Clinical Nurse Educator - NICU

Nemours is seeking a NICU Clinical Nurse Educator! The role is designed for a Registered Nurse with responsibilities for leading education to improve the quality, safety, and the patient experience of care delivered.

The Clinical Nurse Educator holds the primary responsibility for implementing strategies that promote
optimal learning and the effective translation of knowledge and skills to the learners practice environment
thus enhancing a learner's competence.

The Clinical Nurse Educator facilitates nursing professional
development by engaging nurses in lifelong learning activities to enhance their professional competence and
role performance.

The clinical educator operates in both the practice and learning environment to meet the
demands of the practice setting.

At the core of the professional development process is evidence-base
practice, which integrates the highest level of evidence, educational and clinical expertise, and learner values
to facilitate decision-making.

Critical thinking to apply scientific knowledge and theory relate to both
educational methods and practice.

The programs and services include orientation, competency program, inservice
and continuing education, career development & role transition, and research & scholarship.

The
overall outcome is the acquisition of knowledge, skills, and attitudes to support protection of the public and
provision of safe, quality care.

This is reflected in the adoption of new behaviors and/or process as part of
ongoing change; acquisition of knowledge, skills, abilities and attitudes upon which to base practice; and
professional role competence and growth.

Responsibilities:

The Clinical Nursing Educator professional practice includes:


* Collect data from educational activities and other sources to determine educational needs.


* Identify issues and trends, obtain and analyze data for individual, organizations, communities.


* Establish a nursing education curriculum, programs, and/or plan that outline strategies and alternatives to achieve the established educational and organizational outcomes.


* Implement the educational plan utilizing teaching and learning principles.


* Influence the planning process, enhance the abilities of others, and affect change.


* Evaluate progress to attainments of outcomes.


* The Clinical Nursing Educator professional development includes:


* Systematically enhance the quality and effectiveness of nursing professional development practice.


* Maintain current knowledge and competency in nursing and professional development practice.


* Evaluate his/her own practice in relation to professional practice standards and guidelines, and relevant statutes, rules, and regulations.


* Model professional behaviors including involvement/collaboration in professional organizations, academic institutions, engagement in lifelong learning activities, dissemination of information through publications and presentations, and in...