Part-Time Nursing Foundation Simulation Lab Coordinator - IUK School of Nursing and Allied Heal

Overview

NURSING (KO-NURS-IUKOA)

This position is responsible for managing the Indiana University Kokomo (IUK) Nursing Foundation Simulation Laboratory facilities and functions as part of the IUK School of Nursing and Allied Health Professions (SNAHP). This position reports to the IUK SNAHP Dean and Assistant Dean for Pre-Licensure Track BSN Program.

• Plans, organizes, and directs the overall operations of the IUK Nursing Foundation Simulation Lab.
• Coordinates with the Nursing faculty regarding skills lab times and other lab activities to ensure lab space, equipment and supply needs are met. Communicates with instructors re: individual set-up needs (which vary weekly).
• Schedules beginning of semester and ongoing regular meetings with faculty as needed during each semester.
• Maintains a lab schedule for each semester with a weekly schedule of activities and events.
• Staffs and maintains general operating condition of the lab and its training equipment including advanced learning patient simulators and other simulation equipment.
• Sets up the Nursing lab with appropriate equipment and supplies for each of the skill labs and provides a safe learning environment. Organizes and labels all equipment appropriately.
• Maintains current nursing practice skills and information by utilizing appropriate resources. Keeps equipment and supplies current with those used in practice.
• Manages and maintains the Nursing Foundation Simulation Lab office. Confers and assists faculty/students with lab related issues and needs, phone, filing, data processing, and record keeping of lab data.
• Monitors supply use and orders necessary supplies for the Nursing lab to ensure adequacy for the classes and maximum cost benefit.
• Manages the continuous purchase order requisition process, from requisitioning supplies and equipment to the receiving and inventorying including department contact for those purchases.
• Instructs students and faculty on newly acquired equipment and conducts refresher training on various lab equipment.
• Maintains and catalogs department inventory (non-capital and capital); assists with biennial physical inventory of capital equipment.
• Contacts appropriate personnel (whether university personnel or outside vendors), as needed, for servicing of Learning Center equipment / Supervise routine maintenance and care of equipment.
• Provides resource assistance to faculty and nursing students.
• Assists faculty in conducting skills checkoffs for all lab sections, including remedial instruction for students.
• Maintains periodic review and quality improvement (QI) of operations to adapt to current growing utilization and projected expansion of enrollment. Reports findings to IUK SNAHP Dean and Assistant Dean for Pre-Licensure Track BSN Program to assist with accreditation documentation.

Required

• Associate's degree in nursing

Preferred

• Bachelor of Science degree in nursing

• Nursing experience or professional preparation as a nurse

• Registered nurse in the state of Indiana

• Medical skills, understanding of equipment and technology used in the nursing area
• Working knowledge of lab facilities, equipment, supplies, and services
• Knowledge of safety standards and practices used in lab settings
• Knowledge of processes for maintaining and/or repairing lab equipment
• Computer skills and knowledge of data processing software

• Comprehensive medical and dental insurance
• Health savings account with generous IU contributions
• Healthcare and dependent care flexible spending accounts
• Basic group life insurance paid by IU
• Voluntary supplemental life, long-term disability, critical illness, and supplemental accidental death & dismemberment insurance
• Base retirement plan with generous IU contributions, subject to vesting
• Voluntary supplemental retirement plan options
• Tuition subsidy for employees and family members taking IU courses
• 10 paid holidays plus a paid winter break each year
• Generous paid time off plans
• Paid leave for new parents and IU-sponsored volunteer events
• Employee assistance program (EAP)

Learn more about our benefits by reviewing the IU Benefit Programs Brochure.

Career Level:

Part Time Employee

FLSA:
Nonexempt

Job Function:
Part Time Employee

Job Family:
Part Time Employee

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