We are seeking a Nurse Director of Education for a 250 bed acute care hospital in the Baltimore, Maryland area.  This is a community oriented hospital with less than 2% overall nursing vacancy.  The hospital is part of a university health care system.  Their mission is to be the health care system of choice through excellence in quality and service.

The Director serves as a link between the hospital's vision and the learning organization and is a leader who creates a vision of how things can be better models constructive behavior and facilitates change, improvement and problem solving, coaching department leaders in performance enhancement and teaching the skills and techniques needed to achieve excellence.

The major responsibilities are organizing, planning, directing and administering the Hospital educators whose functions are orientation, education/training, competency development, competency validation and nursing resource support.  This position has 17 FTEs and reports to the Vice President/Chief Nurse Executive.

Job Requirements:

-     Master's degree required graduate from an accredited school of nursing

-      Current registration with the Maryland State Board of Nursing

-      Five years of progressive management experience, three of which should have been in middle administration or adult education teaching position membership

-      Solid working knowledge of Joint Commission standards and policies

-      Active participation in professional association is recommended