Labor & Delivery/Maternal-Newborn Nursing Clinical Instructor - Port St. Lucie, FL

Job Description

Job Description

Description:

The International College of Health Sciences (ICHS) is seeking a dedicated and skilled Labor & Delivery/Maternal-Newborn Nursing Clinical Instructor to join our academic team. This position offers an exciting opportunity for experienced obstetric and maternal-newborn nursing professionals to instruct and supervise nursing students in labor and delivery, antepartum, postpartum, mother-baby, and newborn-care settings.

Our faculty plays a vital role in shaping the next generation of healthcare professionals, supporting ICHS’s mission to deliver innovative and quality education. Located in the vibrant South Florida area, ICHS is dedicated to shaping the future of healthcare professionals through innovative educational approaches.

Purpose

The Labor & Delivery/Maternal-Newborn Nursing Clinical Instructor provides direct supervision, instruction, and evaluation to nursing students during clinical rotations in obstetric and maternal-newborn patient-care environments. This role ensures students develop the practical skills, clinical judgment, communication abilities, and professional behaviors necessary to provide safe, compassionate, evidence-based care to birthing patients, postpartum patients, newborns, and families.

Responsibilities

Clinical Instruction & Supervision

• Supervise, mentor, and evaluate nursing students in labor and delivery, antepartum, postpartum, mother-baby, newborn nursery, and other maternal-newborn clinical settings.
• Provide direct, on-site oversight of students while they perform patient assessments, provide maternal and newborn care, administer medications, complete documentation, and communicate with patients, families, and members of the interdisciplinary perinatal team.
• Demonstrate and teach best practices in obstetric and maternal-newborn nursing, including maternal assessment, fetal surveillance, labor support, postpartum recovery, newborn assessment, breastfeeding support, patient education, and family-centered care.
• Guide students in recognizing and appropriately escalating maternal, fetal, newborn, and postpartum clinical concerns.
• Teach and reinforce safe practices related to fetal monitoring, maternal vital-sign assessment, postpartum hemorrhage awareness, newborn safety, thermoregulation, safe sleep, infection prevention, medication administration, and patient identification.
• Ensure student compliance with clinical-site policies and procedures, including obstetric safety protocols, patient confidentiality, documentation requirements, infection-control practices, and newborn-security procedures.
• Monitor student performance and provide timely, constructive feedback that promotes clinical competence, sound judgment, professional behavior, and confidence.
• Foster a supportive, inclusive, and professional clinical learning environment for students caring for patients and families during pregnancy, labor, birth, recovery, and the newborn period.

Curriculum Implementation

• Collaborate with academic leadership and course faculty to implement maternal-newborn clinical objectives aligned with course outcomes and program requirements.
• Integrate evidence-based obstetric, perinatal, postpartum, and newborn-care practices into clinical instruction.
• Reinforce didactic and simulation content through bedside teaching, guided clinical reflection, pre-conference, and post-conference discussions.
• Participate in the development, delivery, and evaluation of clinical learning activities, simulations, skills validation, and student remediation as needed.
• Evaluate student achievement of clinical competencies and communicate student progress, concerns, and recommendations to the appropriate academic leadership.

Professional Communication & Collaboration

• Serve as a liaison among ICHS, clinical-site staff, students, faculty, and academic leadership.
• Maintain open, timely, and professional communication with unit leadership, hospital staff, faculty, and students.
• Collaborate with labor and delivery, postpartum, nursery, neonatal, and other clinical-site personnel to support a safe and productive student-learning environment.
• Attend faculty meetings, orientation sessions, clinical-site meetings, training programs, and professional-development activities as required.

Administrative Duties

• Complete accurate and timely documentation of student attendance, clinical hours, performance, competencies, progress, and evaluations.
• Promptly report student performance concerns, patient-safety issues, clinical-site concerns, and incidents to the appropriate academic leadership.
• Maintain required clinical-faculty credentials, compliance documentation, licensure, and certifications in accordance with institutional and clinical-site requirements.
• Ensure compliance with institutional, state, accreditation, clinical-site, and regulatory standards governing nursing education and student clinical experiences.

Requirements:

Qualifications

Education / Experience / Knowledge

• Unencumbered Florida or Compact State RN license required.
• Minimum of four years of clinical experience as a registered nurse required.
• Strong recent hospital experience in labor and delivery and/or maternal-newborn nursing required.
• Recent experience in one or more of the following areas is strongly preferred: labor and delivery, antepartum, postpartum, mother-baby, newborn nursery, or perinatal nursing.
• Minimum of a Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) from an accredited school required.
• Experience in clinical instruction, preceptorship, charge nurse responsibilities, staff development, or nursing education preferred.
• Experience supervising, mentoring, coaching, or evaluating nursing students, new graduates, or newly hired nurses is strongly preferred.
• Current obstetric or neonatal certifications, such as NRP, AWHONN fetal-monitoring education, or related specialty certifications, are preferred, if applicable to the assigned clinical site.

Required Skills

• Strong current knowledge of obstetric and maternal-newborn nursing, including maternal assessment, fetal monitoring, labor support, postpartum assessment, newborn assessment, newborn safety, breastfeeding support, and patient/family education.
• Ability to supervise nursing students in an acute-care hospital setting while maintaining a high standard of patient safety, newborn safety, privacy, and professional accountability.
• Ability to guide students in recognizing changes in maternal, fetal, newborn, and postpartum status and taking appropriate action within the student’s scope and under clinical-instructor supervision.
• Ability to assess student performance, provide clear and constructive feedback, and support the development of clinical judgment and professional nursing behaviors.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to communicate effectively with students, faculty, hospital staff, patients, families, and interdisciplinary perinatal teams.
• Proficiency with electronic health-record documentation systems and Microsoft Office Suite.
• Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively with diverse teams and across multiple clinical sites.
• Commitment to upholding the highest standards of professional, ethical, culturally responsive, and family-centered nursing care.

Additional Requirements

• Must reside within commuting distance of Port St Lucie, Florida.
• This is not a remote position; regular on-site presence at assigned clinical locations is required.
• Ability to work flexible hours, including early mornings, evenings, nights, weekends, and/or twelve-hour clinical shifts as needed.
• Must be able to satisfy all ICHS and clinical-site onboarding, health-screening, immunization, background-check, drug-screening, and compliance requirements.

Additional Information:At no time may work be performed, or computer systems accessed, from outside of the U.S. Individuals hired must be able to perform essential duties satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Please note that the responsibilities outlined in this job description are not exhaustive and may be supplemented as necessary.International College of Health Sciences provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.
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