RN Med Surg Theory Instructor

RN Med Surg Theory Instructor (Healthcare) Success Education Colleges (SEC) is a family of institutions comprised of Marsha Fuerst School of Nursing, North-West College, Glendale Career College and Nevada Career Institute. SEC is a leader in allied health education, and has been offering quality and affordable health care training programs for over 58 years. Our everyday mission is to educate students in short-term and professional programs for gainful employment and career advancement. Careers Site: It is the belief of the faculty of the Nursing Department at Marsha Fuerst School of Nursing that each member should have defined responsibilities and that the Nursing Department accepts the responsibility of supporting its members in the achievement of both departmental and individual professional goals. All faculty must follow the Department of Nursing Faculty Handbook and the College Handbook. Faculty mustmeet the Board of Registered Nursing (BRN)requirements andbe approved by the BRN. Integrating Philosophy and Theory into the curriculum: Jean Watson's Theory of Caring In hiring, we ask prospective faculty candidates to describe a caring moment from their past. Candidates are then required to share stories from professional practice that demonstrate their positive influence on patient outcomes and describe Carative Factors exemplified in their stories. We ask faculty to explain how nursing is both a holistic model as well as a disease-focused-medical-model. The faculty that is asked to describe how the science of human caring influences a patients feeling about his or her current situation and how they heal. Looks at caring from an individual perspective. Quality Safety Education for Nurses QSEN Faculty need to understand how to integrate QSEN throughout their nursing courses and curriculum. Systematic in the way we provide care in a meaningful way. Faculty are required to integrate QSEN into nursing education because it focuses its attention on the system learning for the student in a clinical situation. Faculty will be responsible to join discussion groups that explore Watson's caring theory to their own work and/or to discuss Carative Factors in their individual classes. Faculty will serve as catalysts that will help students integrate Watson's Nursing Theory and Ten Carative Factors into their clinical practice. Faculty need to be visionaries that will force this new theoretical concept. Faculty will institute QSEN throughout their course to emphasize a culture of safety throughout the program from Beginning through Advanced Level Courses. 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 that are characterized by complex multi-levels and multi-functional systems. Faculty can broaden the students 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 to be used throughout the nursing curriculum and in each individual course. General Duties andResponsibilities: Consistently and correctly,integrate the Watson and QSEN Model into theoretical and clinical teaching components and interpret the Model inclinicalagency settings and professional encounters. Apply knowledge derivedfrom nursing science, natural/social science, humanities, liberal arts and other disciplines when preparing and presenting theoretical content. Formulate a broad knowledge base in the subject area to be taught by searching the literature and seeking available resources pertaining to the content area. Demonstrateclinical skills and techniques in the clinical laboratoryaccording to class level. Prepares formal and informal reports as required for Systematic Program Evaluation governing institution, and governmental and accrediting agencies. Holds students accountable for the acquired competency in their performance, and assists students in re-mediation to acquire and maintain competence. Motivates students through instructional and counseling activities toward high levels of contribution to the discipline. Conducts conferences with students concerning academic and clinical competence and progress. Develop and reviseprogramsyllabiaccordingtodepartment curriculum designprotocol. Submit syllabi changes for departmental review and approval. Select textbooks to meet course objectives. Select learning experiencesto optimize studentachievementofcourse objectives. Orient students to the clinical agency. Interpretlearningobjectives toclinicalagency personnel. Coordinate student learning activities within the agency. Evaluate thequality and effectivenessof the clinical facilitiesto provide quality student learningexperiences. Conduct and document clinical agency representativemeetings onatleastan annual basis. Perform studenttheoretical and/or clinical performancegrading. Maintain accurate evaluation records for each course. Schedule andholdoffice hours on a regular basis as required in the College Faculty Handbook. Utilize principles of communication and group process when interacting with students, peers,and groups. Contribute to department and college activitiesto ensureachievement of the College mission and department goals. Attend College faculty convocations and assemblieson a regular basis. Actively participate indepartmentand College committeesand meetings. Participate in the program development, including development, implementation,and evaluation ofthe department'spolicies and curriculum. Serveas a professional advocate through representation in professional groups and organizations. Professionally representthe Department/Collegeto outside agencies,health carefacilities,andthecommunity. Pursue academic and professionalcontinuingeducational experiences. SpecificLevels of Faculty as required by BRN CCR Standard 1425 (f): A content expert shall be an Instructor and shall have: A Master's Degree in the designated nursing area: or A Master's Degree that is not in the designated nursing area and shall: Have completed thirty (30) hours of continuing education or two (2) semester units or three (3) quarter units of nursing education related to the designated nursing area; or have national certification in the designated nursing area from an accrediting organization, such as the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC); and Have a minimum of two hundred forty (240) hours of clinical experience within the previous three (3) years in the designated nursing area; or have a minimum of one (1) academic year of registered nurse level clinical teaching experience in the designated nursing area within the previous five (5) years. See specific job description. Instructor: an approved instructor by the BRN which is master's-levelprepared 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. Assistant Instructor: an approved assistant instructor by the BRN whois baccalaureate-levelprepared and teaches in a designated nursing area. Clinical Teaching Assistant: an approved clinical teaching assistant is approved by the BRN with at least one year continuous, full-time experience as a registered #J-18808-Ljbffr Success Education Colleges in