Nurse Educator
Location: Reno Nevada
Description: Renown is at present recruited Nurse Educator right now, this career will be placed in Nevada. For detail informations about this career opportunity please read the description below. **This position is located at Renown South Meadows Hospital.
This is a Surgical position.6 room OR, performing approximately 65 - 70% outpatient procedures. Currently, we are 40% orthopaedics and 20% general/vascular su! rgery, with the remaining 40% split between plastics, ENT, and GYN. We do NOT perform open heart or neurosurgery.
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Position Purpose: This position is responsible for staff development, which includes the application of adult education principles, as well as patient and family education. The incumbent performs an outcome evaluation relative to clinical practice, provides consultation to other health care providers and is an excellent clinician. This position will report the Renown Health Director of Education, but will support Surgical Services at Renown S. Meadows. They will educate,train and orient RNs, Surgical Techs and others in a 6 Room OR setting. Thy will follow the AORN standards for continuing surgical care. Will also precept new graduates from the OR Training program.
Nature and Scope: The posi! tion is accountable for advanced knowledge in the specialty ar! ea and applies theories and concepts derived from the biological and behavioral sciences. The incumbent is also accountable for integrating adult learning theory into the nursing specialty.
The position requires advanced leadership skills. These leadership skills include role modeling, coaching and monitoring to develop the nursing staff. The incumbent also has consultation skills to collaborate with nursing management, other departments and professionals within the hospital as well as in the community.
The position requires advanced clinical practice skills. These include assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of a patient population whose age is determined by the particular educators specialty. The incumbent also assists with legal and regulatory standards to maintain quality care.
The incumbent also has advanced adult education skills. The major challenge is to develop the staff using a variety of adult learning principles including didactic, sel! f-directed and clinical modalities. The position requires outcome evaluation of these teaching and learning strategies.
The incumbent must demonstrate the knowledge and skills necessary to provide care based on physical, motor/sensor, psychosocial, and safety appropriate to the age of the patient served and meets standards of quality as measured by the department Competence with Special Populations competency standards.
Evidence based nursing practice, along with critical thinking skills are required to provide optimally safe patient care when interacting with internal and external contacts and exercising judgment and making decisions.
Professional nursing practice is congruent with the American Nurses Association Code of Ethics.
This position does not provide patient care.
The foregoing description is not intended and should not be construed to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, skills and efforts or work conditions associated with! the job. It is intended to be an accurate reflection of the general na! ture and level of the job.
Minimum Qualifications:
Requirements - Required and/or Preferred
Education: Must have working-level knowledge of the English language, including reading, writing and speaking English. Bachelors degree in Nursing or other healthcare related field required. Masters degree preferred in nursing or other healthcare related field.
Experience: Requires two years clinical experience in the specialty area.
License(s): Ability to obtain and maintain a State of Nevada Registered Nurse license.
Requires current BLS certification by the American Heart Association standards.
Computer / Typing: Must possess, or be able to obtain within 90 days, the computers skills necessary to complete online learning requirements for job-specific competencies, access online forms and policies, complete online benefits enrollment, etc. To Apply for this position, please CLICK HERE
Qualifications:
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Facility Address:
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This career starts available on: Fri, 31 May 2013 01:43:46 GMT