Adjunct Community & Mental Health Clinical Faculty, multiple positions

About the position

The School of Nursing and Health Professions seeks to hire part-time (adjunct) community and mental health nursing faculty to assume teaching responsibilities for undergraduate nursing students in a clinical setting. Applicants must hold a California RN License. Within that last 5 years, applicants must have one year of direct patient care nursing experience that corresponds to the area they are teaching. For medical/surgical, geriatric, pediatric, obstetrics, or mental health, acute care nursing experience (or serving as a clinical instructor in one of these clinical areas) within the last 5 years is required.

Responsibilities

• Facilitating student learning in the clinical setting by coaching students to translate knowledge into the attitudes and skills required to give safe high quality patient care.
• Supervising student groups in the clinical setting (maintains presence in clinical setting during the entire clinical student time unless assigned to Capstone course when student has individual preceptor).
• Evaluating student performance in the clinical setting; providing frequent student feedback to enable success; meeting the student at mid-term and end of course to assign grades.
• Attending departmental meetings.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in nursing with evidence of an established area of clinical expertise and demonstrable communications skills.
• Within the last 5 years, applicants must have one year of direct patient care nursing experience that corresponds to the area they are teaching.
• For medical/surgical, geriatric, pediatric, obstetrics, or mental health, acute care nursing experience (or serving as a clinical instructor in one of these clinical areas) within the last 5 years is required.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience in clinical teaching, student supervision and teaching methods are desired but not required.
• Other clinical/agencies requirements as needed.