inpatient unit. All of the rooms are private rooms with picturesque views. The majority of the patients we care for have elected to have their surgery: hip, knee, shoulder, spine, or ankle. The patients admitted to Ortho post surgically are overall healthy, motivated to recover, and progress rapidly. Elective hips and knees typically discharge next day, and spines stay with our team two to three days. We work collaboratively with our Orthopedic surgeons, hospitalists, case management team, and therapy team to ensure patient safety and satisfaction as well as to enhance the patient experience by placing the patient in the center of our care. Provides on-going orientation and professional development for all levels of personnel within a clinical department or hospital wide. Provides clinical orientations, competency assurance and on-going education opportunities. Works in collaboration with other Clinical Educators in development and implementation of hospital-wide education programs.

Responsibilities

Provides on-going orientation and professional development for all levels of personnel; Provides clinical orientations, competency assurance and on-going education opportunities; Works in collaboration with other Clinical Educators in development and implementation of hospital-wide education programs; Acts as clinical role model through 1:1 clinical time with staff; Maintains records of training activities and employee progress; Prepares, organizes, directs, conducts, and supervises programs for orientation, training and in-service education; Assists learners to identify learning needs and guides them to appropriate resources; Evaluates new employees’ performance and schedules regular meetings; Serves as a liaison to new employees and actively participates in retention initiatives; Maintains computer-based tracking system and compiles required reports and records; Evaluates effectiveness of learning strategies and outcomes of educational activities; Develops, executes and coordinates nursing orientation program; Plans education around new and existing hospital-wide nursing policies and procedures; Participates in Leadership Councils; Maintains clinical expertise through a variety of methods; Participates in professional organizations and actively networks to share information and ideas; Collaborates with internal and external trainers and educators to present courses within the hospital; Implements and maintains established department, unit, and hospital policies, procedures, and objectives; Adheres to TMC organizational and department-specific safety, confidentiality, values policies and standards

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Nursing required; Three (3) years of RN experience preferably in a related unit/department within an acute care setting; Current RN licensure permitting work in the state of Arizona; Current Basic Life Support (BLS) certification required; Additional certification may be required per department; Knowledge of critical care techniques, tools and responses required to ensure optimal patient care; Knowledge of nursing protocols and patient care practices that ensures optimum care; Skill in developing educational programs including training materials and educating staff in a variety of subjects; Skill in evaluating performance and recommending improvements; Skill in the use and maintenance of computer systems and programs, especially NRCPR, PC File and Folder, Word, EXCEL, e-mail and attachment capabilities, Outlook, and PowerPoint; Skill in communicating with staff involved in critical care, and physicians to ensure the proper care of patients; Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations; Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals; Ability to effectively present information and respond to inquiries or complaints from employees, patients and/or their representatives, and the general public; Ability to work with concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios, and proportions, and to apply mathematical operations to solve or analyze job-related situations; Ability to identify positive or negative variances from expected outcomes; Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions; Ability to interpret an extensive variety of instructions and deal with several abstract and concrete

Nice to have

Master's degree; Experience in a related unit/department within an acute care setting