Field Educator

Description:

The role of the Field Educator is to collaborate with administration and departmental management to develop and conduct educational programs for the agency.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Develops educational programs that will address the needs of the agency to include, but not limited to: quality patient care, patient outcomes, and agency compliance to local, state, and federal regulations.
• Evaluates the educational needs of agency programs with focus on tracking and trending issues that have a major impact on patient care and patient safety.
• Collaborates with administration and the Clinical Nursing Supervisor in the development of clinical educational resource materials and training tools.
• Creates, maintains, and facilitates orientation, in-services, and training for the clinical and non-clinical staff.
• Provides educational support of the Electronic Medical Record (EMR) computer system for the clinical staff in conjunction with the IT department.
• Maintains relevant statistics as they relate to staff education.
• Reviews, revises, and up-dates clinical educational policy and procedures annually.
• Participates in the utilization chart review committee and performs additional chart audits as assigned.
• Participates in quality and performance improvement activities.
• Communicates and shares related educational issues and data with administration and supervisor.
• Monitors and reports data findings to administration and supervisor to assure compliance with policy and procedures and improvement of outcomes.
• Attends educational workshops and other educational activities
• Keeps abreast of the latest information on home care educational issues.
• Participates in on-call supervisory rotation.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.