Education Specialist RN

Overview

St. Luke's Health–The Vintage Hospital provides high-quality, compassionate care for residents of the Willowbrook, Champions, and Tomball areas of Northwest Houston. With the resources of the St. Luke’s Health system, we are able to deliver the most advanced care available to our Northwest Houston community. The Vintage Hospital offers the latest in diagnostic and surgical expertise, including heart care, women’s health, and orthopedics.

Responsibilities

Responsible for enhancing clinical practice through planning, developing and conducting education programs, providersand other key clinical services staff, including evaluating the effectiveness of programs and providing guidance to staffand key leaders. Facilitates assessment and identification of ongoing learning needs for staff development programs.Designs and delivers programs that support the organization's mission, vision, values and strategic goals, implementedusing the organization's framework for professional clinical practice and development.

1. Demonstrates expertise in the teaching /learning process and Assists management and clinical staff to develop andprovide educational programs

2. Utilizes Prophecy Assessments to identify learning needs and assists the nurse managers, clinical nurse specialists,clinical educators, quality coordinators, and preceptors in planning learning activities to meet those needs

3. Develops and Performs needs assessments in collaboration with management/ clinical Nurse specialist / nursing staffto determine developmental and educational needs

4. Assesses critical thinking, interpersonal relations, and technical skills of staff to assist in categorization of orientationand staff development

5. Communicates with staff to facilitate development of their clinical, management, and/ or research skills

Qualifications

Required:

*Registered Nurse and BLS required

*Three (3) Years of clinical education experience

*Knowledgeable of instructional design and principles ofadult learning

Preferred:

*Bachelor's Degree preferred