Instructor – Learning Lab

Instructor – Learning Lab

Requirements

• MSN required (contingent on State Board of Nursing regulations)
• 2+ years of professional work experience
• Demonstrated subject matter expert with assigned content or practice area(s)
• Active and unencumbered RN License in the State of the lab location

Responsibilities

• Serves as a professional role model for students in dress, communication, deportment, problem solving, care delivery and patient advocacy to facilitate student’s socialization into the profession
• Demonstrates understanding of and participates in implementation of the philosophy and goals of the nursing program
• Demonstrates respect for the student as a new learner by communicating constructive feedback
• Uses evidence-based tools and measures to evaluate the students’ clinical learning
• Maintains communication with the Supervisor, Lab Faculty to make appropriate student referrals for remediation or other needs in post lab reports
• Engages in teaching through demonstration, practice, and assistance
• Facilitates student advancement through the performance of basic nursing skills to resolution of simple and/or complex patient care situations via high-fidelity simulation
• When teaching in a simulated environment, demonstrates the ability to facilitate scenarios according to evidence-based standards and guidelines
• Assists the student with application of clinical judgment, critical thinking, problem solving using reflection, probing, active listening, and other clinical teaching strategies
• Assists students in the application of the nursing process to include assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation of care
• Understands and practices the difference between ‘doing it for’ the student and ‘supporting the student’ during the learning experience
• Assists students in the identification of individual learning needs
• Promotes, provides, and maintains a safe learning experience
• Incorporates student and self as an integral part of the nursing team in the provision of safe patient care when teaching in a simulated environment
• Works closely with Supervisor, Lab Faculty to appropriately integrate lab operations, obtain maximum utilization for the most efficient expenditure, and to moderate student and program costs
• Support quality improvement measurements related to faculty and student satisfaction
• Provides orientation and substantial first cohort support to new Learning Lab Instructors and Simulation Technicians during onboarding to the WGU model and standards for lab instruction
• Assist in planning staff schedules
• Assist in maintaining the supply inventory
• Performs other related duties as assigned

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong experience with distance education and distance learning students is preferred
• Experience in simulation-based education is preferred
• Experience with integrated technology systems and tools