RN Clinical Adjunct Instructor (Casual), Citizens School of Nursing

Highmark Health•Tarentum, PA

8d•Onsite

About The Position

This role serves as adjunct faculty for the AHN Schools of Nursing, with authority, responsibility, and accountability for clinical instruction of students. The position is on-site at AHN Citizens School of Nursing in Pittsburgh Mills Mall in Tarentum, Pennsylvania, with clinical instruction taking place at varying AHN hospital locations in the Pittsburgh region. The instructor provides clinical teaching and supports students’ progress toward course objectives. The role also promotes patient safety and quality care, builds effective relationships with students and healthcare colleagues, models professional nursing practice, mentors peers, and shares clinical knowledge and feedback with nursing faculty and staff.

Requirements

Current Pennsylvania RN license or current multistate licensure through the enhanced Nurse Licensure Compact (eNLC).
A master's degree in nursing, or obtain one within five years of hire.
Act 34 Criminal Background Clearance Certificate.
Act 33 Child Abuse Clearance Certificate.
Act 73 FBI Fingerprinting Criminal Background Clearance Certificate.
American Heart Association CPR certification.
At least two years of experience in the clinical area of direct responsibility may be required, depending on specialty.

Nice To Haves

Two years of teaching experience in a school of nursing.

Responsibilities

Develop and use creative and innovative teaching and learning strategies in clinical settings; provide quality instruction to groups and individual students, and support daily goals and patient care plans.
Document student progress and establish goals and timelines with didactic faculty leaders for completion of course objectives.
Support continuous learning by sharing research and materials from professional organizations, presenting on the unit, and teaching students.
Promote a safe clinical environment, consider patient condition and intervention complexity, support patient safety initiatives, use appropriate order sets, and participate in department quality initiatives and interdisciplinary evaluations of care or health services.
Establish and maintain positive relationships with students, faculty, management, patients and families, and other healthcare team members.
Use critical thinking to identify patients’ clinical, social, safety, psychological, and spiritual needs.
Model professional nursing practice for students and peer nursing staff.
Provide leadership in a professional practice setting, contribute to team success through role modeling and mentoring, share knowledge and skills, and provide peers with verbal and written feedback on clinical practice and role performance.
Provide curriculum feedback to the School of Nursing.
Communicate and translate patients’ care and condition to other care providers.
Use teaching opportunities to demonstrate learning enhancements and share outcomes with peer nurses, faculty, and schools of nursing as applicable.
Perform other duties as assigned or requested.