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Children's Hospital Colorado has defined and delivered pediatric healthcare excellence for more than 100 years.
Here, the nation’s brightest nurses, physicians, scientists, researchers, therapists, and care providers are creating the future of child health. With an optimist’s outlook, a trailblazing spirit, and a celebrated history, we’re making new strides every day.
We’ve been Magnet-designated four times by the American Nurses Credentialing Center and are consistently recognized among the nation’s top 10 pediatric hospitals by U.S. News & World Report.
As a national leader in pediatric care, we serve children and families from all over the nation. Our System of Care includes four pediatric hospitals, 11 specialty care centers, 1,300+ outreach clinics and more than 10,000 healthcare professionals representing the full spectrum of pediatric care specialties.
Here, we know it takes all of us, every role, to deliver the best possible care to each child and family we treat.
That’s why we build our teams toward a foundation of equity in access, advancement, and opportunity. We know teams of individuals with different identities and backgrounds can nurture creativity and innovation. We know we can see, treat, and heal children better when our team reflects the diversity of our patient population. We strive to attract and retain diverse talent because we know a truly inclusive and equitable workforce will help us one day realize our most basic calling: to heal every child who comes through our doors.
A career at Children's Colorado will challenge you, inspire you, and motivate you to make a difference in the life of a child. Here, it’s different.
Job Overview
The Clinical Education Specialist job description is in alignment with the Association of Nurses in Professional Development (ANPD). ANPD is the practice and thought leader for nursing professional development and the specialty practice organization upon which education specialists base their professional activities. ANPD has identified six core standards of practice on which this job description was heavily influenced: competency management, education, role development, orientation/onboarding, research/EBP/QI, and collaborative partnerships.
The Cardiac Intensive Care Unit (CICU) on Anschutz campus at Children's Hospital Colorado offers state-of-the-art recovery and monitoring for acutely-ill cardiac patients and those recovering from heart surgery . With the largest pediatric heart surgery program in the region, we perform more than 500 heart surgeries per year. Our highly specialized providers take on the most complex heart problems and achieve some of the best outcomes in the nation. The CICU team cares for patients across their entire lifespan and some of the subspecialty populations we commonly treat are: Maternal/Fetal, congenital heart disease, adult congenital heart disease (ACHD), heart transplant, cardiomyopathy, pulmonary hypertension and single ventricle patients. We offer care modalities that include Ventricular Assist Devices (VAD), Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO), Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy (CRRT) and advanced pulmonary support. The CICU is served by an interdisciplinary team of highly specialized and trained team members including cardiac intensivists, bachelor’s prepared intensive care nurses, respiratory therapists, pharmacists, nutritionists, feeding specialists, social workers and education specialists that work closely with the heart surgeons, anesthesiologists and other caregivers. The training we offer our CICU team is diverse and emphasizes communication, teamwork, and critical thinking in addition to highly specialized clinical skills. We promote continued education and encourage team members to pursue specialty certifications. You will find our team to be a passionate and intelligent interdisciplinary team focused on providing excellent care to our patients, in a fast-paced environment.
The CICU has a successful Mentorship Program that begins at the completion of orientation to continue to support and guide your transition into the unit. This has demonstrated success for both new to ICU and experienced team members.
Here…. it’s different.
Additional Information
This position is eligible for relocation assistance, if relocating from 100 miles or greater.
Department Name: Cardiac Intensive Care Unit
Job Status: full time, 40 hours per week, salaried, eligible for benefits
Shift: generally Monday through Friday normal business hours
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Qualifications
- Education: Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN); Masters of Science in Nursing (MSN) or equivalent with post-master’s certification in education
- Experience: 5 years of clinical pediatric experience. Previous pediatric cardiac intensive care experience strongly preferred.
- Certification(s): BLS/CPR from the American Heart Association with at least 6 months left before expiration is required upon hire, American Nurses Credentialing Center(ANCC) or Magnet approved certification.
- Licensure(s): Current Colorado RN License. ACLS and PALS required per unit requirements.
Responsibilities
POPULATION SPECIFIC CARE
Neonate - <30 days Infancy - >30 days to 1yr Toddlers - >1yr to 3yrs Pre-Schoolers - >3yrs to 5yrs School age - >5yrs to 13yrs Adolescent - >13yrs to 18yrs Adult - >18yrs to 65yrs
Essential Functions
An employee in this position may be called upon to do any or all of the following essential functions. These examples do not include all of the functions which the employee may be expected to perform.
- Designs, coordinates, facilitates, onboarding and orientation programs for licensed and unlicensed team members.
- Evaluates orientation and onboarding experiences to ensure newly hired team members are prepared to practice safely and independently.
