Nursing Clinical Instructor

About Bellarmine University:

Bellarmine University is a dynamic, growing university with a strong liberal arts focus in the Catholic higher education tradition and a bold vision for the future. Bellarmine has undergraduate and graduate enrollment of approximately 3,200 students and continues to add new academic programs while maintaining small class sizes and personal attention to students. Bellarmine is listed in the Princeton Review's Best 387 Colleges and is recognized as a top U.S. university in rankings published by U.S. News & World Report and Forbes. In a survey by The Princeton Review, students praised Bellarmine as a place that is "welcoming to every single person and makes an effort to include everyone." Bellarmine students, faculty and staff engage in more than 25,000 cumulative hours of service each year, in Louisville and around the nation and world.

SmartAsset ranked Louisville among the top 25 U.S. cities for best work-life balance, while workplace insights platform kununu.com named Louisville one of the top five U.S. cities for happy employees. Glassdoor recently recognized Louisville as one of the top 15 cities for jobs, based on hiring opportunity, cost of living and job satisfaction. ZipRecruiter calls Louisville a top 10 city for job seekers, thanks in part to its central location and low unemployment. Louisville is within a day's drive of two-thirds of the U.S. population.

Deeply embedded in the heart of Louisville, Bellarmine is an engaged partner expanding learning opportunities, enhancing career networks and economic growth, and advancing equity and quality of life for its neighboring communities. By connecting the campus, the community, and the curriculum through engaged scholarship and action, we enhance social and civic engagement, including faculty, staff, and student-led, asset-based initiatives.

Bellarmine is committed to core values of diversity, equity, and inclusion. Bellarmine will demonstrate a fully realized and lived commitment to equity and inclusion, empowering all members of its increasingly diverse community and supporting them to achieve their full potential.

Bellarmine is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer and encourages applicants with diverse backgrounds to apply.

Job Description:

The Lansing School of Nursing and Laboratory Sciences is seeking a qualified clinical educator to provide experiential learning across the curriculum. These may include: Foundations of Nursing, Adult Medical-Surgical, Complex Health, Pediatrics, Women's Health, Psychiatric-Mental Health, and Community Health Nursing.

This is a regular, 12-month teaching assignment which may include weekends and/or evenings. In alignment with the University's commitment to equity and inclusion, we seek an individual dedicated to and invested in equity and inclusiveness.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Implements the nursing department's philosophy and curriculum through clinical teaching.
• Serves as a professional role model for nursing students and adjunct clinical instructors.
• Promotes student learning and skill attainment.
• Provides clinical instruction, supervision, and evaluation in the clinical learning environments.
• Maintains current knowledge related to agency/clinical policies, procedures, and expectations with the assistance of the agency/clinical personnel and attends all required orientations.
• Communicates with the agency clinical assignments consistent with nursing students' current knowledge base, skills competencies, and individual learning needs.
• Plans nursing students' clinical experiential learning according to course and clinical syllabi.
• Provides direct supervision of nursing students when in the clinical environment.
• Documents and provides formative and summative evaluation to nursing students according to course and clinical syllabi.
• Reviews nursing students' clinical work or other assignments as directed in a timely manner and in accordance with course and clinical syllabi.
• Communicates with course faculty regarding student concerns.
• Maintains professional standards of practice as a registered nurse and Bellarmine staff member including but not limited to licensure, training, certifications, and current health requirements.
• Follows policies and procedures as outlined in the Bellarmine University BSN Handbook.
• Communicates and collaborates effectively with course instructors/other faculty, and students including weekly reports.
• Maintains required office hours.
• Participates on assigned committees.
• Mentors new clinical instructors.
• Assists with Clinical Conferences (development, presentation, etc.)

Requirements:

• MSN strongly preferred; or BSN with completion of MSN within 12 months of hire.
• Current health records/immunizations; current CPR certification.
• 2 years of paid clinical teaching experience, not including precepting.
• Current license or eligibility to hold an unencumbered license to practice nursing in Kentucky and/or Indiana.

Additional Information:

Bellarmine University is committed to core values of diversity, equity and inclusion and embraces diversity in our workforce among members of faculty, staff and administration. We remain committed to affirmative actions, policies, procedures and attitudes necessary to continue to build and retain a diverse and equitable workforce. We will demonstrate a fully realized and lived commitment to equity and inclusion, empowering all members of our increasingly diverse community and supporting them to achieve their full potential. As part of Bellarmine's commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion, we will seek to ensure that all aspects of employment, including recruitment, selection, job assignment, training, compensation, benefits, discipline, promotion, layoff and termination processes remain free of discrimination based upon race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, creed, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, genetic information, disability, veteran status, or any other protected class.

Application Instructions:

Please submit a cover letter, resume and contact information for three professional references.

Bellarmine University strongly recommends all students, faculty, and staff stay up to date on their Covid-19 vaccination. For guidance on whether you are considered up to date on your vaccinations, please visit the CDC site .

URL: www.bellarmine.edu/health-professions/