Adjunct Faculty - Graduate, Jefferson College of Nursing

Job Details

Thomas Jefferson University-College of Nursing
Clinical Adjunct Faculty
Graduate Programs

Job Description

Duties and Responsibilities

• Attend orientation session to the course.
• Deliver content area expertise.
• Attend periodic clinical faculty meetings.
• Perform clinical site visits as assigned. Initial visits will occur before mid-semester.
• Interface with clinical preceptor as JCN’s representative and liaison, encouraging communication and clinical professional relationships between clinical preceptor and the Jefferson College of Nursing.
• Provide a narrative summary of site visits, to course faculty and Chair, with important/salient points about the student’s progress in clinical and the preceptor’s impression of the student.
• Provide weekly evaluative feedback to students on clinical and reflective logs. With periodic virtual/in-person meetings including student mentoring.
• Monitor student clinical hours to ensure on track for completion of requirement. Notify course faculty when students not meeting expected clinical performance.
• Communicate to Program Director students in danger of failing on clinical jeopardy in conjunction with JCN course faculty and create plans with program director for remediation with students.
• Notify the Chair and Course Faculty of any problems or concerns with the clinical preceptor and/or clinical site.
• Establish professional relationship with and mentoring of students assigned. Maintain ongoing communications with students, Chair, and Course Faculty.
• Facilitate completion of student evaluations by clinical preceptors.
• Grade and provide feedback on case studies and SOAP notes as designated in course syllabi.

Work Shift

Workday Day (United States of America)

Worker Sub Type

Regular

Primary Location Address

901 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Nationally ranked, Jefferson, which is principally located in the greater Philadelphia region, Lehigh Valley and Northeastern Pennsylvania and southern New Jersey, is reimagining health care and higher education to create unparalleled value. Jefferson is more than 65,000 people strong, dedicated to providing the highest-quality, compassionate clinical care for patients; making our communities healthier and stronger; preparing tomorrow's professional leaders for 21st-century careers; and creating new knowledge through basic/programmatic, clinical and applied research. Thomas Jefferson University , home of Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Jefferson College of Nursing, and the Kanbar College of Design, Engineering and Commerce, dates back to 1824 and today comprises 10 colleges and three schools offering 200+ undergraduate and graduate programs to more than 8,300 students. Jefferson Health , nationally ranked as one of the top 15 not-for-profit health care systems in the country and the largest provider in the Philadelphia and Lehigh Valley areas, serves patients through millions of encounters each year at 32 hospitals campuses and more than 700 outpatient and urgent care locations throughout the region. Jefferson Health Plans is a not-for-profit managed health care organization providing a broad range of health coverage options in Pennsylvania and New Jersey for more than 35 years.    

Jefferson is committed to providing equal educa­tional and employment opportunities for all persons without regard to age, race, color, religion, creed, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, marital status, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, military status, veteran status, handicap or disability or any other protected group or status.