Specialist, Nursing Skills

About the role

The Health Learning Resource Lab (Nursing Skills) Specialist supports the preparation, coordination, and operational readiness of health sciences learning laboratories and clinical skills learning environments. This role applies nursing knowledge to prepare safe, realistic, and instructionally accurate skills-based learning experiences for nursing and allied health program students.

Please note: This position is a 40-hour-per-week, 44-week school-year position. It offers the stability of a consistent schedule with no evenings, weekends, or rotating shifts.

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.

Qualifications

• 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

Skills

• 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.

Benefits

Greater work-life balance with a consistent Monday–Friday, 1st shift schedule and no evenings, weekends, or rotating shifts.