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Columbus, Ohio

Nurse Educator

Registered NurseNo nightsFull-Time

Listed compensation

Pay Range: $35.03–$54.29 /hr

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Job Description

  • Mount Carmel Behavioral Health is hiring a Nurse Educator!
  • Shift: Day
  • Schedule: Full Time
  • Sign On Bonus: $10,000
  • Pay Range: $35.03 to $54.29 per hour (depending on years of experience)

Mount Carmel Behavioral Health, located in Columbus, Ohio, is a leading provider of acute inpatient care for adult men and women, age 18 and above, who have been experiencing mental or behavioral health challenges.

Essential Functions

  • Facilitates orientation/onboarding program to promote employee retention.
  • Conducts orientation in a manner that fosters a positive learning environment.
  • Role models organizational and personal commitment to new employee success.
  • Participates in designing and identifying educational activities to address practice gaps for identified target audiences, which may include licensed and non-licensed healthcare personnel.
  • Identifies learning needs of staff and/or facility
  • Role models competent practice through demonstration or simulation activities

Assess Practice gaps/Crosswalk Competencies to Practice

  • Collaborates with Corporate Nursing Director /Educator to review outcomes data to evaluate and refine competency management activities
  • Assist with development and/or instruction of didactic content and clinical skills for designated competencies
  • Develops education plan according to gap assessment or quality data/safety outcomes
  • Aligns educational programs with facility and/or organization policies and procedures
  • Implement and deliver educational curricula as required by regulatory agencies such as Joint Commission, CARF, CMS and State agencies.
  • Creates engaging, evidence-based educational content to meet the specific needs of the intended audience
  • Demonstrates exceptional instructional skills while maintaining learner engagement
  • Act a general resource for nursing staff.

Collaborate with medical practitioners and CNO/DON to incorporate nursing processes into the plan of care for patients.

Provide educational leadership to patients and care providers to enhance specialized patient care within established clinical protocol.

Promotes safe, quality, and compassionate patient care

Assist patient and caregivers with education needs, problem solution and health management across the continuum of care.

Educate direct patient care staff in the use of equipment, supplies, and coordinates in-service training for appropriate staff.

  • Supports new ideas and innovation in educational design
  • Provides staff with resources and “just-in-time” education to implement immediate changes
  • May serve in the role of infection preventionist for the facility with training.
  • May provide direct care as needed.

Other Functions

  • Provides expertise in identifying professional development needs of individual staff
  • Assists staff to identify areas for individual growth in current role
  • Identifies and provides opportunities for skill enhancement and mastery
  • Utilizes novice to expert continuum when developing staff
  • Promotes certification in areas of nursing specialty
  • Perform other functions and tasks as assigned.

Education/Experience/Skill Requirements

Master’s degree in nursing, Healthcare Administration, Education or other clinical field or equivalent combination of education and/or experience preferred.

Bachelor’s degree in nursing or commensurate experience required

Five + Years Strongly Preferred

  • Three years of registered nurse experience required.
  • Inpatient psychiatry experience as an RN strongly preferred
  • Two years of behavioral health experience as an RN required.
  • 1+ years experience in Clinical Education/Training and Development (Preferred)

Certification as an NPD Practitioner and/or clinical certification as recognized by American Nurse Credentialing Center. (Preferred)

Licenses/Designations/Certifications

  • Current state license is required for this position.
  • CPR and de-escalation/restraint certification required (training available upon hire and offered by facility).
  • First aid may be required based on state or facility.

Additional Regulatory Requirements

While this job description is intended to be an accurate reflection of the requirements of the job, management reserves the right to add or remove duties from particular jobs when circumstances

(e. g. emergencies, changes in workload, rush jobs or technological developments) dictate.

We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all applicants for employment regardless of an individual’s characteristics protected by applicable state, federal and local laws.

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Key Responsibilities

The Nurse Educator is responsible for developing and implementing educational programs for nursing staff and students. They provide clinical instruction, evaluate performance, and ensure adherence to healthcare standards and best practices.

Requirements

Candidates must possess a nursing degree and relevant clinical experience. Strong communication and instructional skills are required to effectively train and mentor healthcare personnel.

Qualifications

Education
Professional certificate or licensure
Experience
2+ years of experience

Key Skills

Nursing EducationCurriculum DevelopmentStaff TrainingMentorshipHealthcare ComplianceQuality Improvement

Nursing Education — Registered Nurse Career Context

Of the 50 active Registered Nurse listings this role was benchmarked against, 26% are remote, 56% have no call, 82% require no weekends.

In Ohio, the Registered Nurse weighted monthly median benchmark on WeekdayDoc is ~$85k (31 salary observations; 289 listings), vs ~$94k nationally (1,574 salary observations; 5,961 listings). Monthly aggregates cover 2026-01-01 through 2026-10-01; these are not the modal's selected comparable-job medians.

The cost-of-living index for Ohio is 92.8 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)), so the posted ~$93k midpoint carries the purchasing power of roughly $100k in an average-cost state. 61.3% of Ohio clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

Registered Nurse pay on WeekdayDoc is up 6.6% vs. the prior quarter (through Sep 2026).

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Annual compensation range

Benefits & Perks18 jobs

401k / retirement match
94%
Sign-on bonus
22% this job
CME allowance
17%
Loan repayment
11%

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Work-life snapshot

median 2.8this job 5.1
Better work-life than 70% of Nursing Education (RN) listings

Listing-based score, 0–10, across 127 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.

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Living in Columbus

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$263k
Typical market rent
$1,450/mo
Residents’ average commute
22 min
Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
95.5
State income tax
Up to 4%
Sources & methodology

Sources: Zillow home values (Aug 2026), Zillow market rents (Aug 2026), U.S. Census ACS 2024 five-year.

BEA 2024 · Columbus, OH metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.

City-level figures. Not a cost-of-living guarantee.

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About Acadia

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1,001-5,000 employees

Benefits & Perks

$10,000 Sign-On Bonus
CPR and de-escalation/restraint certification training available upon hire