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UNC Health Care Nurse Educator Psychiatry - Center for Nursing Excellence in Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Description
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Psychiatry Educator opportunity with the Center for Nursing Excellence Team!
The Center for Nursing Excellence has an opportunity for a nurse educator working with Psychiatry Services. This position will join a dynamic team of educators to support nursing professional development including onboarding, competency development and ongoing professional development for the psychiatric departments. Additionally, this position will support organizational and departmental initiatives. Psychiatric nursing experience, nursing professional development experience and professional certification preferred.
Typically, a weekday position with benefits offered.
Summary:
Coordinates staff development and educational needs of patient care nursing staff, patients, and families. This is an advanced level position in education, which is performed under minimal supervision. Assignments may be characterized as those requiring collaboration to address staff educational needs within a specialty practice area and/or service. Serves in a lead capacity over others as it relates to special projects or subject matter expertise. Work maybe performed collaboratively for multiple disciplines across the continuum of care or for a specific patient population or service area.
Responsibilities:
Acts as resource and role model in use of evidence based practice. Leads unit/service based clinical practice groups
Assists in orientation and placement of nursing students in clinical units. Serves as resource to faculty. Mentors graduate students
Assists nursing staff in design and implementation of clinical nursing research/performance improvement projects.
Assists nursing units with preceptor responsibilities to ensure that all new staff are oriented and meeting competency expectations
Conducts learning needs assessments to plan staff educational programs
Coordinates orientation, staff development and continuing education for nursing staff
Develops evidence-based standards of care, comprehensive nursing plans, clinical pathways for patients and families and facilitates implementation of same.
Develops, implements, and evaluates educational materials, self instructional programs, teaching protocols, and e-learning programs for nursing staff.
In conjunction with other subject matter experts, develops and evaluates patient family education materials.
Serves as a clinical resource and role model, provides clinical supervision to staff in developing clinical knowledge, skills and abilities
Other Information
Other information:
Education Requirements:
● Bachelor's degree in Nursing (BSN) from a state-accredited school of professional nursing.
Licensure/Certification Requirements:
● Licensed to practice as a Registered Nurse in the state of North Carolina.
● For Home Health/Hospice: Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) certification
● For Home Health/Hospice: Valid NC Driver's License
Professional Experience Requirements:
● Three (3) years of experience in tertiary care with two (2) years clinical experience in the assigned specialty.
Knowledge/Skills/and Abilities Requirements:
Job Details
Legal Employer: STATE
Entity: UNC Medical Center
Organization Unit: Center of Nursing Excellence
Work Type: Full Time
Standard Hours Per Week: 40.00
Salary Range: $34.65 - $49.81 per hour (Hiring Range)
Pay offers are determined by experience and internal equity
Work Assignment Type: Onsite
Work Schedule: Day Job
Location of Job: US:NC:Chapel Hill
Exempt From Overtime: Exempt: Yes
This is a State position employed by UNC Health Care System with UNC Health benefits. If, however, you are presently an employee of another North Carolina agency and currently participate in TSERS or the ORP, you will be eligible to continue participating in those plans at UNC Health.
Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.
UNC Health makes reasonable accommodations for applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as applicants and employees with disabilities. All interested applicants are invited to apply for career opportunities. Please email applicant.accommodations@unchealth.unc.edu if you need a reasonable accommodation to search and/or to apply for a career opportunity.
Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.
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