Description
Job Title: Nurse Educator
Department: ETW RRH Extended Care Admin
Location: St. Mary's Campus
Hours Per Week: 0
Schedule: Monday-Friday, 7am-3:30pm or 8am-4:30pm
SUMMARY:
The Nurse Educator is responsible for identifying, developing, facilitating and evaluating educational activities for nursing and clinical staff. This position provides opportunities to promote life-long learning for employees and lends to safe, quality patient care.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Facilitates the orientation process for all new nurses and patient care technicians in the acute care area settings. Develops, organizes and delivers all classroom orientation lesson plans.
- Maintains American Heart Association Basic Life Support instructor status and provides regular class instruction. Supports staff educational needs for emergency response measures.
- Provides ongoing educational needs assessment to identify relevant educational activities such as new diagnoses, new equipment, policy and procedure expectations, quality outcome data.
- In collaboration with Director/Managers, provides support and education remediation, as appropriate.
- Assesses staff competency levels and facilitates various methods to accomplish competency completion.
- Develops quality educational activities that includes all aspects of eligibility for ANCC contact hours. This includes advertisement, measurable objectives, content outline that is based on current, evidenced-based literature, evaluation and certificate.
- Maintains strict recordkeeping of all educational activities with attendance as required by regulatory agencies such as Joint Commission, NYDOH.
- Utilizes a variety of learning methods such as Powerpoint presentations, on-line computer programs, self-learning packets, demo/re-demonstration, simulation training.
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor Degree in Nursing
- 2 years of clinical nursing experience.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- Master's Degree preferred.
- Able to perform instructional inservice programs before potentially large groups.
- Very good working knowledge of basic computer skills (Word, Powerpoint, Excel).
EDUCATION:
- MS: Nursing
- BS: Nursing (Required)
PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS: Sedentary - Sedentary roles are primarily office-based and require prolonged sitting (67–100% of the workday) with minimal physical effort and lifting limited to under 10 lbs. Fine motor skills are necessary for computer work, writing, and telephone use, supported by clear visual and auditory ability. Cognitive and emotional demands are high due to extended concentration, frequent interruptions, independent decision-making, and information processing. Although physical exposure is low, administrative areas within healthcare environments may occasionally involve contact with infectious agents. Some roles may require flexible hours, TB screening, or a valid driver’s license.
LICENSES/CERTIFICATIONS:
- RN - Registered Nurse - NYS Office of Professions
- BLS - Basic Life Support - American Heart Association (AHA)
PAY RANGE: $82,742.00 - $113,568.00
The listed base pay range is a good faith representation of current potential base pay for successful applicants. It may be modified in the future. Pay is determined by factors including experience, clinical licensure date, relevant qualifications, specialty, internal equity, location, and contracts.
