Nursing Faculty, MS Leadership Program

Overview

Nursing Faculty, MS Leadership Program — Regis University

R004792, Northwest Denver Campus

Working at Regis University:
As Regis employees, we embrace Jesuit Catholic values of respect, inclusion and equity, and welcome employees, faculty and students from all faiths and cultures. The university mission guides our work and service to students.

Job Summary:

The nursing faculty is a member of the University who has been appointed to one of four academic ranks:
Instructor, Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, or Professor. The faculty role includes advising, scholarship, and service to the institution, profession, and community. Teaching workload includes curriculum development and planning, teaching, guiding, monitoring, and evaluating student learning in the classroom, skills/simulation laboratory, clinical agencies, and service learning. Teaching may be in the classroom, online, or by synchronous distant learning.

Teaching:
Classroom, online, synchronous platforms

• Curriculum planning and evaluation
• Evaluation of student learning (grading, coaching, mentoring, evaluating)
• Course planning with teaching team to include teaching strategies (lecture, flipped classroom, case studies), tests, competencies
• Laboratory and clinical planning, supervision, evaluation, and oversight
• Student academic advising, to include study skills, testing strategies, course planning
• Clinical supervision, including student and preceptor meetings, evaluation of assignments, community team building

Scholarship

• Boyer's model of scholarship:
  Teaching, Discovery, Integration, Application
• Development and dissemination of nursing knowledge (posters, presentations, publication)
• Ongoing personal and professional education and development

Service to institution, profession, community

• Clinical/Professional practice
• Service learning activities with students
• Participation in school, college, and university committees and task forces
• Participation in recruitment and retention activities at the school, college, and university level
• Service to the profession at local, state, or national level

Ranked faculty are hired on variable FTE Faculty Contract. Holiday and leave vary according to FTE. All leave (unpaid, professional, and service) is planned with the School to ensure effective year-round operation of the School's nursing education programs. Workplace settings include classroom, office, skills and simulation laboratories, clinical settings, and community settings, including indoor and outdoor areas.

Education: A graduate degree in Nursing is required. A doctoral degree in nursing or a related healthcare field is preferred.

Licenses: An active license in good standing to practice as a registered nurse in Colorado is required. Effective July 1, 2007, an active license in good standing includes RN practicing under the nurse licensure compact and the requirements set by the Colorado Department of Regulatory Agencies, Board of Nursing rules for approval of nursing education programs. Nurse Practitioners must be board certified in the appropriate specialty and hold a Colorado APRN license with prescriptive authority for the designated population foci.

Experience: A minimum of two years of full-time, or equivalent, professional nursing clinical experience is required, including demonstrated knowledge and skill in teaching and learning theories, instructional principles and practices, and curriculum design.

Knowledge and expertise related to the following topics is required:

• Leadership and team building
• Advising students
• Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office, Web browser, personal information management software, advising, and information management software
• Outstanding oral and written communication skills
• Organizational skills
• Planning and priority setting

Knowledge and expertise related to any of the following topics is preferred:

• Curriculum evaluation
• Organization and systems leadership
• Quality and patient safety improvement science
• Change management
• Health promotion and disease prevention
• Interprofessional collaboration
• Community and population-based healthcare
• Advocacy for delivery of healthcare…