Nurse Educator

About This Role

Developing, maintaining, and presenting educational materials and courses to clinical staff is the core of this Nurse Educator role. This includes chemotherapy biotherapy courses, oncology courses, and other developmental opportunities. The Nurse Educator plans, directs, and evaluates overall needs for clinical education, ensuring programs conform to accepted practice standards.

Responsibilities

• Work in partnership with nursing leadership and other nurse educators to assess the clinical nurse and medical assistant onboarding program for effectiveness, to ensure strong oncology foundation and standardization of training across all clinics
• Initiate skills development programs utilizing various media platforms within the parameters of established care models; monitor trends and implement educational strategies to ensure compliance with quality standards and parameters
• Contribute to the achievement of clinical staff’s annual competency evaluations and skills checkoffs within their demographic area
• Act as a general clinical resource for existing personnel
• Formally meet with new hires and their preceptor at specific intervals throughout the entire orientation phase of the new hire to ensure success of independent practice
• Collaborate with nurse managers and other leadership to conduct clinic site visits to perform competency evaluation, re-education of quality concerns and trended safety events, and assess for protocol and process standardization of workflow as needed within the clinic
• Develop work procedures and processes that support company and departmental standards, procedures, and strategic directives
• Maintain a positive working relationship with preceptors; meeting and mentoring the preceptors in their designated area and developing supportive preceptor education programs
• Attend FCS Town Halls, Monthly Department Meetings, Monthly Pharmacy/Touchbase meeting, other ad-hoc nursing/quality/safety meetings as needed, and national conferences as allowed, to maintain current practice with organizational strategies, policies, and evidence-based nursing practice
• Provide direct patient care a minimum of one day per month to remain current with nursing practice and FCS workflow
• Facilitate and participate in pilot programs and in-service new product education as needed
• Maintain a positive working relationship with all other company employees to foster and promote a cooperative and harmonious working environment that will be conducive to facilitate educational goals, productivity, and efficiency/effectiveness

Requirements

• Registered Nurse, licensed in the State of Florida
• OCN national certification or acquire within 12 months of hire
• BSN degree preferred
• Current BLS certification
• Valid Driver’s license in the State of Florida for travel to clinics as needed