Clinical Adjunct Faculty-Nursing

Summary

Oversees and supervises clinical or experiential education opportunities for students. Prepares and delivers relevant course content using a variety of teaching methods and assessments that support student learning. Ensures that students achieve and demonstrate mastery of stated learning objectives.

Essential Job Functions

• Teaches assigned clinical or experiential courses or component of accompanying didactic course(s) by supervising application of appropriate clinical or experiential course content to students, preparing course materials and lesson plans when required, and addressing students’ questions and/or concerns
• Provides and supervises clinical or experiential education opportunities for students that allow for the application of course objectives
• Communicates with students, clinical or experiential staff and internal program faculty and administration to provide feedback on student performance and maintain continuity of care for patients or clients
• Maintains accurate records of student attendance, academic achievement and performance in accordance with university and site policies and procedures
• Distributes to each student, in each course, a university approved syllabus that includes course objectives, texts, attendance policy and materials required for course and evaluation criteria
• Communicates early with any student in danger of failure or in need of individual counseling
• Refers students to appropriate university sources for information, guidance, financial assistance, career development, etc.
• Performs other duties as assigned

Required Qualification

• Minimum of a master’s degree in nursing from a regionally accredited institution of higher education
• Current license/multi-state license to practice as a registered nurse in North Carolina or ability to obtain such licensure by date of hire
• Two or more years clinical experience in adult health, pediatrics, maternal-newborn, mental health, and/or community/public health
• Ability and willingness to meet the following NC Board of Nursing Rules/Regulations:

21 NCAC 36 .0318 FACULTY

(c) Nurses licensed pursuant to this Chapter who are full-time and part-time faculty and who teach in a program leading to initial licensure as a nurse shall:

(1) hold an active unencumbered license or multistate licensure privilege to practice as a registered nurse in North Carolina;

(2) hold either a baccalaureate in nursing or a graduate degree in nursing from an accredited institution; (3) have two calendar years or the equivalent of full-time clinical experience as a registered nurse. Full-time registered nurse is a registered nurse employed by the institution who is regularly assigned to work at least 40 hours each week in the position of faculty member;

(4) if newly employed in a full-time faculty position on or after January 1, 2016, hold a graduate degree from an accredited institution or obtain a graduate degree in nursing from an accredited institution within five years of initial full-time employment;

(5) prior to or within the first three years of employment, have education in teaching and learning principles for adult education, including curriculum development, implementation, and evaluation, appropriate to faculty assignment. Once completed, this education need not be repeated if the employing organization is changed. This education may be demonstrated by one of the following:

(A) completion of 45 contact hours of Board-approved continuing education courses;

(B) completion of a certificate program in nursing education;

(C) nine semester hours of graduate course work in adult learning and learning principles;

(D) national certification in nursing education; or

(E) documentation of completion of structured, individualized development activities of at least 45 contact hours approved by the Board. Criteria for approval shall include content in the faculty role in the curriculum implementation, curricular objectives to be met and evaluated, review of strategies for identified student population, and expectations of student and faculty performance.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in nursing education

Please Note

Qualified candidates must live or relocate to live within a daily commuting distance of the Charlotte Campus location upon hire.

By applying to this posting, you are entering an applicant pool for adjunct faculty which will be hired on an as needed basis. As such, not everyone in the applicant pool for this position will be contacted and/or selected to teach.

Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis until job posting is closed.

Johnson & Wales University is an equal opportunity employer. The university does not illegally discriminate on the basis of any protected class. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, disability, ethnic and national origin, familial status, gender or gender identity, genetic information, military service, national origin, pregnancy and related conditions, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any other protected class.

For more information about this position you may contact Dana Mangum, Interim Nursing Program Director at Dana.Mangum@jwu.edu.