Nursing Education Specialist

Job Number:	TRU0000127
Job:	Health Care
Primary Location:	Truman College
Employee Type:	Full Time
Union Code:	1600Profes
Job Posting:	Oct 3, 2013, 5:24:00 PM

Description:

This is an exciting time in the history of City Colleges of Chicago (CCC), the largest community college system in Illinois and among the largest in the nation. CCC has launched Reinvention, a nationally recognized initiative to ensure even greater student success and outcomes across the system.

Consider being a part of CCC s transformation and join the 5,800 faculty and staff who serve 120,000 students at seven campuses and six satellite sites city-wide. At CCC, employees contribute to the success of our students while enjoying competitive compensation and outstanding benefits packages. Build your future at City Colleges of Chicago and ensure more students complete their curricula - college-ready, career-ready and prepared to pursue their life s goals.

Harry S Truman College is conveniently located just steps from the CTA s redline on the North side of the city in the Uptown community. Truman is one of the largest of the City Colleges of Chicago, with a yearly enrollment of more than 23,000 students, and has the largest English as a Second Language and GED program in Illinois with more than 12,000 students annually. This college must be for everyone, reads the EL mural that faces Truman College, words that continue to guide the college to this day.

PRIMARY OBJECTIVE: Responsible for assisting nursing students, using supplemental instruction and programming, to develop cognitive and career-readiness skills that prepare students to successfully complete the CCC Nursing Program and pass the NCLEX-PN and/or NCLEX-RN. This position works with students to identify their strengths, learning styles, and areas requiring further development, and to develop and implement remediation plans as needed.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Collaborates with nursing instructors to develop intervention plans or strategies for students identified as at-risk for not succeeding in a nursing course or the Nursing Program.


• Develops, schedules, and provides supplemental instruction or training for nursing students year-round. Facilitates and schedules, in conjunction with appropriate faculty, review sessions, workshops, or study seminars for the NCLEX-RN or NCLEX-PN exam.


• Develops, schedules, and provides supplemental instruction and needed support materials for identified high-risk courses, in collaboration with nursing faculty. Follows up regularly with students to complete required intervention plans.


• Monitors and tracks completion of intervention plans by students identified as at-risk, including nursing graduates who have not taken the NCLEX-RN or NCLEX-PN exams, and provides regular reports to the Nursing Director and faculty.


• Documents instructional activities and strategies employed, including student attendance, completion and other relevant data, for the purposes of continuous quality improvement and maintaining the Nursing Programs accreditation.


• Assists the Nursing Department in coordinating and administering standardized assessments. Develops, recommends, and implements student retention strategies, as appropriate.


• Develops and implements orientation and boot camp activities for all nursing students in collaboration with the Nursing Director and faculty.


• Develops activities, in conjunction with the Lab Coordinator and provides instruction that will assist students in obtaining the psychomotor and technical skills necessary to meet clinical requirements.


• Assesses and evaluates a nursing student s preparedness for clinical readiness.


• Performs other duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

• Earned Master s degree in Nursing, preferably nursing education, supplemented by a minimum of 2 years part-time clinical teaching experience.


• Experience in assessment of student learning outcomes and remediation strategies required.


• Must have a solid knowledge base of internal ATI, NCLEX-RN and NCLEX-PN content. Ability to identify trends in specific weak areas of nursing course content to successfully operationalize a district-wide NCLEX-RN and NCLEX-PN review.


• Demonstrated current, detailed, and accurate knowledge of exit examinations, the NCLEX-RN and NCLEX-PN as well as currency in knowledge in the field to provide academic support.


• Current IL RN licensure.


• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.


• Ability to work well as a team player.


• Must be self-directed and innovative, able to assess current operations in an effort to improve the future goals of the District. Must be able to meet deadlines in a timely manner.

Chicago residency is required for all full-time employees within 6 months of hire.

We are an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer.

Thank you for your interest in CCC!

City Colleges of Chicago is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

by Shane Turner via NursingFacultyJobs.com