Position Title
Nursing Instructor
Benefits
Health, dental, vision, life, short-term and long-term disability insurance, flexible spending and dependent care accounts, health savings accounts, Michigan Public School Employees Retirement Systems or TIAA 401(a) 13% employer contribution, TIAA 403(b), sick and personal leave time, paid holidays, YMCA membership, Wellness Program, tuition reimbursement and professional development support.
Campus Location
Iron Mountain
Full-time/Part-time
Full-Time
Job Summary/Basic Function
The primary responsibility is the instruction of practical and/or associate degree nursing students in theory, lab, and clinical settings, which requires teaching a combination of courses related to pharmacology, fundamentals, geriatrics, and medical-surgical nursing. In addition the faculty member has various responsibilities related to professional development, curriculum development, student advising and success; as well as activities that support the College and nursing division’s operational success.
Minimum Qualifications
- Master’s Degree in Nursing
- Current Michigan Registered Nursing licensure or eligibility for Michigan licensure
- Two years’ full-time successful work experience in registered nursing
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Demonstrated skill in effective written and oral communications
- Ability to assist nursing students in clinic with the delivery of patient care
- Clinical competency in two areas of nursing
- Computer literacy and the ability to provide communication and/or instruction through alternative classroom platforms
- Commitment to quality instruction in a learner-centered environment
- Commitment to the community college philosophy, and to practical and associate
degree nursing
- Basic life support certification
- Commitment to the nursing philosophy as accepted by National League of Nursing
Accreditation
- Commitment to the community college philosophy, and to practical and associate
degree nursing.
Preferred Qualifications
- Clinical competence in several areas of nursing, such as, medical-surgical, obstetrics, pediatrics, community health, home nursing, or geriatrics.
- Post-secondary teaching experience, especially teaching practical and associate degree nursing
students.
- Successful experience working with at-risk students.
- Familiarity with active and collaborative learning strategies, teaching of critical thinking and critical literacy skills.
- Willingness to learn and implement new teaching strategies related to active learning.
- Willingness and ability to travel to placement sites.
- Flexibility and creativity in relationship to the changing role of nurses today.
- Willingness to travel to attend meetings.
Work Schedule
Dependent upon course schedule
Supervision Received
Works under the general supervision of the Dean of Allied Health
Work Environment
Work environment characteristics described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is exposed to weather conditions prevalent at the time. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate, but may be loud in areas of equipment operation.
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by personnel assigned into this classification. They are not to be construed as an exhaustive list of all job duties performed by personnel so classified. Job related functions may be performed with or without accommodations.
Physical Demands
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools or controls; reach with hands and arms; climb stairs; balance; stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl; talk or hear; taste or smell. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus
Travel requirement
Occasional travel to the Escanaba campus