Additional Information
Primary Location:
4800 Preston Park Boulevard, Plano, Texas, 75093
We are searching for candidates that meet the required qualifications and experience and are able to perform the essential duties and responsibilities.
Job Summary:
Facilitate clinical learning experiences for students in continuing education nursing classes. Ensure all requirements for clinical site placement are met. Assist the assistant director - continuing education health and wellness with new and existing affiliation agreements, clinical site relationships and placement, clinical compliance, clinical instruction for cohorts, student recruitment, and any student issues that may arise.
Required Qualifications:
Essential Duties and Responsibilities :
Follow mandated guidelines set forth by the Accreditation Council for Education in Nursing (ACEN), Texas State Board of Nursing, and DFW Hospital Council to ensure all mandated requirements are met for clinical experiences.
Ensure all student and instructor guidelines/requirements are met and appropriately documented for clinical site placement, including providing documentation of mandatory requirements to clinical site partners. Utilize the Centralized Clinical Placement System (CCPS) or equivalent system used by clinical site partners to ensure clinical needs are requested, and requirements are met.
Coordinate clinical training by maintaining relationships with clinical facilities; pursuing new clinical agreements to ensure effective student clinical experiences; ensuring clinical contracts are reviewed and current; conducting and reporting clinical site evaluations; and developing and maintaining clinical rotation schedules.
Teach clinical skills at an affiliated clinical site to cohorts of up to 10-12 students. Payment per course is at a per-head rate.
Collaborate with instructors to explore opportunities to improve student learning experiences and provide recommendations as appropriate toward student instructional materials.
Assist the assistant director - continuing education health and wellness to ensure that minimum required competencies and contact hours for each student are met at the assigned clinical rotations and that records of student clinical performance, attendance, and other records pertaining to clinical training are maintained for each student.
Assist the assistant director - continuing education health and wellness with course recruitment and promotion to positively impact enrollment and clinical partner placements.
Supplemental Functions
Perform other duties as assigned.
Perform all duties to maintain all standards in accordance with college policies, procedures and core values.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
Knowledge of nursing
Knowledge of guidelines for the profession of nursing as set forth by the Accreditation Council on Education in Nursing (ACEN) or equivalent program accreditor, The Texas Board of Nursing, and/or the D/FW Hospital Council
Knowledge of clinical student education requirements in healthcare facilities (e.g. hospitals, clinics, etc.)
Organizational skills
Evaluation skills
Verbal and written communication skills
Computer skills
Assessment skills
Analytical skills
Data entry skills
Ability to provide feedback for program and student improvement
Ability to revise and update curriculum
Ability to maintain professional relationships
Physical Demands, Working Conditions and Physical Effort
Light Work - Exerting up to 20 pounds of force occasionally, up to 10 pounds of force frequently, and/or a negligible amount of force constantly having to move objects. If the use of arm and/or leg controls requires exertion of forces greater than that for the Sedentary Work category and the worker sits most of the time, the job is rated Light Work. Positions in this class typically include talking, hearing, seeing, grasping, standing, walking and repetitive motions, plus stooping, kneeling, crouching, and reaching. Incumbents may be subjected to moving mechanical parts, odors, dusts, poor ventilation, chemicals, oils, extreme temperatures, inadequate lighting and intense noises. Relatively free from unpleasant environmental conditions or hazards. Office environment. Occasional physical effort required.