Registered Nurse Educator

Join Our Team as a Nurse Educator!

Make a Difference. Inspire Excellence. Shape the Future of Behavioral Healthcare.

Destiny Springs Healthcare is seeking a passionate and experienced Nurse Educator to lead staff development, clinical education, and infection prevention initiatives in our growing behavioral health organization.

This is a Full-Time, In-Office Position Located in a collaborative healthcare environment where your expertise will directly impact patient care and staff success.

Why Join Destiny Springs Healthcare?

• ✅ Competitive Compensation
• ✅ Comprehensive Medical, Dental & Vision Insurance
• ✅ Life Insurance
• ✅ 401(k) Retirement Plan
• ✅ Paid Time Off (PTO)
• ✅ Opportunity to Influence Clinical Excellence and Staff Development
• ✅ Supportive Leadership Team and Positive Workplace Culture
• ✅ Meaningful Work That Changes Lives

We're Looking for Someone Who

• ✔ Has a passion for teaching and mentoring healthcare professionals
• ✔ Thrives in a fast-paced behavioral health environment
• ✔ Enjoys developing innovative training programs
• ✔ Is committed to quality patient care, safety, and infection prevention
• ✔ Wants to make a lasting impact on both patients and caregivers

Ready to build the next generation of nursing excellence? Apply today and grow your career with Destiny Springs Healthcare!

Position Summary

The Nurse Educator is responsible for developing, conducting, and evaluating organizational nurse training programs and New Employee orientation (NEO). Conducts group and individual training through in-service, on-the-job training, and computer education modules. Serves as a resource person to staff and management. Performs administrative duties as needed, plans a monthly calendar for education activities, and serves on special committees as needed.

Assists in the coordination and management of the infection control program within the facility. Provides collaboration with nursing leadership in the application of infection control to patient access, organizational process, and capacity. Knowledgeable regarding patient management and safety.

Essential functions

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Demonstrates the clinical expertise, leadership, management, communication skills and knowledge of educational principles necessary to develop educational programs and achieve optimal educational outcomes. Ability to develop instructional materials; set-up and demonstrate patient care equipment. Conducts educational classes, in-services, new employee orientation, and/or provides individual instruction as necessary.

Facilitates CPR/AED certification courses. Facilitates Crisis Prevention Institute (CPI) training. Partners with leadership team members to develop, implement and evaluate annual infection prevention goals and action plans.

Partners with Infection Control Specialist in overseeing the operations of infection prevention, epidemiology, industrial hygiene, and relevant safety programs. Assist Infection Control Specialist in ensuring appropriate intervention and education occurs with staff regarding healthcare infection trends, outbreaks, or non-compliance to infection control/OSHA are identified. Creates onboarding activities and evaluates new employee’s performance during conditional period.

Will provide remedial education and orientation as necessary or appropriate. Develops objectives for each in-service and evaluates presentation and teaching material through staff feedback. Interacts professionally with the nursing staff and nursing leadership to determine specific educational and/or developmental needs.

Documents staff attendance at in-services; ensures educational/competency requirements, organization requirements and standards are met on an annual basis by all nursing staff members in collaboration with the nursing leadership team. Ability to serve as a resource person, consultant to nursing and medical staff by utilizing Policy & Procedure. Identifies, develops, coordinates and plans educational offerings for Behavioral Health personnel, with consideration of but not limited to mandatory regulations, safety, performance improvement, new equipment, technologies, and clinical practices.

Perform other functions as assigned by a registered nurse or the Director of Nursing.

Supervisory responsibility

This position has no supervisory or managerial responsibilities.

Competencies

Technical aptitude. Strong communication skills (written and verbal). Ethical Conduct. Ability to perform tasks independently.

Work environment

Indoor environment within Inpatient and Outpatient Psychiatric Hospital. Helps train the staff Moderate physical activity. Some hazard potential from possibility of physical acting out behavior of patients and health related communicable diseases.

Physical demands

Ability to exercise self-control in potentially volatile situations such as being verbally or physically confronted in a threatening or aggressive manner; must be able to work and concentrate amidst distractions such as noise, conversation and foot traffic; ability to handle interruptions often and be able to move from one task to another; must be flexible and not easily frustrated in dealing with differences of opinions.

Ability to stoop, kneel, crouch, crawl, reach, stand, walk, push, pull, lift, grasp, and be able to perceive the attributes of objects such as size, shape, temperature, and/or texture by touching with skin, particularly that of the fingertips. Ability to express and exchange ideas via spoken work during activities in which they must convey detail or important spoken instructions to others accurately, sometimes quickly and loudly. Ability to express and exchange ideas via written assignments effectively and accurately.

Hearing to perceive the nature of sound with no less than 40 db loss @ Hz, 1000 Hz, and 2000 Hz with or without correction; ability to perceive detailed information through oral communication and to make fine discrimination's in sound. Performs repetitive motions with wrists, hands and fingers.

Work is primarily sedentary in nature requiring occasional exertion of up to 10 pounds of force to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects.

Worker is not substantially exposed to adverse environmental conditions; conditions are typical of office settings and administrative work.

Must be able to address and prioritize multiple task demands within established time frames.

Travel

This position requires no travel.

Required education /

Experience

Current and unencumbered RN License in the state of Arizona. BSN required, Master’s Degree preferred. Five years of experience in a nursing required with one year in behavioral health environment preferred.