Nursing Instructor

Chemeketa Community College • Salem Campus. Salem, OR

8d • Onsite

About The Position

Chemeketa Community College in Salem, Oregon, seeks energetic and teaching-focused full-time Nursing faculty. Our Nursing Program has a strong tradition of preparing nurses to be life-long learners and to practice safely, accurately and compassionately in varied settings. Our faculty teach our nursing undergraduates to have clinical and professional excellence in response to the changing health care climate. You will teach the attributes of accountability, caring, innovation, safety, social and cultural awareness, critical thinking and decision-making, life-long learning, and respect for the dignity and worth of human life. We believe in allowing a diverse group of students to have affordable nursing education. Chemeketa also understands that faculty applicants may be new to teaching and has created a wrap- around, comprehensive Nursing Educator Supported Transitions (NEST) program.

Requirements

• Bachelor degree in Nursing
• Enrollment in a Master degree in nursing program
• Current unencumbered Oregon RN license -OR- eligible for Oregon Licensure (no investigation pending by any State Board of Nursing)
• Minimum of three years of full-time patient care experience at the registered nurse level
• Baccalaureate degree in nursing
• Master's or doctoral degree in a related field
• Master's degree in Nursing
• Demonstrated competency in teaching through experience, educational preparation, or continuing education
• Demonstrable experience providing culturally responsive instruction
• Bicultural/multicultural skills sufficient to select appropriate behaviors, values and attitudes within different cultures during interactions with others
• Demonstrates ability or desire to work with culturally, linguistically, and economically diverse students and communities
• Demonstrates ability or desire to work with a variety of technological media

Nice To Haves

• Master's degree from an accredited institution in Nursing
• Teaching experience in nursing education program within the past five years
• Bilingual English/Spanish

Responsibilities

• Participates in curriculum development; recommends course outline revisions
• Recommends textbooks and other instructional materials and equipment; recommends library and reference materials
• Contributes suggestions for annual department budget
• Keeps up to date on technological changes and developments in subject area
• Attends staff meetings and participates in designated committee work; represents the department at pertinent meetings as required
• Works in a cooperative manner with other people in the department and college
• Communicates in a timely manner with students and department personnel
• Promotes positive image of college and college programs
• Develops and maintains contacts with community and professional organizations
• Assists Advisory Committee as needed
• Functions as a life-long learner
• Embraces appropriate technology tools to accomplish job functions; understands and utilizes available technology as communication and data gathering tools
• Meets all scheduled and special classes-day, evening, nights, week-ends, and 12-hour shifts
• Teaches classes as assigned, following approved course outlines
• Prepares and develops materials for assigned classes
• Posts and maintains office hours
• Provides students with course syllabi
• Maintains records of grades and attendance; reports individual academic grades when required
• Maintains college facilities and equipment
• Delivers instruction in a variety of modalities to meet program and student needs including face-to-face, remote, hybrid, and/or online
• Creates a learning climate of mutual respect and fairness
• Encourages creative and critical thinking
• Engages participants in an active learning process
• Facilitates learning that applies to and enriches lives
• Encourages student responsibility for learning
• Promotes learning as a lifelong process
• Embraces diversity and actively collaborates effectively with a variety of students, staff and the public from diverse cultural, social, economic and educational backgrounds
• Participates in recruitment and retention of students at an individual and institutional level in promotion of student success
• Embraces, understands and uses appropriate technology tools to accomplish job functions
• Provides high quality, effective service to internal and external customers through continuous improvement and adoption of lean office practices

Benefits

• Chemeketa currently covers up to 100% of health care premiums and includes dependent family member coverage.
• Qualifying employees will receive contributions to the Public Employee's Retirement System (PERS).
• Opportunity to contribute to optional 403(b) and 457(b) deferred compensation plans.
• Partial tuition reimbursement for a Masters in Nursing degree through the college's RENEW grant program.

What This Job Offers

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