National University·San Diego, California
The Nursing Lab Instructor facilitates hands-on learning activities, supervises skills lab sessions, and provides real-time formative feedback to nursing students. They are also responsible for maintaining lab equipment, supporting simulation scenarios, and ensuring adherence to safety and regulatory standards.
Hourly: $27.85 - $36.20
National University’s School of Health Professions, Part-Time Nursing Lab Instructor provides a safe, structured, and controlled environment in which students can develop and practice essential nursing skills prior to delivering care to live patients. These experiential learning opportunities promote critical thinking, clinical judgement, psychomotor skill development, and professional communication while reinforcing theoretical concepts introduced in didactic coursework. The Nursing Lab Instructor plays a key role in facilitating hands-on learning activities that allow students to understand, perform, and progressively refine professional nursing competencies appropriate to their level within the program. Responsibilities include supervising skills lab sessions, assisting with simulation implementation, providing real-time formative feedback, supporting skills validation and remediation, and ensuring adherence to safety and regulatory standards. This role offers an opportunity to directly impact student readiness for clinical practice while contributing to a collaborative academic environment focused on excellence in nursing education. Essential Functions: Instructing and evaluating foundational nursing skills in the skills lab. Facilitating and participating as standardized patients in simulation scenarios. Supporting simulation setup and debriefing as needed. Maintaining skills lab equipment and learning environment. Reinforcing competency-based skill development and safety practices. Aligning teaching to approved content to help prepare the student to be practice ready. Provides instruction and remedial clinical lab and simulation activities. Assists students in all clinical lab and simulation activities. Prepares equipment, supplies and physical set-up and break-down for clinical lab and simulation activities with students. Schedules and maintains open-lab hours for nursing students at the direction of the Senior Manager, Clinical Skills Lab. Assists the Senior Manager, Clinical Skills Lab in conducting the inventory of laboratory equipment and supplies and assisting with the quality control of inventoried items. Assists the Senior Manager, Clinical Skills Lab in identifying equipment needs, new and/or replacement, and supplies needed for students. Maintains standards of operation and implementation of all clinical lab skills and simulation activities as outlined for each activity. Promotes a learning environment that is non-discriminatory and that provides equity for all students. Attend program meetings as required. Supervisory Responsibilities: N/A
Education & Experience: Bachelor’s degree in nursing required. Active, unencumbered California RN license, required. Minimum of 1 year sub-acute to acute care experience, required. National University alumni are preferred. Simulation and teaching experience, preferred. Competencies/Technical/Functional Skills: Successful skills in coaching students in clinical application of nursing care. Contributes fully to the team and plays an integral part in the smooth running of teams without necessarily taking the lead. Actively seeks opportunities to influence, build effective relationships and gain alignment with peers, functional partners and/or external partners to accomplish program objectives. Accepts personal accountability, proactively seeks resolution for personal limitations head-on; and supports honesty and respect towards others, the university, and oneself. Develops new insights into situations; questions conventional approaches; encourages new ideas and innovations. Ability to generate and/or recognize imaginative or creative solutions that generate successful outcomes. Working knowledge, principles, and practices of office management/systems within a higher education environment, preferred. Demonstrates an understanding of underlying organizational issues. Able to work autonomously and remain flexible with frequently changing priorities to meet student and school needs. Demonstrates the ability to focus on achieving results consistent with the program’s objectives. Anticipates and takes steps to prevent counter-productive confrontations; manages and resolves conflicts and disagreements in a constructive manner. Escalating as needed to the Senior Manager, Clinical Skills Lab and/or the Campus Assistant Program Director. Ability to communicate and articulate concepts in an organized manner both verbally and in writing. This position requires the person to frequently communicate with and listen to students, faculty, staff, and others to perform the essential functions of the position. Must be able to exchange accurate information in various situations. Ability to read and understand content to assist students when they are having difficulty interpreting concepts. Ability to interact in an effective and encouraging manner with students individually and in groups. Must be punctual. Must be reliable.
Market context
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