RN/Clinical Education Coordinator - Postoperative Care Unit

Tallahassee Memorial Healthcare (TMH) is a private, nonprofit community-based healthcare system that provides care to a 22-county region in North Florida and South Georgia. We are a career destination with over 6,000 colleagues who reflect the diversity of our community.

TMH is the region's healthcare leader and top provider of advanced care with a 772-bed acute care hospital and the region's only:

• Level II Trauma Center
• Primary Stroke Center
• Level III Neonatal Intensive Care
• Pediatric Intensive Care
• The most advanced cancer, heart and vascular, orthopedic & surgery programs in the Panhandle.

Our system also includes a psychiatric hospital, multiple specialty care centers, six residency programs and more than 50 affiliated physician practices.

Qualifications Required Education:

• Bachelor's Degree in Nursing

Preferred Education:

• Master's Degree in Nursing

Required Experience:

• BSN and five (5) years job related experience as a clinical educator
• MSN and three (3) years experience as a clinical educator

Preferred Experience:

• Demonstrated educational and leadership experience with progressive increase in responsibility.
• Excellent computer, clinical, and communication skills as well as significant experience developing, teaching and coordinating educational programs for adult learners.

Required Certification/License/Registry:

• License to practice as an RN in the State of Florida

Responsibilities The Postoperative Care Unit is a 44-bed patient care unit providing care for postoperative patients. This primarily includes patients undergoing gynecology, urology, plastic, vascular and general surgical procedures. We care for patients ranging from adolescent to geriatric age and developmental stage. The majority of patients have a length of stay ranging between 2 to 5 days from admission to discharge depending on diagnosis/procedure performed. The unit is open continuously seven days a week, twenty-four hours a day.

Your Role:

The RN/Clinical Education Coordinator - Postoperative Care Unit is a unit-based Nurse Leader role that:

• Ensures patient-centered care and optimal patient outcomes through direct practice, clinical and professional leadership, expert coaching and guidance, consultation, collaboration, education, quality improvement initiatives, research skills an ethical decision-making.
• Conducts needs assessments, employs evidence-based educational methodologies, acts as a change agent to promote evidence-based practice, provides expert consultation to direct care staff, conducts orientation programs for new staff, evaluates initial and ongoing competency validation processes, and actively participates in quality improvement activities.
• Responsibilities also include conducting multidisciplinary rounds on assigned units.

Reports To:

• RN/ Executive Director Clinical Practice (Job Code (JC): 019301)

Supervises:

• None