Education Coordinator, Inpatient - Austin Acute Care

Job Duties & Responsibilities

• Ensures the design, implementation, and evaluation of a cost-effective unit-based orientation process that focuses on knowledge, skills, and relationships.
• Designs, implements and evaluates on an annual basis, a cost-effective unit-based orientation pathway for each job as measured by feedback from the leadership team.
• Individualizes the unit-based orientation pathways to meet the specific learning needs of staff, as measured by feedback from orientees, preceptors, and leadership team.
• Creates and maintains orientation schedules and accurately inputs preceptor and orientee schedules.
• Calculates monthly orientation hours.
• Ensures that appropriate communication has occurred regarding orientation schedules, as measured by feedback from orientees, preceptors, and leadership team.
• Acts as a role model in building supportive and collaborative work relationships with new employees, as measured by feedback from staff, orientee, preceptors, and leadership team.
• Teaches, facilitates, or develops staff designees to participate in 32-36 hours of centralized courses/centralized planning activity annually, as measured by Nursing Professional Development reports.
• Reviews and discusses with orientee and manages the orientee’s progress at least weekly, as measured by feedback from preceptors, orientees, and leadership team.
• Monitors orientation processes and identify and improve problematic trends, as measured by preceptor, staff, orientee, and leadership team feedback.
• Updates unit-based orientation pathways at least quarterly and reviews with leadership team.
• Provides feedback to NURSING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT to improve centralized orientation pathways, as measured by feedback from the leadership team and NURSING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT.
• Coordinates/Conducts required training to close performance gaps in knowledge and skills.
• Implements a unit-based plan for advancing competence of staff on all shifts that results in improved performance.
• Assesses, plans, implements, coordinates, evaluates, and documents for patient care.
• Orients and develops preceptors.
• Coordinates the annual assessment and validation of priority high-risk skills.
• Coordinates the unit-based clinical experience for students.
• Participates in the Quality Outcomes Program and/or unit-based quality initiatives for the purpose of educating staff and monitoring clinical outcomes that demonstrate nursing excellence.
• Provides administrative support for unit-based operations.

Skills & Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree Nursing required
• RN - Lic-Registered Nurses by the Texas Board of Nursing or Nursing Licensure Compact required
• BLS - Cert-Basic Life Support by the American Heart Association required
• 2 years Clinical nursing experience required
• 1 year Preceptor or educator experience preferred 
• Pediatric experience preferred