RN Nurse Educator Primary Care - Gainesville, Florida - Educator

Company: Malcom Randall VA Medical Center
Location: Gainesville
Posted on: November 21, 2022

Job Description:

RN Nurse Educator Primary Care - Gainesville, Florida
Duties

The RN Nurse Educator is an essential employee who provides formal/informal/virtual instruction for clinicians, support staff, patients, and families in the ambulatory care arena. The Nurse Educator is responsible for assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating educational activities for nursing staff (RNs, LPNs, HCTs, ICTs, etc.) within the Outpatient Clinics.

The Nurse Educator consults with management of multiple services in the ambulatory care setting to develop, implement, and evaluate educational plans for staff, maintain and enhance clinical competence, and manage ongoing education and competency programs including orientation, regulatory training, continuing education, and in-services. The Nurse Educator is a role model in demonstrating excellence in practice, serves as a clinical mentor/preceptor for clinical and administrative staff, promotes specialty certification through education, facilitates classes, provides clinical supervision of staff members/students/residents, and consults/collaborates in patient care, infection control, and research. The Nurse Educator collaborates with leadership to determine the allocation and utilization of organizational funds and resources to promote a learning organization.

This position provides leadership and collaborates/assists others within or across work groups to validate and improve practice either based on the application of current evidence-based practice or the conduct of quality improvement projects. The Nurse Educator serves as a BLS instructor/champion and participates in completing checkoffs for other services based on facility needs.

Work Schedule: Monday-Friday, 7:30 am to 4:00 pm with variable hours to include off tours and weekends as necessary to support patient care needs, staff training and competence
Telework: not available
Virtual: This is not a virtual position
Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: not authorized
Financial Disclosure Report: Not required

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