Description
Best practices. Best people. Best place to be as you renew your passion for nursing and reach your highest potential. Thompson Health is looking for a dedicated educator who is innovative and creative in developing education programs and strategies to teach and support our nursing and ancillary clinical staff.
Schedule: Full time salaried role, day hours.
Benefits:
- Health, dental, vision insurance
- Tuition reimbursement up to $6000/year
- Contribution and match on Retirement Plan
- Five weeks paid time off
- Access to Success coaches
- Free parking
Company Culture: Thompson Health has a culture of empowerment. At Thompson, interdisciplinary teams come together to improve care, your suggestions are welcomed and your ideas are part of the solution. Three of our executives have an RN background so we understand the importance of the patient experience! Place yourself in an environment where your growth is supported, your contributions valued and your successes celebrated.
- Focus on CARES values: Commitment, Action, Respect, Excellence, and Service
- Focus on Employee Wellness: Biometric screenings, Wellness programs, Access to onsite gym, Zen Room, Community Shared Agriculture program
- Staff Recognition platforms: Shining Stars, CARESCount website
Main Function:
- Aligns professional practice and educational services with Thompson Health's mission, vision, values, and priorities.
- Prepares nurses and patient care technicians for contemporary practice and supports acquisition of knowledge, skills, and judgement across the care continuum.
Required Job Specific Competencies:
- Demonstrates the ability to provide care for acute and chronic patients across the lifespan, cognizant of psychosocial, cultural, and spiritual implications.
- Collaborate with fellow educators to provide high-quality associate experiences during onboarding, nurse residency programs, and educational needs of nurses and patient care technicians.
- Promotes evidence-based practice findings and identifies clinical research opportunities in collaboration with nurses and patient care technicians.
- Implements teaching and learning strategies and interventions based on age-appropriate learning theory and fostering clinical judgement skills among nurses and patient care technicians.
- Evaluates clinical outcomes related to educational interventions including the impact on cost, quality, and satisfaction with health care.
- Demonstrates a high level of collaborative practice and excellent communication skills.
- Displays characteristics of leadership to include autonomous practice, clinical judgement, analysis, effective conflict resolution and the ability to provide leadership to assigned projects.
- Displays a professional demeanor that always exemplifies a positive role model for professional patient care.
- Functions as a facilitator and innovator for state-of-the-art patient care with direct involvement in the implementation of new techniques for safety and quality care.
- Maintains own knowledge base to keep current on interventions, trends, healthcare and professional nursing developments.
- Adapts education to the audience and articulates information in a logical and sequential manner.
- Actively guards the confidentiality of sensitive information including but not limited to patients, staff and the health system.
- Demonstrate exceptional organizational skills and the ability to quickly reprioritize tasks and meet deadlines.
Qualifications:
- NYS license to practice as a Registered Nurse required
- MSN in Nursing or Nursing Education required
- 3 – 5 years of experience in adult acute care or intensive care nursing required
- BLS certification required
- BLS Instructor preferred
- ACLS certification preferred
- ACLS Instructor preferred
- Experience in education and program planning preferred
- Previous or current faculty experience including adjunct preferred
Pay Range: $95,000-120,000/year
Starting Rate: Based on experience
Thompson Health is an EOE encouraging individuals with disabilities and veterans to apply
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