Job Summary: Develops, implements, evaluates, and revises programs of orientation, in-service training, workshops, and continuing education to meet educational and developmental needs of staff. Takes a lead role in educational initiatives to ensure quality patient care and customer satisfaction. Serves as a leader in the development, training, and monitoring of nursing practice standards. Acts as a resource and liaison to the Atlantic Health community by serving on hospital wide committees or task forces. Performs a range of nursing, clinical, consultative, educational, and research activities within established area of expertise.
Job Function: 01. Determines learning needs of nursing team. Maintains ongoing needs assessment. Evaluates responses to educational programs. Identifies priority topics related to quality assessment and improvement issues. Collaborates with nursing management and team members. Identifies educational needs re: new products, policies, procedures and/or issues related to professional associations and regulatory agencies.
Job Function: 02. Provides ongoing team member development/continuing education. Collaborates with nursing management and preceptors to establish ongoing developmental goals. Assists with problem solving and development of action plans to meet developmental objectives. Facilitates attainment of objectives by planning and implementing continuing education programs and on-unit conferences.
Job Function: 03. Works collaboratively with managers and team member in planning and implementing innovative programs/systems. Provides competency-based tools to support changed performance expectations. Structures formats and processes to support program implementation. Consults on projects as requested and complete in a timely fashion.
Job Function: 04. Assists in planning and implementing team member orientation. Identifies, validates and documents basic competencies of newly hired RNs including electronic documentation in the specialized area. Provides orientation goals and strategies to orientee and preceptor. Acts as a resource in providing theory and supervised practice in response to selected developmental needs. Acts as a resource/facilitator to the orientee, preceptor, and/or manager as needed. Provides basic orientation and skills validation of newly hired Patient Care Technicians and Unit Representatives. Acts as a resource/facilitator re: resolution of performance problems.
Job Function: 05. Evaluates program/presentation effectiveness using relevant methods. Plans program evaluation based on program objectives. Implements evaluative process and analyzes findings. Plans and implements relevant follow-up activities
Job Function: 06. Maintains records according to established policies. Develops/approves program objectives, content and evaluation methods for nursing education programs. Verifies completion of self-learning activities. Provides data for computerized records
Job Function: 07. Participates in committees and task forces. Researches, recommends, implements and evaluates policies and standards. Acts as a resource to hospital committees by providing input regarding identified problems and practice issues, developmental and problem solving strategies.
Qualifications
Education:
BSN Degree Required in nursing from accredited college
Master's Degree in Nursing Preferred
Licenses:
Valid Registered Nursing or compact License
Other Desired Skill:
Certification in area of specialty preferred
BLS Certification Required
ACLS Certification preferred
Basis Dysrhythmia preferred
HRO Training preferred
At Atlantic Health, our promise to our communities is; Anyone who enters one of our facilities will receive the highest quality care delivered at the right time, at the right place, and at the right cost. This commitment is also echoed in the respect, development and opportunities we give to our more than 22,000 team members. Headquarters in Morristown, New Jersey, we are one of the leading non-profit health care systems in the nation. Our facilities and sites of care include:
- Atlantic Health Morristown Medical Center, Morristown, NJ
- Atlantic Health Overlook Medical Center, Summit, NJ
- Atlantic Health Newton Medical Center, Newton, NJ
- Atlantic Health Chilton Medical Center, Pompton Plains, NJ
- Atlantic Health Hackettstown Medical Center, Hackettstown, NJ
- Atlantic Health Goryeb Children's Hospital, Morristown, NJ
- Atlantic Health CentraState Healthcare System, Freehold, NJ
- Atlantic Medical Group
- Atlantic Visiting Nurse
- Atlantic Mobile Health
- Atlantic Rehabilitation
We have more than 900 community-based healthcare providers affiliated through Atlantic Medical Group.
We have received awards and recognition for the services we have provided to our patients, team members and communities. Below are just a few of our accolades:
- Chosen for 17 years by Fortune as one of the magazine’s “100 Best Companies to Work For."
- Atlantic Health Morristown and Atlantic Health Overlook Named by Newsweek as two of the “World’s Best Hospitals” in 2026.
- Atlantic Health Morristown and Atlantic Health Overlook ranked within the top three hospitals in New Jersey by U.S. News & World Report’s 2025-2026 Best Hospital rankings.
- Atlantic Health scored four “A” grades by The Leapfrog Group in its Fall 2025 Hospital Safety Grades, performance measures reflecting errors, accidents, injuries and injections, as well as systems hospitals have in place to prevent harm.
- Atlantic Health Morristown and Atlantic Health Overlook are New Jersey's only hospitals to be named among America's 50 Best hospitals by Healthgrades in 2026.
- Named by Becker's Healthcare as one of the "165 Top Places to Work in Healthcare – 2026.
- Atlantic Health Morristown, Atlantic Health Overlook, Atlantic Health Chilton and Atlantic Health Newton all Forbes Top Hospitals for 2026.
- Named by Newsweek as one of America’s Greatest Workplaces for Inclusion & Diversity 2025.
- Atlantic Health rated LEVEL 9 - 2025 CHIME Digital Health Most Wired.
Since 1932, Newton Medical Center has been providing care to the people of Sussex and warren counties in New Jersey, Pike County in Pennsylvania and southern Orange County in New York. We are home to the Center for Breast Health, the only one of its kind in Sussex County, addressing all of a woman’s breast health needs with state-of-the-art technology, resources, education, support and follow-up care. Newton Medical Center recently achieved the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Pathway to Excellence designation and is one of a select few health care facilities in New Jersey accredited by the Intersocietal Accreditation Commission (IAC) in all three echocardiography procedures: adult transthoracic, adult transesophogeal and adult stress.
Atlantic Health offers a competitive and comprehensive Total Rewards package that supports the health, financial security, and well-being of all team members. Offerings vary based on role level (Team Member, Director, Executive). Below is a general summary, with role-specific enhancements highlighted:
Team Member Benefits
- Medical, Dental, Vision, Prescription Coverage (22.5 hours per week or above for full-time and part-time team members)
- Life & AD&D Insurance.
- Short-Term and Long-Term Disability (with options to supplement)
- 403(b) Retirement Plan: Employer match, additional non-elective contribution
- PTO & Paid Sick Leave
- Tuition Assistance, Advancement & Academic Advising
- Parental, Adoption, Surrogacy Leave
- Backup and On-Site Childcare
- Well-Being Rewards
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Fertility Benefits, Healthy Pregnancy Program
- Flexible Spending & Commuter Accounts
- Pet, Home & Auto, Identity Theft and Legal Insurance
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Note: In Compliance with the NJ Pay Transparency Act (effective Sunday, June 1, 2025), all job postings will include the hourly wage or salary (or a range), as well as this summary of benefits. Final compensation and benefit eligibility may vary by role and employment status and will be confirmed at the time of offer.
EEO STATEMENT
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