Course Coordinator - School of Nursing

Job Summary:

The Course Coordinator supports the Dean in providing education, leadership, and support services to School of Nursing, students and faculty. The Course Coordinator works independently and collaboratively to provide a high degree of administrative coordination to courses. Serves as point-of-contact for faculty/students, collaborates with hospital staff regarding clinical components. Impeccable judgment and discretion along with excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Exemplary organizational and planning abilities Will be inspirational, energetic, technologically savvy, and will be able to employ a collaborative style with the highest ethical standards to engender an environment of trust and cultivate a community engaged in and committed to continuous quality improvement.

Position Responsibilities:

Facilitates Learning

Creates an environment in academic and skills teaching that facilitates student learning and the achievement of desired cognitive, affective and psychomotor outcomes. Committed to advancing a diverse and inclusive culture and environment within the program, department, school, and institution.

Implements a variety of evidenced based teaching strategies appropriate to learner needs, desired learner outcomes, content, and context. Recognizes multicultural, gender, and experiential influences on teaching and learning. Uses information technologies skillfully to support the teaching-learning process. Practices skilled oral, written, and electronic communication that reflects an awareness of self and others. Creates opportunities for learners to develop their critical thinking and clinical reasoning skills.

Shows enthusiasm for teaching, learning, and nursing that inspires and motivates students. Demonstrates respect by developing collegial working relationship with students, faculty and colleagues. Maintains the professional practice knowledge base needed to help learners prepare for contemporary nursing practice. Serves as a role model of professional nursing.

Facilitates Learner Development and Socialization

Assists students to develop as nurses and integrate the values and behaviors expected of those who fulfill that role. For students, the Coordinator is an indispensable partner in removing obstacles and helping students progress through their programs. Ability to identify the diversity of the learners and their individual learning styles and needs by providing the appropriate resources that will help them meet their goals.

Engages in effective advisement and counseling strategies.

Creates learning environments that are focused on socialization to the role of the nurse and facilitate learners’ self-reflection and personal goal setting by fostering the cognitive, psychomotor, and affective development of learners.

Recognizes the influence of teaching styles and interpersonal interactions on learner outcomes when planning learning activities. Assists learners to develop the ability to engage in thoughtful and constructive self-evaluation. Models professional behaviors for learners including, but not limited to, involvement in professional organizations, engagement in lifelong learning activities, and dissemination of information through publications, presentations, and advocacy.

Uses Assessment and Evaluation Strategies

Utilizes a variety of strategies to assess and evaluate student learning in classroom, laboratory and clinical settings. Provides timely, constructive, and thoughtful feedback to learners. Coaches and counsels students regarding their progress on an ongoing basis. Maintains records on grades, attendance, advising and mentoring and submits required reports in the established time frame. Assists the students in developing abilities in self-evaluation.

Confers with Dean, Associate Dean and faculty when there is evidence of unsatisfactory student performance.

Participates in Curriculum Design and Evaluation of Program Outcomes

Demonstrates knowledge of curriculum development by formulating program outcomes and designing curricula that reflects current nursing and health care trends to meet community and societal, health care trends and prepares graduates to function effectively in the health care environment. This includes developing competency statements, writing learning objectives, and selecting appropriate learning activities and evaluation strategies Bases curriculum implementation decisions on sound educational principles, theory, and research.

Assists faculty in implementing approved curriculum content on an ongoing basis. Reviews test questions and item analyses and guides faculty in appropriate action. Reviews all assigned courses to ensure that they follow the present curriculum design on an ongoing basis. Meet regularly with assigned course teams to identify and resolve problems related to the implementation of the curriculum design and to facilitate the continual evaluation of all aspects of program implementation.

Assists the Dean in the analysis of the…