Educator I RN

As an RN Educator, you will design, organize, implement, and evaluate evidence-based educational programs, orientations, and continuing education.

Every day you will facilitate the professional growth, skill development, and competency of staff, ensuring these programs primarily support the organization's mission, vision, values, and strategic goals. Your work will directly contribute to ensuring quality, safety, and service in patient and family-centered care.

To be successful in this role, you will demonstrate strong instructional design capabilities, expert clinical knowledge, and the ability to effectively engage and develop healthcare professionals, ultimately enhancing the standards of patient care.

• Clinical Expert
  
  
  Serves as a role model to Nursing Staff in the delivery of excellent patient care for designated patient populations.
  
  
  Collaborates with nursing and interdisciplinary colleagues to assess, plan, implement, and evaluate strategies to address complex patient care issues.
  
  
  Assists staff with clinical decision-making and priority setting.
  
  
  Collaborates with Clinical Leadership to develop, evaluate, and implement standards of patient care /care planning and professional practice with attention to quality, service, cost-effectiveness, comfort, safety, age-specific implications, and cultural competence.
  
  
  Serves as a patient/family advocate, incorporating respect for and acknowledgement of cultural diversity and individual patient needs.
  
  
  Maintains and integrates current evidenced-based knowledge into educational programming.
  
  
  Promotes an environment consistent with the core concepts of Patient and Family Centered Care, and demonstration of the core values.
• Educator
  
  
  
  
  • Facilitates the ongoing education and professional development of the nursing staff and students.
  
  
  
  • Coordinates orientation of newly hired nursing department employees to the organization.
  
  
  
  • Plans, prepares, and maintains materials for use in competency-based educational programs, utilizing current standards, regulations, and validated evidenced-based research.
  
  
  
  • Plans and coordinates in-services, orientation, and educational programs for clinical staff to meet competency requirements in accordance with departmental objectives and appropriate accreditation standards.
  
  
  
  • Collaborates in the development or modification of patient education materials as appropriate.
  
  
  
  • Collaborates with RN Educator IIs across the system to develop learning needs assessments for clinical staff and programs and competency strategies to address identified learning needs.
  
  
  
  • Incorporates principles of adult learning in the planning, implementation, and evaluation of education and competency programs.
  
  
  
  • Participates in learning technologies via simulation, LMS, virtual classroom, and multimedia.
  
  
  
  • Communicates effectively in visual, oral, and written form and demonstrates effective presentation skills.
  
  
  
  • Assists in the fiscal and administrative operations through cost- effective use of resources, and participation in revenue-generating activities identified for the department and the organization.
  
  
  
  • Facilitates initial provider and renewal courses for BLS, ACLS, PALS.
  
  
  
  • Cooperates in the facilitation of departmental orientation and conducts a variety of in-service, orientation, and educational programs for clinical staff to meet competency assessment requirements in accordance with departmental objectives and accreditation standards, including but not limited to: Orientation; Initial and Ongoing Competencies; Core Curriculum; Required Certification Courses, Professional Development Program and Preceptor/Mentor Programs.
• Development of Self and Others
  
  
  
  
  • Maintains involvement in professional, community, and clinical specialty activities.
  
  
  
  • Role models customer service.
  
  
  
  • Collaborates and supports clinical student rotations.
  
  
  
  • Collaborates with RN Educator II colleagues to incorporate current research findings into educational activities, and supports and demonstrates evidence-based practice.
  
  
  
  • Challenges existing practice when not aligned with current best practices.
  
  
  
  • Maintains affiliation with professional nursing organizations.
  
  
  
  • Obtains and maintains professional certification.
  
  
  
  • Fosters attainment of professional certification for bedside nursing staff through mentoring, classes, programs, and study groups.
  
  
  
  • Promotes the concept of lifelong learning
• Leader
  
  
  
  
  • Strives for congruence between educational activities and organization mission and goals.
  
  
  
  • Demonstrates support for professional organizations and excellence in professional practice.
  
  
  
  • Serves as a professional role model.
  
  
  
  • Integrates ethical principles in all areas of clinical practice.

Required

• Bachelors Of Science Nursing and Minimum of 3 years as a Registered Nurse, upon hire
• Registered Nurse: KY, upon hire and
• Basic Life Support - CPR, upon hire and
• Advanced Cardiac Life Support, within 90 Days and
• Pediatric Advanced Life Support, within 6 - months

Welcome to Continuing Care Hospital, a 25-bed long-term acute care hospital located inside CHI Saint Joseph Hospital. Continuing Care Hospital is recognized as a 12-time winner of the Kentucky Hospital Association Quality award and a 2024 Best Place to Work in Kentucky. 

CHI Saint Joseph Health is part of CommonSpirit Health, a non-profit, Catholic health system dedicated to advancing health for all people. With approximately 175,000 team members and 25,000 physicians and advanced practice clinicians. 

Our commitment to serve the common good is delivered through the dedicated work of thousands of physicians, advanced practice clinicians, nurses, and staff; through clinical excellence delivered across a system of 140 hospitals and more than 2,200 care centers serving 24 states.