Title: Teaching Faculty in Practical Nursing

Agency: Eastern Shore Community College

Location: Accomack - 001

FLSA: Exempt

Hiring Range: Expected salary range of $50,705-$99,603 commensurate w/ qualifications

Full Time or Part Time: Full Time

Additional Detail

Job Description:

Eastern Shore Community College is located on the beautiful Eastern Shore of Virginia with incomparable access to the Chesapeake Bay and Atlantic Ocean, quiet vacation spots, excellent fishing and hunting, fresh produce and organic products, a thriving community of artists and artisans, a rich history, NASA launch pads, aquaculture and agriculture research centers, and a country culture of open distances with neighbors who help each other out. Eastern Shore Community College is a member of the Virginia Community College System as a two-year institution of higher learning. We provide the 45,000 residents on Accomack and Northampton Counties access to excellent career and technical, college transfer, workforce, adult education, and continuing education programs. We serve nearly 1,000 learners a semester with an employee base of full-time and part-time faculty and staff of over 50. Our mission is to empower learners to enhance the quality of life for themselves and their communities. This is rooted in our culture of YES! which stands for Your Eastern Shore. YES! is how Eastern Shore Community College creates a culture of hospitality for each of us to live, learn, work, and play. YES! represents Your Eastern Shore because this college and the surrounding communities belong to all of us, and also to each of us. Through YES! we make our college and all of the Eastern Shore the best they can be.

Eastern Shore Community College strives to nurture a culture of YES! which stands for Your Eastern Shore. We embody the culture of hospitality and affirmation, emphasizing that the college belongs to students, employees, and our community.
The major focus of this position is on teaching and inspiring students from a variety of academic backgrounds and experiences to learn by working in classrooms, laboratories, individual conferences, and online. Faculty empower students to enhance the quality of themselves and their community by engaging students outside of class in support of curricula. Faculty teach both didactic and clinical courses in the disciplines for which they have appropriate education, training, and competence and will be required to teach on-campus, online, hybrid, and off-site classes as needed.
Teaching responsibilities include Instructional Design, Delivery, Effectiveness, and Expertise. Additional expectations include Scholarly and/or Creative Engagement, Institutional Responsibility, and College and Community Service.
FUNCTIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES:

1. Teaching: Create a learning environment that facilitates students' acquisition of knowledge and skills in a discipline. Teaching encompasses the four components below. The specific duties are examples, not a complete list.
Instructional Design:

• Utilize and distribute established course syllabus;
• select appropriate learning resources;
• design and implement assessment strategies that effectively measure student achievement of established course learning outcomes.

Instructional Delivery:

• Align course activities with student learning outcomes for the course;
• employ a variety of active learning strategies to foster student engagement;
• •employ appropriate technology and supporting materials that support course and/or program learning outcomes;
• •provide students with prompt and meaningful feedback on course activities and assignments, communicating with students in a timely and respectful manner
• Use clinical instruction and experiences for students to demonstrate, practice, and reinforce nursing concepts and tasks.

Instructional Effectiveness:

• Conduct meaningful and timely assessments of student learning, including at least one assessment within the first two weeks of class;
• analyze the previous semester's student ratings of instruction, other student feedback, and assessments of student performance in the course and in external assessments to develop and implement appropriate improvement plans.

Instructional Expertise:

• Maintain currency in the assigned teaching discipline, methods of teaching, and instructional technology.

2. Scholarly and Creative Engagement: Participate in activities specifically associated with the faculty member's teaching discipline through conferences, workshops, academic coursework, scholarly research, publications, creative works, and grant activity.

3. Institutional Responsibility:

• Perform assigned or presumed duties according to one's role at the college.
• Participate in the college's development and evaluation plan for full-time teaching faculty;
• hold office hours and serve as an academic advisor and counselor;
• participate in required department, division, campus, committee, and college meetings;
• maintain and submit accurate student attendance records and reports, and submit grades in a timely manner according to established college calendars and guidelines;
• adhere to college and Virginia Community College System (VCCS) policies;
• coordinate clinical instruction, internships, and relationships with external organizations;
• maintain a collegial working relationship with faculty, staff, and administrators;
• provide innovation and leadership with projects, initiatives, and people.
• Participate in and support activities required by the Virginia Board of Nursing as part of maintaining accreditation.

4. Service: Provide service to students, colleagues, the college, and/or community organizations. Service activities include:

• College representation where there is a direct connection between the faculty member who engages in the specific activity and their position at the college.
• College citizenship where the activities are in support of the college or VCCS initiatives wherein the faculty member is a member of a committee, but not necessarily in a leadership role.
• Community citizenship where participation by the faculty member is part of the person's involvement in the community as a citizen who happens to be a college employee.

Responsibilities may include work in the day, evening, weekend, and distance learning programs of the college.

Eastern Shore Community College is a minority majority college committed to diversity as a source of creativity, innovation, and strength. ESCC respects the ways that identity, culture, background, experience, status, abilities, and opinion enrich the college and the community. We are committed to the ideal that excellence in teaching, scholarly activity and community service are inexorably linked to our goal of diversity.

Minimum Qualifications:

1. Bachelor's degree from a regionally accredited institution in nursing, nursing education, or closely related discipline.
2. Current license or multistate licensure privilege to practice nursing in Virginia as a registered nurse without any disciplinary action that currently restricts practice
3. For supervision of clinical practice of students, meet the licensure requirements of the jurisdiction in which the practice occurs
4. Education or experience in the specialty area in which supervision of clinical experience takes place
5. At least five (5) years of direct client care experience as a registered nurse
6. Ability to design and implement curriculum that aligns elements of student learning to the student's educational goals.
7. Ability to develop and adapt teaching and learning strategies to accommodate the diversity of community college students to promote acquisition and application of knowledge.
8. Ability to use consistent and timely formative and summative assessment measures to enhance student learning.
9. Ability to apply proven teaching strategies that promote student success.
10. Willingness to use emerging technologies and alternative delivery methods appropriately, including online delivery, hybrid course options, content software, web-enhancements, etc.
11. Ability to effectively communicate interpersonally (in group and one-on-one settings) orally and in writing.
12. Demonstrated commitment to stay current and continually improve knowledge and understanding of the teaching discipline, methods of teaching, and technology.
13. Commitment to attend to non-teaching duties that advance the mission of the college
14. Demonstrated commitment to provide service at the college, in one's professional community, and/or to the community in the college's service area.
Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's degree in nursing .
• Educational background in Nursing Education.
• Experience/coursework in medical law and ethics, coding, billing, and office management.
• Teaching experience in higher education, especially at the community college level. Familiarity with academic advising, student success measures, and recruitment and retention efforts.
• Experience with learning management systems, instructional software, online teaching and learning.