Nursing Adjunct Instructor/Professor - BSN Simulation Program

Description

South College invites capable, energetic, outgoing, applicants who are focused on transforming lives of our customers/students! At South College, you will help implement our strategy of "Where Dreams Find Direction!" We are one of the nation's fastest growing institutions of higher learning with over 10,000 students covering 7 campuses and Online learning sites. We are also one of nation's highest producers of licensed healthcare professionals offering a myriad of undergraduate and graduate healthcare programs for our students.

In order to fully meet our Mission to our students, we require a diverse combination of perspectives, backgrounds, life experiences, and ideas from our faculty and staff and will provide them with an equitable and inclusive work environment -where respect and open interchange of ideas are at the heart of that culture.

South College Parkside learning campus in Knoxville, TN is conducting a search for the position of adjunct nursing simulation faculty (instructor/assistant professor/associate professor; commensurate with experience) for the South College School of Nursing. The position will have on-ground teaching (simulation & lab) responsibilities in the Simulation Center for either the BSN, ASN or the LPN certificate program, depending on educational level.

Primary Responsibilities:

Thus, the responsibilities of a simulation educator are often quite varied and may include any or all of the following:

• Course lecturing and/or skills/simulation laboratory instruction

• Lab set up and clean up

• Lab maintenance and organization

• Simulation Room Scheduling

• Technical operations including set up, operation and tear down of scenarios

• Technical staff orientation and training

• Simulation research

• Liaison between departments

• Maintain professional standards of practice in teaching in the classroom and in clinical settings

• Prepare and implement teaching and evaluation strategies for students and faculty engagement in simulation

• Maintain currency in education and nursing knowledge and application through continuing education activities

• Contribute to the School of Nursing and South College evaluation processes to measure outcomes

Requirements

• Bachelor of Science in Nursing

• Two calendar years or the equivalent of full-time clinical experience as a registered nurse

• Prior two or within the first three years of employment, have education in teaching and learning principles for adult education, including curriculum development, implementation, and evaluation.

• Hold an unrestricted license to practice in Tennessee

• Experience in simulation preferred not required