The Clinical Nurse Educator is a 12-month faculty position within the School of Nursing, responsible for direct supervision and clinical instruction of nursing students in health care settings. Works in various healthcare environments (primarily acute and long-term care settings), serving as a professional role model and clinical expert, while providing guidance, evaluation, and mentorship to students during their clinical learning experiences. In the lab setting, offers additional support and coaching to students, focusing on skill development without direct evaluation. Plays a critical role in clinical education and development but does not include classroom teaching responsibilities.

The Clinical Nurse Educator’s role is subject to annual renewal, with specific duties and time commitments varying based on operational needs, clinical site demands, accreditation requirements, and institutional resources. While responsibilities may shift, the majority of time is typically spent in direct clinical supervision within health care settings, with a smaller portion dedicated to offering support in the nursing labs and tasks such as documentation, student evaluation, and departmental collaboration.

1. Serves as a clinical role model and mentor for nursing students in assigned healthcare settings.
2. Supervises students’ delivery of nursing care at the bedside, ensuring safe, ethical, and evidence-based practices.
3. Evaluates students’ clinical performance and maintains accurate and timely documentation of evaluations.
4. Provides ongoing feedback, guidance, and counseling to students regarding their clinical progress.
5. Collaborates with faculty and administration to develop and coordinate meaningful clinical learning experiences, such as simulation integration or specialty rotations.
6. Selects appropriate clients and clinical cases to support student learning and skill development, while maintaining and ensuring quality patient care.
7. Fosters and maintains strong relationships with clinical agency partners, acting as a liaison between the academic program and healthcare facilities.
8. Participates in faculty and departmental meetings, trainings, and program development initiatives as needed.
9. Upholds professional standards and complies with institutional, accreditation, and healthcare regulations.
10. Performs other related duties as assigned.

Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN)

Minimum of three (3) years of full-time experience as a Registered Nurse providing direct patient care in a health care facility.

1. Knowledge of nursing principles and ability to model professional behaviors while supervising students in safe, ethical, and evidence-based patient care.

2. Skill in assessing clinical performance, maintaining documentation, and providing constructive feedback and academic support.

3. Ability to design and coordinate meaningful clinical experiences and student assignments, including client/case selection, in collaboration with faculty and clinical sites.

4. Strong interpersonal skills to effectively liaise with students, faculty, and clinical partners, and to participate in meetings and program initiatives.

5. Knowledge of nursing standards, accreditation requirements, and institutional policies, with a commitment to professional integrity and compliance.

6. Strong clinical judgment and problem-solving skills to support safe, effective patient care and student learning.

7. Ability to engage in physically demanding clinical work, including prolonged activity, assisting with patient mobility, and performing hands-on procedures requiring visual acuity, fine motor skills, and sensory responsiveness.

This job primarily operates in a professional office environment. The employee will routinely operate standard office equipment including but not limited to computers, keyboards, mouse, phones, photocopiers, printers, scanners, filing cabinets and fax machines. While performing the duties of this job, the noise level in the work environment is usually quiet to moderate.

Typical physical competencies include but are not limited to frequently remaining stationary, moving, reaching, positioning self and occasionally ascending/descending, lifting/moving objects weighing between 5-15 pounds. This job also entails frequently communicating, discerning and exchanging information, detecting and perceiving objects up close, at a distance, and the ability to adjust focus. Cognitive abilities include but are not limited to frequently using discretion, judgment, reasoning, memory, learning, maintaining confidentiality, comprehension, problem solving, and decision-making.

The typical work environment, physical and cognitive demands listed above are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. The College has a process to identify and make available reasonable accommodations to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.