Clinical Educator

Center for Best Practice
Full Time
AM Shift
0700-1530

Lexington Health is a comprehensive network of care that includes six community medical and urgent care centers, nearly 80 physician practices, more than 9,000 health care professionals and Lexington Medical Center, a 607-bed teaching hospital in West Columbia, South Carolina. It was selected by Modern Healthcare as one of the Best Places to Work in Healthcare and was first in the state to achieve Magnet with Distinction status for excellence in nursing care. Consistently ranked as best in the Columbia Metro area by U.S. News & World Report, Lexington Health delivers more than 4,000 babies each year, performs more than 34,000 surgeries annually and is the region's third largest employer.

Lexington Health also includes an accredited Cancer Center of Excellence, the state's first HeartCARE Center, the largest skilled nursing facility in the Carolinas, and an Alzheimer's care center. Its postgraduate medical education programs include family medicine and transitional year residencies, as well as an informatics fellowship.

Job Summary

Facilitates the delivery of quality patient care through practice as an educator and leader. The clinical educator is an expert practitioner who demonstrates departmental and unit based leadership, excellent communication skills, proficient knowledge and decision-making skills in a specialty. Clinical educators are exceptional teachers, critical thinkers and exhibit collaboration with nursing leadership, direct care nursing staff and physicians. Responsible and accountable for clinical development activities to include structured programs, in-services, patient care orientation and ongoing educational programs based on learner and organizational needs that foster the development of competence in the direct care clinical nursing staff. Facilitates achievement of annual organizational quality goals as evidenced by patient outcomes. Provides effective training to direct care clinical nursing staff and nursing support staff for Epic EHR Inpatient ClinDoc and/or Stork.

Minimum Qualifications

Minimum Education: Bachelors of Science in Nursing
Minimum Education: Bachelors of Science in Nursing
Substitutable Education & Experience (Optional): None.
Required Certifications/Licensure: Currently licensed as a Registered Nurse by the South Carolina Board of Nursing; Instructor status in mandatory certification programs (CPR, ACLS, NRP, or PALS) - may be obtained within six months of entering role; Certification in Nursing Professional Development - may be obtained within 3 years of entering role; Epic Credentialed Trainer certification(Inpatient ClinDoc and/or Stork) - may be obtained within 6 months of entering role; Certification in CPR.
Required Training: Experience teaching adult learners.

Essential Functions

• The Clinical Educator facilitates the direct care clinical nursing staff's acquisition of knowledge and skills needed to provide cost-effective, quality patient care.
• Develops, coordinates, implements, evaluates and revises patient care and nursing orientation.
• Assesses, plans, implements and evaluates educational programs and activities to meet the needs of clinical nursing staff.
• Works effectively with team/work groups to accomplish organizational goals.
• Utilizes principles of Adult Learning Theory in developing educational programs.
• Demonstrates competence in critical thinking and problem solving skills to assist staff in providing care and treatment for the patient populations served.
• Effectively collaborates with learners and supervisors utilizing outcomes data to plan and present educational activities that foster competency in staff.
• Provides oversight to nursing students, nursing residents and high school health science students in their clinical rotations in patient care units.
• Facilitates orientation for clinical staff and students prior to patient care experiences.
• Promotes evidence-based nursing practice utilizing current research.
• Provides assessment and/or implementation of changes to practice, policy and procedure to improve nursing practice and patient outcomes.
• Achieves and maintains a satisfactory level of technical skills and knowledge related to education technology and Epic EHR Inpatient ClinDoc and/or Stork.
• Maintains confidentiality.
• Exhibits telephone courtesy.
• Utilizes the service recovery process to resolve complaints.
• Directly influences policy, procedures, and educational strategies for unit, organization, and community.
• This role encompasses that of an educator, facilitator, project manager, consultant, change agent, and researcher.
• Serves as resource and role model for clinical nursing staff, other health care personnel and nursing students in the acquisition of knowledge and skills related to their practice.
• Assumes accountability for maintaining competencies in specialty.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Maintains professional growth and development through seminars, workshops, in-service meetings, current literature and professional affiliations; completes a minimum of forty continuing education hours per year.
• Operationalizes patient care philosophy, standards of care and practice, P & P, protocols and incorporates in to daily activities.
• Identifies opportunities for improvement and works with other members of the health care team to promote positive patient outcomes and reduce risk for healthcare associated infections.
• Involves staff in defining problems and selecting solutions regarding educational needs.
• Leads implementation of best practice processes regarding learner need identification, curriculum development, educational delivery methods and coaching to promote professional growth and development.
• Facilitates and leads teams; serves on committees and task forces as needed
• Participates in monitoring and evaluation of patient outcomes related to staff competency.
• Supports the integration of research into evidence-based practice.
• Reviews and evaluates current research from a variety of disciplines (adult education, nursing management, organizational development and training, healthcare trends, etc.) and integrates findings into staff development programs.
• Communicates education outcomes to clinical staff and hospital leaders.
• Maintains required records and reports.
• Completes yearly safety training and other mandatory classes.
• Performs all other duties as assigned.
  

We are committed to offering quality, cost-effective benefits choices for our employees and their families:

• Day ONE medical, dental and life insurance benefits
• Health care and dependent care flexible spending accounts (FSAs)
• Employees are eligible for enrollment into the 403(b) match plan day one. LHI matches dollar for dollar up to 6%.
• Employer paid life insurance – equal to 1x salary
• Employee may elect supplemental life insurance with low cost premiums up to 3x salary
• Adoption assistance
• LHI provides its full-time employees employer paid short-term disability and long-term disability coverage after 90 days of eligible employment
• Tuition reimbursement
• Student loan forgiveness

Equal Opportunity Employer
It is the policy of Lexington Health to provide equal opportunity of employment for all individuals, and to remain compliant with applicable state and federal laws and regulations. Lexington Health strives to provide a discrimination-free environment, and to recruit, select, on-board, and employ all employees without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, disability, national origin, veteran status, or pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions, including but not limited to, lactation. Lexington Health endeavors to upgrade and promote employees from within the hospital where possible and consistent with the employee's desires and abilities and the hospital's needs.