Nurse Specialist, Nurse Education Services

Nurse Specialist, Nurse Education Services

Entity: Aga Khan University Hospital

Location: Karachi

Introduction:

The Aga Khan University Hospital is a not-for-profit healthcare institute that offers all medical services to their patients under one roof. In addition to the tertiary care hospital in Karachi, AKUH has a network of 4 secondary care hospitals, 30+ Medical Centres, and over 290+ Clinical Laboratories, 30+ Pharmacies in over 120+ cities across Pakistan. It also offers Home Healthcare Services and home deliveries of medicines. The Hospital provides Zakat for those patients who are eligible, and the health systems offers generous Patient Welfare to support those in financial need. In recognition of its high quality and patient safety, the AKUH is accredited by the Joint Commission International (JCI) as an Academic Medical Centre and its Clinical Laboratories are accredited by the College of American Pathologists (CAP) for fast and accurate testing.

AKU is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to safeguarding and aims to adopt appropriate standards for safeguarding and promoting a respectful relationship with and between all faculty, staff, trainees, volunteers, beneficiaries, wider communities, and other stakeholders with whom it works, including children and vulnerable adults and expects all employees/trainees and partners to share this commitment.

Responsibilities:

The staff development Nurse Specialist will collaborate with nursing management and staff across departments to assess, plan, develop, implement, facilitate, evaluate and revise educational programming for all levels of nursing personnel as indicated or requested. The incumbent will act as a key resource in the orientation and continuing education of nursing staff. Educational programs typically include, but are not limited to orientation, certification/recertification courses continuing education and in-services.

As an American Heart Association (AHA) Training Center Coordinator (TCC), incumbent will oversee operations of the AHA training programs offered by NES i.e. program management, administration and quality of all AHA courses including courses offered at approved training site, managing and supervising instructors and training faculty, and serving as the principal resource for information, support, and quality control for all AHA programs and instructors/faculty of the training center and training sites.

You will be responsible to:

• Develops educational programs to meet broad nursing needs and institutional patient care objectives in partnership with unit-based Clinica Nurse Instructors and Clinical Nurse Specialists.
• Ensure professional development of on board and novice nursing staff by continuing education programs.
• Conducts different training programmes as per identified needs to meet credentialing and certification requirements of nursing staff as per institutional policy & requirements.
• Serves as primary contact with American Heart Association (AHA).
• Conduct different audits.
• Coordinates and conducts different American Heart Association courses and prepares reports as per devised format.
• Facilitate clinical areas in conducting code blue handling mock drills.

Requirements:

You should have:

• Baccalaureate degree in nursing from an accredited degree program, preferably MScN
• Around 3-5 years of nursing experience
• Create and translate evidence-based practice in classroom/clinical teaching
• Demonstrate clinical teaching expertise
• Ability to be self-directed with excellent organizational, writing, communication, and interpersonal skills
• Ability to supervise clinical aspects and evaluate orientees/trainees’ performance
• Willingness to work flexible hours as per learners’ needs
• Commitment to learning and continuing education
• Demonstrates ability to transmit knowledge and skills
• Demonstrates leadership skills
• Ability to work under pressure
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Highly creative, initiative, flexible and adaptable.Demonstrates empathy with learners
• Familiar with the concepts of nursing quality assurance and continuous quality improvement nursing
• Exhibits effective skills in problem solving and crisis management.

Comprehensive employment reference checks will be conducted.