Specialist Nurse Practice ED

Founded by the Sisters of Mercy, Mercy Hospitals have a history of caring for our community that goes back more than 100 years. We provide a broad range of medical and surgical services including minimally invasive and outpatient options. Our family of services includes the area's only inpatient oncology unit, the Orthopedic, Spine, and Hand Center, Family Birth Center, the Lactation Support Center and retail store, and many others. Mercy Hospital Downtown is a 194-bed facility located in downtown Bakersfield. Mercy Hospital Southwest is a 78-bed facility and the only hospital located in the rapidly growing area west of Highway 99. Mercy Hospital is a member of Dignity Health and is a trusted community partner, serving residents of Bakersfield and Kern County with quality, compassionate care since 1910. Learn more here at https://www.dignityhealth.org/central-california/locations/mercy-bakersfield.
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The clinical nurse educator functions in the role of expert clinician and educator. In collaboration with the nursing staff, nursing manager, nursing director, education services, Director of Nursing Standards and Practice, and physicians, monitors the clinical care of patients and provides clinical support to improve patient care, staff satisfaction, patient satisfaction and patient outcomes. The clinical educator is a role model, patient advocate, change agent, leader, and cost effective practitioner.

• Regularly makes unit rounds to remain familiar with patients and staff within his/her assigned areas of service in order to assist and provide direction to nursing staff regarding clinical decision making and priority setting.
• Identifies training needs, initiates appropriate training and evaluates educational programs in collaboration with Nursing Leadership, Education, Charge Nurses, Nursing Staff, physicians, and other members of the health care team.
• Ensures documentation of staff orientation, unit based inservices, unit based competencies, and one to one education. Assists preceptors with documentation including documentation updated in Voyager for the Versant Residents.
• Utilizes evidence-based practice to plan educational interventions and in assessing current standards of practice/standards of care.
• Assists with the development, communication, and implementation of established standards, policies, procedures and protocols. Offers regular feedback, guidance and support to staff.
• Provides point of service staff education that includes one to one and unit based inservices, as needed, to address identified nursing practice needs/deficits

Required

• A minimum of 5 years current clinical experience caring for Critical Care patients
• Registered Nurse: CA, upon hire 
• Basic Life Support (BLS) upon hire
• Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) upon hire