RN Clinical Educator - Enterprise - Full Time Hybrid Role

Sanford Health is one of the largest and fastest-growing not-for-profit health systems in the United States. We’re proud to offer many development and advancement opportunities to our nearly 50,000 members of the Sanford Family who are dedicated to the work of health and healing across our broad footprint. 

Work Shift:

8 Hours - Day Shifts (United States of America)

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

32

Salary Range: $32.50 - $48.00

Union Position:

No

Department Details

Position provides opportunity to work remotely with occasional in person meetings with care teams as well as teach orientation content to new hires.

Work includes collaboration with care teams to advise and enhance their patient teaching strategies. This includes co-creation of patient education resources, reinforcement of best practices, and teaching care team members about available patient education resources, patient education fundamentals, and connection to health outcomes.

• Leads multi-region workgroups to realize standardized material for patient education. Is tech savvy in efforts to hold effective discussions across the footprint. Coordinates the development of material with current practice standards.
• Expected to build strong alliances with leaders, clinical partners, and community agencies as applicable. Must be able to organize, plan, coordinate, and facilitate educational programs. Utilizes adult learning principles, various teaching/learning methodologies and provides role modeling and leadership of a broad reach within and outside the organization.
• Expected to provide on-unit rounding and mentoring that promotes and provides feedback on patient-teaching best practices. The educator will be an active contributor in the Patient Education Research Strategy.
• Position can be done remotely with occasional in person meetings and teaching sessions.
• Applicants must reside within or near one of Sanford Health's four major market locations (Sioux Falls, Fargo, Bemidji, or Bismarck).

Summary

Responsible for assessing, planning, coordinating, teaching, and/or evaluating education and training programs for designated area and audience. Develops alternative methodologies for education based on learning principles. Collaborates with clinical partners, educational facilities, and/or other community agencies and consortium institutions when applicable to curriculum.

Job Description

Responsible to manage the orientation, staff development and ongoing professional development, education, and mentoring for new, transferring, and existing clinical staff and/or partners.

May also participate in coordinating orientation schedules with managers, preceptors,orientees and/or clinical partners; coordinates and/or provides skills immersion and lab experiences; provides feedback, coaching, and mentors designated audience; ensures orientation documentation processes are complete and filed; follows up at regular intervals to evaluate continued progress; and ongoing collaborates with managers and preceptors as to needs and concerns.

Expected to continuously develop, monitor, and evaluate all programs related to orientation, professional development, education, and mentoring for quality improvement opportunities and other initiatives. Additional focus may center on the facilitation of consensus building around an educational intervention amount subject matter experts and leadership.

Included in this role are the development, coordination, assisting and/or teaching of programs or classes related to new clinical staff and/or partner's orientation/professional development and preceptor development. Expected to build strong alliances with department leaders, clinical partners, community agencies and consortium institutions when applicable. Must be able to organize, plan, coordinate, and facilitate educational programs, utilize adult learning principles, use various teaching/learning methodologies and provide role modeling and leadership.

Qualifications

Master’s in nursing is required, or currently has in place, an education plan with proven continuous action towards achieving Master’s degree in nursing within three years of hire. Graduate from a nationally accredited nursing program preferred, including, but not limited to, Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE), Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing (ACEN), and National League for Nursing Commission for Nursing Education Accreditation (NLN CNEA).

Three years clinical experience required.

Requires current unencumbered license as a Registered Nurse in the state(s) of practice and/or possess multi-state licensure privileges as required by position. Obtains and subsequently maintains required department specific competencies and certifications.

Sanford is an EEO/AA Employer M/F/Disability/Vet. 

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