Rn Clinical Nurse Educator

Shriners Children’s is a family that respects, supports, and values each other. We are engaged in providing excellence in patient care, embracing multi-disciplinary education, and research with global impact. We foster a learning environment that values evidenced based practice, experience, innovation, and critical thinking. Our compassion, integrity, accountability, and resilience defines us as leaders in pediatric specialty care for our children and their families.

Shriners Children's is the premier pediatric burn, orthopaedic, spinal cord injury, cleft lip and palate, and pediatric subspecialties medical center. We have an opportunity for a RN Clinical Nurse Educator to support our Galveston, Texas team.

The RN Clinical Nurse Educator is responsible for practices to include learning, change, and professional role competence and growth. The Educator contributes to the provision of optimal care and promotion of health at an individual level. In this position, you'll have the opportunity to influence the following areas

• Research/Evidence-based Practice/Quality Improvement (QI) Promotes and integrates the science to continuously improve practice. In addition, promotes research, EBP, QI in patient care settings.
• Competency management Assesses, measures, documents and supports competency, and addresses deficiencies in staff members’ competence.
• Onboarding/orientation Develops, coordinates, manages, facilitates, conducts, and evaluates clinical onboarding/orientation programs for nursing & other healthcare personnel
• Education Creates, manages, implements, coordinates, and evaluates continuing educational activities to address practice gaps for identified target audience developed to achieve specific outcomes to identified gaps in knowledge, skills, or practice.
• Professional Role Development Identification and development of strategies to facilitate a continuous process of maturation through lifelong learning that allows for role transition, role integration, skill acquisition and succession planning.

Experience Required/Preferred

• 5 years’ clinical nursing practice experience required. This role may be required to support more than one facility or specialty.
• 3 years’ progressive leadership experience preferred

Education Required/Preferred

• Masters in Nursing (MSN) and equivalent coursework in curriculum development, adult learning theory, learning needs assessment, and learning outcome measurement from an accredited college or university required

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• Ability to design curricula and programs that reflect sound education principles, incorporate evidence-based practice, meet measurable outcomes, and that meet requirements of external regulatory and accrediting organizations.
• Ability to evaluate and document the academic performance and clinical competency of staff, identifying staff’s and unit’s needs, strengths, limitations and opportunities.
• Ability to plan, implement, evaluate and revise professional development and continuing education programs for nursing staff at the unit and organization-wide levels.
• Ability to apply a professional nursing code of ethics and professional guidelines to clinical practice.
• Ability to be a resource for all employees assigned area of specialization.
• Ability to function as an educator, leader, consultant, facilitator, change agent, and researcher.
• Ability to plan educational programs for staff with various levels of ability given available resources.
• Knowledge of adult instructional methods and theories, learning concepts and evaluation.

Salary for this position ranges from $84,500 to $126,000, based upon experience and internal equity.