On-Site Instructor

On-Site Instructor

Requirements

• MSN required (contingent on State Board of Nursing regulations)
• Active Nurse Practitioner license and current Nurse Practitioner Certification
• 2+ years of professional work experience
• Experience with primary care procedures, including suturing, skin biopsies, casting, splinting, joint injections, and women’s health examinations
• This individual is a demonstrated subject matter expert with assigned content or practice area(s)
• Requires an active and unencumbered (will be verified) 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, the candidate 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