Nurse Health Educator

GENERAL STATEMENT OF FUNCTIONS:

• Serves as a primary technical expert and consultant for Educational Training Program at Kedren Health.
• Participates in the developing, planning, coordinating and implementing employee orientation and education programs for the hospital staff. Ensures that current clinical or administrative concerns/staff educational needs are incorporated into the learning activities for nursing or other instructional needs of the organization. Determines learning objectives, provide guidance to others and identifies sources of information. Reviews and evaluates course materials for clarity, educational adequacy and accomplishment of objectives. Changes in the educational activities are based on the analysis of the results and analysis of staff learning needs.
• Evaluates the effectiveness of the overall employee orientation and continuing educational programs.
• Develops criteria for employee orientation and continuing education programs based upon established guidelines set up by hospital policies, official accreditation organizations, and regulatory agencies. Actively involved in hospital education committees to improve processes.
• Observes, guides and directs professional nurses and other staff members who are involved in developing and presenting employee orientation and educational programs.
• Maintains accurate, retrievable and confidential records in compliance with departmental, organizational, and external agency requirements.
• Manages and coordinates civilian graduate and undergraduate clinical education. Actively exchanges knowledge of nursing practice and educational concerns with peers and university level academicians.
• Utilizes a variety of sources to identify learning needs of hospital personnel and plans either formal or informal learning activities to address these needs. Ensures that education training programs are in compliance with The Joint Commission requirements for hospital education, and that standards are actively sustained.
• Prepares and submits timely and comprehensive reports to internal and external agencies. Integrates research and current literature into educational activities.
• Embraces and institutes policies and initiatives. (60%)
• Develops, markets, collects, interprets, analyzes, and reports the results of the staff Learning Needs Assessment Survey(s) in accordance with policy, and The Joint Commission standards.
• Facilitates information exchange and education as opportunities to improve.
• Integrates research and current literature into educational activities. (20%)
• Provides consultative assistance to staff on issues related to competency assessment.
• Serves as a subject matter expert on issues related to education and competency.
• Updates tools in response to changing missions and health care practices, and provides guidance to the organization on the importance, organization, and use of competency and personnel documentation folders.
• Serves as a consultant to leadership and supervisors on issues related to competency and accreditation standards. Monitors, audits and analyzes competency assessment compliance. Reports results to appropriate leadership. Identifies staff learning needs based on competency assessments.
• Facilitates education and training that maintains or increases staff competency and incorporates the skills of team communication, collaboration and coordination of care.
• Serves as an instructor for courses/programs offered by hospital education as needed (i.e. life support courses, preceptorship course, new employee orientation, etc). (20%)