Clinical Nurse Educator - Cardiac ICU/Non-ICU

Chicago, Illinois

You'll develop, coach and mentor staff nurses to become expert clinicians and leaders. UChicago Medicine is an academic medical center.

Posted Oct 20

Shift and hours: Days40 hours a week
Unit and setting: Central Education department Previous experience working within Cardiac ICU and non-ICU patient populations
Term: Permanent Job Type/FTE: Full-Time 1.0Full-time (1.0 FTE)

Do you qualify?

Education: BSN BSN required
Experience: 3 years of clinical practice in specialty area Minimum requirement of three years of clinical practice in specialty area
Also asks: Knowledge and prior application of adult learning principles Knowledge and previous application of adult learning principles
Also asks: Leadership shown as a charge nurse, preceptor or episodic teacher Demonstrated leadership skills evidenced by serving as a charge nurse, preceptor or episodic teacher
Also asks: Complex decision-making and problem solving Demonstrates complex decision-making skills and problem solving ability

Preferred

Certification: Specialty certification Certification in specialty area preferred
Education: MSN or related education field Master of Science in Nursing or related education field preferred
Experience: Prior role as an educator Previous experience in a role as an educator preferred
Experience: Cardiac ICU and non-ICU experience Previous experience working within Cardiac ICU and non-ICU patient populations

The role and schedule

Charge: Charge shifts are part of the role
Union: Non-union position CBA Code: Non-Union
Day to day: Test staff knowledge and skills with standardized and customized assessment tools. Utilizes standardized and customized assessment tools and testing methodologies to measure staff knowledge and skill in core nursing practices and within specialty areas.
Day to day: Survey staff learning needs at least yearly through observation, interviews and focus groups. Collects data regarding employee learning needs, at least annually, through the methods of observation, interviewing, focus groups and instrumentation.
Day to day: Write lesson plans, handouts, self-learning modules and tests. Prepares educational objectives, lesson plans, handouts, self-learning modules, instructional manuals, and tests for programs.
Day to day: Teach at organization-wide education events. Serves as faculty in organization wide education events, as appropriate.
Day to day: Find funding sources and write funding proposals for education programs. Researches available funding sources and submits funding proposals in order to implement support and expand new or existing programs to meet the educational needs.
Patients: Previous experience working within Cardiac ICU and non-ICU patient populations (preferred qualification)

Support on this unit

The posting does not state the assignment size, and nothing published names it for this unit.

