Nursing faculty Jobs in Thornton, CO

Job Description

Regular, Full-Time Faculty - Assistant Professor

Faculty members perform a number of roles and functions, each of which reflects the core competencies of nursing faculty. Those competencies include the following :

• facilitate learning
• facilitate learner development and socialization
• use assessment and evaluation strategies,
• participate in curriculum design and program evaluation,
• function as a change agent and leader,
• pursue continuous quality improvement in the educator role,
• engage in scholarship, and
• function within the educational environment and within the community Denver College of Nursing serves. This position reports to the appropriate Program Director (i.e., ADN Program Director, BSN Program Director).

Competencies and Responsibilities

Faculty members are responsible for creating an environment in classroom, laboratory, and clinical settings that facilitates student learning and the achievement of desired cognitive, affective, and psychomotor outcomes.

Faculty members recognize his / her responsibility for helping students develop as nurses and integrate the values and behaviors expected of those who fulfill that role.

Faculty members use a variety of strategies to assess and evaluate student learning in laboratory and clinical settings, as well as in all domains of learning.

Faculty members are responsible for formulating program outcomes and designing curricula that reflect contemporary health care trends and prepare graduates to function effectively in the health care environment.

Faculty members function as change agents and leaders to create a preferred future for nursing education and nursing practice. Leadership may include mentoring or supervision of new and / or adjunct clinical faculty members.

Faculty members recognize that his / her role is multidimensional and that an ongoing commitment to develop and maintain competence in the role and to life-long learning is essential.

Faculty members acknowledge that scholarship is an integral component of the faculty role and that teaching itself is a scholarly activity.

Faculty members are knowledgeable about the educational environment within which he / she practices and recognizes how political, institutional, social, and economic forces impact his / her role.

These competencies and responsibilities are adapted from The Scope of Practice for Academic Nurse Educators (National League for Nursing, 2005).

Specific Responsibilities of Faculty

Faculty has the primary responsibility of teaching both classroom and clinical courses and providing guidance to the students. Additionally, faculty members are responsible for :

Qualifications :

The following are the qualifications for appointment as a faculty member :

Classification

Regular, full-time clinical faculty positions are exempt and salaried positions. Work hours may vary depending upon availability of clinical placements for students and class schedules. Evening and weekend hours may be required. Travel may be required to clinical agencies. Assignments are made on a quarterly basis and schedules may change on a quarterly basis or even within a quarter.

Physical Demands

To perform the essential competencies and responsibilities of the position, the faculty member is frequently required to : sit, bend, kneel, reach, stand for long periods, walk, talk, hear, and use hands and fingers to operate computers and / or audiovisual equipment. The faculty member may also occasionally be required to life, push, pull, carry, or support patients or materials up to 50 pounds in weight.