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Educator II RN Part Time Days

  • CHI Saint Joseph East
  • Lexington, Kentucky
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About Us

Inspired by faith. Driven by innovation. Powered by humankindness. CommonSpirit Health is building a healthier future for all through its integrated health services. As one of the nation’s largest nonprofit Catholic healthcare organizations, CommonSpirit Health delivers more than 20 million patient encounters annually through more than 2,300 clinics, care sites and 138 hospital-based locations, in addition to its home-based services and virtual care offerings.

Our Mission

As CommonSpirit Health, we make the healing presence of God known in our world by improving the health of the people we serve, especially those who are vulnerable, while we advance social justice for all. To learn more about a calling that defines and unites, please click here for more information about our mission, vision, and values.

The posted compensation range of $37.22 - $55.37 /hour is a reasonable estimate that extends from the lowest to the highest pay CommonSpirit in good faith believes it might pay for this particular job, based on the circumstances at the time of posting. CommonSpirit may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range as permitted by law.

Job ID
2026-463475
Employment Type
Part Time
Department
Education
Hours/Pay Period
40
Weekly Schedule
Days
Shift
Day
Remote
No
Category
Education and Training

Job Summary and Responsibilities

As an RN Educator, you will design, organize, implement, and evaluate evidence-based educational programs, orientations, and continuing education.

Every day you will facilitate the professional growth, skill development, and competency of staff, ensuring these programs primarily support the organization's mission, vision, values, and strategic goals. Your work will directly contribute to ensuring quality, safety, and service in patient and family-centered care.

To be successful in this role, you will demonstrate strong instructional design capabilities, expert clinical knowledge, and the ability to effectively engage and develop healthcare professionals, ultimately enhancing the standards of patient care.

  • Clinical Expert



      • Serves as a role model to Nursing Staff in the delivery of excellent patient care for designated patient populations.


      • Collaborates with nursing and interdisciplinary colleagues to assess, plan, implement, and evaluate strategies to address complex patient care issues.


      • Assists staff with clinical decision-making and priority setting.


      • Collaborates with Clinical Leadership to develop, evaluate, and implement standards of patient care /care planning and professional practice with attention to quality, service, cost-effectiveness, comfort, safety, age-specific implications, and cultural competence.


      • Serves as a patient/family advocate, incorporating respect for and acknowledgement of cultural diversity and individual patient needs.


      • Maintains and integrates current evidenced-based knowledge into educational programming.


      • Promotes an environment consistent with the core concepts of Patient and Family Centered Care, and demonstration of the core values.
  • Educator



      • Facilitates the ongoing education and professional development of the nursing staff and students.


      • Coordinates orientation of newly hired nursing department employees to the organization.


      • Plans, prepares, and maintains materials for use in competency-based educational programs, utilizing current standards, regulations, and validated evidenced-based research.


      • Plans and coordinates in-services, orientation, and educational programs for clinical staff to meet competency requirements in accordance with departmental objectives and appropriate accreditation standards.


      • Collaborates in the development or modification of patient education materials as appropriate.


      • Coordinates learning needs assessments for clinical staff and develops programs and competency strategies to address identified learning needs.


      • Incorporates principles of adult learning in the planning, implementation, and evaluation of education and competency programs.


      • Collaborates and incorporates learning technologies via simulation, LMS, virtual classroom, and multimedia.


      • Communicates effectively in visual, oral, and written form and demonstrates effective presentation skills.


      • Assists in the fiscal and administrative operations through cost- effective use of resources, and participation in revenue-generating activities identified for the department and the organization.


      • Facilitates initial provider and renewal courses for ACLS, BLS, NRP, PALS (as applicable), including HeartCode administration.


      • Cooperates in the facilitation of departmental orientation and conducts a variety of in-service, orientation, and educational programs for clinical staff to meet competency assessment requirements in accordance with departmental objectives and accreditation standards, including but not limited to: Orientation; Initial and Ongoing Competencies; Core Curriculum; Required Certification Courses, Professional Development Program and Preceptor/Mentor Programs.
  • Consultant/Interdisciplinary Collaborator/Facilitator



      • Serves as an educational consultant and/or facilitator to outside institutions as well as hospital committees, task forces, and projects.


