Community Nurse Educator 

PRN 

The Educational Development and Community Education Department provides clinical and non-clinical education, professional development, leadership development, and community education across the organization 

The Clinical Nurse Educator (CNE) functions to ensure that clinicians are prepared to be responsible for promoting patient safety and high-quality patient care through clinical leadership, education, consultation, modeling, and research. The CNE incorporates evidence-based practice, theory, and research into various patient care settings according to patient needs by collaborating with multi-professional multidisciplinary groups, facilitating the development of hospital and department policies, nursing procedures, and regulatory standards and guidelines. The role also includes functioning as a community resource on topics within scope of practice and providing nursing orientation, education, and ongoing competency verification. The CNE is a role model for caring that honors the patient’s mind, body, and spirit. 

Job Description: 

• Collaborates with department directors, nursing staff, and others to identify unit-specific educational needs. 

• Collaborates with other educators to prevent redundancies of educational efforts. 

• Collaborates with human resources department, nurse educators, professional development specialists, clinical nurse specialists, and department directors to facilitate the unit/hospital orientation program for area of responsibility.  

• Provides ongoing support and coaching to preceptors and/or new employees.

• Assesses educational needs through a variety of methods, both formal and informal, for orientation, in-service education and continuing education to preceptors, new employees, and experienced staff. 

• Demonstrates ability to teach programs using adult learning principles, professional presentation skills, and quality audiovisual aids and handout materials. 

• Evaluates achievement of learning objectives  

• Facilitates attainment of necessary or desired educational credit from accreditation bodies for a given professional category and submits required documentation after the program 

• Participates in patient care delivery 

• Participates indirectly in the delivery of patient care in area of specialization. 

• Acts as a resource for staff in locating answers to questions, best evidence, current policies, procedures, and protocols. 

• Provides clinical consultation. 

• Participates in research/evidence-based practice 

• Incorporates research findings and best practice findings into the development of clinical practice guidelines/standards/policies. 

Requirements: 

• Current RN license or work permit in Kentucky. 

• Three (3) years of acute care experience in the designated specialty within the last five (5) years 

• BSN from accredited nursing program 

• Certification as Professional Development Specialist (PDS) preferred 

• Basic Life Support certification. 

• ACLS/PALS/NRP/TNCC/ENPC certifications as required by department of assignment.