Sacramento Branch: Adjunct Medical-Surgical Nursing Clinical Faculty

University of San Francisco • Sacramento, CA

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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.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in nursing with evidence of an established area of clinical expertise and demonstrable skills.
• 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, geriatrics, pediatrics, obstetrics/maternity, or psych/mental health, acute care nursing experience (or serving as a clinical instructor in one of these clinical areas) this experience must be continuous and within the last 5 years.
• 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.
• Clinical faculty maintains current RN licensure.
• AHA Professional Rescuer CPR, and Health Records titers and immunization.
• Clinical faculty member must hold a valid California Driver's license.

Nice To Haves

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

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 above
• 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.
• Travel to the nursing worksite at least once weekly is required as part of the clinical adjunct’s position and is considered the adjunct’s primary worksite.
• Depending on the type of clinical learning experience, the instructor can be expected to conduct a pre-shift meeting/prebriefing, a mid-shift huddle, and a debriefing/post-conference.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Part-time
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees