Fundamentals Visiting Professor
About The Position
Chamberlain College of Nursing seeks a part-time Clinical Instructor to teach students in its Bachelor of Science in Nursing program at the Las Vegas, Nevada campus. This opportunity is intended for nurse educators teaching Fundamental Nursing Skills, with content focused on health promotion, rehabilitative patient care, and students’ acquisition of professional nursing skills through direct patient care and use of the nursing process. Clinical teaching is typically scheduled for one 12-hour shift on weekdays or weeknights during an eight-week session at a clinical partner site. Practice settings may include hospitals, long-term care facilities, community and public-health agencies, faith-based service organizations, and other locations where healthcare is delivered.
Requirements
- Master’s degree in Nursing.
- At least two years of registered nursing practice experience within the last five years.
- Professional nurse licensure in the state of practice.
- Excellent communication skills, a high level of initiative, and prudent judgment.
Responsibilities
- Implement the College’s philosophy, curriculum, program outcomes, and course objectives through clinical teaching and service to the College, community, health system, and profession.
- Assume responsibility for autonomous aspects of individual teaching loads.
- Plan clinical experiences and directly supervise and evaluate nursing students providing care to individuals or groups.
- Make oneself available to staff at clinical agencies.
- Evaluate student performance against course objectives and provide documented feedback.
- Provide student remediation when required or needed.
- Maintain current knowledge of agency and clinical policies, procedures, and expectations, with assistance from agency personnel.
- Develop and post written clinical assignments suited to students’ knowledge, competencies, and learning needs.
- Correct and return homework, quizzes, tests, lab assignments, clinical paperwork, and other written work in a timely manner.
- Contribute to the ongoing development, implementation, and evaluation of College programs.
- May teach didactic course content under the supervision of a course coordinator.
- Keep the course coordinator informed of student and agency issues and concerns.
- Work with college administration, staff, and faculty to improve college operations and student satisfaction.
- Participate in the College Assessment Program, campus retention efforts, and departmental and campus policies.
- Serve as a professional role model in customer service, collaboration, communication, excellence, dress, attendance, and professionalism.
- Use relationship skills in group problem-solving, consensus-building, and win-win negotiation.
- Comply with applicable regulatory rules, standards, policies, and standards.
- Report to the dean or assistant dean, with direct oversight also provided by a course coordinator.
- Handle related duties and other duties as assigned.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Part-time
