RN Clinical Mentor - ICU (5+ years of ICU experience preferred)

Job Summary

The RN Clinical Mentor will be assigned to each Critical Care unit to provide education, support and direction to staff at the bedside.

Essential Job Functions Accountabilities

• Serves as a clinical resource for staff within the Critical Care Division.
• Collaborates with other departments as needed in order to oversee the educational needs of staff, including but not limited to, in-service, competencies, bedside training and classroom training.
• Provides support to new employees at the unit level.
• Assigns a preceptor to each new employee.
• Follows up with preceptors and employees to ensure the employees are receiving what they need to successfully perform high quality patient care.
• Identifies and resolves any issues identified.
• Responsible for and facilitates the Skills Fairs for Critical Care nurses and techs.
• Assesses, plans, develops content, coordinates, implements and evaluates educational needs that are appropriate for the target population of each Critical Care unit.
• This includes bedside training, in-services, classroom training, etc. Assists in completing and/or creating and implementing action plans to address areas of concern as needed.
• Assists Critical Care team members on preventive measures to avoid adverse events such as preventing CAUTIs, CLABSIs, pressure injuries, falls, etc. and improves quality outcomes.
• Participates in most hospital-wide committees (e.g., Zero CAUTI, Zero Pressure) as the Critical Care subject matter expert.
• Job description is not an all-inclusive list of duties and may be subject to change with or without notice.
• Staff are expected to perform other duties as assigned.