Adjunct RN Med Surg Clinical Instructor

Success Education Colleges (SEC) is a family of institutions comprised of Marsha Fuerst School of Nursing, North-West College, Glendale Career College and Nevada Career Institute. SEC is a leader in allied health education, and has been offering quality and affordable health care training programs for over 58 years. Our Colleges mission is to prepare students in short term programs for gainful employment. To accomplish this, we provide a professional faculty, well-qualified administrators, and a top-notch support staff.

Marsha Fuerst School of Nursing has received approval by the Board of Registered Nurses (BRN) and has recently introduced an Associate of Arts degree in Nursing at the campus

Job Title: Med-Surg RN Clinical Instructor

Job Type: Part-Time – 12 hours of instruction/week + 3 hours prep time/week

Reports To: Dean of Nursing

Position Summary:

Marsha Fuerst School of Nursing is seeking an experienced and dedicated Medical-Surgical Registered Nurse Clinical Instructor to join our nursing education team. The Clinical Instructor will oversee the clinical education and performance of nursing students within medical-surgical units. This role focuses on developing clinical competence, promoting evidence-based practice, and fostering professional growth in a dynamic, acute care environment.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide direct supervision, instruction, and evaluation of nursing students or clinical staff during clinical rotations or orientation on Med-Surg units.
• Design and implement individualized learning plans and clinical objectives aligned with institutional goals and nursing education standards.
• Serve as a clinical resource and mentor for staff in the areas of assessment, care planning, patient education, medication administration, and documentation.
• Coordinate with nursing leaders and academic partners to ensure effective and compliant clinical education experiences.
• Facilitate skill labs, clinical simulations, and competency evaluations as part of staff onboarding and continuing education.
• Maintain detailed records of student progress, clinical hours, evaluations, and remediation as needed.
• Support quality and safety initiatives by modeling best practices in patient care, infection control, and documentation.
• Participate in curriculum development, clinical site evaluation, and interdisciplinary collaboration to enhance nursing practice.

This position requires a Board of Register Nursing faculty approval in the state of California, which must be processed by the applicant. Please inquire with our team for guidance on how to do this.

Responsibilities Includes:

1. Direct Patient Care

• Serves as a reliable source of information on the latest evidence supporting cost-effect, safe nursing practices.
• Collaborates with the multidisciplinary team using the nursing process to integrate the nursing perspective in to a comprehensive plan of care for the patience/family.
• Identifies and prioritizes nursing care needs for a select population of patients/families.
• Conducts comprehensive, holistic wellness and illness assessments using established or innovative evidence-based techniques, tools, and methods.
• Initiates and plans care conferences or programs for individual patients or populations of patients.
• Designs and evaluates innovative educational programs for patients, families, and groups.
• Identifies, collects and analyzes data that serve as a bias for program design and outcome measurement.
• Establishes methods to evaluate and document nursing interventions.
• Evaluates the impact of nursing interventions on fiscal and human resources.

2. Nursing/Nursing Practices

• Collaborates with others to resolve issues related to patience care, communication, policies, and resources.
• Creates and revises nursing policies, protocols and procedures using evident-based information to achieve outcomes for indicators that are nurse-sensitive.
• Identifies facilitators and addresses barriers that affect patient outcomes.
• Leads clinical practice and quality improvement initiatives for a unit or a program.
• Collaborates with nurses to develop and practice environments that support shared decision-making.
• Assists the staff in developing critical thinking and clinical judgment.
• Creates a nursing care environment that stimulates continuous self-learning, reflective practice, feeling of ownership and demonstration of reasonability and accountability.
• Collaborates with Educational Nurse Specialist and others on content and operational design of orientation, clinical competency, and other clinical education program development.
• Mentors nurses to acquire new skills, develop their careers and effectively incorporate evidence into practice.
• Provides input for staff evaluation
• Provides formal and informal education for nurses and other health professionals and health professional students.
• Leads in the conduct and utilization of nursing research.

3. Evaluation of Clinicals Practice

• Conducts random audits for new/changed behavior in students following educational programs/activities.
• Conducts random audits of patients' charts and observes staff activity to assess impact on patient care of recent education interventions.

4. Interpersonal Skills

• Consistently offers direction and assistance to others in a courteous manner.
• Responds to complaints/inquiries by listening attentively and demonstrating concern. Follow up- up on identified concerns appropriately.
• Conveys caring by both verbal and non-verbal communication, eye contact, and appropriate use of touch.
• Plans remedial learning activities for employees who may require it.
• Consistently documents and reports results of education activities to participants'' managers and to Education Department.

5. Coaching

• Observes student performance to assess skills which are necessary to meet patient care standards.
• Assists students in identifying their own learning needs via individual consultation or by group process, e.g., in staff or committee meetings.
• Addresses the professional educational needs of student nurse and other healthcare providers by completing needs assessments, developing staff growth and continuing education activities and mentors nurses to translate research into practice.
• Uses Coaching and advanced communication skills to facilitate the development of effective clinical terms.
• Disseminates expert knowledge.

