Position Title

Clinical Educator - GB

Great Bend Medical Office Building

Position Summary / Career Interest:

The Clinical Educator is a clinical nurse who collaborates with health care teams across the Great Bend campus to ensure safe, effective, evidence-based and quality patient care. Facilitates employee development through support of various nursing initiatives and ongoing communication and collaboration with leadership.

Responsibilities and Essential Job Functions

• Collaborates with health care teams across the Great Bend campus to ensure safe, effective, evidence-based and quality patient care.
• Assesses individual learning needs, considering generational and cultural differences.
• Implements alternative and varied teaching strategies to meet learner needs.
• Assures that processes are in place for documentation of orientation and other educational activities, and that employee files meet hospital and regulatory requirements.
• Facilitates ongoing unit education and professionalism through the provision of in-services and CEU opportunities, promoting national certification, and providing resources and support for the development of professional portfolios.
• Models evidence-based practice and participates in the development and review of policies and procedures.
• Participates in new employee orientation to ensure competency of clinical staff.
• Supports performance improvement initiatives and educates and facilitates performance improvement methodologies such as PDCA and small tests of change.
• Must be able to perform the professional, clinical and or technical competencies of the assigned unit or department.
• These statements are intended to describe the essential functions of the job and are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities. Skills and duties may vary dependent upon your department or unit. Other duties may be assigned as required.

Required Education and Experience

• Associates Degree in Nursing
• 2 or more years relevant nursing experience

Preferred Education and Experience

• Bachelor Degree Nursing
• Master Degree Nursing
• Clinical education experience in an acute care setting

Required Licensure and Certification

• Licensed Registered Nurse (LRN) - Single State - State Board of Nursing
• Basic Cardiac Life Support (BLS or BCLS) - American Heart Association (AHA)
• Basic Life Support Heartsaver (BLS HS) (Non-Clinical) - American Heart Association (AHA) or obtained within 14 days of hire.
• Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) - American Heart Association (AHA) within 90 days of employment.

Knowledge Requirements

• Knowledge of principles, methods and techniques involved in performing general nursing services and adapting or modifying standards of nursing practices for care of specific medical cases.

Time Type:

Full time

Job Requisition ID:

R-52812

Important information for you to know as you apply:

• The health system is an equal employment opportunity employer.  Qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), national origin, ancestry, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other legally-protected status.  See also Diversity, Equity & Inclusion.

• The health system provides reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities.  If you need to request reasonable accommodations for your disability as you navigate the recruitment process, please let our recruiters know by requesting an Accommodation Request form using this link asktalentacquisition@kumc.edu.

• Employment with the health system is contingent upon, among other things, agreeing to the health-system-dispute-resolution-program.pdf and signing the agreement to the DRP.

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