Part-time Lab Assistant - Associate Degree Nursing

POSITION PURPOSE:    

The part-time ADN Lab Assistant reports to the ADN Program Director and assists with assigned duties in the lab setting and in the simulation lab.

GENERAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: 

• Collaborates with full-time faculty to develop and prepare skills lab activities with the teaching team.   
• Prepares skills practice and skills validation schedules for faculty and students. 
• Sets up and takes down lab for each activity, requesting assistance as needed from faculty. 
• Maintains and stores equipment and supplies for skills lab in general, and for each incoming student. 
• Orders equipment and supplies, as directed by faculty coordinator.   
• Receives supplies and equipment, checks orders for accuracy, and distributes them to the appropriate parties. 
• Inventories skills supplies and equipment.
• Accepts and organizes donated supplies. 
• Ships items when needed. 
• Coordinates student accommodations in skills lab, if needed. 
• Provides guidance during skills lab practice and lab activities.
• Assists full-time faculty with preparing for simulated experiences.
• Maintains cleanliness and order within the lab area (to include cleaning of equipment).
• Ensures supplies, equipment, and linen are available for teaching and student lab work.
• Reports safety violations or unprofessional/uncivil conduct promptly to the appropriate faculty coordinator.
• Enforces rules associated with the Skills Lab (i.e. uniform requirements and cell phone policy). 
• Attends departmental meetings, as assigned. 
• Demonstrate behaviors consistent with those of a professional nurse. 
• Demonstrate effective and professional communication with students, College faculty, staff, vendors, and individuals with whom they come in contact. 
• Performs other duties as assigned by the ADN Program Director and/or faculty. 

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES:

• Work effectively within a group or independently. 
• Student centered. 
• Ability to meet deadlines.
• Willing to work within the philosophical framework of Navarro College and the ADN Program.
• Demonstrate clinical expertise required to function effectively and safely in the Skills Lab setting.
• Promptly takes the initiative to master new skills required by the ADN Program (i.e. simulation equipment and/or computer programs). 
• Demonstrate computer experience with Word and Excel.
• Able to communicate via email. 

POSITION QUALIFICATIONS:

Required

• Current Licensure as a Registered Nurse 
• BSN degree or higher. 

Preferred

• Master’s degree.

WORKING CONDITIONS:

• Variances from regular working hours may be necessary to fulfill the responsibilities of the position.
• Must be available to work up to 19 hours per week.
• Busy working environment with numerous interruptions.
• Maintains up-to-date health care provider immunizations and CPR. 
• Must pass drug screens for cause and pass random drug screens and criminal history screens when initiated by ADN Program.

SALARY: $35-$40 per hour / up to 19 hours per week