Medical Assisting Skills Lab Instructor

Overview

About NLU:

 

National Louis University (NLU) is looking to honor its past while defining a bold new future as a contemporary, comprehensive university that prepares diverse students for sustained professional success with a deep commitment to Access, Excellence, Innovation and Equity. We are a pioneering community that uses innovation to improve outcomes.  NLU questions the status quo and strives to adapt and evolve with the changing needs of its students.   We are a community that cares about each other and our students and we work collaboratively, tirelessly and quickly to advance change in the service of students.  We have a long venerable history, but we are not typical.  We seek to solve intractable social issues through education; we believe we have not succeeded until graduates achieve sustainable career related employment; and we foster a culture that promotes failing fast so that we may constantly improve our work. 

 

Founded in 1886, National Louis University is a private not-for-profit university offering over 70 programs from short-term certificate through the doctoral level across its five colleges.  The University serves over 10,000 students per year and has experienced unprecedented growth over the last several years.  Most students are from Illinois, but the University also attracts students from throughout the U.S. and from around the world who take advantage of campus based, blended and online programming. 

 

NLU is located in the center of Chicago’s downtown loop, across the street from the Art Institute, in an area which has been recognized as America’s largest campus with over 25 institutions and 50,000 students attending a college across the city. In addition, the University has two suburban locations and a Florida regional campus.

 

Rank 

Adjunct – Accelerate U

Program Length 

24 Weeks

Position Status 

Part Time 

Position Title 

Medical Assisting Skills Lab Instructor– Accelerate U

Campus 

Chicago

 

WHO WE ARE -  National Louis University (NLU), founded in 1886, is a private, non-profit university based in Chicago, IL serving nearly 10,000 students across five colleges. In November 2020, the University launched Accelerate U, a new division at the university offering rapid pathways to high-demand skills, post-secondary degrees, and an upwardly-mobile job and career. The Accelerate U team works with employers and non-profit operators to build affordable academic and training pathways that 1) lead to an industry-recognized credential/certificate, 2) bridge to an in-demand, upwardly-mobile job, 3) include coaching and wraparound supports, and 4) grant participants Pell-eligible college credit that can build to a bachelor’s degree. 

Our first training credential - a Medical Assistant Certification - is 24 weeks long followed by a 160-hour externship with one of our employer hospital or health clinic partners. Learners earn a Certified Clinical Medical Assistant (CCMA) credential from National Health Association (NHA) credential along with 30 college credits that can be applied towards a bachelor’s degree. Program participants work with their instructors and a coach throughout the experience and interview with Accelerate U’s healthcare employer partners for a full-time job immediately following program completion.

 

We are seeking medical assisting skills lab instructors to facilitate in-person, clinical skills labs at our downtown Chicago campus on weekday afternoons and/or evenings. The topics covered in skills lab include:

Infection Control and Patient Communication

Vital Signs

Emergency Procedures

Patient Examinations

Specimen Collection and Testing

Phlebotomy

EKG and Assisting with Minor Surgery

Medication Administration

 

WHO YOU ARE-

You are committed to equity, access, and building economic mobility.

You understand that economic disparity and income inequality are destabilizing forces for a true democracy. You know the power of a great education - one that catapults a learner into new, choice-filled opportunities. You also know that too many talented, high-potential people get left out, overlooked, or skipped over when it comes to opportunities. You want to break down those barriers, destroy those misconceptions, and prepare and connect extraordinarily talented people with the opportunities they deserve. 

 

You are driven to succeed.

You are passionate about serving all Accelerate U participants including first-generation learners and others motivated by the challenge of becoming a medical a