About this role
Core Functions
• Supports and empowers staff to align with the organization's mission and values.
• Plans, develops, and directs orientation, in-service training, and continuing education programs for all personnel, ensuring timely and complete documentation.
• Assesses educational needs in collaboration with nursing staff, department managers, and leadership; coordinates programs to meet those needs across all age groups, from neonate to geriatric.
• Maintains effective working relationships across departments and communicates clearly with physicians, staff, the Chief Nursing Officer, and administration.
• Coordinates and manages annual mandatory training (e.g., safety, emergency preparedness, infection control, BLS, ALS, PALS) and internet-based learning platforms.
• Develops, evaluates, and revises educational policies, procedures, goals, and standards of care in alignment with organizational objectives.
• Oversees educational partnerships with external institutions, including nursing and allied health schools, and facilitates student training programs.
• Designs and delivers staff development initiatives, seminars, and conferences for both internal staff and the broader medical and general community.
• Assists departments in creating patient education materials and brochures.
• Conducts competency evaluations and maintains educational records in compliance with regulatory standards.
• Participates in and supports performance improvement activities for both the Education Department and organization-wide initiatives.
• Prepares and manages the Education Department budget and related administrative tasks, including reports and presentations.
• Serves as a resource and consultant to nursing, medical staff, students, and ancillary personnel.
• Promotes patient safety and minimizes healthcare errors through adherence to best practices, including the five rights of medication administration.
• Ensures compliance with all applicable state, federal, and accreditation regulations.
• Facilitates effective communication of administrative directives and encourages collaborative departmental engagement.
• Demonstrates professionalism, flexibility, and organizational skills in a dynamic healthcare environment.
• Stays current with educational trends, technologies, and methodologies through ongoing professional development.
• Provides diabetic education to inpatients and outpatients as needed.
Safety Practices
• Promotes a culture of patient safety that results in the identification and reduction of unsafe practices.
• Utilizes Culture of Safety survey responses in improvement efforts.
• Identifies risks and hazards to patients through various risk assessments, with actions taken to mitigate patient harm.
• Improves medication safety practices, including increased reporting of adverse drug events and improved compliance with the medication reconciliation process.
• Decreased hospital-acquired infections and improved compliance with infection control practices (including hand hygiene).
• Decreased hospital acquired conditions such as complications associated with ventilator use and pressure ulcers, through improved compliance with patient safety bundles and/or other formal performance improvement programs.
Professional Responsibility
• Maintains a professional appearance in accordance with dress code standards; presents a neat and clean image.
• Completes all required annual education and professional development activities relevant to nursing education.
• Ensures compliance with regulatory and accreditation standards in educational practices.
• Wears appropriate identification while on duty in clinical and academic settings.
• Actively participates in committees, performance improvement initiatives, and faculty or management meetings as appropriate.
• Adheres to organizational policies and standards for ethical and professional conduct.
• Serves as a positive and professional representative of the organization within the healthcare and academic community.
• Addresses personnel and student concerns at the departmental level, utilizing the grievance process when necessary.
• Communicates administrative directives effectively to staff and students, fostering open dialogue and engagement during meetings and educational sessions.
• Promotes and integrates the mission, ethics, and goals of the organization into educational programs and daily interactions.
EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE/LICENSURE/TECHNICAL/OTHER:
• Education:
• Bachelor's degree in Nursing – required
• Master of Science in Nursing - preferred
• Experience
• Strong subject expertise on Adult Health services (critical care and/or emergency department experience - preferred)
• Instructor status on certification courses – preferred.
• Demonstrate expertise in creating, coordinating and delivering (new employee orientation material, EKG education, etc.) education material for new and seasoned clinicians.
• Minimum of one year of experience as a Clinical Educator/Educator.
• Minimum of one year of experience in a Preceptor or Charge Nurse role.
• Licenses/Certificates
• Current Texas Registered Nurse (RN) licensure
• ARC/AHA Certification course provider: BLS, ALS and PALS – Upon hire
• ARC/AHA Certification course instructor: BLS, ALS and PALS – Within 90 days
• ORMC-specific (Stop the Bleed/Workplace Violence) Instructor – Within 90 days
• TNCC Certification Provider – Within 12 months
• TNCC Certification Instructor – Within 2 years
• Skills
• Proficient in English, effective in both verbal and written communication.
• Additional language proficiency is preferred.
• Proficient computer literacy, including familiarity with common software applications and learning management systems.
• Intermediate pedagogical skills in lesson planning, instructional strategies, learner needs, assessment and feedback practices
• Proficient in operating instructional equipment such as projectors, audiovisual tools, cameras, other teaching aids as well as clinical equipment (accu-checks, chest tubes, etc.)
• Public speaking and classroom-style teaching experience preferred.