Compensation Range: Hourly: $27.85 - $36.20 Position Summary 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 Requirements: 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. Travel: This position is located onsite at the Spectrum Campus in San Diego and requires in-person presence as scheduled to effectively support lab instruction, simulation activities, and student skill evaluation. #LI-ONSITE Candidate receiving offers will be offered a salary/pay rate commensurate with experience that vary based on a candidate’s qualifications, skills, and competencies. Absent exceptional circumstances, candidates will be offered a salary within this range for this position. The minimum salary will be offered based on the minimum exemption threshold based on state of residency. Base pay is one component of National University’s total rewards package, as we are dedicated to supporting the needs of the “whole you” with our holistic approach to employee benefits by offering comprehensive well-being benefits for you and your family. For full details about our benefit plan offerings, please visit benefits.nu.edu. For Part-time benefits, please click here. National University is committed to maintaining a high-quality workforce representative of the populations we serve. National University employs more than 4,500 faculty and staff and serves over 45,000 students. We are united in our mission to meet the global education demands of the 21st Century and are dedicated to creating a supportive academic and work environment that allows students, faculty and staff to develop their interests and talents while experiencing a sense of community. With programs available both online and at our many campus locations, National University is a leader in creating innovative solutions to education and meeting the needs of our student population, including adult learners and working professionals. National University (NU) is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant per applicable federal, state and local laws. At NU, a mix of highly talented, innovative and creative people come together to make the impact of a lifetime for each of our student learners. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment, education, and admission at National University. National University is breaking barriers in education – and in the workplace. We’re united in our mission to build a better future for our more than 4,500 employees and our 45,000+ students. National University prioritizes our employee’s well-being and growth by offering competitive pay and benefits packages, development and advancement opportunities, remote-first work perks, and more. We value and reward the hard work of our faculty and staff.

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