Simulation and Skills Lab Education Coordinator - Nursing

About the role

As an associate for a certified Great Place to Work, you will join a collaborative, student-centric culture valuing academic integrity, mutual respect, student learning, service, responsiveness, innovation, diversity, and stewardship. As a part of this team, you will guide students to do more than change their own lives – you will help change the lives of every patient they care for throughout their career. At American Career College, you will have the opportunity to share your expertise and passion with the next generation of nurses.

Responsibilities

• Act as a liaison with the faculty and students in providing Simulation, Skills, and Science lab services to fulfill the nursing curriculum's needs.
• Coordinate the use of the Simulation lab to assist the nursing students in critical thinking and applying theory to clinical.
• Update and maintain the simulation, skills, and science labs.
• Develop and implement plans, policies, and procedures for the labs.
• Maintain the appropriate inventory for the nursing laboratories and schedule lab practice.
• Assist science faculty in preparing for lab sessions to ensure necessary supplies are available.

Requirements

• Minimum of two (2) years of practical experience as a licensed nurse.
• Ability to build clinical simulation scenarios for teaching purposes using pertinent patient medical history.
• Knowledge of equipment and the latest nursing technology.
• Ability to work independently with general supervision.
• Ability to effectively operate related equipment and machines for instructional purposes.

Qualifications

• Hold a master's degree or doctoral degree, preferably in nursing; a nurse faculty member holding a master's degree or doctoral degree in a discipline other than nursing shall hold a bachelor's degree in nursing from an approved or accredited baccalaureate program in nursing; and if teaching in a diploma or associate degree program, shall have at least six (6) graduate semester hours in nursing appropriate to assigned teaching responsibilities.

Licenses/Certifications

• A current Texas Registered Nurse License is required.
• Current CPR card.