Adjunct-Clinical Nursing

Nursing Clinical Adjunct Faculty

Position Accountable To: Program Coordinator, Clinical Coordinator

General Summary :

Supervise nursing students in the clinical area to assist with learning and ensure patient safety.

Primary Duties And Responsibilities

• Plan clinical learning experiences for nursing students to make maximum use of clinical time.
• Make clinical assignments for nursing students prior to client care experience.
• Be in clinical facility and available during assigned clinical time for supervision and/or counseling with nursing students.
• Cooperate with staff members and other employees of the clinical facilities.
• Support and comply with facility policies and procedures.
• Evaluate student performances in the clinical area. Discuss evaluations with students and return evaluation to student file. (Evaluation of student performance also includes evaluation nursing care plans and journals, returning to students in timely fashion.)
• Plan clinical pre- and post-conferences.
• Maintain clinical competency.
• Attend clinical facility orientation as required.
• Attend monthly clinical faculty meetings held by the Clinical Coordinator.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Education And Experience Qualifications :

• MSN preferred
• RN, MSN-in-Process within one year of graduation mandatory. Must complete or have already completed the Clinical Faculty Academy through the Missouri Hospital Association if not MSN.
• Current, never been disciplined, Missouri nursing license.
• Approval by the Missouri State Board of Nursing as a faculty member.

Motor PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:

Required The nursing clinical adjunct faculty member must possess sufficient motor capabilities to execute the movements and skills required to provide safe and effective nursing interventions. These skills include, but are not limited to:

• Coordination, speed, and agility to assist and safely guard (protect), with safe proper body mechanics, clients who are ambulating, transferring, or performing other activities.
• Ability to adjust and position equipment and clients, which involves bending or stooping freely to floor level and reaching above the head.
• Ability to move or position clients which involves lifting, carrying, pulling, and no weight lifting restrictions.
• Ability to guide, resist, and assist clients, or to provide emergency care, which involves the activities of standing, kneeling, sitting, or walking.
• Ability and dexterity to manipulate the devices used in giving nursing care.
• Ability to administer CPR without assistance.

Sensory OTHER SKILLS AND ABILITIES:

The Nursing Clinical Adjunct Faculty Member Must Possess The Ability To Obtain Information In Classroom, Laboratory Or Clinical Settings Through Observation, Auscultation, Palpation, And Other Measures, Including, But Not Limited To

• Visual ability (corrected as necessary) to recognize and interpret facial expressions and body language, identify normal and abnormal patterns of movement, to read or set parameters on various equipment, to discriminate color changes, and to interpret and assess the environment.
• Auditory ability (corrected as necessary) to recognize and respond to soft voices, auditory timers, equipment alarms, call bells, and to effectively use devices for measurement of blood pressure, breath sounds, etc.
• Tactile ability to palpate a pulse and detect changes or abnormalities of surface texture, skin temperature, body contour, muscle tone, and joint movement.
• Sufficient position, movement, and balance sensations to assist and safely guard (protect) clients who are ambulating, transferring, or performing other activities.

Communication The nursing clinical adjunct faculty member must be able to utilize effective communication with peers, students, clients and their families, and other healthcare pro iders. This includes, but is not limited to:

Ability to read at a competency level that allows one to safely carry out the essential functions of an assignment (examples: handwritten documentation, printed policy and procedure manuals, clinical guidelines and instructions, course syllabi).

Ability to effectively interpret and process information.

Ability to effectively communicate (verbally and in writing) with students, peers, clients/families, heal