rn_hours_per_patient_day: 18.1 hours_per_patient_day Total RN Nursing Hours per Patient Day (Critical Care) 2025: 18.10 hoursCritical Care unit, 2025, Illinois Hospital Report Card (IDPH)
total_nursing_hours_per_patient_day: 18.12 hours_per_patient_day Total Nursing Hours per Patient Day (Critical Care) 2025: 18.12 hoursCritical Care unit, 2025, Illinois Hospital Report Card (IDPH)
contract_rn_hours_share: 0 percent Percentage of Nursing Hours Worked by Contractual RNs (Critical Care) 2025: 0.00 %Critical Care unit, 2025, Illinois Hospital Report Card (IDPH)
employed_rn_hours_share: 100 percent Percentage of Nursing Hours Worked by Hospital Employed RNs (Critical Care) 2025: 100.00 %Critical Care unit, 2025, Illinois Hospital Report Card (IDPH)
rn_turnover_rate: 10.71 percent RN Turnover Rate in the Critical Care Unit 2025: 10.71 %Critical Care unit, 2025, Illinois Hospital Report Card (IDPH)
rn_vacancy_rate: 22.5 percent RN Vacancy Rate in the Critical Care Unit 2026: 22.50 %Critical Care unit, 2026, Illinois Hospital Report Card (IDPH)
rn_hours_per_patient_day: 8.85 hours_per_patient_day Total RN Nursing Hours per Patient Day (Medical-Surgical) 2025: 8.85 hoursMedical-Surgical unit, 2025, Illinois Hospital Report Card (IDPH)
rn_hours_per_patient_day: 14.21 hours_per_patient_day Total RN Nursing Hours per Patient Day (Mother/Baby) 2025: 14.21 hoursMother/Baby unit, 2025, Illinois Hospital Report Card (IDPH)
rn_hours_per_patient_day: 13.98 hours_per_patient_day Total RN Nursing Hours per Patient Day (NICU) 2025: 13.98 hoursNICU unit, 2025, Illinois Hospital Report Card (IDPH)
total_nursing_hours_per_patient_day: 12.04 hours_per_patient_day Total Nursing Hours per Patient Day (Medical-Surgical) 2025: 12.04 hoursMedical-Surgical unit, 2025, Illinois Hospital Report Card (IDPH)
total_nursing_hours_per_patient_day: 15.28 hours_per_patient_day Total Nursing Hours per Patient Day (Mother/Baby) 2025: 15.28 hoursMother/Baby unit, 2025, Illinois Hospital Report Card (IDPH)
total_nursing_hours_per_patient_day: 15.2 hours_per_patient_day Total Nursing Hours per Patient Day (NICU) 2025: 15.20 hoursNICU unit, 2025, Illinois Hospital Report Card (IDPH)
contract_rn_hours_share: 0 percent Percentage of Nursing Hours Worked by Contractual RNs (Medical-Surgical) 2025: 0.00 %Medical-Surgical unit, 2025, Illinois Hospital Report Card (IDPH)
contract_rn_hours_share: 0.51 percent Percentage of Nursing Hours Worked by Contractual RNs (Mother/Baby) 2025: 0.51 %Mother/Baby unit, 2025, Illinois Hospital Report Card (IDPH)
contract_rn_hours_share: 0.06 percent Percentage of Nursing Hours Worked by Contractual RNs (NICU) 2025: 0.06 %NICU unit, 2025, Illinois Hospital Report Card (IDPH)
employed_rn_hours_share: 100 percent Percentage of Nursing Hours Worked by Hospital Employed RNs (Medical-Surgical) 2025: 100.00 %Medical-Surgical unit, 2025, Illinois Hospital Report Card (IDPH)
employed_rn_hours_share: 99.49 percent Percentage of Nursing Hours Worked by Hospital Employed RNs (Mother/Baby) 2025: 99.49 %Mother/Baby unit, 2025, Illinois Hospital Report Card (IDPH)
employed_rn_hours_share: 99.94 percent Percentage of Nursing Hours Worked by Hospital Employed RNs (NICU) 2025: 99.94 %NICU unit, 2025, Illinois Hospital Report Card (IDPH)
rn_turnover_rate: 12.06 percent RN Turnover Rate in the Medical-Surgical Unit 2025: 12.06 %Medical-Surgical unit, 2025, Illinois Hospital Report Card (IDPH)
rn_turnover_rate: 20.16 percent RN Turnover Rate in the Mother/Baby Unit 2025: 20.16 %Mother/Baby unit, 2025, Illinois Hospital Report Card (IDPH)
rn_vacancy_rate: 17.2 percent RN Vacancy Rate in the Medical-Surgical Unit 2026: 17.20 %Medical-Surgical unit, 2026, Illinois Hospital Report Card (IDPH)
rn_vacancy_rate: 4.8 percent RN Vacancy Rate in the Mother/Baby Unit 2026: 4.80 %Mother/Baby unit, 2026, Illinois Hospital Report Card (IDPH)

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Join UChicago Medicine, as a Clinical Nurse Educator in our Central Education Department. In this role, the Clinical Nurse Educator is a nurse with previous educational experience whose focus is on supporting existing staff development and nursing education. This nurse is an educator, consultant, role model, staff/patient advocate, change agent, leader and cost effective professional. The Clinical Nurse Educator elevates the standard of professional nursing practice at UCM by developing, coaching and mentoring staff to become expert clinicians and leaders.

Essential Job Functions

Utilizes standardized and customized assessment tools and testing methodologies to measure staff knowledge and skill in core nursing practices and within specialty areas. Collects data regarding employee learning needs, at least annually, through the methods of observation, interviewing, focus groups and instrumentation. Interprets the medical center’s strategic imperatives, policies, guidelines, and other internal demands in order to design education that supports these strategic goals and key objectives.

