Nursing Faculty Instructor- Pediatrics

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Company

PA College Of Health Sciences

Cost Center

9826 Nursing-Undergrad

Supervisory Organization

Undergraduate Nursing

Grade

G15

Summary

Position/Job Summary:

Faculty provide classroom and/or clinical/laboratory instruction for students including the coordination, preparation and presentation of course materials and the evaluation of student progress. Integral aspects of the position include implementation of the College’s philosophy, curriculum, program outcomes, and course objectives through classroom, clinical teaching, and service to the College, health system and community.

All faculty report to the Department Chair.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities: (ability to perform with or without reasonable accommodations)

Promotes and contributes to the enhancement of PA College’s high performing learner-centered environment.

Facilitates didactic, laboratory, and/or clinical instruction, using strategies that stimulate interest and maximize student learning.
Incorporates current theories, research, and practice into the design of instruction, including plans for development and revision.
Supervises and assesses student learning to achieve outcomes at the course and/or program level.
Contributes to the development, implementation, and evaluation of courses, programs, and College strategies.
Demonstrates service to the College, profession, and/or community.
Demonstrates a commitment to scholarship through professional development that enhances teaching and learning.
Attends faculty meetings.
Assists in the daily operations of the program as instructed by the supervisor.
Models professional values in support of the mission, vision, educational outcomes, and strategic direction of the College.

Performs other duties that may be in the best interest of the College as requested by Academic leadership.

Secondary Duties and Responsibilities:

In collaboration with supervisor, identify goals in relation to professional development.
Provides service to the College.

Educational Requirements:

Specific Education, Certifications, and Licensure:

Degree reflecting coursework applicable to the material to be taught.
For undergraduate courses, a master’s degree in the discipline or related field is preferred; a minimum of a bachelor’s degree in the discipline or related field and certification, registration or licensure in the discipline is required.
For undergraduate nursing courses, a master’s degree in nursing is required; doctorate preferred.
For graduate programs, a doctorate degree is preferred in most cases; however, other terminal degrees may be acceptable. Master’s degrees with additional coursework or experience may be acceptable.
Current licensure in discipline as required by the governing bodies regulating practice in that discipline.
Certification in a specialty as required for practice in that specialty.
Programs with discipline-specific accreditation will conform to those standards when hiring faculty.

Minimum Qualifications:

To perform this job successfully…..

Minimum of two years clinical experience for all clinical programs.

Preferred Qualifications:

Minimum of one year experience teaching at a higher education institution.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

Attention/Concentration: The following level of ability is essential for the jobholder to focus on certain aspects of current experience and reject others:

The position requires the ability to attend to more than one aspect of a situation simultaneously. It is highly likely that multiple task demands are going to be required of the individual at the same time.

New Learning and Memory: The following level of ability is essential for the jobholder to learn and retain material:

The position requires that an individual be able to learn new tasks quickly and effectively. Job requirements change frequently. The ability to understand and carry out detailed, involved instructions in mandatory.

Problem Solving, Reasoning and Creative Thinking: The following level of ability that is essential for the jobholder to think (in order to solve a problem) by combining two or more elements from past experience or imaginative thought:

The position deals with issues or problems that often require thoughtful reasoning before arriving at approaches or solutions. Some independent thought, planning or origination of options and solutions is necessary. The individual must have the ability to apply principles of reasoning and problem solving to resolve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.

Temperaments: The following are essential requirements of the position in relation to job-worker situations. These items describe how a worker must adapt, adjust, conform or act:

Leadership, control and planning: Ability to accept responsibility for leadership, direction, control, planning, negotiating, organizing, directing, supervising, formulating practices, or making final decisions.

Creativity, feelings or ideas: Ability to adapt to situations involving the interpretation of feelings, ideas, or facts in terms of personal viewpoint; to use creativity, self-expression, or imagination.

Influencing others: Ability to influence people in their opinions, attitudes or judgments about ideas or things; to motivate, convince or negotiate.

Repetitive work: Ability to continuously perform the same type of work for extended periods of time, according to set procedures, sequence or pace.

Working within tolerances, set limits or standards: Ability to adapt to situations requiring the precise attainment of set limits, tolerances, or standards; to be precise, thorough, exacting, or meticulous in regard to material worked; or in activities such as numerical determinations, record preparation, or inspecting.

Performing under stressful conditions: Ability to perform under stress when confronted with emergency, critical, unusual, or dangerous situations, or in situations in which working speed and sustained attention are critical aspects of the job. Is subject to danger or risk, or to tension as a regular, consistent part of the job.

