General Summary of Position Responsibility:

The Clinical Educator fosters a learning environment and coordinates educational activities to achieve and advance the clinical competency and professional development of patient care staff.

Essential Job Functions:

1. Coordinates area orientation designed to achieve the clinical competency of staff. Assesses clinical reasoning skills of staff and provides learning opportunities to advance clinical competencies, critical thinking, and decision-making skills of staff.

2. Fosters interdisciplinary learning opportunities with the delivery of patient care and fosters staff decision-making in the context of the healthcare continuum.

3. Fosters the development of leadership, teamwork, and customer service skills. Assesses the learning needs of staff and reviews performance improvement data to provide educational activities which meet the needs of staff and achieve expected family care outcomes.

4. Employs a variety of interactive teaching strategies.

5. Evaluates the outcomes of orientation and educational activities in collaboration with staff, clinical, administrative and educational leaders. Revises learning activities based on results of evaluation.

6. Serves as a clinical resource for patient care staff. Mentors and actively facilitates the clinical and professional advancement of staff. Coaches orientees and guides staff to appropriate resources to achieve performance expectations.

7. Serves as a role model and facilitates research and scholarly activities. Links staff to expert sources of knowledge. Actively fosters staff utilization of research findings in clinical practice.

8. Provides consultation to leadership regarding systems for clinical competency and ongoing professional development of staff. Participates in the development and attainment of goals and objectives.

9. Maintains the documentation and record keeping system in compliance with organizational and external agency requirements.

10. Participates in outreach education to advance pediatric clinical practice in the professional community.

11. Performs job functions adhering to service principles with customer service focus of innovation, service excellence and teamwork to provide the highest quality care and service to our patients, families, co-workers and others.

Job Requirements:

1. Current RN license in the State of Illinois required. Bachelors degree required, Master’s degree in area of clinical specialization and/or education preferred.

2. Three or more years of pediatric nursing experience required.

3. Possesses effective teaching skills.

4. Ability to physically immobilize children if necessary.

5. Ability to assess and respond quickly to patient care situations. Ability to effectively communicate with patients, families, physicians, and hospital staff. Ability to operate and move audio/visual equipment from location to location.

Three or more years of pediatric nursing experience required.