The Nurse Educator (NE) serves as a vital member of the healthcare team within EMERGENCY projects in the field, supervising, teaching, and collaborating with nursing colleagues.

This role involves providing treatment and care for both adult and paediatric patients admitted to the ward or in the Emergency Department while educating other professionals.

The Nurse Educator reports hierarchically to the Hospital Coordinator/Head Nurse and functionally to the Clinical Training Manager and Clinical Training FOD and contributes to the delivery of the highest possible standards of care and treatment in collaboration with various healthcare professionals according to the EMERGENCY internal guidelines and protocols.

The Nurse Educator is a registered nurse (RN) with proven clinical experience who serves as a teacher for other nurses and individuals (already possessing at least a basic degree in the healthcare field) who wish to become nurses.

His/her duties include developing lesson plans, giving lectures, shadowing nurses in learning and evaluating students both in clinical settings and through examinations and assignments.

A Nurse Educator is usually a nurse with strong organizational and leadership skills, playing a critical role in the professional development of direct care workers, nurses, and other health professionals by maintaining and advancing nursing practice, complex care skills and building the clinical competence of staff, thereby ensuring safe and effective delivery of care.

The Nurse Educator is in charge of evaluating nursing students’ learning through a standardized method adopted by EMERGENCY as they provide care to patients.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

The role of a Nurse Educator mainly requires collaboration between mixed teams in the healthcare setting, nursing faculty teaching in the classroom, and students assigned to clinical learning experiences in the healthcare setting. The Nurse Educator is required to have a great degree of competence in caring for patients, clients, and families.

In particular, the responsibilities of a Nurse Educator include:

Education, Training and Development

• Acting as a role model, demonstrating clinical expertise and decision-making within the speciality;
• Leading, educating and assessing nursing student skills, knowledge, and clinical judgement and reasoning;
• Running a pre and post-clinical briefing session for students to facilitate learning related to experiences in the clinical setting;
• Creating lesson plans that accomplish predefined learning goals tailored to students’ needs;
• Demonstrating techniques and best practices for students;
• Grading papers, assignments and exams;
• Documenting student attendance, participation and performance;
• Educating technical and patient care staff in the use of new equipment and supplies;
• Utilizing, storing, and properly maintaining educational aids and technical material assigned to the training unit;
• Overseeing clinical practice components of nurse education and training programs including Training of Trainers (TOT);
• Working under the supervision of Clinical Training FOD to develop, implement, track and test student pathways and evaluation processes;
• Ensuring prompt and adequate communication including the creation of written handovers towards the Clinical Training FOD.

Innovation & Continuous Improvement

• Staying up to date on the latest advances and evidence in medicine and changes to best practice standards for patient care;
• Researching methods to improve students’ education in the clinical setting under the guidance of the Clinical Training FOD;
• Helping to develop curriculum for nurse training programs under the guidance of FOD;
• Tracking the learning, competency, and clinical judgment of the nursing students throughout their assigned clinical learning experience and sharing that information with the students themselves, the Clinical Training FOD and other relevant departments;
• Producing oral and written reports about students’ performance when requested.

Patient Care and Safety, Quality Care

• Caring for adult and paediatric patients in different settings, pre- and post-operatively according to the training needs;
• Caring for critically ill patients in the ER, Intensive Care Unit and High Dependency Unit according to the training needs;
• Ensuring a correct application and supervision of nursing protocols;
• Ensuring an appropriate management of working time and deadlines assigned;
• In the event of a mass casualty, managing critical patients as instructed by the team leader responsible for the protocol (Mass Casualty Plan).

QUALIFICATIONS

• Nursing Degree (RN) or higher education in nursing (preferable);
• At least 5 years of experience as a nurse in Critical Care/Emergency clinical setting;
• Formal experience in education such as academic or certified instructor (preferable);
• Good English level (B2 or higher);
• Flexibility to adapt, due to the ever-changing dynamics of the clinical educational environment;
• Passion for continuous learning;
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills;
• Advanced IT skills (Microsoft Office knowledge);
• Stress management capabilities;
• Teamwork and cooperation capabilities.