Position Start Date (anticipated): 09/23/2013
General Statement of Responsibilities:
Primarily responsible for organizing and carrying out structured learning processes for students in Practical Nursing program. In addition, instructors participate in the full range of professional and college-related activities including student advising, curriculum development, professional growth, departmental and college-wide meetings, committee activity, and community involvement.
Examples of Duties - Essential Functions:
- Plans and teaches practical nursing classes, labs and clinicals as assigned.
- Develops, implements, and evaluates student clinical and simulation learning activities.
- Provides a positive role model for the students, especially in areas of caring, advocacy, respect for self and others, collegiality, ethical behavior, ethical reasoning, and strong work ethic (including responsibility, dependability, and accountability) and provides constructive feedback to students.
- Provides direct supervision and evaluation of students as they perform in lab or deliver patient care in clinical facility for 8-12 hours per day. Activities to be supervised include those listed below under "specific duties".
- Arrives at assigned clinical sites on time and remains in the assigned facility at all times when students are performing direct patient care, except for integrative practicum or other specialty/observational experiences assigned by program director. Position may require supervision of students on night and weekend shifts as well as day shifts.
- Acts as liaison between clinical facility staff and students.
- Provides the staff of the clinical facilities with copies of program goals, student learning objectives, and clinical schedules.
- Facilitates students' adjustment to clinical facility.
- Facilitates students' access to medical record-keeping system used in clinical facility.
- Provides professional clinical support through pre- and post-conferences.
- Provides individual performance review and recommendations to students as needed; completes weekly evaluation on each student in clinical setting, and formally discusses and documents evaluations with students at least twice per quarter.
- Evaluates student achievement in terms of course and program objectives or competencies, grades and returns students' written assignments in a timely manner, assigns grades for courses according to policies.
- Notifies students who may be having problems in clinical performance of both their strengths and their deficits or problems in a timely manner and works with students to identify ways to improve their performance.
- Participates in advising of students regarding program requirements, career prospects, and college-wide issues; maintains appropriate office hours.
- Participates in the development, implementation and evaluation of the philosophy and objectives of the program. Participates in reviewing and revising the program policies and procedures on a periodic basis.
- Participates in the construction, implementation, evaluation and revision of the curriculum on a periodic basis.
- Participates in practical nursing program and nursing department faculty meetings.
- Provides for student evaluation of teaching effectiveness on scheduled basis.
- Participates in peer evaluation within the framework of the college.
- Initiates periodic self-evaluation, self-growth, and professional development.
- Participates in periodic review of the total practical nursing program.
- Participates in appropriate campus and faculty activities of the college.
- Performs other duties as may be assigned.
Specific Duties:
Provides direct supervision and evaluation of students as they perform in lab or deliver patient care in clinical facility for 8-12 hours per day.
Education: Bachelor's degree in nursing required; Master's degree in nursing preferred.
Experience: Minimum of three years' full-time (or equivalent) experience as a registered nurse in medical-surgical acute care hospital or long-term care required; past teaching experience required; experience with inservice education or classroom and clinical instruction, high fidelity simulation, and a broad clinical base including mental health and long-term care preferred.
Salary and Benefits:
Placement on the 2013-14 Salary Schedule (after consultation with the Faculty Association), will be in accordance with education and experience. The 2013-14 Salary Schedule, number of contract days, and the possibility of furlough (unpaid) days are currently under negotiation and have not yet been determined. Benefits include family medical, dental, vision insurance; employee life insurance; paid holidays, sick leave, three bereavement days and three contract days; 12-credit tuition waiver per quarter; membership in the Oregon Public Service Retirement Plan (OPSRP) when eligible; and eligibility for professional growth funds.
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