The posting
Patient Monitoring | Block Schedule
Hourly Rate: $43.00
Schedule: Minimum commitment of two 40-hour work weeks per month
Travel: 100% throughout the United States
Use your critical-care nursing experience in a flexible, travel-based clinical education role.
Nihon Kohden America is seeking an experienced registered nurse to help hospital teams successfully implement and use advanced patient-monitoring technology. As a Part-Time Clinical Application Specialist, you will travel to customer sites to provide hands-on education, clinical guidance, and implementation support to nurses and other healthcare professionals.
This opportunity is ideal for nurses who want to stay clinically connected, apply their expertise in a new setting, and enjoy more flexibility than a traditional full-time role.
What Makes This Opportunity Different
- Work a minimum of two full 40-hour work weeks per month
- Remain clinically connected without providing direct bedside care
- Educate and support nurses and hospital teams across the country
- Build expertise in patient-monitoring technology and clinical implementations
- Receive company-paid travel in accordance with company policy
- Maintain outside employment during unscheduled weeks, provided it does not create a conflict of interest or interfere with your Nihon Kohden commitments
Employees are generally not scheduled during the remaining two weeks of the month.
What You Will Do
In this role, you will serve as a clinical resource and trusted partner to hospital customers before, during, and after the implementation of Nihon Kohden patient-monitoring systems.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Delivering onsite education and hands-on training to nurses, clinicians, and other hospital personnel
- Developing training and support plans based on each customer’s clinical environment and implementation needs
- Supporting patient-monitoring system implementations from preparation through go-live
- Helping clinical teams understand equipment functionality, workflows, and best practices
- Troubleshooting clinical-use questions and complex critical-care scenarios
- Partnering with sales, service, project-management, and customer teams
- Supporting implementation teams in completing projects safely, on time, and to the customer’s satisfaction
- Providing follow-up customer support in person or by telephone
- Maintaining current knowledge of Nihon Kohden products, features, and clinical applications
- Completing required documentation, travel arrangements, and expense reports within established timeframes
- Maintaining an active, unrestricted nursing license and current clinical knowledge
Responsibilities may be modified or assigned based on customer and business needs.
The Schedule and Travel Commitment
This position requires a minimum commitment of two 40-hour work weeks per month. During scheduled weeks, you will travel to hospitals and other customer locations to provide onsite clinical education and implementation support.
Assignments typically occur Monday through Friday and may include daytime, early-morning, or evening hours based on hospital implementation needs. Occasional weekend, overnight, or holiday work may also be required.
A typical travel week may include:
- Monday: Early-morning (6AM) travel to the assigned customer location
- Tuesday through Thursday: Onsite clinical education and implementation support, which may include early start times and extended workdays (8HR blocks anywhere between 4AM to 12AM)
- Friday: Completion of the assignment and return travel home
Some implementation assignments may require work outside standard business hours, including early-morning or late-evening support. Schedules and travel assignments are communicated in advance whenever possible but may change based on customer or business needs.
Candidates must live within reasonable access of a major airport with regular commercial service.
Travel expenses are paid or reimbursed in accordance with company policy.
What You Bring
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor of Science in Nursing
- Active, valid, and unrestricted nursing license issued in the United States
- 3+ years of recent adult intensive-care nursing experience
- Strong knowledge of hemodynamics and critical-care monitoring
- Proficiency in EKG rhythm interpretation
- Ability to assess and troubleshoot complex critical-care nursing issues
- Valid driver’s license and acceptable driving record
- Ability to travel 100% throughout the United States
- Ability to meet customer-site and healthcare vendor credentialing requirements
Skills That Will Help You Succeed
- Strong presentation, facilitation, and clinical-education skills
- Ability to explain complex clinical and technical information clearly
- Confidence presenting to individuals and groups with different levels of experience
- Excellent customer-service and relationship-building skills
- Flexibility in changing customer environments and implementation schedules
- Strong organization, time management, and attention to detail
- Self-motivation and comfort working in a travel-based, remotely managed position
- Proficiency with Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
- Ability to read and interpret equipment manuals, professional journals, and technical information
- Must be able to communicate verbally and in writing, and to receive and understand verbal and written instructions in English
- Able to work effectively both independently and in a collaborative team environment
Working Conditions
Physical: Generally may require some reaching, bending, stooping, squatting, crawling, kneeling, pushing, pulling, lifting, carrying up to 25 pounds, finger dexterity, repetitive motions, standing, walking, sitting, hearing, visual acuity, color vision. More specific details may be provided as needed or requested.
Access to Customer Sites: It is an essential function of this position to perform duties in healthcare facilities, and to achieve the necessary vendor credentialing. As part of this process, it is typically required to provide proof of vaccinations (including for COVID-19), and related personal medical information, and to comply with other criteria as needed to be able to work at customer sites. Typical vendor credentialing expenses will be paid/reimbursed by the Company.
Why Nihon Kohden
Nihon Kohden is a global leader in medical technology with a mission to improve healthcare through advanced clinical solutions. Our Clinical Application Specialists play an important role in helping nurses and healthcare teams confidently adopt technology that supports patient care.
This position offers experienced critical-care nurses an opportunity to expand their impact beyond the bedside while continuing to use their clinical knowledge, education skills, and understanding of hospital workflows.
Visit our Career page to learn more about working at Nihon Kohden America and the benefits available to eligible employees.
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Equal Employment Opportunity
Nihon Kohden America is committed to maintaining a professional and respectful workplace free from discrimination, harassment, and retaliation and welcomes all qualified candidates to apply. Employment decisions are based on qualifications, experience, and business needs, without regard to legally protected characteristics. This policy applies to all employment actions, including recruitment, hiring, promotion, compensation, training, and other workplace practices.
Nihon Kohden America complies with all applicable federal, state, and local laws regarding equal employment opportunity. Employees and applicants will not be subject to harassment or retaliation for asserting their legal rights. Questions or concerns regarding this policy may be directed to Human Resources at [email protected].
