Clinical Nurse Educator - Surgical Services

Join the transformative team at City of Hope, where we're changing lives and making a real difference in the fight against cancer, diabetes, and other life-threatening illnesses. City of Hope's growing national system includes its Los Angeles campus, a network of clinical care locations across Southern California, a new cancer center in Orange County, California, and treatment facilities in Atlanta, Chicago, and Phoenix. Our dedicated and compassionate employees are driven by a common mission: To deliver the cures of tomorrow to the people who need them today.

• City of Hope is listed #5 among Best Hospitals by U.S. News & World Report for Cancer Care.

The Clinical Practice Educator is a registered nurse who has acquired knowledge and clinical expertise that enable her/him to practice surgical nursing with judgment and clinical expertise. The Clinical Educator may function as a clinician & educator. They are responsible for assessing educational needs; planning and implementing staff development activities; evaluating the effectiveness of those activities for staff working in the peri-operative and procedural settings.

As a successful candidate, you will:

• Ensures that employees provide service that are accurate, reliable, courteous, and timely.
• Assess staff competence appropriate to their role and function.
• Ensures the delivery of quality care consistent with the scope of practice of the discipline.
• Promotes timely, comprehensive education to staff and documentation of progress towards achievement of outcomes.
• Ensures that all professional and regulatory standards are met and maintained.
• Effectively communicates with all customers/team members to meet organizational goals and customer service expectations.
• Maintains current knowledge, skills, and competencies through involvement in professional continuing education activities.
• Coordinates continuing education workshops.
• Provides a competency-based orientation program for all categories of nursing service personnel.

Your qualifications should include:

• Bachelor's degree in nursing
• Three years of experience in the operating room. One (1) year in education preferred.
• Current registered nurse license.
• Current BLS certification from the American Heart Association.
• CNOR certification is highly preferred.
• OCN and/or AOCN certification is highly preferred.

City of Hope employees pay is based on the following criteria: work experience, qualifications, and work location.

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