Nursing Learning Resource Center Coordinator (NLRC)

About North Park

Founded in 1891, North Park University is a Christian university affiliated with the Evangelical Covenant Church of over 3,200 students from around the country and the world.

North Park University is located in the Albany Park neighborhood of Chicago, one of the most ethnically diverse zip codes in the United States. It is nine miles from downtown Chicago. The North Park campus has often been referred to as an oasis in the heart of the city – a place where students from urban, rural, and suburban backgrounds alike can call home. And all of this within the major metropolitan backdrop of Chicago: one of the world’s largest and most diversified economies, renowned for its museums and music, and voted best large city in the U.S. for four years in a row by Condé Nast Traveler.

Mission

The mission of North Park University is to prepare students for lives of significance and service through education in the liberal arts, professional studies, and theology.

Vision

Building on our core institutional identity—Christian, city-centered, intercultural—our vision is to create a university of uncommon character and enduring excellence, where faith, learning, and service meet.

Position Summary
Are you enthusiastic about shaping the next generation of nursing students by advocating for their success? North Park University is looking for a Nursing Learning Resource Center Coordinator to assist students with mastering the material, including didactic and clinical learning concepts and patient care simulations. Collaborating with faculty, program directors, and staff, the NLRC Coordinator provides academic reinforcement to students throughout their program. In addition, the NLRC Coordinator supports clinical learning skills labs and simulation learning for students. This position is a direct report to the Director of Simulation Education. This is a full-time on-campus position. Works varied hours in-person Monday through Friday with the possibility of Saturdays, including some evenings.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES

• Demonstrates accurate knowledge of concepts assessed by the NCLEX-RN.
• Demonstrates competency in nursing practice.
• Supports instruction, remediation, and evaluation of didactic and clinical learning concepts.
• Demonstrates current, detailed, and accurate knowledge of SNHS nursing programs, academic policies, and regulations.
• Fosters a professional environment through effective communication and excellent student, faculty, and staff service.
• Communicates and documents students’ academic progress toward achievement of student and program learning outcomes related to skills and simulation learning experiences.
• Prepares and maintains skills lab and simulated patient care environments with equipment, supplies, media, computers, and materials needed to replicate a simulated healthcare setting.
• Inventory supplies and equipment.
• Collaborates with course faculty to ensure lab supplies and equipment preparation based on faculty requests and course schedules.
• Assisted in implementing detailed clinically based scenarios for the simulated learning experiences, including high-fidelity patient simulators and virtual reality simulations.
• Operates and maintains computerized and non-computerized simulators.
• Coordinates and supervises lab experiences to facilitate students meet course objectives.
• Provide individual oversight to students during practice and/or remediation of technical nursing skills as requested by course faculty.
• Participates in planning and scheduling learning spaces for students and faculty by ensuring open lab and structured lab utilization times are available, communicated, and appropriately resourced.
• Performs other duties as assigned.
• Compliance with all policies and standards.

Requirements

• BSN in nursing
• Illinois unencumbered RN license or eligible for
• Two years of acute care RN experience
• Possess a clear understanding and personal commitment to North Park University’s mission of Christian higher education.
• Meticulous.
• Excellent organizational and planning skills.
• Be customer-friendly and hospitable.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Suite: Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, etc.

Desired

• MSN preferred.
• Previous experience in Simulation and or Nursing Skill lab education
• Comfortable with using innovative technology.

Benefits

• Medical Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• Prescription Plan
• Flexible Spending Account
• Commuter Benefit
• Life Insurance
• Disability Insu