Description
Join UChicago Medicine, as a Clinical Nurse Educator with the Pediatrics Care Center in Hyde Park.
A Clinical Nurse Educator is a nurse with previous educational experience whose focus is on staff development and nursing education. This nurse is an educator, consultant, role model, staff/patient advocate, change agent, leader and cost effective professional. In collaboration with nursing leadership, the Clinical Nurse Educator designs, develops, implements, and evaluates a variety of educational offerings in order to improve nursing care and clinical/organizational outcomes. The Clinical Nurse Educator elevates the standard of professional nursing practice at UCM by developing, coaching and mentoring staff to become expert clinicians and leaders.
Essential Job Functions
- Assesses the education needs of employees within area of responsibility.
- Utilizes standardized and develops customized assessment tools and testing methodologies to measure staff knowledge and skill in core nursing practices and within specialty areas.
- Interprets the medical center's strategic imperatives, policies, guidelines, and other internal demands in order to design education that supports these strategic goals and key objectives.
- Plans and designs a variety of educational activities based on the needs assessment.
- Collaborates with key staff to develop a comprehensive annual educational calendar.
- Designs specialty based orientations for clinical staff.
- Designs inservices and continuing education programs for staff.
- Fosters a cultural environment that promotes learning.
- Evaluates all learning activities using objective performance criteria and recommends corresponding changes in education plans.
- Participates and collaborates with nursing leadership in quality, research and scholarly activities and develops grant proposals as appropriate.
- Researches available funding sources and submits funding proposals in order to implement support and expand new or existing programs to meet the educational needs.
- Participates on departmental and hospital committees
- Participates in seminars, workshops, and/or for credit course in area of professional interest and work responsibility.
Required Qualifications
- BSN required
- Current RN Illinois license
- Minimum requirement of three years of clinical practice
- Knowledge and previous application of adult learning principles
- Demonstrated leadership skills evidenced by serving as a charge nurse, preceptor, or episodic teacher
- Demonstrates complex decision-making skills and problem-solving ability
Preferred Qualifications
- Certification as Certified Nurse Educator (CNE) strongly preferred; required to achieve within 18 months if not currently CNE
- Master of Science in Nursing or related education field preferred
- Previous experience in a role as an educator preferred
- Previous experience working within multidisciplinary teams or nursing leadership committees preferred
Position Details
- Job Type/FTE: Full-Time (1.0 FTE)
- Shift: Day, 8:00am-4:30pm and 1 weekend per month
- Unit/Department: Pediatrics Care Center
- CBA Code: Non-Union
Must comply with UCMC's COVID-19 Vaccination requirement as a condition of employment. If you have already received the vaccination, you must provide proof as part of the pre-employment process. This is in addition to your compliance with the Flu Vaccination requirement as well. Medical and religious exemptions will be considered consistent with applicable law. Lastly, a pre-employment physical, drug screening, and background check are also required for all employees prior to hire.
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