Nursing Instructor

Mountain Gateway Community College (MGCC) is a two-year public institution of higher education and one of 23 community colleges in Virginia. The college is supported by the Commonwealth of Virginia; the counties of Alleghany, Bath, Botetourt (northern portion) and Rockbridge; the cities of Buena Vista, Covington, and Lexington; and the town of Clifton Forge. MGCC provides opportunities for the extension of knowledge, skills and personal enrichment in an environment that maintains high academic standards and respect for each individual. The college strives to keep programs and services financially and geographically accessible for all students. Credit and non-credit courses are offered to meet life-long learning needs. On-site and distance learning options incorporate up-to-date technologies.
Mountain Gateway Community College is hiring a full-time (nine-month) faculty to serve as a teaching faculty member for the Associate Degree in Nursing Program located on the Main campus.
Responsibilities and Duties include:

• Provide classroom instruction as assigned for courses;
• Develop, implement, and evaluate the philosophy and objectives of the nursing education program;
• Design, implement, teach, evaluate, and revise the curriculum along with the Nursing Program Head;
• Conduct student conferences pertaining to classes as needed;
• Submit student grades and other information required for the Student Information System per established deadlines;
• Serve on standing committees as needed;
• Maintain course outlines and curriculum for all courses;
• Support the growth of the College through both formal and informal student recruitment and retention activities;
• Enforce student compliance with written policies governing nursing practice in the hospital and all other clinical facilities;
• Participating in evaluating new equipment, teaching materials, and teaching strategies that can be used to improve the learning potential of the MGCC students and/or participants.

• Confer with the Program Head regarding the clinical rotation plan, assigned clinical agencies, and assigned group of students;
• Attend an orientation session at each clinical facility with the group of assigned students;
• Select patient assignments and learning experiences according to classroom instruction and the student’s needs and give them to the student the day prior to the clinical experience;
• Review the clinical objectives with the student;
• Conduct pre and post-clinical conferences;
• Assist students in the integration and reinforcement of learning by relating knowledge and skills of nursing to the learning experiences of the clinical setting;
• Provide supervision and guidance for the student using components of the nursing process with the assigned patient;
• Review, correct, and comment on care plans and other written assignments required for clinical experience and return to the student by the following week;
• Evaluate and record student progress and confer at the end of each rotation in terms of strengths and areas where improvement is needed;
• Establish and maintain a cooperative relationship with staff and personnel of clinical agencies;
• Report to Program Head any student problems/concerns that may occur in the clinical setting;
• Maintain a record of student absences from clinical and report to the Coordinator;
• Additional duties as assigned.

May be required to perform other duties as assigned. May be required to assist the agency or state government generally in the event of an emergency declaration by the Governor.

The selected candidate’s offer is contingent upon the successful completion of a criminal background investigation, which may include: fingerprint checks, local agency checks, employment verification, verification of education, credit checks (relevant to employment). Additionally, selected candidates may be required to complete the Commonwealth’s Statement of Economic Interest. For more information, please follow this link:  http://ethics.dls.virginia.gov/

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