Nurse Educator, Long-Term Care (Per-Diem, Days)

The Nurse Educator is responsible for identifying, developing, facilitating and evaluating educational activities for nursing and clinical staff. This position provides opportunities to promote life-long learning for employees and lends to safe, quality patient care.

• →Facilitates the orientation process for all new nurses and patient care technicians in the acute care area settings. Develops, organizes and delivers all classroom orientation lesson plans.
• →Maintains American Heart Association Basic Life Support instructor status and provides regular class instruction. Supports staff educational needs for emergency response measures.
• →Provides ongoing educational needs assessment to identify relevant educational activities such as new diagnoses, new equipment, policy and procedure expectations, quality outcome data.
• →In collaboration with Director/Managers, provides support and education remediation, as appropriate.
• →Assesses staff competency levels and facilitates various methods to accomplish competency completion.
• →Develops quality educational activities that includes all aspects of eligibility for ANCC contact hours. This includes advertisement, measurable objectives, content outline that is based on current, evidenced-based literature, evaluation and certificate.
• →Maintains strict recordkeeping of all educational activities with attendance as required by regulatory agencies such as Joint Commission, NYDOH. 
• →Utilizes a variety of learning methods such as Powerpoint presentations, on-line computer programs, self-learning packets, demo/re-demonstration, simulation training. 

• Bachelor Degree in Nursing 
• 2 years of clinical nursing experience. 

• Master's Degree preferred.
• Able to perform instructional inservice programs before potentially large groups. 
• Very good working knowledge of basic computer skills (Word, Powerpoint, Excel).

The posted pay range is a good faith representation of potential base pay for this position. It may be modified in the future and eligible for additional pay components. Individual annual salaries/hourly rates could vary based on position details and FTE. Pay is determined by considering factors including, but not limited to, experience, relevant qualifications, specialty, internal equity, locations, and contracts.