Hospital Nursing Education Specialist

Regions Hospital has an opportunity for a Nursing Education Specialist to join as a partner of our nursing leadership team! The Nursing Education Specialist facilitates best nursing practice and enhances safe, quality patient care by:

• Planning, developing, and conducting professional educational opportunities for employees of HealthPartners in a quality conscious and cost-effective manner.
• Establishing a work environment that promotes learning by individual growth/development, professional practice, and a collaborative team approach to assure excellence in delivery of quality, population/age-specific care and a high level of staff satisfaction.
• Developing and presenting educational activities based upon compliance requirements, annual education and learning needs, and/or presentation of new equipment which support nursing staff competence and professional development.
• Collaborating to support and/or coordinate orientation of nursing team members, preceptors, and charge RNs
• Facilitating on-going staff development.
• Supports system-wide and local policy, procedure, order set, work standard, competency, and e-learning development.

The primary duties of the Nursing Education Specialist position are:

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

Education, Experience or Equivalent Combination:

• Master’s in nursing, health sciences, or education (complete or enrolled). If enrolled, must show continuous progress towards degree completion.
  • Bachelor’s degree for hires prior to 4/2025.
  • Associates degree for Regions Hospital hires prior to 6/2021.
• Minimum of 3 years (6,240 hrs) experience in area of clinical specialty required.
• Experience in leadership roles, research utilization, staff development, and interdisciplinary collaboration.
• Experience as a preceptor/charge RN and conducting clinical education.

Licensure/ Registration/ Certification:

• Active RN licensure in MN or WI required at time of hire. After hire, RN must obtain licensure in the other state within 3 months of hire.
• Basic Life Support certificate in accordance with American Heart Association (AHA) guidelines.