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Nurse Educator, Surgical Procedural Services

Beth Israel Lahey Health

Cambridge, MAJob$82–210K/yrSeen 4w agoSeen in employer's feed 1 day ago

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Compensation
$82–210K/yr
Location
Cambridge, MA
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

The Nurse Educator supports clinical practice and staff development across surgical and procedural services. The role plans and evaluates orientation, in-service, and continuing education programs; administers the AORN Periop 101 curriculum; and collaborates with leadership on competency assessment, quality improvement, onboarding, and educational planning. The position also serves as a resource to staff and management and supports patient care excellence.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Clinical Specialty ExpertiseJudgmentCritical ThinkingLeadershipPreceptingMentoringFlexible SchedulingAORN Perioperative 101 InstructionComputer SkillsEmailMicrosoft WordMicrosoft ExcelMicrosoft PowerPointCustomer ServiceStaff EducationCompetency AssessmentPerformance ImprovementEducational Program PlanningOrientationContinuing EducationOnboarding

Qualifications

Clinical Specialty ExperienceSuccessful Preceptor and Mentor ExperienceAORN Perioperative 101 Course InstructorInfluenza Vaccination

Full job description

When you join the growing BILH team, you're not just taking a job, you’re making a difference in people’s lives.

NURSE EDUCATOR

Job Description:

Principle Responsibilities (including but not limited to):

  1. Demonstrates clinical expertise across specialty areas.

  2. Demonstrates sound judgment and critical thinking skills including advanced leadership skills during emergencies or crises.

  3. Serves as an educator of clinical practice, and supporter of staff professional development and personal growth.

  4. Participates in delegations of patient care assignments reflecting the learning needs of the staff and staff competency to meet patient needs.

  5. Participates and makes recommendations in the selection of new hires and transfers based on qualifications and abilities necessary to meet patient needs.

  6. Collects and assesses monthly quality data to evaluate, discuss and recommend Performance Improvement initiatives in conjunction with the Nurse Manager and Director.

  7. Assists with Annual Competencies of all Surgical Services and Procedural Areas.

  8. Serves as a resource to all staff and management in planning and providing educational programs.

  9. Serves as Administrator for AORN Periop 101: Core Curriculum Program.

  10. Assists in the growth of staff in developing them as preceptors and mentors.

  11. Plans present, and evaluates orientation, in-service, and continuing education programs.

  12. Acts as liaison with Staff Education Department assisting with the development, recommendation, and implementation of policies, procedures, and new initiatives/roll-outs.

  13. Assists and collaborates with Director regarding staff performance by making competency determinations and giving recommendations/input for yearly staff evaluations.

  14. Works collaboratively with care team members to maintain unit efficiency and patient care excellence.

  15. Work practice reflects the philosophy, purpose, and policies of Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital Mount Auburn Hospital

  16. Models the Hospital’s Core Values.

  17. Collaborates with Surgical Services Leadership Group to develop and implement a strategic educational plan based on learning needs assessment

  18. Collaborates with Surgical Services Leadership Group to assist with onboarding of new physicians

Required Qualifications:

Experience in a clinical specialty area

Demonstrates sound judgment and critical thinking skills including advanced leadership skills during emergency or crises

Served as successful preceptor and mentor

Willingness to work flexible hours to meet the education needs of the surgical and procedural services departments

AORN Perioperative 101 Course Instructor - preferred

Excellent computer skills (Email, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.)

Excellent customer service skills

Pay Range:

$81,640.00 USD - $210,433.60 USD

The pay range listed for this position is the annual base salary range the organization reasonably and in good faith expects to pay for this position at this time. Actual compensation is determined based on several factors, that may include seniority, education, training, relevant experience, relevant certifications, geography of work location, job responsibilities, or other applicable factors permissible by law.

As a health care organization, we have a responsibility to do everything in our power to care for and protect our patients, our colleagues and our communities. Beth Israel Lahey Health requires that all staff be vaccinated against influenza (flu) as a condition of employment.

More than 35,000 people working together. Nurses, doctors, technicians, therapists, researchers, teachers and more, making a difference in patients' lives. Your skill and compassion can make us even stronger.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled

How this job compares

Set against the 589 open Nurse Educator jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 4, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$82–210K/yr
  • US median$83–120K/yr187 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $146K, is 44% above the US median midpoint ($101K) — in the top quarter of Nurse Educator salary ranges across the US.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 20 open Nurse Educator jobs in Massachusetts and 589 across the US. 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in Massachusetts
Experience
Nurse Educator postings that state a minimum ask for 2 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 2 to 3 years (468 postings).
Education
358 of the 589 open Nurse Educator jobs (61%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 4, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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