Nurse Educator (RN) - CHaD (Pediatric and Pediatric Critical Care Inpatient units)

The Children’s Hospital at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center (CHaD) is New Hampshire’s only children’s hospital, based on the DHMC campus in Lebanon and integrated with Dartmouth Health Children’s to deliver advanced, family-centered care for infants, children, and teens. CHaD provides comprehensive inpatient services including a dedicated pediatric inpatient unit with an on-site Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) alongside neonatal intensive care and a wide range of pediatric specialties. Beyond the main campus, CHaD’s network spans 12 locations across New Hampshire and Vermont with 247 providers in 30 specialties, caring for about 95,000 children each year, so families can access expert care close to home.

Why this role?

Join a centralized Nursing Education team aligned with the Chief Nursing Officer and Center for Nursing Excellence to mentor and grow nurses across their careers—through orientation, competency, preceptor excellence, and continuous professional development.

These are just a few highlights of being a nurse at Dartmouth Health in New Hampshire.

• We have loan repayment up to $20,000
• We offer Relocation Assistance and a Housing Coordinator to take on the burden of finding a home.
• We have new, updated nursing rates
• We offer generous tuition reimbursement
• We have a very popular "earned time" plan
• We have extensive CEU/Training programs
• Our 8,000 ft Patient Safety and Training Simulation Center is state-of-the-art
• Our nurses serve as central figures in the success of our system through our shared governance nursing model
• We offer a rigorous, research-focused environment

Why are we so unique? We are a nationally recognized Academic Medical Center in the middle of the White Mountains of New Hampshire. We understand that “quality of life” means different things to different people, but we are confident you will love it here as we have beautiful, rural and suburban housing options, world-class primary, secondary and graduate schools, hundreds of lakes, thousands of miles of hiking trails and some of the best skiing in the country. This means you can be a happy nurse with more quality time with friends, family, pets, or maybe just quiet hikes by yourself. Our idea of traffic is a line at the chair lift on the ski mountain.

Read more about Dartmouth Hitchcock and why YOU should work here.

1. Designs and develops centralized orientation programs, and identifies and develops adjunct faculty to deliver content.
2. Responsible for staff development and competency in application of the nursing process and performance of critical thinking and clinical skills for that population.
3. Engages regularly with interprofessional team in huddles, interdisciplinary rounds, and other forums to facilitate assessment and identification of educational needs.
4. Performs needs assessment, develops, designs, implements and evaluates evidenced based educational materials utilizing principles of instructional design for adult learners.
5. Facilitates ongoing educational initiatives including nursing orientation, preceptor education and other unit level and organizational learning initiatives.
6. Consultant to the Nursing Education enterprise including but not limited to the development, implementation and evaluation of organizational competencies and regulatory practice requirements.
7. Promotes understanding of best practices in education among clinical nurses, clinical supervisors and other leaders to empower these individuals to become education champions and engage nurses in supporting each other’s learning and clinical practice.
8. Consults to regional and system initiatives as needed.
9. Performs other duties as required or assigned.

• Graduate from an accredited Nursing Program required.
• Master’s degree in Nursing (MSN) required.
• Certified in specialty or completed within the first 18 months of hire.
• 2 years of education or professional development preferred.
• 3 years of clinical experience in identified specialty.
• Excellent informatics, verbal and written communications skills desired

• Licensed Registered Nurse with NH eligibility
• Current BLS or ACLS Certification.