Clinical Instructor II - ASC OR - Full Time
About The Position
NYU Langone Hospital—Suffolk is hiring a full-time Clinical Instructor II for its ambulatory surgery center operating room. The position is scheduled Monday through Friday, 7:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., with flexibility. The Clinical Instructor plays a major role in orienting new nursing personnel, guiding the process from classroom instruction through the clinical area in partnership with the orientee and preceptor. The role includes serving as an educator, facilitator, change agent, consultant, researcher, and leader, consistent with the ANA Scope and Standards of Practice for Nursing Professional Development. The instructor assesses nurses’ educational needs, identifies learning outcomes, plans and implements educational activities, and evaluates their effectiveness. The role also includes monitoring and improving the quality and effectiveness of nursing professional development practice, analyzing data, making improvement recommendations, and participating in interdisciplinary professional-development evaluation teams.
Requirements
- Current license to practice professional nursing in New York State.
- Bachelor’s degree or BSN required.
- At least five years of progressively more responsible acute-care nursing experience.
- Current Basic Life Support (BLS) certification.
- Current Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) certification.
- Knowledge of relevant educational content, including teaching and learning theories, adult education principles, testing, measurement, and evaluation.
- Ability to communicate with all levels of staff.
- High level of computer skills.
Nice To Haves
- Master’s degree preferred.
Responsibilities
- Collect information about nurses’ potential educational needs using assessment techniques and instruments such as focus groups, questionnaires, program evaluations, and trend analysis.
- Gather educational-needs information from nurses, professional organizations, consumers, nursing experts, health care trends, and advances in treatment and technology.
- Identify the target audience and learner needs from assessment data.
- Identify the general purpose and educational objectives for each learning activity based on learners’ identified needs.
- Ensure educational objectives are attainable given the resources available and incorporate adult learning principles.
- Partner with content experts to develop activities that help learners achieve educational objectives and document content outlines.
- Plan educational activities using adult learning principles.
- Ensure planned educational activities are implemented appropriately and on time, consistent with their purpose, objectives, and content outline.
- Conduct systematic, ongoing, criterion-based evaluations of educational activities and assess whether learners achieved the objectives.
- Use evaluation data to inform future educational activities.
- Evaluate the quality and effectiveness of nursing professional development practice.
- Identify aspects and indicators of nursing professional development practice for quality monitoring, collect and analyze monitoring data, and identify opportunities for improvement.
- Formulate recommendations to improve nursing professional development practice.
- Participate on interdisciplinary teams that evaluate professional development.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