Offers recommendations for the deployment of educational resources to enable the achievement of organizational goals. Interprets health care trends and incorporates current research into the design of learning needs assessments and the identification of learning needs. Collaborates with key staff to develop a comprehensive annual educational calendar.

Participates in the design of centralized and unit-based preceptor education and development initiatives. Prepares educational objectives, lesson plans, handouts, self-learning modules, instructional manuals, and tests for programs. Serves as faculty in organization wide education events, as appropriate.

Evaluates all learning activities using objective performance criteria and recommends corresponding changes in education plans. Utilizes appropriate tools and testing methodology for assessing changes in learners’ knowledge, skills, and clinical practice as well as for determining education project/program effectiveness. Develops knowledge and skill based measures to collect performance data and integrates measurement activities and findings into quality projects.

Researches available funding sources and submits funding proposals in order to implement support and expand new or existing programs to meet the educational needs. Required Qualifications BSN required Minimum requirement of three years of clinical practice in specialty area Knowledge and previous application of adult learning principles Demonstrated leadership skills evidenced by serving as a charge nurse, preceptor or episodic teacher Demonstrates complex decision-making skills and problem solving ability

Preferred Qualifications

Master of Science in Nursing or related education field preferred
Certification in specialty area preferred
Previous experience in a role as an educator preferred
Previous experience working within Cardiac ICU and non-ICU patient populations
Position Details
Job Type/FTE: Full-Time 1.0
Shift: Day
Unit/Department: Central Education
CBA Code: Non-Union

What's around it?

In Chicago, IL

Chicago, ILFrom Census ACS 2024.

Living costs about 4% above the US average

Median rent: $1,440/mo
Household income: $77,902/yr, all local households, not nurse pay

Life in Chicago, IL

NeighborhoodsYoung professionals cluster on the North Side in Lake View (Wrigleyville and Boystown), Lincoln Park, Bucktown, and Wicker Park—walkable, nightlife-heavy pockets with roughly 10–20 minute downtown commutes. Uptown and Edgewater sit farther north on Lake Michigan with denser rental inventory and about 10–25 minutes to the Loop; Reddit locals also float Andersonville, North Halsted, Buena Park, and Rogers Park when the commute is less of a constraint. More affordable in-city options include Bridgeport (White Sox country, four miles southwest, 10–20 minutes), Bronzeville, Humboldt Park, and lakeside Hyde Park; Gold Coast and River North are the luxury end. Families and space-seekers look at historic Beverly or inner suburbs such as Oak Park, Evanston, Naperville, Villa Park, Lombard, Des Plaines, and Northbrook for roughly 30-minute downtown access.

Young professionals cluster on the North Side in Lake View (Wrigleyville and Boystown), Lincoln Park, Bucktown, and Wicker Park—walkable, nightlife-heavy pockets with roughly 10–20 minute downtown commutes. Uptown and Edgewater sit farther north on Lake Michigan with denser rental inventory and about 10–25 minutes to the Loop; Reddit locals also float Andersonville, North Halsted, Buena Park, and Rogers Park when the commute is less of a constraint.

More affordable in-city options include Bridgeport (White Sox country, four miles southwest, 10–20 minutes), Bronzeville, Humboldt Park, and lakeside Hyde Park; Gold Coast and River North are the luxury end. Families and space-seekers look at historic Beverly or inner suburbs such as Oak Park, Evanston, Naperville, Villa Park, Lombard, Des Plaines, and Northbrook for roughly 30-minute downtown access.

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As of Sep 11, 2026Source 1: apartments.com Source 2: reddit.com Source 3: zillow.com Source 4: hireahelper.com Source 5: facebook.com

Getting aroundSources map commutes to downtown and the Loop, not named hospital campuses: Bridgeport and Bucktown about 10–20 minutes, East Garfield Park 15–25 minutes on the CTA Blue and Green Lines plus I-290, Brighton Park 15–30 minutes with I-55, buses, subway, and Midway four miles away, Uptown 10–25 minutes eight miles north. Locals tell newcomers to live on a CTA train or bus line and not rely on driving; Metra’s 11 lines and Pace cover the suburbs, with Divvy bikes and river water taxis as extras. Chicago ranked worst in the U.S. for congestion in 2025 (112 hours lost per driver), expressways need at least 30 minutes of padding, and parking and parallel-parking hunts are a standing complaint.

