Nursing Laboratory Manager - Simulation

Overview

City Colleges of Chicago’s vision is to be recognized as the city’s most accessible higher education engine of socioeconomic mobility and racial equity – empowering all Chicagoans to take part in building a stronger and more just city. The community college system’s more than 3,500 faculty and staff serve more than 60,000 students annually at seven colleges and five satellite sites.

The CCC School of Nursing (CCCSON) program prepares nursing students for the role of professional registered nurse by combining nursing theory and practice with general education, including clinical experiences, skills lab, simulation, and clinical settings throughout Chicago and surrounding suburbs. CCC’s School of Nursing is ACEN accredited. The mission of Malcolm X College is to provide accessible liberal arts and health-focused education that fosters personal and professional achievement with core values of accountability, community, diversity, empowerment, learning, and respect.

Reporting to the Associate Dean of Nursing, the Nursing Laboratory Manager - Simulation manages the operations of skills and simulation nursing labs and associated mid to high-fidelity simulation equipment. This includes overseeing the preparation of lab facilities and ensuring the appropriate set-up, operation, and use of equipment and materials for labs, simulation exercises, and related teaching sessions. In collaboration with faculty and Nursing Lab Coordinators, the Nursing Simulation Laboratory Manager ensures simulation labs provide a life-like healthcare environment with simulated nursing scenarios;

supports faculty providing instruction; and provides technical support for all simulation operations.

• Assists faculty with simulation lab instruction including demonstrations and creating a learning environment to develop students’ critical thinking and problem-solving skills.
• Demonstrates nursing skills during lab sessions and instructs students practicing psychomotor skills.
• Obtains and/or develops appropriate simulation scenarios to teach a variety of stimulations across the curriculum using low, mid and high-fidelity simulators including childbirth, neonatal and pediatric simulators, skills/task trainers, and nursing skills responsive manikins.
• Prepares and maintains high fidelity manikins (software and hardware) and other equipment for use in labs and teaching sessions in collaboration with appropriate vendor service representatives.
• Serves as a simulation operator to program, test, and run scenarios for instructors during labs and/or teaching sessions in collaboration with full-time and part-time lab coordinators.
• Works closely with faculty to plan strategies that will increase students’ ability to meet clinical skill requirements.
• Assists in developing new curricula that is supported by simulation activities.
• Evaluates the effectiveness of simulations by discussing completed simulations activities with faculty and students; makes changes and improvements to scenarios accordingly.
• Conducts student evaluations and advising related to simulation labs.
• Trains simulation users, e.g., lab coordinators and faculty, in the operation of patient simulators and their maintenance.
• Contributes toward professional growth through in-service workshops, cross-training and departmental faculty meetings.
• Coordinates and schedules the maintenance of patient simulators and lab equipment by vendors.
• Maintains lab areas and inventories equipment; purchases supplies and various anatomical training aids and multimedia supplies including computer software and audiovisual aids.
• Develops and enforces policies and procedures to ensure the safe, effective, and efficient use of simulation equipment and training aids.
• Performs other duties as required.

• Master’s degree in Nursing from an accredited college or university
• Current registered professional nursing license in the State of Illinois
• Two years of experience in clinic nursing, preferably in a variety of health care settings
• Previous teaching experience using high-fidelity simulation equipment required
• Demonstrated knowledge and understanding of simulation…