Simulation Center Coordinator - School of Nursing

Job Requisition ID R00052988 | Full time | Day shift | Hourly pay class

Job Summary

Supports daily operations, provides academic support, maintains simulation laboratories, human simulators and equipment, and manages supplies of the simulation center. Contributes to simulation-based teaching activities and collaborates with faculty and staff.

Education & Experience

• Associate's degree
• Two (2) years of clinical experience
• Working knowledge of medical and AV technology preferred
• Acute Care Experience preferred
• Teaching experience preferred

Responsibilities

• Maintains a professional, safe and confidential learning environment.
• Orients new students and faculty to the simulation center; assists faculty with practical application of the basic assumptions and concepts in simulation.
• Provides technical and simulation operations support for faculty and staff in preparation for, during and after the conduct of simulation sessions to optimize the learning experience.
• Performs pre-simulation activities:
  • Sets up simulation laboratories and runs diagnostics on equipment using checklists.
  • Prepares scenario props; assists in creating documentation for scenarios.
  • Sets up control room for simulation activity by initiating simulation software, digital audiovisual hardware and software systems.
• Contributes to high fidelity simulation:
  • Orients students, staff and faculty to the simulation environment and equipment.
  • Operates and manipulates, via computer program, the computerized, interactive, life-sized manikins that are programmed to provide realistic patient responses and outcomes.
  • Follows direction of instructors and quickly manipulates simulator software during scenarios using pre-programmed steps to simulate real life responses such as initiate patient decline or improvement based on scenario flow or student actions.
  • Provides audio for patient manikin as "voice of the patient."
  • Provides theatrical support by playing amateur and health care professional roles during simulation scenarios.
  • Assists faculty in observing students; operates audio and video equipment to record simulation sessions; performs troubleshooting.
• Contributes to instruction of psychomotor skills in phlebotomy, Peripheral IV placement and other procedures using low fidelity simulators.
• Performs post simulation activities:
  • Operates audio and video equipment for debriefing.
  • Administers student evaluations of the simulation center experience; provides technical evaluation of simulation experience; recommendations for simulation improvement.
  • Cleans up laboratories using checklists.
• Performs equipment checks and replenishes supplies.
• Performs regular operational checks and cleanings of equipment, oversees scheduled maintenance of equipment per manufacturer recommendations to proactively maintain equipment.
• Ensures simulation technology and equipment is kept secure and safe; troubleshoots equipment failures following user manual or manufacturer's written instructions and consult with technical support as necessary and determines the need for vendor repair; maintains an understanding and utilizes as appropriate the vendor contract and equipment warranties.
• Assesses simulation center supply needs. Maintains the process for inventory of supplies and procedures to prompt reordering, organizes storage of supplies; tracks usage of supply inventory, maintains inventory and seeks ways to minimize costs; researches materials / equipment / supply alternatives for simulation center.
• Performs academic support duties:
  • Maintains training attendance record, confidentiality agreements and opinion surveys.
  • Transcribes hand-written comments.
  • Assists with setup and administration of exams.
  • Assists with entering exam questions into electronic learning software, keying and grading of multiple choice question.
  • Copies handouts and exams, proctors written exams given to trainees in the simulation environment.
• Maintains simulation documentation by maintaining and enforcing documented simulation center policies and procedures; manages documentation and secure, confidential storage of digital media.
• Participates in community outreach programs and marketing; contributes to conducting tours of the simulation center; documents history of simulation center.

Skills & Abilities

• Excellent communication skills
• Intermediate level of computer skills (word processing and spreadsheets handling)
• Excellent deductive reasoning
• Great attention to detail, excellent organization skills
• Lives up to the highest levels of professionalism
• Able to constantly update skills to increased/changed demands
• Committed to facilitating experiential learning of trainees
• Maintains a safe and confidential learning environment for all participants
• Patient in all communications, has a positive and even keeled attitude, erudite, projects excellent image of the simulation center

Physical and Environmental Demands

• Occasional handling or working with potentially dangerous equipment
• Occasional working hours significantly beyond regularly scheduled hours
• Constant activities subject to significant volume changes of a seasonal/clinical nature
• Constant work produced subject to precise measures of quantity and quality
• Occasional bending, occasional lifting and carrying more than 100 pounds, occasional climbing, occasional crawling, occasional crouching/stooping, occasional kneeling, occasional pushing/pulling
• Frequent reaching, frequent sitting, frequent standing, occasional twisting, and frequent walking

(occasional-up to 20%, frequent-from 21% to 50%, constant-51% or more)

Benefits

Eligible for benefits