Adjunct RN Clinical Instructor (OBGYN)

We are currently seeking highly qualified adjunct instructors to teach RN students in multiple disciplines.

All faculty must follow the Department of Nursing Faculty Handbook of Marsha Fuerst School of Nursing and the College Handbook.

Faculty must meet the Board of Registered Nursing (BRN) requirements and be approved by the BRN.

Jean Watsons Theory of Caring

• Responsible for sharing Watsons Theory of Caring with student body and making this theory an integral part of nursing practice.
• Must develop essential strategies to accomplish these goals by weaving the tenets and language of the caring theory into clinical practice this will include but not be limited to:

Exemplifying carative factors during unit meetings

Listing of the carative factors in both theory and clinical

Sharing articles on the caring theory.

Incorporating carative factor questions into competency validations, exams, assignments, and post clinical conference.

Quality Safety Education for Nurses QSEN

• Understand how to integrate QSEN throughout their nursing courses and curriculum.
• Must join discussion groups that explore Watsons caring theory to their own work and/or to discuss Carative Factors in their individual classes.
• Will serve as catalysts that will help students integrate Watsons Nursing Theory and Ten Carative Factors into their clinical practice.
• The faculty will integrate QSEN into their individual courses in the following areas:

Patient centered care

Teamwork and collaboration

Evidence based practice.

Safety

Quality improvement

Informatics

• Faculty will teach nurses not to just view themselves by what they are individually doing for a patient they must learn that healthcare organizations and systems are characterized by complex multi-levels and multi-functional systems.
• Faculty can broaden learning by not only focusing on personal effort in a single situation but to bring the students understanding to focus on a sequence of events with possible multiple causes for both individuals and populations.

The Nursing Process

• It is an expectation that the nursing process be used throughout the nursing curriculum and in each individual course.

Specific Levels of Faculty as required by BRN Regulation:

Content Expert: Section 1425(d) As assistant instructor shall meet the following minimum qualifications:

A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college which shall include courses in nursing, or in natural, behavioral or social science relevant to nursing practice.

Direct patient care experience within the previous five (5) years in the nursing area to which he or she will be assigned, which can be met by:

• One year continuous, full-time or its equivalent experience providing direct patient care as a registered nursing in the designated nursing area; or
• One academic year of register nurse level clinical teaching experience in the designated nursing are or its equivalent that demonstrated clinical competency.

Instructor: an approved instructor by the BRN which is masters-level prepared and teaches theory/clinical courses and coordinates the designated nursing area in both theory and clinical settings; instructors are typically content experts who teach theory and supervise assistant instructors and clinical teaching assistants.

Responsibilities Include:

Direct Patient Care

• Serves as a reliable source of information on the latest evidence supporting cost-effect, safe nursing practices.
• Collaborates with the multidisciplinary team using the nursing process to integrate the nursing perspective into a comprehensive plan of care for the patience/family.
• Identifies and prioritizes nursing care needs for a select population of patients/families.
• Conducts comprehensive, holistic wellness and illness assessments using established or innovative evidence-based techniques, tools, and methods.
• Initiates and plans care conferences or programs for patients or populations of patients.
• Designs and evaluates innovative educational programs for patients, families, and groups.
• Identifies, collects and analyzes data that serve as a bias for program design and outcome measurement.
• Establishes methods to evaluate and document nursing interventions.
• Evaluates the impact of nursing interventions on fiscal and human resources.

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