Variety and change: Ability to perform a variety of duties, often changing from one task to another of a different nature without loss of efficiency or composure involving significant differences in technologies, techniques, procedures, environmental factors, physical demands, or work situations.

Communication: Ability to exchange information with others clearly and concisely; to present ideas, facts and technical information.

Planning and control: Ability to identify task requirements and monitor progress toward accomplishment.

Interpersonal relations: Ability to maintain relationships that facilitate task accomplishment; to cooperate and resolve conflicts; to recognize needs and be sensitive of others.

Reading Ability:

Ability to read periodicals, journals, manuals, dictionaries, thesauruses, and encyclopedias.

Writing Ability:

Ability to prepare business letters, proposals, summaries, and reports; using prescribed format and conforming to all rules of punctuation, grammar, diction, and style; using all parts of speech.

Speaking/Communication Ability:

Ability to make comprehensive presentation; participate in formal debate; communicate extemporaneously; communicate before an audience with poise, using correct English.

Mathematics: The following levels of ability are necessary to understand mathematical concepts and apply them to problem-solving situations.

Ability to add and subtract two-digit numbers.
Ability to multiply and divide.
Ability to perform the four basic arithmetic operations with coins as part of a dollar.
Ability to perform operations with units such as inch, foot, yard, ounce and pound (and/or their metric counterparts).
Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide all units of measure.
Ability to perform the four operations with like or common decimal fractions.
Ability to compute rate, ratio and percent.
Ability to draw and interpret bar graphs.
Ability to perform arithmetic operations involving all American monetary units.

Equipment Usage Requirements

Machinery/Equipment:

Computer, phone, printer, copier, fax, projector

Tools:

Software:

Computer Operating System, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Outlook Calendar, Learning Management System, , Student Information System, SurveyMonkey, Starfish

Work Environment:

Exposure to hazardous conditions/ materials is negligible.

Physical Demands:

Select one of the following and list below:

Never = 0% Frequently = 36 – 70%

Rarely = <10% Continuously = 71 – 100%

Occasionally = 11 – 35%

Body Position and Movement

Sit: Frequently

Stand: Occasionally

Walk: Frequently

Bend: Rarely

Push: Rarely

Pull: Rarely

Kneel: Rarely

Squat: Rarely

Reaching: Rarely

Twisting: Rarely

Balancing: Rarely

Select one of the following and list below:

Never = 0% Frequently = 36 – 70%

Rarely = <10% Continuously = 71 – 100%

Occasionally = 11 – 35%

Lifting:

0-10 lbs.:

11-25 lbs.: Occasionally

26-40 lbs.:

Carrying:

0-10 lbs.: Occasionally

11-25 lbs.:

26- 40 lbs.:

Please list if the follow ability is specifically required or not specifically required:

Sensory Abilities

Vision

Hearing

Essential Personnel: No

Campus Security Authority: No

Supervisory Responsibilities:

Position does not require formal supervisory responsibility.

Disclaimer: This job description is not intended and should not be construed to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, skills, efforts, or working conditions associated with the job. It is intended to be a reflection of those principal job elements essential for recruitment and selection, for making fair job evaluations, and for establishing performance standards. The percentages of time spent performing job duties are estimates, and should not be considered absolute. The incumbent shall perform all other functions and/or be cross-trained as shall be determined at the sole discretion of management, who has the right to amend, modify, or terminate this job in part or in whole. Incumbent must be able to perform all job functions safely.

Disclaimer

PENN MEDICINE LANCASTER GENERAL HEALTH is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to hiring a diverse workforce. All openings will be filled based on qualifications without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, marital status, veteran status, disability, age, religion or any other classification protected by law.

Search Firm Representatives please read carefully: PENN MEDICINE LANCASTER GENERAL HEALTH is not seeking assistance or accepting unsolicited resumes from search firms for this employment opportunity. Regardless of past practice, all resumes submitted by search firms to any employee at PENN MEDICINE LANCASTER GENERAL HEALTH via-email, the Internet or directly to hiring managers at Penn Medicine Lancaster General Health in any form without a valid written search agreement in place for that position will be deemed the sole property of PENN MEDICINE LANCASTER GENERAL HEALTH, and no fee will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by PENN MEDICINE LANCASTER GENERAL HEALTH as a result of the referral or through other means.

COLLEGE Full Time Posted on 05/10/2023

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