36 hours per week
Day Shift
Job Summary: The Nurse Educator, as an excellent role model, under the direction of the Director of Education, serves to develop Nursing and Ancillary Departments in their professional role, i.e., use of the Nursing Process, Best Practice framework, patient teaching and supervision of new nursing employees.
1. Collaborates with management, staff and other educators to implement clinical and nonclinical education programs
2. Assists in planning, implementing and evaluating classroom and departmental orientation of new employees, as well as additional education programs provided through Employee Education.
3. Monitors requirements of accrediting bodies for new standards.
4. Develops, updates and maintains core competencies
5. Builds, fosters and maintains interdepartmental relationships
6. Develops, validates and maintains clinical skills of the staff nurse
7. Understands principles of adult learning and incorporates them into the classroom setting
8. Develops and implements new programs as requested or identified
Founded in 1924 in Louisville, Kentucky, Baptist Health is a full-spectrum health system dedicated to improving the health of the communities it serves. The Baptist Health family consists of nine hospitals, employed and independent physicians, and more than 400 points of care, including outpatient facilities, physician practices and services, urgent care clinics, outpatient diagnostic and surgery centers, home care, fitness centers, and occupational medicine and physical therapy clinics.
Baptist Health’s eight owned hospitals include more than 2,300 licensed beds in Corbin, Elizabethtown, La Grange, Lexington, Louisville, Paducah, Richmond and New Albany, Indiana. Baptist Health also operates the 410-bed Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville in Madisonville, Kentucky in a joint venture with Deaconess Health System based in Evansville, Indiana. Baptist Health employs more than 23,000 people in Kentucky and surrounding states.
Baptist Health is the first health system in the U.S. to have all of its hospitals recognized by the American Nursing Credentialing Center with either a Magnet® or Pathway to Excellence® designation for nursing excellence.
Baptist Health’s employed provider network, Baptist Health Medical Group, has nearly 1,500 providers, including more than 750 physicians and more than 740 advanced practice clinicians. Baptist Health’s physician network also includes more than 2,000 independent physicians.
Learn more at BaptistHealth.com.
