Clinical Coordinator, Nursing, LCC

Job Details:

Job Location:

Libby, MT 59923, Position Type:
Full Time, Education Level: Bachelor, Salary Range: $55,000.00 - $65,000.00 Salary, Job Category:
Professional, DEPARTMENT:
Nursing

Nursing

EMPLOYMENT TYPE:

Professional 8. $55,000 - $65,000, salary based on education and experience. Full-time, 10-mos., benefits eligible.

Unlock Exceptional Benefits at FVCC (Worth ~$25K)! You'll receive generous employer contributions towards your Health/Vision & Dental, up to 15 vacation days, 12 sick days, and 12 holidays. Plus, build your future with the Montana Teachers' Retirement System and a 403(b) match up to 7%. And that's not all - Public Loan Forgiveness plus invest in your continued education when you explore Tuition Waiver benefits for you and your dependents!

The Registered Nurse works in partnership with Nursing program faculty responsible for planning, coordinating, and facilitating education interventions and the instruction of associate degree (RN) students in the FVCC nursing lab, on the LCC campus, and at clinical sites in Libby and the surrounding community.

• Serves as professional role model to students.
• Provides instructional support and functions in a nursing lab environment under the guidance of nursing faculty.
• Works with students individually and in small groups to demonstrate procedures and use of equipment and materials.
• Participates in clinical instruction for NRSG clinical and lab courses as needed.
• Plans, organizes, implements, and evaluates instructional materials in assigned areas of nursing lab and clinical teaching.
• Provides or recommends support and assistance for students having difficulty in achieving course objectives (individual meetings with faculty, tutoring, etc.).
• Maintains supply usage records and monitors equipment check‑outs as directed.
• Troubleshoots equipment problems in collaboration with Kalispell campus Lab Coordinator. Advises appropriate person in the case of malfunctioning equipment.
• Orders inventory equipment and supplies in collaboration with Kalispell Lab Coordinator.
• Coordinates and maintains simulation manikins in accordance with manufacturer’s instructions in collaboration with the Kalispell Lab Coordinator.

• Communicates via email, phone and/or in person with nurse educators and/or placement coordinators in hospitals and clinics to develop clinical placement sites.
• Coordinates with director/faculty to determine the numbers of student placements needed at each semester, level, and type of experience needed ( e.g. Peds, OB, Med-Surg, etc.)
• Identifies facility requirements at each clinical placement location, such as orientation and electronic medical record (EHR) training, and communicate these clinical entry requirements to faculty and student groups in a timely manner.
• Keep a record of clinical entry requirements, updating them as required.
• Follows individual facility process for requests for groups of students and for precepted positions and meets facility deadlines.
• Develops clinical schedules for each clinical course in coordination with faculty for the course.
• Confirms placements with nurse educators/placement coordinators in hospitals and clinical sites by timely follow up communication, and confirms with Nursing Program Director, and course faculty.
• Attends meetings with clinical site leaders regarding clinical placements as directed.

• Instructs student nurses in the theoretical and clinical aspects of the practice of nursing in the clinical setting under the direction of the nursing director or faculty.
• Consults with Nursing Program Director and faculty in developing clinical learning opportunities that meet the outcomes for the nursing program.
• Instructs students and facilitates discussions about accepted methods of evidenced based nursing practice including professional aspects of nursing, theories of physiology and psycho dynamics, assessment, nursing interventions, medical, surgical and other health treatments (such as observing and recording symptoms and applying principles of asepsis and antisepsis, etc.).
• Interacts and collaborates with nursing service personnel to enhance learning experience in nursing unit or community.
• Supervises care provided by a group of students (usually 3-5 students in a group) while they complete their clinical rotation in assigned areas.
• Collaborates with the faculty to assign students to patients and observes performance in actual…