POSITION SUMMARY
The Lead Clinical Educator monitors the day to day operations of the Clinical Education Department and ensures that all specialized programs are within the appropriate standards for clinical practice. Collaborates and assists with the Clinical Educators to develop, coordinate, and maintain continuing clinical education for Medical, Nursing, and Allied Healthcare clinical staff within the Tuba City Regional Health Care Corporation (TCRHCC). Collaborates with supervisors and Clinical Administration to ensure staff has the knowledge and ability to provide a high standard of clinical patient care at TCRHCC. Collaborates with the Clinical Educators to develop individual learning plans to focus on improvement of skill or address remediation. The incumbent utilizes internal and external resources (i.e. nurses, physicians, clinical specialists) to assist in developing staff and curricula for nurse and clinical education programs. This involves mentoring in the areas of clinical leadership and clinical career development while ensuring cultural sensitivity is maintained in all aspects of service; must utilize knowledge of cultural practices and beliefs and their relationships within the current health care delivery system.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
- Develops and maintains the program philosophy, goals, and policies of the Clinical Education Department to ensure alignment with TCHRCC’s mission and goals. Serves as an educational consultant to departments, task forces, committees and projects related to policy, procedure and program development. Select representative from the clinical education for the following committees include: Performance Improvement (PI) Committee, Code Blue Committee, and Blood Utilization Review (BUR) Committee.
- Collaborates, leads and facilitates mandatory clinical training for the hospital, including new employee orientation, annual clinical mandatories, the Joint Commission (TJC) survey preparation, bio-medical and clinical information technology product roll-outs, etc.
- Leads the Clinical Education staff to ensure professional, timely and effective delivery of educational courses, in-services and other related educational activities. Guides instructors in the development of curriculum, designing and defining instructional strategies and objectives, and evaluating the effectiveness of educational programs.
- Assists in the development and maintenance of the department budget to meet department needs, provides a monthly TCRHCC activity calendar of educational events, and provides monthly reports to Clinical Administration.
- Develops a working relationship with multiple clinical disciplines to encourage open communication and collaboration. Assists clinical staff in identifying and enhancing clinical skills and strengths to be experts and serve as instructors, super-users or preceptors (i.e. American Heart Association instructors, bio-medical equipment super-users, or new employee preceptors, etc).
- Collaborates with department directors and leads to develop and utilize a plan for clinical orientation of new personnel including Medical, Nursing, and Allied Healthcare clinical staff. The plan must include the regulatory and organizational requirements for new clinical staff members.
- Develops class content to include didactic coursework and hands-on experiences and lessons in professional clinical responsibility. Including developing educational programs to ensure compliance with applicable regulatory requirements the Arizona State Board of Nursing, American Nurses Association, and other applicable associations that direct or guide practice (e.g. American Association Operating Room Nurses (AORN), American Association of Critical Care Nurses (AACN), Association of Women Health, Obstetrics and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN) etc).
- Oversees the assessment, planning, development, and implementation of educational programs in collaboration with Department Heads and Clinical Administration to improve the clinical performance of TCRHCC clinical staff. This involves the coordination in offering required educational courses for programs including TCRHCC’s Trauma and SANE/SART programs.
- Works with Nursing Directors and Department Heads to recommend educational strategies for the implementation of clinical standards; develops, monitors, and manages Clinical affiliation agreements; and facilitates the process for applying for continuing education units (CEU) for courses provided at TCRHCC.
- Directs, collaborates, and/or coordinates educational nursing program activities with outside agencies including educational institutions and other professional facilities.
- Promotes improved disease management and performance of procedures (i.e. starting an IV) among healthcare professionals by identifying clinical educational opportunities within and outside the organization; with intent to increase clinical skills and knowledge, and to enhance the delivery of patient care.
- Assists in developing and designing a focused clinical remediation program, including the development of individualized learning plans and goals and monitoring the progression. Uses appropriate clinical models, theoretical framework and best practices to conduct, redefine, and assist in the design and implementation of clinical core competencies.
- Maintains TCRHCC certification and recognition as an American Heart Association (AHA) Training Center by organizing and maintaining AHA course record documents and instructor files. Serves as TCHRCC’s AHA Training Center Coordinator (TCC) (if needed). Understands the TCC’s role and responsibilities in coordinating, conducting, and evaluating the AHA courses and affiliated training sites and instructors.
- Responsible for electronic health records data entry pertinent to patient service role.
- Performs other related duties as assigned.
MENTAL AND PHYSICAL EFFORT
The physical and mental demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Physical:
Involves prolonged hours of sitting in an office setting operating a personal computer, as well as movement throughout the hospital. Incumbent must be able to sit, stand, walk and bend continually daily. Incumbent must frequently be able to drive, kneel, crouch, twist, maintain balance, and reach with an occasional need for climbing. This position requires the ability to lift to 25 pounds frequently moving educational supplies and props for instruction and class. Must also be able to push or pull up to 50 pounds frequently. Sensory requirements for this position is: Far, Near, Color vision; Depth Perception; Seeing Fine Details; Hearing normal Speech; Hearing Overhead Pages; and Telephone Use continually daily. The Incumbent must be able to utilize both hands with simple grasping; firm grasping; fine manipulation and use of keyboards. Incumbent must be able to accept a flexible schedule to meet until needs. Must be able to work in an environment where contact with infectious diseases is frequent.
Mental:
Uses independent judgment and analytical skills to make decisions that impact operations, finances, and customer service within the organization and to carry out all responsibilities related to this position. Position requires ability to maintain pleasant working relationships, and ability to perform multiple tasks simultaneously while being frequently interrupted. This position requires daily continual ability to do the following: Cope with high levels of stress; make decisions under high pressure; concentrate; handle a high degree of flexibility; handle multiple priorities in stressful situations; work alone; and demonstrate high degree of patience. Incumbent must be able to frequently cope with anger/fear/hostility of others in a calm way; adapt to shift work; and, work in areas that are close and crowded. The position will occasionally have to manage altercations.
Environmental:
This position may intermittently require working near moving mechanical parts; fumes or airborne particles; and toxic or caustic chemicals. This position typically works in a quiet to moderate environmental noise level.
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