Clinical Nurse Educator RN (ICU)

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We value your contributions. Our employee recognition programs encourage our teams to raise the bar. We are currently seeking a Clinical Education Professional Development Educator  to join our family. Come be a part of the change! 

We offer you an excellent total compensation package, including competitive salary, excellent benefit package and growth opportunities. We believe in our team and your ability to do excellent work with us. Your benefits include 401k, PTO medical, dental, flex spending, life, disability, tuition reimbursement, employee discount program, employee stock purchase program and student loan repayment. We would love to talk to you about this fantastic opportunity.

HCA Houston Healthcare Clear Lake – Webster, TX

HCA Houston Healthcare Clear Lake is a full-service hospital offering a 531 bed inpatient and outpatient medical, surgical and specialty services. The campus includes Level II trauma capabilities, a Neuroscience Institute, The Heart & Vascular Hospital, a bariatrics program, the Breast Diagnostic Center, a wound care center, a level III Neonatal ICU, and the area’s only pediatric emergency department and pediatric ICU.

HCA Houston Healthcare Clear Lake is affiliated with HCA Houston Healthcare, part of the HCA Healthcare Gulf Coast Division. The division is a comprehensive network of hospitals, outpatient surgery centers, emergency centers and diagnostic imaging facilities in greater Houston, Corpus Christi and South Texas. Facilities include: 17 hospitals, nine ambulatory care centers, 13 off-campus emergency centers, and a regional transfer center.

What you will do in this role:

• The HCA Clinical Education Service Line (CESL) is part of our strategic nursing initiative to create an organizational structure (shared services) focused specifically on clinical education. The CESL will develop and deploy consistent world-class curriculum, content, and programs across HCA's 200 acute care facilities nationwide. The strategy of our center shared services implementation focuses on our amazing clinical educators dedicating their time in high value-add, top of skill efforts with our clinicians. To aid in this effort, HCA will leverage size and scale to share clinical education best practices across the enterprise and help make decisions that will positively impact our patient outcomes.
• The Clinical Professional Development Educator (CPDE) is responsible for enhancing professional practice and the provision of quality patient care by providing evidence-based, quality educational programs and activities that promote professional competency for nursing, inter-professional and non-licensed clinical staff at assigned facility.
• The CPDE actively collaborates in the entire orientation/onboarding process.  This includes participating in the development, coordination, managing, facilitating, conducting, and evaluating on-boarding and orientation programs for nursing and other healthcare personnel. To meet this expectation includes the following:
• Provides orientation/onboarding programs to promote employee retention
• Conducts orientation in a manner that facilitates a positive learning environment
• Promotes cost effectiveness through implementation of efficient orientation/onboarding practices
• Role models organizational and personal commitment to new employee success
• Collaborates with the Education Coordinator the logistics of orientation to keep all stakeholders informed
• Collaborates with the Director Clinical Professional Development to adjust the program based on evaluation results
• Incorporates organizational values/culture
• Education is designed to improve professional practice and provision of quality care.  To accomplish this goal the CPDS participates in designing and identifying educational activities to address practice gaps for identified target audiences, which may include licensed and non-licensed healthcare personal in alignment with HCA and division clinical education request and development processes. These activities are developed to achieve specific outcomes related to identified deficits or opportunities for improvement in knowledge, skill and practice.  To meet this expectation includes the following:
• Assesses practice gaps.
• Identifies learning needs.
• Identifies desired outcomes
• Plans educational content delivery with learner engagement.
• Collaborates with Clinical Education Market Director to evaluate and adjust educational programs based on evaluations and feedback
• Promotes safe, quality and compassionate patient care.
• Aligns educational programs with organization’s policies and procedures
• Ensures that educational programs meet regulatory requirements.
• Understands adult educational theory and able to apply to the development of educational programs.
• Demonstrates an understanding and ability to apply evaluation methodologies, (i.e., Kirkpatrick) into courses and curriculum to refine clinical programs.
• Incorporates organizational values/culture.
• Supports new ideas and innovation in educational design
• Identifies resources for problem solving.
• Utilizes current, best evidence.
• Provides staff with resources and education to implement changes

• Bachelor's degree in Nursing, Healthcare Administration, Education or other clinical related field required.          
• Master's degree in Nursing, Healthcare Administration, Education or other clinical field preferred. 
• Minumum 5+ years’ experience in an acute care hospital required. 
• Currently licensed as appropriate to education in the state(s) in which he or she practices, in accordance with law and regulation.
• Certification as NPD Practitioner and/or clinical certification as recognized by American Nurse Credentialing Center.
• BLS   
• MedSurg certification preferred (RN-BC)