Surgical Services RN Nurse Educator

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The Nurse Education Coordinator for Surgical Services uses critical thinking skills, professional judgment, and leadership to anticipate, plan, direct, and evaluate the care of patients provided by a team of perioperative personnel. They are responsible for planning, coordinating and evaluating education programs for Operating Room staff, including RNs, Surgical Technologists and ancillary personnel. A core requirement of this role is maintaining high‑level clinical proficiency;

the educator will be required to scrub into surgical cases to provide direct patient care, mentor staff in the sterile field, and maintain departmental staffing agility. They ensure clinical competency in both scrub and circulating roles, sterile technique and advanced surgical technology. These duties are performed in a highly confidential manner, in accordance with the mission, values and behaviors of Insight Hospital and Medical Center.

Employees are expected to provide high quality of care, service, and kindness toward all patients, staff, physicians, volunteers and guests.

• Uses nursing process, critical thinking, professional judgment and attributes of Careful Nursing to provide care for an assigned population of patients (20% of time).
• Assesses patient needs to determine care requirements.
• Plans care and delegates tasks to ancillary personnel based on patient assessment.
• Evaluates patient response to care provided and makes changes in plan for care as needed.
• Promotes patient/family independence through education related to a patient’s condition, treatment, medications and ongoing self‑care requirements.
• Plans and conducts a variety of in‑service orientation and educational programs to meet the needs of Patient Care Services staff at all levels (20% of time).
• Evaluates and revises centralized programs and orientation programs as required to maintain current content and congruency with the patient care model.
• Assesses educational needs of staff and develops plans for learning experiences appropriate to recognized needs.
• Plans and prepares curriculum content and course outlines in conformance with program objectives and accreditation standards.
• Modifies and updates existing educational programs and/or patient education materials or recommends modifications as appropriate.
• Assists Patient Care Directors in planning and teaching nursing skills and procedures particular to a specific patient population.
• Serves as a resource person to Patient Care Directors and nursing staff regarding educational activities and new nursing techniques (20% of time).
• Participates in professional advancement system by maintaining skills at a Level I status (20% of time).
• Demonstrates awareness of organizational values, mission and philosophy through interactions with physicians, patients and peers.
• Completes unit orientation within the stated time frame, functions independently within established protocols, policies and procedures, and seeks appropriate resources in a timely fashion.
• Demonstrates basic unit‑specific competencies; meets productivity and quality standards for the unit, can care for an average workload, and demonstrates clear verbal and written communication skills.
• Plans and demonstrates appropriate delegation of duties and follow‑up; participates and documents client‑specific teaching and discharge planning.
• Does clear, concise reporting (shift, transfer, discharge, etc.) and…