- Mentors, develops, and evaluates preceptors to enhance learning experiences for all new hires.
- Collaborative Partnerships: Demonstrates knowledge of effective communication principles and promotes communication among disciplines.
- Responds to diversity by recognizing, assessing, and adapting the nature of working relationships with other professionals and populations. Identifies and mitigates deterrents to collaboration.
- Participates in shared decision making, effective team work, and recognition of team and individual contributions. Collaborates with extraprofessional and other stakeholders to ensure educational programs are aligned with organizational goals and strategic plan
- Facilitates learning outcomes through innovative partnerships.
- Demonstrates skillful guidance and teaching of team members to advance the care of patients, families, and the profession of nursing.
- Acts as a resource to staff, department, and safety coaches related to patient safety issues
- Supports quality improvement standards; regulatory standards; patient safety standards; error prevention tools, methodologies, technologies and resources.
- Participates and mentors others in the development, implementation and evaluation of departmental, divisional and organizational goals to include research and the quality improvement/research process to improve patient outcomes.
- Demonstrates leadership through team building, negotiation, and conflict resolution skills to build partnerships across the system.
Other Information
SCOPE AND LEVEL
- Guidelines: Advanced full performance professional level work that requires additional knowledge, education, training or experience. Guidelines are generally in the form of stated objectives only with issues and factors largely undefined requiring the employee to exercise creativity and ingenuity in devising criteria, techniques, strategy, and methodologies for approaching assigned functions or projects.
- Complexity: Duties performed involve concepts, theories, and concrete factors to be evaluated and weighed requiring a high degree of analytical ability, independent judgment, and decision-making. Acts as a subject matter expert in the field of expertise.
- Decision Making: Exercises judgment and discretion, and is responsible for determining the time, place and sequence of the work performed.
- Communications: Contacts with team members, clients or the public where some degree of discretion and judgment are required in carrying out a major program and/or function of the organization.
- Supervision Received: Performs work with minimal supervisory oversight. Work assignment is generally unstructured and employee is responsible for organizing complex, varied, and simultaneous coordination of several functions, programs, or projects in various stages of completion.
Physical Requirements
Ability to Perform Essential Functions of the Job
- Audio-Visual: Far Vision: Good
- Audio-Visual: Hearing: Good
- General Activity: Stand/Walk: 4-6 hrs. per day
- Motion: Bend: 1/3 or more of time
- Motion: Carry: Up to 1/3 of time
- Motion: Lift: Light lifting regularly, moderate lifting occasionally.
- Motion: Pull: Up to 1/3 of time
- Motion: Push: Up to 1/3 of time
- Motion: Reach: Up to 1/3 of time
- Motion: Squat/Crouch: Up to 1/3 of time
- Others: Able to assist or assume direct patient care as census directly permits.
- Others: Occupational Hazards - exposure to unsteady or falling patient: In the course of transferring a patient, may encounter a patient who falls or loses balance, causing employee to fall and/or bear the full weight of a patient
- Weight Lifted/Force Exerted: 35 pounds/16 kilos.: Up to 1/3 of time
Work Environment
- Exposure: Exposure to blood/body fluid: Regular/Frequent.
- Exposure: Exposure to heights: Occasional.
- Exposure: Exposure to infectious diseases: Frequent.
- Exposure: Exposure to lung irritations: Occasional.
- Exposure: Exposure to skin irritations: Frequent.
- Mental and Emotional Requirements: Manages stress appropriately.
- Mental and Emotional Requirements: Works with others effectively.
Equal Employment Opportunity
It is our intention that all qualified applicants be given equal opportunity and that selection decisions be based on job-related factors. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, or any other status protected by law or regulation. Be aware that none of the questions are intended to imply illegal preferences or discrimination based on non-job-related information.
The position is expected to stay open until the posted close date. Please submit your application as soon as possible as the posting is subject to close at any time once a sufficient pool of qualified applicants is obtained.
Salary Information
Annual Salary Range (Based on 40 hours worked per week): $97,718.13 to $146,577.19
Hourly Salary Range: $46.98 to $70.47
Benefits Information
Here, you matter. As a Children’s Hospital Colorado team member, you will receive a competitive pay and benefits package designed to take care of your needs that includes base pay, incentives, paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance, company provided life and disability insurance, paid parental leave, 403b employer match (retirement savings), a robust wellness program, and access to professional development tools, including an education benefit to help you advance your career.
As part of our Total Rewards package, Children's Colorado offers an annual employee bonus program that rewards eligible team members based on organizational performance. If organizational goals are met for the year, the bonus is paid out the following April.
Children’s Colorado delivers annual base pay increases to eligible team members based on their performance over the previous year.
