Nursing Professional Development Practitioner

Creating Life Better Here starts with you. At San Juan Regional Medical Center, we're more than a healthcare provider—we're a values-driven organization dedicated to delivering exceptional care. As a team member, you help fulfill our mission to make life better here for our community.

The nursing Clinical Educator is a dedicated clinical expert and positive role model who inspires and motivates members of the healthcare team to optimize patient care outcomes.

Required Behaviors:

• As you go about fulfilling this mission, your work habits and work relationships should embody SJRMC's values. These values are our culture, our identity as an organization: Sacred Trust, Personal Reverence, Thoughtful Anticipation, Team Accountability and Creative Vitality ask more of us than merely completing some list of tasks. Our values ask for a deeper level of commitment, and what is asked of us we freely give because we believe in our mission.

Required Qualifications:

• Registered Nurse licensure in New Mexico
• Clinical expertise in acute care
• Demonstrated leadership, organizational, interpersonal, and communication skills
• Working knowledge of adult learning principles
• Self-motivation and accountability
• Team orientation
• Advanced certifications as required according to the “Life support certification for patient care providers” policy for specific department

Preferred Qualifications:

• BSN or actively pursuing
• Five (5) years clinical experience

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Be available to all staff (including all shifts) in the areas below:
• LEAD- Leads by example as an expert practitioner in safe patient care planning and delivery
• INITIATE- Initiates unit-based strategies for developing clinical skills
• PLAN- Works with nursing leadership to plan, coordinate, and provide education and training to nursing staff using multiple modalities
• CONSULTS- Identifies and assesses need for changes in services provided in order to improve quality and/or improve efficiencies, based on patient satisfaction core measures and results
• EDUCATE-Provides opportunities for staff to be educated and trained on new equipment, supplies and initiatives
• ASSIST- Functions as a clinical resource to assist nursing staff, physicians, and other ancillary staff as appropriate
• COLLABORATE-Collaborates with unit leadership to assess, plan, and implement pertinent protocols and practices
• MONITOR- Audits and evaluates staff competency in care delivery using approved methods of verification. Provides results to appropriate leadership
• PATIENT CARE-Maintains ability to provide safe direct care to a group of patients and performing all RN nursing duties
• PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT- Maintains clinical competency and knowledge of current trends in area of specialty. Evaluates and disseminates current literature to nursing staff, physicians, etc.
• Patient Safety 1-follows patient safety-related policies, procedures, and protocols
• Patient Safety 2-demonstrates proactive approach to patient safety by seeking opportunities to improve patient safety through questioning of current policies and processes
• Patient Safety 3-identifies and report correct environmental conditions and/or situations that may put a patient at undue risk
• Patient Safety 4 –report potential or actual patient safety concerns, medical errors, and/or near misses in a timely manner
• Patient Safety 5-encourage patients to actively participate in their own care by asking questions and reporting treatment or situations that they do not understand or “may not seem right”
• Works within assigned units but collaborates with other Clinical Educators to provide hospital-wide education as needed
• Actively participates in providing input for staff evaluation and goal-setting
• Provides input as relevant in disciplinary actions
• Supports the Clinical Scholar in assessing, goal setting, and monitoring progress with new staff members and their clinical coaches
• Identifies and assesses need for changes in services provided in order to improve quality and/or improve efficiencies, based on patient satisfaction core measures and results
• Actively participates in the Nursing Professional Development Committee
• Organizes work schedule in order to provide the necessary education for all staff on all shifts
• Each employee is responsible for implementing SJRMC’s Service Standards into their daily work:

                                                     Safety, Courtesy, Effectiveness, and Stewardship

• Other duties as assigned

Physical Demands and Environmental Work Conditions:

• Handles emergent and/or crisis situations
• Exposure to infectious waste and communicable disease
• Flexible hours; must be able to work all shifts and days of the week
• Ability to speak in public forums
• Accepts legal accountability for decisions and actions