Education Coordinator, Inpatient - Austin Acute Care

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Education & TrainingEducation Coordinator

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Job Duties & Responsibilities Ensures the design, implementation, and evaluation of a cost-effective unit-based orientation process that focuses on knowledge, skills, and relationships. Designs,

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Education & TrainingEducation Coordinator

Responsibilities

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→Ensures the design, implementation, and evaluation of a cost-effective unit-based orientation process that focuses on knowledge, skills, and relationships.
→Designs, implements and evaluates on an annual basis, a cost-effective unit-based orientation pathway for each job as measured by feedback from the leadership team.
→Individualizes the unit-based orientation pathways to meet the specific learning needs of staff, as measured by feedback from orientees, preceptors, and leadership team.
→Creates and maintains orientation schedules and accurately inputs preceptor and orientee schedules.
→Calculates monthly orientation hours.
→Ensures that appropriate communication has occurred regarding orientation schedules, as measured by feedback from orientees, preceptors, and leadership team.
→Acts as a role model in building supportive and collaborative work relationships with new employees, as measured by feedback from staff, orientee, preceptors, and leadership team.
→Teaches, facilitates, or develops staff designees to participate in 32-36 hours of centralized courses/centralized planning activity annually, as measured by Nursing Professional Development reports.
→Reviews and discusses with orientee and manages the orientee’s progress at least weekly, as measured by feedback from preceptors, orientees, and leadership team.
→Monitors orientation processes and identify and improve problematic trends, as measured by preceptor, staff, orientee, and leadership team feedback.
→Updates unit-based orientation pathways at least quarterly and reviews with leadership team.
→Provides feedback to NURSING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT to improve centralized orientation pathways, as measured by feedback from the leadership team and NURSING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT.
→Coordinates/Conducts required training to close performance gaps in knowledge and skills.
→Implements a unit-based plan for advancing competence of staff on all shifts that results in improved performance.
→Assesses, plans, implements, coordinates, evaluates, and documents for patient care.
→Orients and develops preceptors.
→Coordinates the annual assessment and validation of priority high-risk skills.
→Coordinates the unit-based clinical experience for students.
→Participates in the Quality Outcomes Program and/or unit-based quality initiatives for the purpose of educating staff and monitoring clinical outcomes that demonstrate nursing excellence.
→Provides administrative support for unit-based operations.

Requirements

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Bachelor's Degree Nursing required
RN - Lic-Registered Nurses by the Texas Board of Nursing or Nursing Licensure Compact required
BLS - Cert-Basic Life Support by the American Heart Association required
2 years Clinical nursing experience required
1 year Preceptor or educator experience preferred
Pediatric experience preferred