Nursing Instructor Job Evergreen area,Alabama USA,Nursing

Scope

The Nursing Instructor provides high-quality didactic, laboratory, simulation, and clinical instruction in assigned nursing courses and programs while supporting student achievement, safe clinical learning, and continuous program improvement. The position promotes evidence-based teaching, consistent evaluation, academic support, and compliance with institutional, accreditation, regulatory, and clinical-agency requirements. The Nursing Instructor also contributes to curriculum development, outcomes assessment, recruitment, retention, and other nursing-program responsibilities that support student success and program effectiveness.

Authority

The Nursing Instructor is directly responsible to the Director of Nursing.

Major Responsibilities Instruction and Student Learning Duties

Provides instruction and evaluation in assigned nursing courses in day, evening, hybrid, online, laboratory, simulation, and clinical formats at RSCC campuses, approved instructional sites, worksites, and clinical agencies as assigned.

Teaches from the current ACCS-approved course directory, Plans of Instruction, RSCC curriculum plans, course syllabi, and approved program policies while maintaining alignment among course objectives, student learning outcomes, instructional activities, and evaluation methods.

Uses evidence-based teaching and instructional strategies appropriate to the delivery method, adult learners, and assigned nursing content.

Provides students with current course syllabi and clearly communicates course requirements, attendance expectations, grading and evaluation methods, clinical requirements, progression standards, and available remediation and support resources.

Evaluates and documents student academic, laboratory, simulation, and clinical performance in a timely, consistent, and objective manner and provides prompt feedback and appropriate remediation.

Maintains appropriate office and student support hours and provides academic advising, coaching, and referral to RSCC support services as needed.

Maintains complete and accurate course, grade, attendance, clinical evaluation, assessment, and instructional records required by RSCC, ACCS, ABN, ACEN, and clinical partners.

Clinical, Laboratory, and Simulation Duties

Provides direct supervision of students in clinical learning experiences consistent with ABN standards, course outcomes, faculty qualifications, student readiness, and clinical‑agency requirements.

Maintains faculty‑to‑student ratios collaboratively established by the nursing program and clinical agency and complies with the ABN maximum of 1:8 in licensed inpatient acute‑care hospital clinical experiences.

Remains readily accessible to students during assigned clinical learning experiences to provide direction, procedural guidance, supervision, and evaluation.

Ensures students are assigned only to learning experiences for which they have demonstrated appropriate preparation and required clinical clearance.

Promotes patient and student safety, confidentiality, professional conduct, infection prevention, medication safety, and adherence to clinical‑agency policies and applicable standards of nursing practice.

Participates in simulation‑based learning consistent with approved curriculum, ABN requirements, current simulation standards, and RSCC policies and completes required simulation training applicable to assigned responsibilities.

Maintains current clinical competence and knowledge relevant to assigned nursing courses and clinical areas.

Curriculum, Assessment, and Compliance Duties

Participates in development, implementation, review, evaluation, and updating of nursing curricula, course materials, syllabi, clinical evaluation tools, simulation activities, and teaching‑learning practices.

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