Simulation Specialist

Position: Simulation Specialist (Master's Nurse Educator or Paramedic)
Classification: Part-time
Reports to: Simulation Team Leader
Locations: Nationwide

We are looking for experienced pre-hospital and hospital-based clinicians with a passion for experiential education to join our teams based in Bozeman and Columbia Falls, as well as remote. Successful candidates will have a demonstrated commitment to improving patient care throughout their careers and an unwavering passion for rural healthcare.

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Duties & Responsibilities:

Under supervision of the Simulation Team Leader (STL), the regional Simulation Specialist is generally responsible as a simulation team member for the day-to-day delivery of the simulation curriculum and associated tasks:

Support Duties

• Perform vehicle and equipment set-up, operation, and breakdown for simulation sessions, training, and maintenance needs.
• Complete daily vehicle, manikin, and systems maintenance checks, activities, cleaning, and reporting requirements.
• Have working knowledge and perform troubleshooting of manikin and associated systems.
• Function as vehicle driver if qualified.
• Other support duties as assigned.

Education Duties

• Implement simulation session curriculum and function as an educator for simulation events.
• Provide evaluation and feedback of individual participant, healthcare team, and system performance as required by simulation event objectives and curriculum.
• Perform collection of evaluation data on learning outcomes for simulation activities and collaborate with STL, simulation group members, and administration to disseminate findings.
• Collaborate with simulation group, STL, and administration to develop simulation scenarios to promote student learning, critical thinking, and clinical decision making.
• Maintain a professional and positive image of Best Practice Medicine.
• Maintain simulation program education and professional standards in accordance with program policies and procedures as listed in the Employee Handbook.
• Other duties as assigned.
  

Preferred Qualifications

• 5-10 years clinical practice experience (Master's Nurse Educator or Paramedic)
• 2-5 years clinical educational experience
• Multi-discipline instructor ratings
• Pre-hospital and hospital based experience
• Experience with Google based technology
• Strong technical knowledge and experience with in project management

About Best Practice Medicine

We do three things:

1. Operate the world's largest and only accredited mobile high fidelity simulation team.
2. Educate and train EMS providers, newbies, and veterans.
3. Provide novel EMS based clinical staffing solutions in austere environments.

We were founded by a small team of clinicians in 2015 who were tired of seeing good caregivers make bad decisions every day that harmed people simply because they lacked access to realistic, meaningful, timely education in current best practices.

Purpose 

Guarantee the health and safety of clinicians and their patients in time-sensitive decisions, especially high risk, low frequency, non-discretionary time emergencies. 

Where we are going 

We have a plan. By the the year 2030:

• We will affect the care 10 millions patients a year thru clinicians who train with us
• We will be ranked number one business to work for in America 
• We will operate campuses in ten states 
• We will generate an annual revenue of 30 million