Assistant Clinical Instructor/Nursing Instructor (PART-TIME) UPMC Mercy School of Nursing

About the role

UPMC Mercy School of Nursing is hiring a part-time Assistant Clinical Instructor/Nursing Instructor. This position serves as a way to get your foot in the door with our schools and offer flexible scheduling.

Responsibilities

• Initiates opportunities to maintain the mission and values of the parent organization.
• Serves as a role model for communication with other health care team members to enhance and influence nursing within the organization.
• Incorporates the values of trust, respect, collegiality, professionalism and caring to build an organizational climate that fosters the development of the student and other faculty.
• Develops strategies to incorporate principles of dignity and respect in meeting the diverse learning needs of students in both the classroom and clinical practice area.
• Works productively and effectively within a complex educational environment.
• Resolves and manages conflict effectively and in a timely manner.
• Coaches students on cultural diversity and civility in the educational environment.
• Creates an environment which recognizes and values differences in peers, patients, families and communities.
• Maintains active membership in professional nursing organizations.
• Engages in educational activities that promote ones professional growth in the role of a nurse educator.
• Utilizes feedback gained from self, peer and student evaluations to improve role effectiveness.
• Sets and participates in school committees.
• Maintains professional practice knowledge base through continuing education programs and conferences.
• Provides resources and coaching to diverse learners to assist them in meeting their individual needs.
• Maintains positive, caring relationships with students, faculty, management, patients/families and all other members of the health care team.
• Utilizes critical thinking skills to lead students in the application of the nursing process in the classroom and in the clinical area.
• Demonstrates clinical judgment with critical thinking, analytical and problem solving abilities required as related to various aspects of the teaching-learning process.
• Instructs and evaluates multiple students and creates meaningful learning assignments both in the classroom and in the clinical area.
• Demonstrates mastery of course content and clinical competence.
• Contributes in the development of school policies.
• Utilizes teaching strategies grounded in educational theory and evidence based teaching practice.
• Provides quality classroom and clinical instruction to groups of nursing students.
• Uses personal attributes in facilitating student learning.
• Recognizes the influence of teaching styles and interpersonal interactions on learner outcomes.
• Creates opportunities for learners to develop critical thinking and clinical reasoning skills.
• Utilizes current literature to design evidence based teaching strategies in classroom and clinical settings.
• Participates in quality improvement projects and/or scholarly work.
• Shares learning from outcomes with other faculty and schools of nursing.
• Participates in the Systematic Program Evaluation Process.
• Utilizes assessment and evaluation data to improve student performance.
• Promotes creative and innovative teaching learning strategies in the classroom and during the clinical experience.
• Participates in strategy development for educational changes at UPMC Schools of Nursing.
• Utilizes leadership skills to shape and implement change across all the schools of nursing.
• Demonstrates a commitment to nursing, the school and the program goals.
• Serves as a professional role model for students in the classroom and in the clinical area.
• Demonstrates leadership abilities in working with multiple faculty and students in the educational environment.
• Serves as co-chair of school committees as assigned.

Qualifications

• 3 years of clinical practice required
• BSN required with enrollment in MSN program with a 3 year completion plan for Assistant Clinical Instructor level
• MSN required for Nursing Instructor level
• Precepting experience required; clinical teaching experience in prelicensure program preferred
• Previous teaching experience preferred.
• Certified Nurse Educator certification preferred.