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Staff - Nursing and Health Services Lab and Administrative Assistant

$21.00 - $24.00 per hour

Staff

SCHOOL OF NURSING AND HEALTH SERVICES

This position supports and promotes an effective student-centered environment within the School of Nursing and Health Services by supporting faculty in the Skills and Simulation Labs, while also assisting the School’s faculty and dean with the administrative duties associated with the Nursing and Health Programs. Depending upon the academic schedule, the position’s focus may be entirely on the lab assistance, entirely on the administrative assistance, or a combination, as worked out with the Dean.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Facilitate Skills and Simulation Lab instruction.
• Orient students to Skills and Simulation Lab and demonstrate proper procedures.
• Provide Skills and Simulation Lab instructions as recommended by faculty.
• Maintain weekly, regularly scheduled, open lab hours. Maximum 10:1 (Student: Faculty) ratio.
• Assist faculty to ensure all items needed to teach lab class are available and ready for use.
• Assess and maintain skills and simulation equipment routinely for malfunctions and service needs.
• Set up and tear down equipment and items used for skills and simulation labs.
• Maintain and organize all lab equipment and supplies.
• Complete and reconcile supply orders.
• Dispose hazardous waste (i.e. sharps).
• Assist in planning, developing, implementing, evaluating, and documenting changes in program curriculum and school policies.
• Support the dean in maintaining records necessary for on-going accreditation for all Nursing and Health Services programs.
• Serve as a role model of professional nursing in the practice setting.
• Attend orientations, staff meetings and faculty meetings as requested.
• Assist with on-going review and development of curricula in the department and make suggestions per policy.
• Aid in the recruitment and retention of nursing and other health services students.
• Collaborate with School Administrative Assistant in collecting, compiling, and calculating nursing admission applications.
• Assist department chair with rotation schedules.
• Maintain nursing students’ files and databases.
• Assist with various projects and/or special events assigned by the Dean through faculty and/or her administrative assistant.
• Participate as needed in special department projects.
• Perform other duties as assigned.
• The duties listed in this job description are not all-inclusive, but a list of the major responsibilities. Additional duties not noted in the job description may be assigned by a supervisor.

• Bachelor’s degree in Nursing
• Minimum of one year working in an academic environment
• Minimum of three years clinical practice as a Registered Nurse
• Current, unrestricted license to practice in Michigan

All applicants must demonstrate the ability to promote active and collaborative learning through a variety of teaching methods, as well as relate to students. Excellent organization and communication skills as well as the demonstrated use of instructional technology are required.

Must be able to complete the following with or without a reasonable accommodation:

1. The physical activity of this position.

A. Balancing. Maintaining body equilibrium to prevent falling and walking, standing or crouching on narrow, slippery, or erratically moving surfaces.
B. Stooping. Bending body downward and forward by bending spine at the waist.
C. Kneeling. Bending legs at knee to come to a rest on knee or knees.
D. Crouching. Bending the body downward and forward by bending leg and spine.
E. Crawling. Moving about on hands and knees or hands and feet.
F. Reaching. Extending hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction.
G. Standing. Particularly for sustained periods of time.
H. Walking. Moving about on foot to accomplish tasks, particularly for long distances or moving from one work site to another.
I. Lifting. Raising objects from a lower to a higher position or moving objects horizontally from position-to-position.
J. Fingering. Picking, pinching, typing or otherwise working, primarily with fingers rather than with the whole hand as in handling.
K. Grasping. Applying pressure to an object with the fingers and palm.
L. Feeling. Perceiving attributes of objects, such as size, shape, temperature or texture by touching with skin, particularly that of fingertips.
M. Talking. Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word.
N. Hearing. Perceiving the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction. Ability to receive detailed information through oral communication, and to make the discriminations in sound.

2. The physical requirements of this position.

Light work. Exerting up to 20 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 10 pounds of force frequently, and/or a negligible amount of force constantly to move objects.

3. The visual acuity requirements including color, depth perception, and field vision.

The employee is required to have close visual acuity to perform an activity such as: preparing and analyzing data and figures; transcribing; viewing a computer terminal; extensive reading.

4. The conditions the employee will be subject to in this position.

None. The employee is not substantially exposed to adverse environmental conditions.

07/09/2021

https://swmich.peopleadmin.com/postings/3445

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