Adjunct Clinical Instructor - Community Health Nursing

Essential Duties

• Directs, manages and evaluates student learning in an approved clinical setting, adhering to the policies of the clinical setting and the College.
• Affords assistance to the student in integrating theory and practice, specific to the course’s learning activities and level of the learner.
• Evaluates the student’s development of clinical reasoning skills.
• Mets with students at midterm for formal evaluation and again at the end of the course as to progress and performance.
• Provides clinical, skills lab, and classroom instruction as appropriate.
• Available at all times the student is in the clinical setting.
• Directly observes and guides students’ learning activities with clients.
• Evaluates students in clinical as related to the nursing program outcomes.
• Provides feedback to the lead teacher (or to clinical faculty coordinator) regarding the clinical setting’s effectiveness in supporting student accomplishment of the course and program outcomes.

Administrative

• Maintains the professional practice knowledge base needed to instruct learners in contemporary nursing practice.
• Participates as a member of the course team in the course’s development and evaluation activities with the lead faculty.
• Participates in faculty meetings, both formally and informally with didactic and clinical faculty members.
• Provides timely and ongoing feedback to the lead faculty regarding individual student and group performance in accomplishment of the course’s outcomes.
• Provides feedback to the lead faculty (or to clinical faculty coordinator) regarding the clinical setting’s effectiveness in supporting student accomplishment of the course and program outcomes.
• Collaborates with the unit manager and staff so that the presence of students and their activities are supportive of the unit’s goals and needs.
• Serves as a liaison between the clinical agency and school of nursing.

Competencies

• Knowledge of nursing care and community/public health and be able to relate these aspects to problem solving/critical thinking skill development in the student.
• Leadership qualities, be organized, able to deal appropriately with delicate situations, and able to effectively communicate and negotiate resolutions with faculty, students, and clinical site staff regarding problems in the community clinical setting.

Qualifications

• Must hold an active license as an R. N. in the State of Maryland.
• At least two years of clinical experience.
• Minimum BSN (MSN preferred).
• Knowledge and experience in Community Health Nursing content area.

Compensation

The compensation for Adjunct instructors teaching nursing clinical is paid an hourly rate of $59.00 depending on the clinical credits required for the course. A stipend will be paid for the orientation of new instructors. Hood College has provided a compensation amount representing its good faith estimate of what the College may pay for the position at the time of posting. The College may ultimately pay more or less than the posted compensation. This temporary position is not benefits-eligible except for participation in Hood’s Group Supplemental Retirement Annuity (GSRA) plan and paid Maryland sick leave.