Job Overview:
The Clinical Educator provides educational expertise for areas of clinical and patient care services in all clinical settings, to attain Tamarack Health's mission and strategic goals. The Clinical Educator is responsible for developing, conducting, evaluating and improving in-service programs, orientation and continuing education for clinical disciplines in order to improve the quality of care, treatment and services delivered to all patients. Participates in performance and process improvement activities; serves on special committees as needed.
Responsibilities/Duties:
- Supports the orientation process by developing, coordinating, facilitating, conducting and evaluating orientation programs for nursing and other healthcare personnel.
- Manages clinical professional development learning programs, including, but not limited to preceptor development program.
- Assists with competency management, which includes using tools that capture objective and subjective data regarding an individual's knowledge base and actual performance.
- Designs educational activities to address practice gaps for identified target audiences in consultation with Clinical Education Specialist.
- Utilizes best practice standards including adult learning principles in the planning, design, implementation, and evaluation of educational activities in order to facilitate the achievement of desired outcomes (for learners).
- Provides strategies to facilitate a continuous process of lifelong learning which may include role transition, role integration, skill acquisition, and mastery as learners advance from novice to expert in their professions and specialties.
- Collaborates with system and operational leadership to meet the education needs of Tamarack Health.
- Adjusts materials and teaching strategies appropriate to the situation and the learner's developmental level, learning needs, readiness, ability to learn, language preference, and culture. Implementation reflects awareness of scope of practice of different employees and disciplines. Uses assisted aids/technologies as needed to meet learner needs.
- Evaluates and analyzes the impact of programming on learners, organizational resources, and patient outcomes and makes adjustments in consultation with Clinical Education Specialist as needed.
- Establishes and implements appropriate evaluation tools and methodologies to identify needs or gaps in the knowledge, skills, and competencies of clinical personnel to advance the practice of specific clinical discipline.
- Develops and supports education needs based on specialty or department in collaboration with system team(s).
- Develops instructional materials; demonstrates patient care equipment; coordinates demonstrations of patient care equipment by vendors'/manufacturers' representatives.
- Instructs, coordinates and manages database for compliance of clinical certificates, including, but not limited to BLS, ACLS, in accordance with accreditation standards.
- Assists with the coordination of performance improvement and continuous quality improvement activities.
Education/Experience:
- Graduate of an accredited school of Nursing. BSN preferred
- Current Wisconsin Registered Nurse license
- Current BLS certification
- Current ACLS certification within 6 months of hire date
- Obtain BLS and ACLS certified instructor credential within 12 months of hire date
- Learning Management System experience preferred
- 3 years previous hospital nursing experience preferred
- Simulation education experience preferred
- Effective interpersonal skills
- Strong attention to detail
Benefits and Salary:
Commensurate with position and experience. Comprehensive benefits package to include: medical, HSA, dental, 403(b) with employer match of 5%, life insurance, long-term disability, PTO, sick time, EAP, wellness benefits, etc.
About Us:
As an independent hospital, we live our mission to improve the health and wellbeing of the people of our region. To improve access to care, we have expanded our local specialty and primary care services in our communities. Not far from Duluth, MN, our campus resides in the beautiful north woods of Wisconsin where you can balance work and home life on our beautiful lakes and trails by partaking in personal interests such as biking, cross-country skiing, hiking, fishing, water sports, ATVing, snowmobiling, and much more.
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