Full Time Nursing Faculty- BSN Online Prelicensure- Health Assessment

Company Description

Chamberlain University has a 130-year history and the mission to educate, empower, and embolden diverse healthcare professionals who advance the health of people, families, communities, and nations. We’re 99,000 strong, with 31,000 students and 68,000 alumni armed with the skills, passion, and determination to make a difference in today’s complex healthcare environment. By living Chamberlain Care®, we’ve built a culture in which colleagues and students thrive and we graduate extraordinary healthcare professionals who transform the health of people worldwide.

Our regionally accredited University is comprised of the College of Nursing and the College of Health Professions. Our College of Nursing offers a Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) degree program at 23 campuses and online post-licensure degree programs and certificates including RN to BSN, RN to MSN, a Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) with six Specialty Tracks, and a Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP). Our College of Health Professions offers online options with a Master of Public Health degree, Public Health Certificate programs, and a Master of Social Work degree. Learn more about Chamberlain University, part of Adtalem Global Education, at www.chamberlain.edu.

Job Description

The BSN Online Program is seeking experienced, full-time nursing faculty to support didactic instruction. This role also includes primary teaching responsibilities within the Health Assessment sequence (NR-302 and NR-304), supporting student development in foundational and advanced assessment skills essential for clinical decision-making.

Faculty will teach the following courses:

• NR-302: Health Assessment I
  This course introduces students to foundational principles and techniques of nursing assessment, including patient history taking, interview and communication strategies, and physical examination methods such as inspection, palpation, percussion, and auscultation. Emphasis is placed on the nurse’s role in conducting comprehensive health assessments that incorporate physical, psychosocial, developmental, cultural, and spiritual components.
  The laboratory portion supports development of cognitive and psychomotor skills, with hands-on practice assessing the integumentary, head and neck, lymphatic, respiratory, and cardiovascular systems through experiential learning.

• NR-304: Health Assessment II
  This course builds on prior knowledge, focusing on the application of comprehensive assessment findings to clinical decision-making. Students learn to identify patient education needs, integrate assessment data, and document findings professionally.
  The lab component advances psychomotor competency in assessing peripheral vascular, gastrointestinal, musculoskeletal, neurological, and genitourinary systems (including breast assessment), with continued emphasis on experiential and applied learning.

Evidence-Based Teaching/ Learning and Master Instruction

• Takes responsibility for program outcomes by implementing the College’s philosophy, curriculum and course objectives through classroom, online, or clinical teaching, and service to College, community, health system and profession.
• Develops curricular/teaching innovations in the annual preparation and revision of all assigned course(s).
• Assumes responsibility for all autonomous aspects of individual teaching loads.
• Monitors clinical agencies for appropriateness for student clinical experiences and ability to meet clinical course outcomes.
• Plans clinical experiences for and provides direct/ indirect supervision and evaluation of nursing students delivering nursing care to an individual or group of individuals.
• In cooperation with clinical agencies and university departments, provides oversight for clinical preceptors/mentors for student clinical experiences and coordinates and evaluates those preceptors/mentors.
• Provides documented feedback to students on level of performance based on course outcomes.
• Provides student remediation within assigned courses.
• Communicates up-to-date information about agency/clinical policies, procedures, and expectations.
• Posts developed clinical assignments consistent with student’s knowledge base, skill competency and learning needs.

Professional Role Model/ Chamberlain University Care

• Serves as a positive professional role model for students, assisting in their professional/social development.
• Serves as an informal leader, mentor, and role model for other faculty and staff in the areas of customer service, collaboration, communication, excellence and general professionalism.
• Mentors new faculty members.

Commitment to Professional Nursing