      • Maintains involvement in professional, community, and clinical specialty activities.


      • Serves as a consultant to clinical staff, physicians, administration, nursing school programs, and the public for clinical education and the clinical nursing care of hospitalized patients.


      • Role models customer service.


      • Collaborates and supports clinical student rotations.
  • Researcher



      • Expands the scientific base of nursing practice by initiating and/or participating in continuous quality improvement and evidence based practice activities and/or research studies.


      • Critically analyzes current nursing research methods and outcomes for inclusion in the curriculum content of education to support patient care.


      • Supports and demonstrates validated evidence based practice.


      • Disseminates research findings through clinical presentations and publications.


      • Challenges existing practice when not aligned with current best practices.
  • Development of Self and Others



      • Maintains affiliation with professional nursing organizations.


      • Obtains and maintains professional certification.


      • Fosters attainment of professional certification for bedside nursing staff through mentoring, classes, programs, and study groups.


      • Promotes the concept of lifelong learning.
  • Change Agent



      • Identifies and supports needed opportunities for change.


      • Develops programs that assist attendees to embrace change as a desired process to support best practice.


      • Demonstrates flexibility.

Job Requirements

Required

  • Bachelors Of Science Nursing and Minimum of 5 years as a Registered Nurse, upon hire and
  • Masters Of Science in Nursing, Education, Leadership or other health related fiel, upon hire or
  • enrolled in an accredited program at the time of hire, upon hire and
  • Experience in evaluating nursing competency
  • Registered Nurse: KY, upon hire and
  • Basic Life Support - CPR, upon hire

Where You'll Work

Welcome to Saint Joseph East, a 217-bed, full-service, community hospital located in a convenient setting in Lexington, Kentucky. Saint Joseph East also includes the Women's Hospital at Saint Joseph East which is dedicated to supporting the well-being of women in Central and Eastern Kentucky and serves a 16-bed Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). 

CHI Saint Joseph Health is part of CommonSpirit Health, a non-profit, Catholic health system dedicated to advancing health for all people. With approximately 175,000 team members and 25,000 physicians and advanced practice clinicians. 

Our commitment to serve the common good is delivered through the dedicated work of thousands of physicians, advanced practice clinicians, nurses, and staff; through clinical excellence delivered across a system of 140 hospitals and more than 2,200 care centers serving 24 states.

Total Rewards

Depending on the position offered, CommonSpirit Health offers a generous benefit package, including but not limited to medical, prescription drug, dental, vision plans, life insurance, paid time off (full-time benefit eligible team members may receive a minimum of 14 paid time off days, including holidays annually), tuition reimbursement, retirement plan benefit(s) including, but not limited to, 401(k), 403(b), and other defined benefits offerings, as may be amended from time to time. For more information, please visit our Total Rewards

Unless directed by a Collective Bargaining Agreement, applications for this position will be considered on a rolling basis. CommonSpirit Health cannot anticipate the date by which a successful candidate may be identified.

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CommonSpirit Health™ is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, marital status, parental status, ancestry, veteran status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law. For more information about your EEO rights as an applicant, please click here [PDF].

CommonSpirit Health™ will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c). External hires must pass a post-offer, pre-employment background check/drug screen. Qualified applicants with an arrest and/or conviction will be considered for employment in a manner consistent with federal and state laws, as well as applicable local ordinances, ban the box laws, including but not limited to the San Francisco and Los Angeles Fair Chance Ordinances. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please contact us by telephone at (415) 438-5575 and let us know the nature of your request. We will only respond to messages left that involve a request for a reasonable accommodation in the application process. We will accommodate the needs of any qualified candidate who requests a reasonable accommodation under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). CommonSpirit Health™ participates in E-Verify.

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