Operating Room Nurse Educator

About This Role

This role involves being a clinical expert and role model, applying nursing processes and evidence-based practices to manage complex care needs for specific patient populations. The Nurse Educator serves as a resource for physicians, nurses, patients, and families, planning and conducting educational sessions to promote staff development and positive patient outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Apply principles of adult learning to plan and conduct educational sessions to promote staff development, student competence, and positive patient/family outcomes
• Demonstrate proficiency in teaching and precepting skills
• Facilitate development of unit preceptors, including effective delegation and interpersonal skills
• Assist with the development of staff portfolios
• Assist the CNS and Unit Director to conduct annual educational needs assessment
• Based on needs assessments, assist CNS and UD to provide assurance that staff have opportunities to acquire necessary knowledge, skills, and attitudes to fulfill role expectations
• Coordinate unit-based clinical orientation program for new staff, students, and preceptors
• Work with preceptors to individualize unit orientation
• Assist departmental or unit teams in developing annual competency checklists
• Under direction of the CNS and Unit Director, assist with meeting the education and training needs of staff
• Assist with the development of clinical leadership and critical thinking skills in others
• Mentor new and existing staff by sharing knowledge, skills, and departmental processes
• Identify the need for revision and evaluate the effectiveness of operational forms
• Provide and coordinate the resources needed within the unit to provide optimal patient outcomes
• Role model time management skills through example
• Ensure compliance and adherence with stated policies and procedures for the unit
• Remain informed of innovative clinical trends through benchmarking and evidence-based practice
• Assume a staff-level leadership and resource role with the interdisciplinary team
• Contribute to evaluating the use of resources and to cost containment activities
• Respect and maintain confidential information
• Under direction of the CNS and UD, integrate patient/family education activities into unit-based staff development and continuing education programs
• Collaborate with management and patient/family advisory council to develop standardized teaching materials for patient and family learning needs
• Model effective therapeutic relationships with patients and families
• Effectively elicit and integrate cultural beliefs and values from patients and integrate these into overall patient management and education