Nursing Skills Lab Specialist, RN

About the role

This role applies nursing knowledge to prepare safe, realistic, and instructionally accurate skills-based learning experiences for nursing and allied health program students. The position supports effective skills laboratory operations through the application of nursing knowledge, clinical practice standards, and patient-care workflows to ensure high-quality clinical education experiences that reflect current evidence-based healthcare practices.

Responsibilities

• Communicate regularly with program directors regarding skills activities, testing needs, required supplies, timelines, and laboratory preparation.
• Prepare and maintain clinically accurate skills labs and patient-care training environments, including hospital rooms, medication administration stations, and bedside treatment areas that reflect current healthcare practices.
• Ensure lab spaces, supplies, and equipment are clean, organized, safe, functional, and ready for student and faculty use.
• Prepare and label simulated medications and medication administration materials using nursing knowledge of medication routes, dosage, clinical terminology, and safe medication practices to ensure instructional accuracy.
• Verify simulated medications, IV solutions, syringes, vials, and related materials are clinically accurate, appropriately labeled, safely prepared, and consistent with current nursing practice.
• Identify and remove expired, damaged, unsafe, or clinically inaccurate supplies and equipment to maintain compliance with safe practice expectations and laboratory standards.
• Apply knowledge of nursing workflows, patient-care standards, infection prevention practices, and medication administration processes to support realistic learning environments.
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders to ensure skills activities, medication preparation, equipment usage, and patient-care environments accurately reflect current nursing and evidence-based healthcare practices.
• Maintain inventory and organization of supplies, equipment, and clinical resources required for skills-based learning activities.
• Monitor supply levels; receive, label, organize, store, restock, and track equipment and materials to support efficient laboratory operations and resource planning.
• Coordinate equipment and resource checkout, return, and storage processes.
• Clean, maintain, inspect, refill, and prepare clinical skills equipment, including IV arms, IV bags, medication carts, and related training resources, ensuring equipment remains functional, current, and ready for use.
• Identify supply and equipment needs and communicate purchasing recommendations to the supervisor.
• Assist in evaluating supplies, equipment, and lab resources to support current healthcare practices and instructional needs.
• Provide responsive operational and laboratory support to faculty before, during, and after scheduled skills activities and testing.
• Support faculty and students in accessing laboratory supplies, equipment, and instructional resources.
• Maintain professional communication and collaborative working relationships with faculty, staff, students, and external partners.
• Participate in tours, recruitment activities, K-12 events, Summer Camps, and other outreach activities as assigned.
• Cross-train to the Simulation Technology Specialist role.
• Support departmental operations and perform additional related duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Associate's Degree (or Equivalent)
• 2 years of experience
• Current unencumbered Registered Nurse (RN) license in the State of Wisconsin
• Minimum one year of recent acute care clinical nursing experience

Knowledge, Skills and Ability

• Language Skills: Ability to read, write and comprehend instructions, reports and emails; speak and may present information to groups.
• Math Skills: Ability to perform and work complex calculations, make comparisons, interpret and provide logical explanations to others.
• Reasoning Ability: Ability to critically think and solve problems involving a variety of concrete variables with limited standardization; interpret written, oral and diagrammed instructions.
• Technical Skills: Ability to manage and track document changes; create, modify and format templates and files; ability to use multiple computer screens and multitask in several computer applications.
• Customer Service Skills: Ability to actively listen, discern key information, and respond professionally; ask follow up or clarifying questions to diffuse escalated situations and offer appropriate problem resolution when necessary.
• Demonstrated knowledge of medication administration, bedside nursing care, infection prevention, and clinical equipment used in contemporary healthcare environments.
• Ability to learn quickly in a fast-paced environment with ability to multi-task.
• Ability to work independently and be self-motivated.
• Ability to organize, schedule, and prioritize work based on scheduled activities.
• Hold a valid Wisconsin driver’s license upon employment with the ability to meet NTC’s insurance carrier’s criteria.

Physical Requirements

• Carrying/Lifting: 10–25 lbs: High; 25–50 lbs: Medium; >50 lbs: Low
• Sitting: Low
• Standing/Walking/Climbing: High
• Squatting/Crouching/Kneeling/Bending: Medium
• Repetitive Hand/Foot Movement: Low
• Pushing/Pulling/Reaching Above Shoulder: Medium
• Indoor/Office Work Environment: High
• Specific Vision: High
• Hearing: High
• Smell Requirement: Medium