Associate Degree Nursing – Clinical Instructor (Full-Time, Clinical Assignment

Associate Degree Nursing – Clinical Instructor (Full-Time, Clinical Assignment)

This position is designated as a full-time clinical instructor assignment. The primary responsibility of this position is clinical instruction and supervision of students in healthcare settings. This is a non-didactic faculty position and does not include a regularly assigned classroom teaching load.

Qualifications Requirements:

• A Master's Degree with a major in Nursing and a minimum of two (2) years of experience as a registered nurse.
• Recent acute care clinical experience, preferably in medical-surgical nursing, is preferred.
• Must hold an unencumbered registered nurse license to practice in Mississippi.
• Must satisfy a criminal history background check, drug screen, and other clinical requirements.
• Teaching experience preferred.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities, include the following. Other duties may be assigned:

Maintain knowledge of diversity-related issues, legislation, and best practices.

Aptitude:

• Maintain current professional credentials and certifications as required in respective field.
• Cooperate in the execution of the college, center, division, and program policies, procedures and guidelines.
• Implement evidence-based clinical teaching strategies that actively engage learners and promote clinical reasoning, judgment, and professional practice.
• Utilize instructional technology to facilitate learning in laboratory, simulation, and clinical environments.
• Complete required professional development activities by designated deadlines.
• Participate in other professional development activities, professional associations, presentations, publications, applied educational research, consulting, evaluations, and similar activities which enhance the individual, the health-related profession, and the education profession.
• Maintain and provide current documentation of all professional requirements (NAH Faculty and Staff Canvas Site: Faculty Professional Requirements).
• Provide direct supervision, instruction, mentoring, and evaluation of nursing students in clinical learning environments to ensure achievement of course outcomes and safe patient care.

Attitude:

• Conduct oneself in a professional manner appropriate to the time, place, and type of teaching/learning experience.
• Consistently follow College policies and procedures.
• Consistently follow Nursing and Allied Health procedures and guidelines.
• Consistently follow program procedures and guidelines.
• Demonstrate fairness in the assessment and evaluation of students.
• Collaborate with others to improve educational experiences.
• Accept responsibility for personal behaviors and actions.
• Respond to feedback in a receptive manner and incorporate feedback in developing annual goals.
• Participate in student/faculty and faculty/administrator evaluations and performance review conferences.
• Develop a personal and professional improvement plan in areas identified as a result of evaluations.
• Maintain professional boundaries with students in all interactions.
• Willingly serve on College, Center, division, and program committees as appointed.
• Demonstrate active engagement by participating in program assessment and evaluation, including College annual planning activities and state and/or national accreditation activities.

Attendance:

• Work a minimum of 35 hours each week (including campus and clinical assignments) during each contracted semester. Meet all assigned laboratory, simulation, clinical, and other program assignments. Arrive on time and stay for assigned length of time for all duty days. Notify immediate supervisor in a timely manner of any unplanned tardiness or absence. Submit to program chairperson an accurate record of attendance by designated deadlines.
  
  Request scheduled time off prior to an absence unless there is an emergency. Attend general faculty, center, and program meetings. Attend required professional development activities.

Attention:

• Check College e-mail during the work week and respond in a timely manner.
• Provide feedback to students in a timely manner.
• Maintain confidentiality of student information.
• Submit documentation required by College or Program by published deadlines.
• Follow program…