6. Collaboration

• Collaborates consistently with appropriate members of the multidisciplinary team to facilitate delivery of education programs/activates.
• Assesses the quality and effectiveness of interdisciplinary, inter-agency and intra-agency communication and collaboration.
• Establishes collaborative relationships within and across departments that promote patient safety, culturally competent care, and clinical excellence.
• Provides leadership for establishing, improving, and sustaining collaborative relationships to meet clinical needs.
• Uses cost effective educational methods appropriate to the work environment, e.g., independent, self-paced learning tools; short, high-impact learning activities responsive to immediate (job-related) learning needs; action planning for when the employee returns to work.

7. Consultation

• Performs and documents needs assessments, stating criteria utilized and outcome of assessment.
• Meets regularly with mangers in specialty areas to discuss department needs for specialized patients and the skills required to care for them.
• Regularly reviews data that may reveal learning needs, e.g., shifts report, QA report, and documentation.
• Differentiate between outcomes that require care process modification at the individual patience level and those that require medication at the system level.
• Assists staff in the development of innovative, cost effective programs or protocols of care.

8. Research

• Critically analyzes research findings for their potential to clinical practice. Applies principles of evidenced-based practice and quality improvement to all patient care.
• Applies principles of evidenced-based practice and quality improvements to all patient care.
• In collaboration with the members of the Nursing Department, they assess system barriers and facilitator to adoption of evidenced-based practices.
• In partnership with the department managers, actively mentors staff on principals /fundamentals of research studies.
• Promotes initiates nursing publication.
• Actively participates and coaches nursing research staff on councils.

9. Organization/Systems Leadership

• Consults with other units and health care professionals to improve care.
• Under the coordination of the Lead Instructor enhances the clinical practice of student nurses and improve patient outcomes. Develops pilots, evaluates, and incorporates innovative models of practice across the continuum of care.
• Designs and evaluates programs and initiatives that are congruent with the organization's strategic plans, regulatory agency requirements, and nursing standards.
• Participates in need identification, selection and evaluation of products and equipment
• Advances nursing practice through participation in professional organizations, publications and presentations

10. Professional Conduct

• Maintains professional licensure, certification, or registration as required.
• Unscheduled absences and tardiness do not exceed the organization guidelines as outlined in the attendance policy; provides notification within time frames utilizing appropriate reporting mechanisms.
• Observes dress code and grooming standards, and consistently wears ID badge.

11. Safety in the Environment of Care

• Participate in mock safety events/drills. Promote mock codes and competency opportunities.
• Accurately discusses fire, disaster and other code responses.
• Initiates and/or takes action to ensure a clean, safe work environment.
• Participates, identifies opportunities, and assists with hospitals safety programs as scheduled.
• Articulates how to access and use Material Safety Data Sheets.
• Demonstrates understanding of infection control policies and procedures.

12. Management of Information

• Maintains confidentiality of patient and organizational information, including oral, written, and electronic communication. Safeguard passwords, security codes, and other system access codes.
• Accesses, uses and/or disclose patient information following the different hospital policies and procedures on a "need to know" basis only.
• Accesses, uses and/or disclose the minimum information necessary to perform designated role.
• Seeks and utilizes data and information in decision-making.
• Appropriately and effectively utilizes organizations'' computer systems.

13. Risk Management

• Identifies and communicates all potential and actual risk management occurrences to supervisors and documents occurrences on appropriate form(s).
• Takes responsibility for identifying and assisting in the investigation and resolution of adverse occurrences.

Lab Instruction:

The instructor will oversee and facilitate laboratory sessions for students in the lab. This role involves providing hands-on instruction, ensuring safety protocols are followed, and fostering a supportive learning environment that encourages student engagement and inquiry.

Qualifications

• Current license as a Registered Nurse to practice in the state of California.
• BLS required. ACLS & PALS as required by the nursing staff specific to the unit of support.
• Certification in area of clinical specialty preferred.
• Bachelors or Master's Degree in Nursing for Instructor level with a clinical focus that includes advanced education composed of didactic and supervised clinical practice in a specific area of advanced practice registered nursing.
• Bachelor's degree or higher in nursing or related area for assistant instructor level or clinical teaching assistant level.
• Two years of successful work experience in nursing with two years in specialty preferred. Must have demonstrated leadership skills and able to adjust schedule to meet patient and staff needs.
• Clinical knowledge in specialty area. If hired in area with a substantial different clinical knowledge set, the candidate will be expected to demonstrate clinical expertise in the practice are with 6 months to a 1- year time frame.
• Demonstrated skills at the level of advanced practice nurse in area of practice
• Demonstrated ability at the level of an advanced practice nurse to utilize evidence to develop, teach, guide, and implement practice standards and polices.
• Proven problem solving and critical thinking skills.
• Able to articulate and demonstrate nursing theory and practice.
• Ability to speak, read, and write fluent English.
• Strong customer service skills
• Ability to work with others as a team to ensure quality patient care.
• Computer skills
• Able to work with a minimum of supervision
• $50 for Bachelors
• $55 for Masters

Success Education Colleges is an Equal Opportunity Employer. In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, SEC will provide reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities and encourages both prospective and current employees to discuss potential accommodations with the employer