Capstone Nursing Instructor

Description

Position Summary: Faculty members are responsible for the delivery of quality education services. This entails engaging students, fostering learning, role modeling professionalism, and ultimately producing competently trained students prepared for professional careers. This includes working with the Associate Director of Nursing over the assigned cohort, the Director of Nursing, and other campus faculty and staff to ensure consistent and high-quality delivery of assigned courses.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Prepare course plans and materials.
• Facilitate NCLEX review sessions and workshops focusing on test-taking strategies, critical thinking, and clinical judgment.
• Deliver course lectures/facilitate labs and/or clinical rotations.
• Provide guidance on test-taking strategies and critical thinking skills specific to the NextGen NCLEX exam
• Monitor equipment and supply needs.
• Maintain classroom.
• Stay current with NCLEX test plan updates, best practices in nursing education, and evidence-based teaching methods.
• Seek out an approved substitute in case of faculty member’s need for absence.
• Enforce HCI policies (attendance, dress code, clinical policies, etc.).
• Participate in orientation, graduation, and pinning ceremonies (full-time faculty required and part-time requested).
• Work on retention plans and program development.
• Attend staff and faculty meetings (full-time faculty required and part-time requested).
• Participate in committees and knowledge sharing forums (full-time faculty required and part-time requested).
• Facilitate student engagement.
• Direct and assess student progress in achieving theory (content: cognitive) and performance (competencies: psychomotor and
  affective) requirement of the program.
• Monitor student progress and follow‑up as needed.
• Provide weekly feedback reports to the ADON, DON, Senior Vice President of Academic Affairs (SVPAA), and Group Campus
  President/Chief Operating Officer (COO).
• Maintain any relevant licensures, certifications, and other required maintenance of paperwork for personnel file.
• Maintain a minimum of eight (8) hours of Continuing Education Units (CEU’s) annually by participating in professional development and
  in‑services (i.e., continuing education, professional activities, conference presentations, scholarly publications, etc.).
• Encourage students to submit course evaluations, review course evaluations when available, and use feedback to improve course
  delivery.
• Regular and reliable attendance.
• Participate in ACEN and other accreditation activities.
• Comply with all governmental regulations and standards of accreditation.
• Perform other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

Requirements

Skills and Qualifications:

• At HCI, faculty delivers courses that are part of standard academic programs. Faculty Members are responsible for ensuring a quality education for students in their course and programs. All faculty should, at a minimum, have the degree required for the specific discipline and have experience and appropriate credentials in their relevant area of academia according to the Florida Board of Nursing (FBON), ACEN, ACCSC, and other governing bodies. The Nurse Administrator should remember that, according to the FBON, 50% or more of the faculty must have a master’s or doctoral degree in Nursing.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills and analytical skills.
• Excellent teaching skill and ability to efficiently manage students’ clinical and skills lab activities.
• Computer literacy skills including functional knowledge of Microsoft Office applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, Outlook, etc.).
• Ability to manage people and projects.
• Knowledgeable in the course content.
• Effective in directing and evaluating student learning and lab performance.
• Prepared in Educational Theory and Techniques.
• A willingness to follow high ethical standards.

Education/Experience:

• Minimum of an earned Bachelor’s degree with a major in nursing (BSN or equivalent) from an accredited nursing program (Required)
• Master’s degre