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Registered Nurse
Education Coordinator - Inpatient - Newborn Center
Houston, TX, US
We are searching for an Inpatient Education Coordinator -- someone who works well in a fast-paced setting. In this position, you will provide education and administrative support for unit operations to ensure effective and efficient implementation of the various key educational processes at the unit level.
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Skills & Requirements
• Required bachelor's degree Nursing
• Required 2 years Clinical nursing experience (2 years of NICU experience strongly preferred)
• Preferred 1 year Preceptor or educator experience
• Licenses/Certifications:
o RN - Lic-Registered Nurses by the Texas Board of Nursing or Nursing Licensure Compact
o BLS - Cert-Basic Life Support by the American Heart Association
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 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 designers 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 process and identifies and improves 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 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 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.
As part of our commitment to maintaining a safe and healthy workplace, all successful candidates will be required to undergo respiratory fit testing in compliance with occupational health and safety standards.
About Texas Children’s
Since 1954, Texas Children’s has been leading the charge in patient care, education and research to accelerate health care for children and women around the world. When you love what you do, it truly shows in the smiles of our patient families, employees and our numerous accolades such as being consistently ranked as the best children’s hospital in Texas, and among the top in the nation by U.S.News & World Report as well as recognition from Houston Business Journal as one of this city’s Best Places to Work for ten consecutive years.
Texas Children’s comprehensive health care network includes our primary hospital in the Texas Medical Center with expertise in over 40 pediatric subspecialties; the Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute (NRI); the Feigin Center for pediatric research; Texas Children’s Pavilion for Women, a comprehensive obstetrics/gynecology facility focusing on high-risk births; Texas Children’s Hospital West Campus, a community hospital in suburban West Houston; and Texas Children’s Hospital The Woodlands, the first hospital devoted to children’s care for communities north of Houston. We have also created the nation’s first HMO for children, established the largest pediatric primary care network in the country and a global health program that is channeling care to children and women all over the world. Texas Children’s Hospital is also academically affiliated with Baylor College of Medicine, one of the largest, most diverse and successful pediatric programs in the nation.
To join our community of 14,000+ dedicated team members, visit texaschildrenspeople.org for career opportunities.
Texas Children’s is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All applicants and employees are considered and evaluated for positions at Texas Children's without regard to mental or physical disability, race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, genetic information, military or veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status or any other protected Federal, State/Province or Local status unrelated to the performance of the work involved.
