You.

You bring your body, mind, heart and spirit to your work as a Clinical Nurse Educator or Nurse Educator Specialist (Master's prepared.)  We currently have a new opening in the PPU/GI Lab.

Your compassion is tangible: patients feel it in the hand they hold. Families feel it in your prayers. Colleagues feel it in your support.

You know how to stay organized and move fast.  You have a passion for education, research and mentoring nurses while helping leadership drive accountability.

You’re great at what you do, but you want to be part of something even greater. Because you believe that while individuals can be strong, the right team is invincible.

Us.

The Training and Development department includes Educators for every clinical unit in the hospital as well as other specialized areas. You will report directly to this department and partner closely with your individual clinical department leadership.

Saint Joseph Hospital is part of SCL Health, a faith-based, nonprofit healthcare organization that focuses on person-centered care. Our 365-bed facility is one of the top-ranked hospitals in Denver, and has been awarded the highest national recognition possible for nursing excellence – Magnet designation – by the ANCC. We are proud to extend the mission of SCL Health by providing care for the poor, the vulnerable, our communities and each other. Our deep community roots date back to 1873, making us one of the oldest hospitals in Colorado.

Benefits are one of the ways we encourage health for you and your family. Our generous package includes medical, dental and vision coverage. But health is more than a well-working body: it encompasses body, mind and social well-being. To that end, we’ve launched a Healthy Living program to address your holistic health. Healthy Living includes financial incentives, digital tools, tobacco cessation, classes, counseling and paid time off. We also offer financial wellness tools and retirement planning.

We.

Together we’ll align mission and careers, values and workplace. We’ll honor each other’s dignity and surpass the standards we set. We’ll encourage joy, demand safety and take pride in our integrity.

We’ll laugh at each other’s jokes (even the bad ones). We’ll hello and high five. We’ll celebrate milestones and acknowledge the value of spirituality in healing.

We’re proud of what we know, which includes how much there is to learn.

Your day.

As a Clinical Nurse Educator your focus is to collaboratively support clinical excellence with integration of best and evidence-based nursing practice within a specialty/practice area.  As the subject matter expert in the area of nursing specialty, you will need to know how to:

• Lead the collaboration with nursing leadership to assess, develop and implement staff development and competency programs.
• Continually develop knowledge and skills in designated service area(s).
• Ensure staff competencies, practice patterns, and care coordination processes achieve highest quality patient care outcomes, and demonstrate the knowledge and skill necessary to provide clinically competent care.
• Function as an expert clinician, role model, educator and mentor for clinical staff.
• Identify staff strengths and opportunities for development through learning needs assessments and structure experiences for staff members’ continual learning. Serve as a resource to new staff and preceptors in the orientation process.
• Provide input for evidenced based policies, procedures, practice standards, quality improvements, and programs based on research standards and identified opportunity.
• Utilize data, processes, tools, and communication vehicles to support outcome monitoring.
• Take action to continually improve the effectiveness of clinical practice and patient care initiatives based on these outcomes.
• Participate in organized professional activities and applies new knowledge to develop educational design and instructional materials to support/improve clinical competencies.
• Lead within shared governance structure.
• Maintain responsibility for updating and developing competencies and tracking the progress of new graduate nurses and new hire nurses

Your experience.

We hire people, not resumes. But we also expect excellence, which is why we require:

• Graduate of an Accredited Approved School of Nursing
• Baccalaureate degree in nursing for RN Educator
• Masters prepared for RN Educator Specialist
• Current Colorado RN license or compact license with the ability to obtain Colorado RN license, required
• Current BLS certification endorsed by the American Heart Association, required
• Certification as appropriate for unit or service, preferred

Your next move.

Now that you know more about being a Clinical Nurse Educator on our team we hope you’ll join us. At SCL Health you’ll reaffirm every day how much you love this work, and why you were called to it in the first place.