University of San Franciscoposted about 1 month ago
Part-time • Entry Level
San Francisco, CA
Educational Services
About the position
The School of Nursing and Health Professions seeks to hire part-time (adjunct) nursing faculty to assume teaching responsibilities for pre-licensure (undergraduate and ME-MSN) nursing students in a clinical setting. For medical/surgical, geriatrics, pediatrics, obstetrics, or mental health, a minimum of 1 year of continuous direct patient care nursing experience (or serving as a clinical instructor in one of these clinical areas) within the last 5 years is required. Applicants must hold a current, active and unencumbered California RN License.
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
- Supervise student groups in the clinical setting as specified
- Evaluating student performance in the clinical setting; provide frequent student feedback to enable success; conducting a written student performance evaluation at mid term and end of course to assign grades
- Attending departmental, program, and/or clinical level meetings
- Travel to the clinical site (not at a USF Campus) at least once per semester is required
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in nursing with evidence of an established area of clinical expertise and demonstrable skills
- One year of direct patient care nursing experience within the last 5 years in the area they are teaching
- Eligible for approval as an Assistant Instructor by the CA Board of Registered Nursing in medical/surgical, geriatrics, pediatrics, obstetrics/maternity or psych/mental health
- Current RN licensure
- AHA Professional Rescuer CPR certification
- Health Records titers and immunization
- Valid California Driver's license
Nice-to-haves
- Experience in clinical teaching, student supervision, and teaching methods
