Nursing Lab Simulation Technologist

Company Description

As a leading healthcare education organization, Unitek Learning’s family of schools helps thousands of students launch and accelerate their careers every year. As a rapidly growing and highly successful company, Unitek is also a great place to pursue a rewarding and challenging career. We offer a competitive salary, generous benefits, unlimited growth potential, and a collegiate work environment.

Why Work for Unitek Learning? To be part of a healthcare revolution. There is plenty of demand from students who want to become nurses, and there is plenty of demand to hire highly skilled nurses. Unitek Learning is on a mission to fix the connection between those who want to become nurses and the communities who desperately need them. We graduate culturally competent and highly skilled nurses, and we do this at scale. We have history, stability and strong student outcomes. We need your experience and transfer of knowledge to make this vision come to life. Be a part of the solution.

This role supports simulation and skills labs for all nursing programs at their assigned campus within the Unitek family of colleges. This person is responsible for the audiovisual and simulation equipment inventory, support, maintenance, and setup, including the care of the manikins and the other equipment used in the simulation program. This role's main purpose is to use industry standards to help faculty provide quality simulated learning experiences for students.

$24-29/hr. 

Job Description

• Maintains current knowledge of simulation/lab equipment and operation manuals.
• Programs simulator software to model simulator’s physiological response to instructor and/or scenario specifications.
• Operates a variety of computers and technical equipment pertaining to simulation scenarios.
• Operates and maintains audio-visual and debriefing systems.
• Supports faculty and students with virtual reality equipment and updates.
• Demonstrates proper techniques, use of tools, and equipment for students during simulation and skills lab exercises.
• Performs simulation demonstrations and provides orientation, assistance, training, and technical support to instructors on simulation and skills lab procedures, operation of equipment, and location and use of materials.
• Prepares and maintains simulation and skills lab equipment, manikins, media, audio/visual, computers, and materials related to learning.
• Develops, explains, and demonstrates instructional best practices for the use of the manikins and equipment to help elevate the simulation experiences of students and faculty.
• Assists in the development of simulation and skills laboratory manuals.
• Assists faculty in managing simulation and skills laboratory schedules.
• Provides technical support for task trainers and multimedia peripherals, including:
  • Medication dispensing systems.
  • Vital sign monitors.
  • IV pumps and feeding pumps.
  • Beds/examination tables, headwalls, patient monitors, and other healthcare equipment.
• Provides theatrical production (costuming and moulage) for simulation scenarios as requested.
• Provides technical assistance, support and training to students, faculty, and staff in the use of simulation and skills lab equipment.
• Enforces the safety and security of the simulation and skills labs according to established procedures, policies, and laws.
• Ensures that simulation and skills laboratories and other assigned areas are maintained in a clean, safe and orderly condition.
• Maintains accurate and complete records and files, including materials and equipment inventories, warranty information, and maintenance records and schedules.
• Works closely with students, staff, and faculty to solve complex problems, assists in identifying support resources, and installs new software and equipment as appropriate.
• Provides recommendations on equipment, supplies and materials.
• Proctor exams as needed.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Associate’s degree (AD) in healthcare field preferred: paramedic, medic, EMT, emergency tech, CNA, or hospital technician preferred.
• Strong problem solving and critical thinking skills.
• Able to balance multiple tasks simultaneously.
• Flexible and able to adapt to a dynamic environment based on changing policies, procedures and clinical needs.
• Strong organizational and time management skills.
• Knowledge of medical terminology and human anatomy/physiology preferred.
• 1-2 years of simulation experience working with simulation in an educational institution or equivalent setting preferred.