Sources map commutes to downtown and the Loop, not named hospital campuses: Bridgeport and Bucktown about 10–20 minutes, East Garfield Park 15–25 minutes on the CTA Blue and Green Lines plus I-290, Brighton Park 15–30 minutes with I-55, buses, subway, and Midway four miles away, Uptown 10–25 minutes eight miles north. Locals tell newcomers to live on a CTA train or bus line and not rely on driving; Metra’s 11 lines and Pace cover the suburbs, with Divvy bikes and river water taxis as extras.

Chicago ranked worst in the U.S. for congestion in 2025 (112 hours lost per driver), expressways need at least 30 minutes of padding, and parking and parallel-parking hunts are a standing complaint.

Sources

As of Sep 11, 2026Source 1: apartments.com Source 2: thehonestlocal.com Source 3: extraspace.com Source 4: travelonthereg.com Source 5: facebook.com

OutdoorsLake Michigan is the backyard: Oak Street Beach, Edgewater’s miles of shoreline and beaches, and Promontory Point in Hyde Park for picnics. Lincoln Park Zoo is one of the oldest free zoos in the U.S.; the Chicago Riverwalk is the downtown pedestrian spine; Humboldt Park’s 200 acres include a lagoon, boathouse, and trails; Brighton Park sits by sprawling McKinley Park; Navy Pier is the tourist-and-local hybrid. Warm-weather patio season starts in the mid-50s; Divvy bikes cover short hops; Starved Rock is the go-to day trip for Midwest rock formations.

Lake Michigan is the backyard: Oak Street Beach, Edgewater’s miles of shoreline and beaches, and Promontory Point in Hyde Park for picnics. Lincoln Park Zoo is one of the oldest free zoos in the U.S.; the Chicago Riverwalk is the downtown pedestrian spine; Humboldt Park’s 200 acres include a lagoon, boathouse, and trails; Brighton Park sits by sprawling McKinley Park; Navy Pier is the tourist-and-local hybrid.

Warm-weather patio season starts in the mid-50s; Divvy bikes cover short hops; Starved Rock is the go-to day trip for Midwest rock formations.

Sources

As of Sep 11, 2026Source 1: facebook.com Source 2: zillow.com Source 3: tripadvisor.com Source 4: reddit.com Source 5: hireahelper.com Source 6: blog.resy.com

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Chicago is less one city than 77 community areas, and that is the real choice a relocating nurse makes. Healthcare is among the city’s top industries. Young professionals live on the North Side lakefront—Lake View (Wrigleyville and Boystown), Lincoln Park, Edgewater, Uptown—and in Bucktown, Wicker Park, and Logan Square, where the L beats the car and downtown is 10–25 minutes. Hyde Park and Bridgeport trade nightlife for greystones, lake or White Sox proximity, and lower prices; Gold Coast is the luxury tier. Live on a CTA line: drivers lost 112 hours to congestion in 2025, worst in the country. The payoff is Lake Michigan, a free Lincoln Park Zoo, the Riverwalk, Humboldt Park’s lagoon, and food from The Duck Inn and Longman & Eagle to pierogi and deep-dish. The Art Institute, Field Museum, Wrigley Field, Lollapalooza, and Blues Festival are everyday civic life. Winters are long, gray, and snowy; summers are why people stay. Typical rents sit near $1,900–$2,100 and climbing; property-tax bills keep rising. Crime is neighborhood-specific even after 2025 homicides fell to a 60-year low.

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As of 2026Source 1: hireahelper.com Source 2: apartments.com Source 3: zillow.com Source 4: thehonestlocal.com Source 5: extraspace.com Source 6: blog.resy.com Source 7: choosechicago.com Source 8: travelonthereg.com

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Chicago, ILFrom Census ACS 2024.