Adjunct RN; Pharmacology Theory Instructor - Marsha Fuerst School of Nursing - Glendale

Position: Adjunct RN (Pharmacology) Theory Instructor - Marsha Fuerst School of Nursing - Glendale

Adjunct RN (Pharmacology) Theory Instructor - Marsha Fuerst School of Nursing - Glendale (Education)

Success Education Colleges (SEC) is a family of institutions comprised of North-West College, Marsha Fuerst School of Nursing. SEC is a leader in allied health education, and has been offering quality and affordable health care training programs for over 55 years. Our Colleges mission is to prepare students in short term programs for gainful employment. To accomplish this, we provide a professional faculty, well-qualified administrators, and a top-notch support staff.

Marsha Fuerst School of Nursing has received approval by the Board of Registered Nurses (BRN) and has recently introduced an Associate of Arts degree in Nursing at the campus.

We are currently seeking highly qualified adjunct instructors to teach RN students in multiple disciplines.

Faculty must meet the Board of Registered Nursing (BRN) requirements and be approved by the BRN.

Adjunct RN (Pharmacology) Theory Instructor - 2 hours

Jean Watsons Theory of Caring

• Nursing Faculty will be responsible for sharing Watsons Theory of Caring with their student body and making this theory an integral part of nursing practice.
• Faculty will develop essential strategies to accomplish these goals by weaving the tenets and language of the caring theory into clinical practice this will include but not be limited to:
• Exemplifying carative factors during unit meetings
• Listing of the carative factors in both theory and clinical
• Sharing articles on the caring theory.
• Incorporating carative factor questions into competency validations, exams, assignments, and post clinical conference.

Quality Safety Education for Nurses QSEN

• Faculty need to understand how to integrate QSEN throughout their nursing courses and curriculum.
• Systematic in the way we provide care in a meaningful manner.
• Faculty are required to integrate QSEN into nursing education because it focuses its attention on the system learning for the student in a clinical situation.
• Faculty will be responsible to join discussion groups that explore Watsons caring theory to their own work and/or to discuss Carative Factors in their individual classes.
• Faculty will serve as catalysts that will help students integrate Watsons Nursing Theory and Ten Carative Factors into their clinical practice. Faculty need to be visionaries that will force this new theoretical concept.
• Faculty will institute QSEN throughout their course to emphasize a culture of safety throughout the program from Beginning through Advanced Level Courses.
• The faculty will integrate QSEN into their individual courses in the following areas:
  Patient centered care, Teamwork and collaboration, Evidence based practice, Safety, Quality improvement, Informatics.
• Faculty will teach nurses not to just view themselves by what they are individually doing for a patient they must learn that healthcare organizations and systems are characterized by complex multi-levels and multi-functional systems.
• Faculty can broaden the student learning by not only focusing on personal effort in a single situation but to bring the students understanding to focus on a sequence of events with possible multiple causes for both individuals and populations.

The Nursing Process

• It is an expectation that the nursing process be used throughout the nursing curriculum and in each individual course.

Specific Levels of Faculty as required by BRN Regulation:

• Content Expert: Section 1425(d) As assistant instructor shall meet the following minimum qualifications: A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college which shall include courses in nursing, or in natural, behavioral or social science relevant to nursing practice;
• Direct patient care experience within the previous five (5) years in the nursing area to which he or she will be assigned, which can be met by:
  One (1) year continuous, full-time or its equivalent experience providing direct patient care as a registered nursing in the designated nursing area; or One (1) academic year of register nurse level clinical teaching experience in the designated nursing are or its equivalent that demonstrated clinical competency.
• Instructor: an approved…