[Roro]

Dear All,
I need information regarding the job description of a clinical nurse educator. you can share your personal experience as well.
thank you.
Roro.

[JBudd]

I just did a 10 page paper on the subject! It is a really broad job, not easily distilled. Try doing a lit search.

Here are a few of things I found for a staff development clinical nurse educator (not the ones teaching student nurses) of a health care facility:
-responsible for researching and dealing with sentinel events, designing courses to correct and prevent them.
-provide general competency courses, as well as ones specialized for specific areas
-provide for counseling and debriefing sessions
-provide courses needed to meet JCAHO requirements
-do research in house (mining charts for data) to see that patient health needs are met, as well as staff needs
-orient new staff at appropriate levels, from new grads, to nurses in new areas, to specialists coming into their own area but new to facility
-teach staff how to be good mentors and preceptors
-bring in evidence based studies to update policy and procedures in house to maintain state of the art care
-review and revise policy and procedures in general
-recruit staff (nurse, doctor, other specialists) to give courses
-know how, and apply for, continuing ed credits for courses given
-bring in courses for National Certifications, help staff attend out of house certification courses
-monitor and reimburse for tuition costs incurred by staff furthering their educations
-provide cost analysis studies on the benefits of anything done, justify budgetary needs
-prepare and present departmental budget to hospital/facility

Hope that helps, I know your request was posted in June.

I see you are in Lebanon, will pray for your safety.

[Roro]

Thank you JBudd for your reply, for all the research that you did and for praying for our safety.
Thank you for the helpful information. I did a lot of research on this topic and I found as you did that the job description of the clinical nurse educator is very broad. in addition, I experienced that in my daily practice. I am a pediatric clinical Nurse educator. This is a new job that was introduced in our hospital. I feel also that the clinical nurse educator is taking care of many responsibilities at the same time. Really it is a tough job, although many people didn't recognize that.
I would like to thank you another time for your information and I appreciate a lot to continue praying for our safety. I am praying to god to save my country from violence, blood,terrorism and non-human acts. God give us back our dreamland Lebanon.
Thank you JBudd.
Roro

[JBudd]

Your'e very welcome. Would you like a copy of my paper, or my bibliography?

[Roro]

if you please, I'd like to have a copy of your paper or your bibliography.
thank you a lot JBudd.
Roro.

[JBudd]

Should be on its way, private email. You're welcome!

[tizzywas]

I have been searching for just a job descirption that you mention. I have been in the PICU clinicial educator role for 2 years and continue to flounder with what the role incompasses. Management has the "lets see where it leads" attitude as this is a new position for our area. Can you send me a copy of your material? Thanks!

[JBudd]

Hi Tizz,
Haven't been back in here for a while. I'll look it up at home (not there right now) and try to get it to you. It isn't actually a job description in itself, it's a paper for one of my MSN classes, but I hope it'll help.

[matterwise]

Hi JBudd
I teach in a rural setting. The Nursing Tutors and Preceptors would benifit from your paper on the educator's job.Please send acopy.

[JBudd]

Matterwise and Tizziwas,
sorry, I tried to send the paper to you but it bounced back as too long. I sent you private emails.
JBudd