Nurse Educator - Cath/EP Lab Focus (Nursing Professional Development Practitioner
Billings Clinic

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About Us
Billings Clinic is a community-owned, not-for-profit, Physician-led health system based in Billings with more than 4,700 employees, including over 550 physicians and non-physician providers. Our integrated organization consists of a multi-specialty group practice and a 304-bed hospital. Learn more about Billings Clinic (our organization, history, mission, leadership and regional locations) and how we are recognized nationally for our exceptional quality.

Your Benefits
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Nurse Educator - Cath/EP Lab Focus (Nursing Professional Development Practitioner

Hospital Division (BILLINGS CLINIC CLINIC)

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Shift: Varies

Schedule: M-F varied depending on education needs

Employment Status: Full-Time (.75 or greater)

Hours per Pay Period: 1.00 = 80 hours (Exempt)

Starting Wage DOE: CUSTOM.POSTING.WAGE

Responsible for applying in-depth knowledge, competencies, and skills in a clinical specialty. Assesses, plans, researches, develops, conducts, and evaluates services and continuing education programs in collaboration with management. Expertise is utilized in all settings for the organization. Establishes goals and priorities in accordance with patient care, staff needs and organizational objectives and in accordance with age appropriate care criteria for services ranging from infant to geriatric.

Essential Job Functions

• Evaluates nursing practice and identifies opportunities for modification that would enhance professional practice, maintain/improve patient care while remaining fiscally sound.

• Participate in curriculum design and evaluation of program outcomes. Responsible for formulating program outcomes and designing curricula to reflect evidence-based health care trends and prepare learners to function effectively in the health care environment.

• Function as change agents and leaders to create a preferred future for education and clinical practice.

• Facilitates empowered environment that recognizes and responds to staff's developmental and professional practice issues through mentoring, team building, resource identification and networking.

• Acts as a champion of scientific inquiry, generating new knowledge an integrating best available evidence into practice and policy through Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) and Research.

• Demonstrates positive, supportive, and caring behaviors in communication.

• Consideration will be given to the appropriateness of care based on the age of the patient.

• Utilizes performance improvement principles to assess and improve quality.

• Identifies need and sets goals for own growth and development; meets all mandatory organizational and departmental requirements.

• Maintains competency in all organizational, departmental and outside agency environmental, employee or patient safety standards relevant to job performance. Identifies and anticipates problems and safety issues and initiates appropriate action.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Thorough knowledge of Billings Clinic policy and procedures, both organizational and departmental

• Billings Clinic issued computers, hardware and software

• Microsoft Office Programs (i.e., Windows, Outlook, Word, Excel, etc.)

• Billings Clinic Code of Business Conduct

• Billings Clinic Corporate Compliance Program

• HIPAA and confidentiality requirements

• Patient's rights

• Patient safety standards

• High Reliability Organizing skills and customer service techniques, and Personal Service Excellence (PSE) skills

• Regulatory standards (i.e., DNV, Joint Commission, CMS, OSHA, Magnet, etc.)

• Nursing theory, nursing practice and educational theory

• Demonstrated leadership skills and use of empowerment principles

• Professional communication skills, both verbal and written

• Application of leadership principles

• Incorporate cultural diversity and age appropriate care into all aspects of communication and patient care; scope of services provided will encompass age groups ranging from infant through geriatric

• Communicate clearly and effectively, both verbal and written

• Establish and maintain collaborative relationships

• Maintain flexibility to adapt to a variety of workload assignments

• Interpret policies and procedures, identify knowledge deficits and collaborates for appropriate actions.

• Utilize time management concepts or maximize time effectively

• Serves as a resource for patient care. Accountable to provide clinically sound information. Must develop and maintain good working relationships with other departments, physicians, patients, families, outside agencies, and other professionals.

Minimum Qualifications

Education

• BSN - Application may be considered if currently enrolled in a BSN program with a defined date of completion within 18 months of application.

Experience

• 5 years of RN experience

• Teaching experience preferred

Licensure

• CPR

• RN

Billings Clinic is Montana's largest health system serving Montana, Wyoming and the western Dakotas. A not-for-profit organization led by a physician CEO, the health system is governed by a board of community members, nurses and physicians. Billings Clinic includes an integrated multi-specialty group practice, tertiary care hospital and trauma center, based in Billings, Montana. Learn more at www.billingsclinic.com/aboutus

Billings Clinic is committed to being an inclusive and welcoming employer, that strives to be kind, safe, and courageous in all we do. As an equal opportunity employer, our policies and processes are designed to achieve fair and equitable treatment of all employees and job applicants. All employees and job applicants will be provided the same treatment in all aspects of the employment relationship, regardless of race, color, religion, sex, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, pregnancy and family status, national origin, spoken language, neurodiversity, age, and/or disability. To ensure we provide an accessible candidate experience for prospective employees, please let us know if you need any accommodations during the recruitment process.