Adjunct RN (Health Policy) Theory Instructor - Marsha Fuerst School of Nursing - Glendale

Job Details

Job Location
MFSON-GCC - Glendale, CA

Salary Range
$55.00 - $60.00 Hourly

Description

Success Education Colleges (SEC) is a family of institutions comprised of Marsha Fuerst School of Nursing, North-West College, Glendale Career College, 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 everyday mission is to educate students in short-term and professional programs for gainful employment and career advancement.

Careers Site: https://www.success.edu/careers-with-sec/

It is the belief of the faculty of the Nursing Department at Marsha Fuerst School of Nursing that each member should have defined responsibilities and that the Nursing Department accepts the responsibility of supporting its members in the achievement of both departmental and individual professional goals.

All faculty must follow the Department of Nursing Faculty Handbook of Glendale Career College and the College Handbook.

Faculty mustmeet the Board of Registered Nursing (BRN)requirements andbe approved by the BRN.

Integrating Philosophy and Theory into the curriculum:

Jean Watson's Theory of Caring

• In hiring, we ask prospective faculty candidates to describe a caring moment from their past.
• Candidates are then required to share stories from professional practice that demonstrate their positive influence on patient outcomes and describe Carative Factors exemplified in their stories.
• We ask faculty to explain how nursing is both a holistic model as well as a disease-focused-medical-model.
• The faculty is asked to describe how the science of human caring influences a patients feeling about his or her current situation and how they heal.
• Looks at caring from an individual perspective.

Quality Safety Education for Nurses QSEN

• Faculty need to understand how to integrate QSEN throughout their nursing courses and curriculum.
• Systematic in the way we provide care in a meaningful way.
• Faculty are required to integrate QSEN into nursing education because it focuses its attention on the system learning for the student in a clinical situation.
• Faculty will be responsible to join discussion groups that explore Watson's caring theory to their own work and/or to discuss Carative Factors in their individual classes.

• Faculty will serve as catalysts that will help students integrate Watson's Nursing Theory and Ten Carative Factors into their Faculty need to be visionaries that will force this new theoretical concept.
• Faculty will institute QSEN throughout their course to emphasize a culture of safety throughout the program from Beginning through Advanced Level Courses.
• The faculty will integrate QSEN into their individual courses in the following areas:
• Patient centered care
• Teamwork and collaboration
• Evidence based practice
• Safety
• Quality improvement
• Informatics
• Faculty will teach nurses not to just view themselves by what they are individually doing for a patient they must learn that healthcare organizations and systems are characterized by complex multi-levels and multi-functional systems.
• Faculty can broaden the students learning by not only focusing on personal effort in a single situation but to bring the students understanding to focus on a sequence of events with possible multiple causes for both individuals and populations.

The Nursing Process

• It is an expectation that the nursing process be used throughout the nursing curriculum and in each individual course.

General Duties andResponsibilities:

Consistently and correctlyintegrate the Watson and QSEN Model into theoretical settings and professional encounters.

Apply knowledge derivedfrom nursing science, natural/social science, humanities, liberal arts and other disciplines when preparing and presenting theoretical content.

Formulate a broad knowledge base in the subject area to be taught by searching the literature and seeking available resources pertaining to the content area.

Prepares formal and informal reports as required for Systematic Program Evaluation governing institution, and governmental and accrediting agencies.

Holds students accountable for the acquired competency in their performance, and assists students in re-mediation to acquire and maintain competence.

Motivates students through instructional and counseling activities toward high levels of contribution to the discipline. Conducts conferences with students concerning academic and clinical competence and progress.

Develop and reviseprogramsyllabiaccordingtodepartment curriculum designprotocol.

Submit syllabi changes for departmental review and approval.

Select textbooks to meet course objectives.

Select learning experiencesto optimize studentachievement ofcourse objectives.

Interpretlearningobjectives toclinicalagency personnel.

Coordinate student learning activities within the agency.

Perform studenttheoreticalperformancegrading.

Maintain accurate evaluation records for each course.

Schedule andholdoffice hours on a regular basis as required in the College Faculty Handbook.

Utilize principles of communication and group process when interacting with students, peers,and groups.

Contribute to department and college activitiesto ensureachievement of the College mission and department goals.

Attend College faculty convocations and assemblieson a regular basis.

Actively participate indepartmentand College committeesand meetings.

Participate in the program development, including development, implementation,and evaluation ofthe department'spolicies and curriculum.

Serveas a professional advocate through representation in professional groups and organizations.

Professionally representthe Department/Collegeto outside agencies,health carefacilities,andthecommunity.

Pursue academic and professionalcontinuingeducational experiences.

Participate in peer review.

SpecificLevels of Faculty as required

A content expert shall be an Instructor and shall have:

Instructor:an approved instructor with a PhD prepared and teaches theoryand coordinates the designated nursing area intheory settings.