Director-Inpatient Education-Nursing Education

Job Description:

Education:

Required: Master’s degree in Nursing or related field, if Master’s is in field other than nursing, Bachelor’s degree must be earned in nursing
Preferred: DNP or PhD

Licensure/Certification:

Required: California RN licensure; National certification appropriate for leadership or education (or obtain within 1 year of hire)

Experience:

Required: Five (5) years in related nursing position with two (2) years of progressive leadership experience
Preferred: Experience in educational development and/or management in an acute care or ambulatory facility

Essential Responsibilities:

• Demonstrates compliance with Code of Conduct and Compliance Policies and takes action to resolve compliance questions or concerns and reports suspected violations.
• Oversees the development, coordination, strategic planning, organization, implementation and evaluation of educational and staff development programs for the Nursing staff, patients and families within the inpatient environment.
• Leads department in the development of in-service, continuing education and orientation, and staff development programs based on needs assessments, curricula design and methodology and evaluation criteria. Develops effective written materials, outlines, handouts, and evaluation tools.
• Provides evidence based programing to encourage nursing certification status.
• Collaborates with Human Resources and Nursing in developing policies and procedures.
• Ensures compliance and documentation of organizational records based on regulatory agency standards, responding to corporate and industry changes in clinical development.
• Develops, implements, monitors, evaluates and improves the acute care nursing orientation program, cross training, and educational competencies for clinical staff. Functions as change agent within facility through facilitation, mentoring, communication, leadership and implementation activities.
• Evaluates departmental performance and effects changes as needed to improve services. Keeps administration informed of activities, needs and problems.
• Supervises and mentors staff for provision of quality programming.
• Prepares periodic reports for administration depicting education assessment of organization, and the strategic plans to address, implement and measure the components of the plan based on the assessment findings.
• Organizes advertising and marketing strategies related to educational activities.
• Plans, organizes, implements education training programs and evaluates for staff based on needs assessments from departments and other requests.
• Ensures use of effective teaching skills through variety of instructional methods/styles focusing on the educational needs of each audience, including age, and is sensitive to the needs and reactions of learners.
• Develops annual budget in conjunction with senior leadership to ensure the appropriate efficiency, productivity, and sufficient resources to meet projected department needs.
• Coordinates and integrates all educational services within the inpatient divisions for staff, working collaboratively with leadership, physicians, medical educational staff and other clinical staff. Collaborates with Medical Education to provide interprofessional clinical education.
• Maintains and coordinates assigned procedures, projects and systems related to Joint Commission and other regulatory bodies.
• Acts as clinical expert and role model within Nursing Service.

Essential Skils:

• Proficient with project management
• Excellent understanding of nursing process
• Proven communication skills
• Management of healthcare students
• Proven project management skills
• Membership in professional organization
• Understanding of organizational systems and structure
• Proficient with Microsoft Office including Power Point and Excel
• Alignment and negotiation of clinical placements with area colleges