Faculty - Immersive Simulation Facilitator - College of Nursing and Health Care Professions

Grand Canyon University • Phoenix, AZ

5d • Onsite

About The Position

The College of Nursing and Health Care Professions at Grand Canyon University is seeking a full-time Faculty Immersive Simulation Facilitator. This role serves as faculty to ensure excellence in the Immersive Simulation learner experience, supporting clinical simulation educational activities and coordinating with directors to manage equipment and supplies. The facilitator oversees training processes, ensures systems and equipment meet learning outcomes, and participates in scenario design, evaluation, and implementation. They will lead the provision of entire scenario experiences, including facilitation and debriefing, and manage trial, validation, and evaluation processes for curriculum integration. The role involves orienting and directing simulation technicians, actors, volunteers, and faculty, and maintaining standards for operations, design, facilitation, and debriefing in alignment with program policies. Additionally, the facilitator will coordinate with faculty for video annotation and data capture, ensure simulation equipment and supplies are ready, and orient faculty and learners to the capabilities and proper use of simulation equipment. They will manage supplies and equipment, provide technical support for various simulation systems, and manage clinical simulation activities during practice, rehearsal, and research. The role also includes providing feedback to didactic faculty on student progress, attending faculty meetings, and occasionally working evenings and weekends.

Requirements

• Master’s degree (MSN) from a CCNE/NLNAC or ACEN accredited program.
• Must have active unencunbered Arizona RN license.
• Two years related experience in healthcare, clinical healthcare education, or healthcare simulation education.
• Provide a positive example to students by supporting the University’s Doctrinal Statement, Ethical Position Statement and Mission of Grand Canyon University

Nice To Haves

• Previous experience facilitating immersive simulation.
• Previous experience with simulation debriefing and strategies.
• Previous experience collaborating in immersive simulation scenario design, evaluation and implementation into curriculum.
• Contemporary lab competence and knowledge about simulation both high fidelity and virtual reality as evidenced by relevant continuing education and professional organization affiliation.

Responsibilities

• Primary support for Clinical Simulation Educational Activities.
• Proactively coordinates in advance with Director of Clinical Operations and Director of Lab and Simulation to schedule activities and manage equipment and supplies for each activity.
• Oversees all training processes and ensures systems and equipment are enabled to meet the learning outcomes.
• Collaborative participation in scenario design, evaluation, implementation into curriculum, and provision of experience to learners
• Leads provision of entire scenario experience, facilitation and debriefing for learner(s)
• Leads trial, validation, and evaluation processes for implementation of scenarios as a part of the curriculum.
• Orients, coordinates and directs Simulation Technician, actors, volunteers and faculty prior to each scenario experience, facilitation and debriefing
• Ensures and maintains standards for operations, scenario design, facilitation, and debriefing in alignment with specified immersive simulation training programs policies and procedures.
• Coordinates and assists designated faculty with concurrent and/or retrospective video annotation, data capture and creation of outcome tracking, results and reports
• Coordinates with Simulation Technician to confirm pre-programming of manikin simulators, task trainers, AV, & data collection are ready for each experience use
• Coordinates with Simulation Technician to confirm designated pre-sets, staging, and disposable supplies for each scenario are ready for immediate use
• Ensure Faculty & Learners are oriented to capabilities, limitations, safety & proper use of all simulation manikins, trainers, AV, and equipment.
• Manage Clinical Simulation Educational Activity Related Supplies & Equipment
• Provide technical and operational support for AV systems, data collection systems, Human Patient Simulator systems, computer systems, and task trainer systems.
• Manage clinical simulation educational activity during practice, rehearsal, and research as it pertains to Immersive Patient Care Management simulation scenarios, skills and task training, standardized patient encounters, and conference sessions according to standardized methodology and techniques and policy and procedure.
• Provide reports or feedback to didactic faculty on student progress or outcomes
• Attend required faculty meetings and participate in committees
• Occasionally work evenings and weekends as required by business needs

Benefits

• medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurance
• flexible spending accounts
• a 401K savings plan
• Generous time off plan
• 11 paid holidays
• Paid time off to volunteer in the community or at GCU sponsored events
• Free covered parking
• Education Tuition Discount Program for full-time employees, their spouses, and dependent children
• Free on-site gyms on campus

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level