Center for Best Practice
Full Time
Day Shift
730-4
Consistently named best hospital, Lexington Medical Center dedicates itself to providing quality health services that meet the needs of its communities. Ranked #2 in the state and #1 in the Columbia metro area by U.S. News & World Report, Lexington Medical Center is the only hospital named one of the Best Places to Work in South Carolina.
The 607-bed teaching hospital anchors a health care network that includes five community medical centers and employs more than 8,000 health care professionals. The network includes a cardiovascular program recognized by the American College of Cardiology as South Carolina’s first HeartCARE CenterTM and an accredited Cancer Center of Excellence affiliated with MUSC Hollings Cancer Center for research and education. The network also features an occupational health center, the largest skilled nursing facility in the Carolinas, an Alzheimer’s care center and nearly 80 physician practices. Its postgraduate medical education programs include family medicine and transitional year.
Job Summary
Facilitates the delivery of quality patient care through practice as an educator and leader. The clinical educator is an expert practitioner who demonstrates departmental and unit based leadership, excellent communication skills, proficient knowledge and decision-making skills in a specialty. Clinical educators are exceptional teachers, critical thinkers and exhibit collaboration with nursing leadership, direct care nursing staff and physicians. Responsible and accountable for clinical development activities to include structured programs, in-services, patient care orientation and ongoing educational programs based on learner and organizational needs that foster the development of competence in the direct care clinical nursing staff. Facilitates achievement of annual organizational quality goals as evidenced by patient outcomes. Provides effective training to direct care clinical nursing staff and nursing support staff for Epic EHR Inpatient ClinDoc and/or Stork.
Minimum Education: Bachelors of Science in Nursing
Minimum Education: Bachelors of Science in Nursing
Substitutable Education & Experience (Optional): None.
Required Certifications/Licensure: Currently licensed as a Registered Nurse by the South Carolina Board of Nursing; Instructor status in mandatory certification programs (CPR, ACLS, NRP, or PALS) - may be obtained within six months of entering role; Certification in Nursing Professional Development - may be obtained within 3 years of entering role; Epic Credentialed Trainer certification(Inpatient ClinDoc and/or Stork) - may be obtained within 6 months of entering role; Certification in CPR.
Required Training: Experience teaching adult learners.
We are committed to offering quality, cost-effective benefits choices for our employees and their families:
Day ONE medical, dental and life insurance benefits Health care and dependent care flexible spending accounts (FSAs) Employees are eligible for enrollment into the 403(b) match plan day one. LHI matches dollar for dollar up to 6%. Employer paid life insurance – equal to 1x salary Employee may elect supplemental life insurance with low cost premiums up to 3x salary Adoption assistance LHI provides its full-time employees employer paid short-term disability and long-term disability coverage after 90 days of eligible employment Tuition reimbursement Student loan forgivenessEqual Opportunity Employer
It is the policy of LMC to provide equal opportunity of employment for all individuals, and to remain compliant with applicable state and federal laws and regulations. LMC strives to provide a discrimination-free environment, and to recruit, select, on-board, and employ all employees without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, disability, national origin, veteran status, or pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions, including but not limited to, lactation. LMC endeavors to upgrade and promote employees from within the hospital where possible and consistent with the employee’s desires and abilities and the hospital’s needs.