Nursing Lab Technician

Nursing Lab Technician

Salary: $46.00 per hour

I. Position Purpose

The Nursing Laboratory Technician responsibilities include the following: coordinating and maintaining all nursing skills lab evaluations, including inventory management, and assisting students and faculty as needed to improve student assessment skills and performance of clinical nursing skills; scheduling and covering open labs and assisting with simulations as needed.

II. Duties and Responsibilities

Identify, recruit and tour clinical agency student placement sites.

Supervise and evaluate faculty providing clinical instruction.

Visit clinical sites while instructors are working and evaluate instructors and sites.

Responsible for maintaining documents and files for ACEN and OBN reports and maintaining confidentiality of all student records.

Collaborate with the Simulation Lab Manager to provide simulation experiences.

To be trained in operation of the Simulation Lab.

Oversee the functioning and scheduling of all Basic Nursing Skills Labs and assist in the High-Fidelity Simulation Nursing Lab.

Collaborate with faculty to provide for consistent and relevant student learning experiences to meet course and clinical objectives in the nursing skills labs.

Assist faculty with skills and simulation activities and in establishing and revising the critical elements for performing clinical skills.

Ensure supervision of students in the lab, maintaining safe practices and abiding by all established policies and procedures for the lab.

Contribute to the evaluation of students during skills and simulation activities as well as on other occasions by request i.e. exit prescription skills performance practice and review.

Provide assistance to students upon faculty referral for remediation.

Maintain a policies and procedures manual for the labs and Clinical.

May be assigned to a lab if needed.

Other duties as required by the appropriate administrator.

III. Qualifications Education, Experience, and Skills

BSN degree required. MSN preferred.

2 years of direct patient nursing experience.

Experience working in a Nursing program skills lab and assisting with skills checkoffs and meeting course objectives.

Prior teaching experience preferred.

Strong Microsoft office skills.

Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

Time management and organizational skills.

Manage multiple tasks and set priorities in a fast-paced environment.

Demonstrate the ability to work collaboratively with internal and external partners.

Ability to act in confidence.

Knowledge of FERPA and HIPAA.

Reasonable accommodations may be requested and reviewed according to the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).