Instructor, Professional Certificate Programs - Certified Nursing Assistant - Part-Time - CPE

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Are you ready to transform lives through academic excellence, innovative research, strong community partnerships and economic opportunity? Kennesaw State University is one of the 50 largest public institutions in the country. With growing enrollment and global reach, we continue to expand our institutional influence and prominence beyond the state of Georgia. We offer more than 190 undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral degrees to empower our 47,000 students to become thought leaders, lifelong learners, and informed global citizens.

Our entrepreneurial spirit, high-impact research, and Division I athletics draw students from throughout the region and from more than 100 countries across the globe. Our university's vibrant culture, career opportunities, rich benefits, and values of respect, integrity, collaboration, inclusivity, and accountability make us an employer of choice. We are part of the University System of Georgia. We are searching for talented people to join Kennesaw State University in our vision.

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Job

Position type:
Part Time (Regular, Permanent)

Department Specific Tasks And Responsibilities

• Provides quality and technically relevant instruction in the care of both the physical and emotional needs of patients.
• Ensures student mastery of the following learning outcomes by providing continual feedback and various methods of assessment measurements.
• Explains the legal and ethical responsibilities of a certified nursing assistant, including the importance of Resident's Rights.
• Demonstrates effective communication skills when giving and receiving a resident's status report.
• Defines infection prevention and explain the importance of Standard Precautions, hand hygiene, and the use of personal protective equipment (PPE) in facilities.
• Demonstrates how to recognize and respond to medical emergencies using Basic Life Support (BLS) and First Aid procedures.
• Describes body systems and define key anatomical terms.
• Explains positioning and demonstrate how to safely position, transfer, and ambulate residents.
• Explains personal care and demonstrate how to provide assistance with bathing, grooming, dressing, oral care, and skin care.
• Explains the importance of monitoring vital signs and demonstrate how to measure body temperature, pulse, respirations, and blood pressure.
• Describes the importance of proper nutrition and hydration and list the six basic nutrients.
• Discusses rehabilitation and restorative care and identify the types of residents who are in a subacute setting.

Provides quality and technically relevant instruction in the assigned program. Follows departmental guidelines, policies, procedures and relevant regulations.

• Provides quality and technically relevant instruction of course curriculum.
• Teaches students learning strategies.
• Conducts teaching and instructional activities using educational equipment, manipulatives, props, and other learning aids.
• Provides continual feedback and various methods of assessment measurement by ensuring student mastery of the following learning outcomes as addressed in the program's addendum.
• Assesses and records grading for all homework assignments, quizzes, and tests.
• Completes paperwork associated with classroom and project management.
• Participates in marketing of courses to prospective students by providing technical information regarding course content during biannual Open House events.
• Assists with course and/or program evaluation and continuous improvement and resolve quiz disputes when necessary.
• Maintains acceptable program quality and satisfaction scores.
• Keeps Program Manager informed of any curriculum or student code of conduct issues.
• Records attendance in learning management system.

Registered Nurse (RN) or Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) within the state of Georgia from an accredited institution of higher education.

Current, valid and unrestricted Georgia license…