Clinical Nurse Educator-General Oncology

At Northwestern Medicine, every patient interaction makes a difference in cultivating a positive workplace. This patient-first approach is what sets us apart as a leader in the healthcare industry. As an integral part of our team, you’ll have the opportunity to join our quest for better health care, no matter where you work within the Northwestern Medicine system.

The Clinical Nurse Educator reflects the mission, vision, and values of NM, adheres to the organization’s Code of Ethics and Corporate Compliance Program, and complies with all relevant policies, procedures, guidelines and all other regulatory and accreditation standards.

The Clinical Nurse Educator is an educator, consultant, role model, staff/patient advocate, change agent, and leader. In collaboration with nursing and practice leadership, peers, mentors, the quality team, and the NM Academy this position designs, develops, implements and evaluates a variety of educational offerings in order to improve clinical care and clinical/organizational outcomes. This role elevates the standard of professional nursing practice and the organization by developing, coaching and mentoring staff to become expert clinicians and leaders.

• Develop, coordinate, administer, facilitate and evaluate onboarding and competency programs
• Conduct onboarding, training and competency evaluation of new and existing staff
• Develop and evaluate initial onboarding and training programs, establish initial competencies, continue and reinforce onboarding activities
• Evaluate orientation of staff, identify further instructional needs
• Coordinate practice level annual competency evaluations
• Identify educational needs, develop evidence-based adult education strategies and project plans and implement appropriately
• Facilitate formal and informal clinical staff education for system educational initiatives
• Develop, evaluate and facilitate appropriate education program record keeping, promote continuing staff competence
• Conduct learning needs assessments
• Provide ongoing staff clinical competency feedback, assist manager in establishing and evaluating staff clinical performance expectations
• Support ongoing development of critical thinking skills among clinical staff
• Identify and develop the practice level “mentor” and “preceptor”, act as a clinical resource to the practice level staff
• Support department quality assurance programs
• Participate in the development and education of evidence informed policies, clinical guidelines, procedures, protocols and clinical tools
• Coordinate student affiliations and participate in curriculum development
• Participate in assurance of regulatory requirements and training, implementation of quality metrics
• Identify areas of opportunity to streamline work processes, improve workflow and achieve clinical staff top of license practice
• Identify and resolve problems related to the work environment and the quality and safety of care and services, actively participate in quality and process improvement projects
• Contribute to monitoring of nursing sensitive indicators
• Contribute to innovation, knowledge dissemination, evidence-informed practice and research initiatives by participating in activities such as conferences and journal clubs
• May perform other duties as assigned

• Registered Professional Nurse (IL) or eligible
• Basic Life Support for Healthcare Providers (American Heart Association) certification
• Master of Science in Nursing or Bachelor of Science in Nursing with Master’s degree in a related discipline (education). Candidates with at least 50% of a Master’s degree program completed will be considered.
• Minimum of 2 years relevant clinical experience
• Demonstrated ability to develop, implement and evaluate educational plans, with a focus on the principles of adult learning

• Certification in related specialty or education, willing to obtain once eligible
• Ambulatory experience
• Working knowledge of Electronic Medical Record (EMR)

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