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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
We provide a comprehensive and competitive benefits package to all full-time employees (minimum of 24 hours/week), including Medical, Dental, Vision, 403(b) Retirement Plan with employer matching, Defined Contribution Pension Plan, Paid Time Off, employee wellness program, and much more. Click here for more information or download the 2021 Employee Benefits Guide
Magnet: Commitment to Nursing Excellence
Billings Clinic is proud to be recognized for nursing excellence as a Magnet®-designated organization, joining only 97 other organizations worldwide that have achieved this honor four times. The re-designation process happens every four years. Click here to learn more!
Nurse Educator: Nursing Professional Development Practitioner Med/Surg Focus
Hospital Division (Helmsley Room 2-PD (SELL))
req12319
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 every two weeks (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 • Learning Facilitator: Uses the educational design process 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
and adult learning principles to bridge identified gaps in knowledge, skills,
and/or practice.(Maloney & Harper, 2022)
Gaps are identified through a variety of means (examples include environmental
scanning, learning needs assessments, quality outcomes.)
Is an expert in and a resource in the process of designing education.
• Change Agent: Advocates for process change at all levels using change
management strategies and theories.(Maloney & Harper, 2022)
Supports the adaptation of new behaviors and processes in practice to drive
desired outcomes.
• Mentor: Advances the nursing profession and the NPD specialty by contributing
to the professional development of others and supporting ongoing learning as
individuals develop across practice, professional, and educational settings.
• Leader: Influences the interprofessional practice and learning environments,
the NPD specialty, the profession of nursing, and healthcare through creative
problem solving and innovation.(Maloney & Harper, 2022)
• Champion for scientific inquiry: Promotes the generation and dissemination of
new knowledge and the use of evidence to advance NPD practice, guide clinical
practice, and improve the quality of care for the healthcare consumer/partner.
(Maloney & Harper, 2022)
• Advocate for NPD specialty: Supports, promotes, and demonstrates nursing
professional development as a nursing practice specialty. (Maloney &
Harper, 2022)
• Partner for practice transitions: Supports the transition of nurses and other
healthcare personnel across learning and practice environments, roles, and
professional stages (examples include transition to practice programs for new
graduates, advanced practitioners, or transitioning into a new clinical practice
area.)
Evaluates nursing practice and identifies opportunities for modification that
would enhance professional practice, maintain/improve patient care while
remaining fiscally sound.
• Onboarding/Orientation: Develops, coordinates, manages, facilitates, conducts,
and evaluates clinical onboarding/orientation programs focused on retention and
growth for nursing and other healthcare personnel.
• Competency Management: Demonstrates expertise in competency management by
accepting responsibility for measuring, documenting, and supporting the
competency process through assessing, developing, coordinating, managing,
facilitating, conducting, and evaluating competency continuums to address staff
and team performance. (Maloney & Harper, 2022)
• Education: Uses the education design process for planning, implementing,
coordinating, and evaluating educational activities that address gaps in
knowledge, skills, and/or practice for the target audience to achieve specific
outcomes.
Continuing nursing education - supports awarded continuing education contact
hours based on the regulations and standards of the accrediting body.
Interprofessional continuing education - promotes collaboration with other
healthcare professionals to design, manage, implement, coordinate, and evaluate
education when appropriate.
• Role Development: Assists staff by coaching, coordinating, facilitating,
conducting, and evaluating activities to navigate role transitions, role
integration, skill acquisition, and succession planning (examples include the
RN becoming a preceptor, charge nurse, leader, or joining a transition to
practice program.)
• Collaborative Partnerships: Seeks internal and external collaboration for
opportunities to teach, coordinate, serve as liaison, and/or advise nurses and
other learners regarding education and learning (examples include working with
other healthcare/leadership professionals, community partners, emergency
medical services, public health departments, disaster management services,
academic partnerships.) (Maloney & Harper, 2022)
• Inquiry: Promotes and applies professional curiosity using research,
evidence-based practice, and quality improvement initiatives to discover,
teach, practice, and integrate the best available evidence to transform
healthcare delivery and outcomes. (AACN, 2019, p.3)
• Personal Professional Role Competence and Growth:
Demonstrates competence in knowledge, skills, and practice as outlined in the
Nursing Professional Development Scope & Standards of Practice.
Identifies personal needs and sets goals for own growth and development in
collaboration with department manager.
Minimum Qualifications Education • BSN - Application may be considered if currently • Master in Nursing preferred Experience • 5 years of RN experience • Teaching experience preferred Licensure • CPR • Current Montana and/or Wyoming license as a Registered Nurse • Nursing Professional Development Certification Preferred
enrolled in a BSN program with a defined date of completion within 18 months of
application.
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.
Billings Clinic is Montana’s largest health care system the first and only Level I Trauma Center serving Montana, Wyoming and the western Dakotas. A not-for-profit organization led by a physician CEO, Billings Clinic is governed by a board of community members, nurses and physicians. Billings Clinic is an integrated multi-specialty group practice with a 304-bed hospital and Level I trauma center. Billings Clinic has more than 4,600 employees, including more than 480 physicians and advanced practitioners offering more than 80 specialties.
Billings Clinic has 14 regional partnerships, including management agreements with 13 Critical Access Hospitals and one outpatient clinic. In addition, we conduct approximately 110 specialty care clinics per month at 21 different regional locations for residents of rural Montana, Wyoming, and North Dakota. We were designated as the first Magnet organization in Montana in 2006, and are a member of the Mayo Clinic Care Network.
Billings, Montana is a friendly college community located near the magnificent Rocky Mountains with great schools, safe neighborhoods, short commutes and abundant family activities. Exciting outdoor recreation is just minutes from home. Come enjoy 300 days of sunshine!
