Nursing Education Specialist - NICU

Practice Description

M Health Fairview Masonic Children's Hospital, located in Minneapolis on the West Bank of the Mississipi River, is looking for a wonderful Nursing Educational Specialist! Are you ready to join this exciting group of people?

 

The Nursing Education Specialist advises and/or participates in the assessment, planning, delivery, and evaluation of learning for assigned groups or departments. The NES functions as educator, consultant, coach, and liaison regarding learning theory and the competence development of staff.

 

This NES will support the neonatal specialty thus the ideal candidates will have NICU experience. The position will be working full-time on mostly the day shift with occcasional evenings to support education on that shift.

 

We offer a generous benefits package including medical, dental, paid time off, retirement options, tuition reimbursement, student loan repayment program, and more. Check out more of our benefits information here: www.fairview.org/noncontract

Community Information
Job Expectations

Assess learning needs of individuals, groups and departments

• Uses a variety of approaches to assess the ongoing learning needs of staff including competence assessments, surveys, interview, quality management reports, new practice guidelines and procedures, new research, regulatory requirements, and critical initiatives that support the mission of Fairview.
• Considers the needs of employees and all other relevant staff, e.g. students, volunteers, contract workers, and/or physicians
• Validates and documents identified needs

Communicates efficiently

• Communicates frequently and reliably with team members to ensure learning needs are met
• Brings educational expertise to other arenas such a policy and procedure development, quality improvement efforts, and activities in support of the strategic plan
• Collaborates with other departments to identify and evaluate learner ability to meet OR-related competencies

• Plan and design learning approaches to meet the identified needs.
• Offer learning opportunities to meet the identified needs.
• Evaluate the effectiveness of the learning opportunities.
• Demonstrate ability to deliver care or service adjusting approaches to reflect developmental level and cultural differences of population served
• Develop a culture of improvement, efficiency and innovative thinking.
• Other duties as assigned

Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in nursing
• One year as a direct patient care RN
• MN RN License
• BLS

Preferred:

• Three or more years as a direct patient care RN.
• Two or more years as a preceptor.
• AANC certification in specialty

EEO Statement
EEO/AA Employer/Vet/Disabled: All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to any lawfully protected status