Demonstrates through behavior Decatur Morgan Hospital’s mission, vision and values. Additionally, the nurse educator provides support to all Decatur Morgan Hospital Nursing Services employees by identifying needs for education, preparing and presenting education activities and evaluating the effectiveness of Nursing Resources activities and outcomes. Serves as a resource to all Nursing Services staff.
Assess learning needs, plan, implement, and evaluate programs for staff development
Analyze practice and standards to identify gaps and design educational initiatives to improve care
Identifies educational needs and coordinates unit-based educational activities.
Facilitates staff competency assessment ongoing and at a minimum, annually, to include but is not limited to BLS renewal, annual clinical competencies, and MOAB training
Responsibly and accurately document education activities meeting hospital policy and accreditation processes
Assist Human Resources in the recruitment and retention efforts for nursing
Consistently apply principles of leadership in all inter-personal relationships
Support hospital wide activities
Maintains a working relationship with the local schools of nursing; serves as a liaison for planning learning opportunities for students. Oversees the shadowing program, clinical rotations, and preceptorships.
Participate in hospital committees
Coordinate, plan, and teach new employees through an organized orientation program.
Reasoning, Mathematical and Language Development are indicative of the general level of development required to do this job. Some, but not necessarily all, areas mentioned in this section will be included in this job.
Apply principles of logical or scientific thinking to define problems, collect data, establish facts and draw valid conclusions. Deals with several abstract and concrete variables.
Practical application of fractions, percentages, ratio and proportion in addition to basic addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division abilities.
Reading: Read scientific and technical journals, abstracts, and financial reports. Records data via paper and electronic means.
Communicates verbally using effective voice tone, diction and medical terminology.
Gathers, complies and classifies information about patients and other people. Analyzes and interprets data to carry out operational functions of the hospital.
Speaking, hearing, talking with people to convey or exchange information. Includes giving directions to staff, patients, families and/or visitors.
Manual dexterity: Use of body members or special devices to work, and perform functions pertinent to accomplishment of job assignment.
Education: Graduate of an accredited school of nursing – BSN required, MSN preferred. Possesses a nursing license in good standing in the State of Alabama
Experience: Minimum of five years hospital clinical experience. Time served as an instructor or preceptor preferred, but not required
Huntsville Hospital is an 881-bed hospital that serves as the regional referral center for North Alabama and southern Tennessee. Huntsville Hospital is governed by the Health Care Authority of the City of Huntsville and is the second-largest hospital in Alabama. In recent years, the hospital has expanded its services throughout the region with the development of Huntsville Hospital Health System, which includes hospitals in Huntsville, Madison, Athens, Decatur, Boaz, Guntersville, Moulton, Red Bay, Sheffield, Scottsboro, and Fayetteville, Tenn. The Health System includes more than 2,300 patient beds and 19,500 employees.
