ICU Nurse Educator

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Chandler, Arizona, has a stable suburban population with an economy anchored by many large financial, and high tech companies. Located southeast of Phoenix, Chandler is a skillfully developed community of friendly, diverse neighborhoods with expansive parks, great schools, convenient shopping, and excellent career opportunities.

For more than 50 years, Dignity Health’s Chandler Regional Medical Center has focused on quality patient care and service to the community. As the longest established hospital in the southeast valley, Chandler Regional has provided care for the Chandler community since 1961. The hospital recently added a new five-story tower with 100 patient beds, increasing the acute-care bed count to 429. This expansion increased emergency and trauma services, as well as the surgical unit and intensive care offerings. 

The word “dignity” perfectly defines what our organization stands for: showing respect for all people by providing excellent care. At Chandler Regional, our employees are the heart and soul of our organization. They are the reason we are able to live out our healing ministry within the communities we serve. Our doctors, nurses and allied health professionals are a regular self-contained support system for each other. This unique working culture is one of the reasons why a career with us is so rewarding. Now is the perfect time to come grow your career with one of Arizona's Most Admired Companies.

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As an RN Educator, you will design, organize, implement, and evaluate evidence-based educational programs, orientations, and continuing education.

Every day you will facilitate the professional growth, skill development, and competency of staff, ensuring these programs primarily support the organization's mission, vision, values, and strategic goals. Your work will directly contribute to ensuring quality, safety, and service in patient and family-centered care.

To be successful in this role, you will demonstrate strong instructional design capabilities, expert clinical knowledge, and the ability to effectively engage and develop healthcare professionals, ultimately enhancing the standards of patient care.

• Performs initial and ongoing educational needs assessment.
• Collaborates with department leaders in the identification and development of initial and on-going competencies.
• Creates and documents education plans in partnership with leadership team to meet strategic and operational initiatives of the organization.
• Utilizes adult education theories and principles to foster the educational development of participants.
• Authors curriculum and implements educational in-services, classes, courses and programs based upon identified education needs and utilizing traditional, non-traditional and innovative methods of instruction including the use of technology and simulation.
• Submits documentation in support of education to include attendance roster, course evaluation documents and competency validation tools.

This position supports ICU Nursing Units.

Required

• Bachelors Of Science Nursing
• 5 years clinical practice in area of specialty
• Experience with Windows and word processing applications
• Registered Nurse: AZ
• American Heart Association BLS

Preferred

• Other Specialty certification and 2 years teaching, upon hire
• Masters Other Experience with spreadsheets, databases, graphics applications, upon hire