The Critical Care Educator is a nurse with sound clinical experience, emotional intelligence, situational awareness and outstanding critical thinking skills lending one the ability to communicate well with his/her peer group in the Critical Care.
Required Knowledge & Skills
Education: Bachelor's Degree
Experience: Four years of related experience. Requires broad knowledge of complex systems and procedures.
Licenses and Certifications
- CRITICAL CARE REGISTERED NURSE
- ACLS INSTRUCTOR
- GEORGIA REGISTERED NURSE LICENSE OR MULTISTATE NURSING LICENSE
Qualifications
- Clinical experience to include care and management of the following patient populations: (A) Intra Aortic Balloon Pump (IABP), (B) Hemodynamic monitoring, (c) CRRT, (D) 12 lead EKG interpretation, (E) Rhythm interpretation, (F) Management of a ventilator patient, and (G) Management of patient recieving PCI.
- Documentation of experience in the provision of education for bedside clinicians. (Application requirement of 2 letters of reference related to the applicant's ability to coordinate and provide education for the critical care nurse).
- Ability to adjust the teaching plan to accommodate the visual learners, the auditory learners, the reading writing-preference learners, as well as the kinesthetic learner.
- Must receive ACLS Instructor Certification within 90 days of starting role.
- Must become Critical Care Registered Nurse within 6 months of starting role.