Nursing Faculty - Nursing Education Program

Title: Nursing Faculty - Nursing Education Program Agency: Virginia Peninsula Community College

Location: Multiple Locations

FLSA Exempt Hiring Range: $62,000 - $87,760 Full Time or Part Time: Full Time Additional Detail: Virginia Peninsula Community College is a two-year institution of higher education established as a part of a statewide system of community colleges. It primarily serves the residents of the cities of Hampton, Newport News, Poquoson, and Williamsburg, and the counties of James City and York.

Teaching Faculty Responsibilities --------------------------------

Teaching faculty must provide instruction, support, assessment, and mentorship to Virginia Peninsula Community Colleges students. Faculty are required to participate in the mission and community of the college entirely. The primary emphasis shall be on teaching by working with students in classrooms, distant learning laboratories, individual conferences, and related activities to help the students develop their interests and abilities to the fullest capacity to become better persons, better workers, and better citizens.

Teaching Load -------------

Virginia Peninsula seeks faculty to teach a minimum of 15 credit hours, 20 contact hours of lecture and laboratory each semester, and other instructional loads as assigned, which may include classes at the Hampton or Historic Triangle campus and online classes, day, evening, and weekend classes. Contribute high energy, engagement, creativity, and leadership to the teaching and learning environment.

Professional Activities and Contributions --------------------------------------

Design, develop, and assess curriculum. Serve as a faculty mentor for students and contribute to college governance and service. Collaborate in a diverse and collegial organizational culture with high standards for performance. Remain current in the academic discipline and in trends in teaching through professional development, further education, and/or scholarship.

Engagement Hours ----------------

To promote the availability of faculty to work with individual students, all full-time faculty members are required to maintain 10 hours per week when they will be available to work with students outside of class meetings. The faculty are expected to be available to work with students on their individual academic and occupational concerns.

Additional Activities --------------------

Additional activities include committee work, student and community activities, student advising, and professional activities, e.g., discipline-specific initiatives and program and general education assessment.

Minimum Qualifications ---------------------

• Bachelor of Science Degree in Nursing
• Two years of clinical nursing practice experience
• Current unrestricted Commonwealth of Virginia Department of Health Professions Registered Nurse license or compact designation
• Can demonstrate a passion for the Professional Nursing RN discipline and a commitment to believing that a diverse group of students from various backgrounds and ages, including adult learners, can learn this discipline, thus fulfilling the Colleges mission to change lives and empower students to succeed.
• Willingness to adopt an organized Plan of Instruction and use methods to measure student progress toward student learning outcomes fairly.
• Teaching experience with online, hybrid, and/or traditional face-to-face classroom modalities in a higher education.
• Demonstrated proficiency and experience in using instructional technologies and learning management systems, e.g., Canvas, with the ability to use technology to enhance teaching and educational experience.
• Demonstrated ability to measure, assess, and align student outcomes within courses or programs.
• Must be able to work at all campus locations.

Professional Certification ------------------------

• Current CPR, AHA, BLS for Healthcare Providers
• Specialized knowledge of nursing theory, practice, and trends.
• Knowledge of current nursing curricular content and National Education Standards.
• Knowledge of concept-based curriculum.
• Knowledge of adult learning theory and methodologies.
• Knowledge of program assessment principles.

Skills --------

• Demonstrated teaching and educational facilitation skills.
• Excellent interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills appropriate for students, colleagues, staff, and administrator interactions as an individual or as a part of a team.
• Abilities to work at all campus site and clinical locations.
• Ability to assess student performance and progress and to provide appropriate feedback.
• Ability to promote higher-order thinking and problem-solving among educational participants.
• Ability to adhere to established standards for educational quality.
• Ability to maintain complete, accurate educational and/or clinical records.
• Maintains compliance with American Heart Association Training Site and course requirements before, during, and following instructions as assigned.

Additional Considerations -------------------------

• Master of Science in Nursing or Nursing Education Degree from a regionally accredited institution, degree conferred by the first day of assigned classes.
• Recent teaching experience in an ACEN-accredited community college nursing program.
• Significant clinical experience in a medical-surgical nursing setting or related position, i.e., staff nurse, advanced practice nurse.
• Experience teaching nursing clinical and lecture courses.
• Experience working with a nursing faculty team to develop and align curricula and assessment plans.
• Knowledge of and experience with accreditation processes.
• Experience using instructional technologies, administering standardized computer-based tests, facilitating high-fidelity simulation activities, and utilizing learning management systems, such as Canvas.