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Registered Nurse
Education Coordinator - Perioperative Services - Operating Room
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.
This position is for the Pavilion for Women Perioperative Services, PACU and OR for OB/GYN and Urology.
Skills & Requirements:
• Required bachelor's degree Nursing
• Required 2 years Clinical nursing experience (2 plus years of experience strongly preferred in operating room)
• Preferred 1 year Preceptor or educator experience
• Licenses/Certifications: RN - Lic-Registered Nurses by the Texas Board of Nursing or Nursing Licensure Compact and 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
Texas Children’s Pavilion for Women is a comprehensive obstetrics/gynecology facility and one of a select few hospitals nationwide that provides women, mothers and babies with a full continuum of high-quality, expert health care. Offering a full spectrum of maternal and fetal medicine services, including an array of fetal diagnostic procedures and highly specialized fetal surgeries, the Pavilion for Women is connected to Texas Children’s Hospital via a two-story circular sky bridge to enhance patient care by providing physicians, staff and patient families with rapid access to other pediatric subspecialists. Three private OB/GYN practices, The Family Fertility Center, The Menopause Center and The Women’s Place – Center for Reproductive Psychiatry are all housed here. Additionally, we also recently opened a community-based OB/GYN practice in Pearland.
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.
