**Job Summary:**
Come grow with us and contribute to a dynamic, innovative nursing team! We are seeking a dedicated Master Instructor to join our team!

The Master Instructor, Nursing Faculty is a 10 month position with teaching responsibilities are assigned by the academic department head and may include serving as an academic advisor.

This is an on-campus teaching position with clinical responsibilities. The department welcomes new nurse educators with a focus upon mentorship by experienced nurse educators.

Nursing Faculty expectations include compliance with regulations from the Missouri State Board of Nursing, holding a current unencumbered Registered Nurse license in Missouri, OR compact state, OR being eligible for licensure in Missouri. The current university faculty handbook designations state teaching, scholarship, service requirements, and credit hour workload per semester/academic year.

**Qualifications:**

• Master’s degree in nursing from an accredited college or university from an accredited college or university.
• A minimum of 5 years of clinical patient care experience in the role of a Registered Nurse.
• Maintain clinical nursing practice expertise in appropriate nursing specialty areas.
• Establish a record of teaching, scholarship, and community service in nursing.
• Experience teaching in a variety of formats, including in-person and digital learning methods.

**Responsibilities:**

• Instruct and evaluate students in the practice of nursing, including clinical and/or simulation experiences.

• Have background in educational theory and clinical practice experience and maintain competence in assigned didactic and clinical areas.

• Familiar with the nursing program’s objectives, content, instructional methods, and evaluation procedures.

• Organizes program of instruction for nursing students, including teaching in didactic and clinical learning environments utilizing a variety of pedagogy methods, i.e., lecture, demonstration, discussion, and other modes of educational delivery.

• Plans and supervises nursing student clinical or simulation experiences, and laboratory experiences, individually or in small groups.

• Fosters student development through professional role modeling and mentoring.

• Adheres to safe clinical and educational practice standards.

• Is able to travel to clinical sites.

• Able to teach a flexible schedule that may include day, evening, and weekend times.

• Assess and evaluate the achievement of students in nursing knowledge and skills.

• Demonstrates a willingness to develop and integrate technology into the classroom.

• Initiates self-development in both clinical and educational practice.

• Participates in various committees, taskforces, and other assignments whose purpose is to support the enhancement and growth of MSSU and the nursing profession.

• Advises undergraduate nursing students.

• Contributes to the development of the departmental budget.

• Contributes to developing, planning, and managing the nursing curriculum.

The physical and psychological demands described here represent those deemed essential functions. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

Nursing faculty must use coordination and dexterity to manipulate various equipment and perform gross and fine motor tasks. Nursing faculty are frequently required to stand and walk periodically over 12-hour clinical experiences, reach with hands and arms, and talk or hear (including the use of a stethoscope). Nursing faculty are occasionally required to sit, stoop, kneel, bend, or crouch and smell. Nursing faculty must frequently lift, push, pull, and/or move up to 50 pounds or more. Visual abilities required include close vision, distance, color, peripheral, and depth perception.

Sufficient psychosocial skills include emotional stability and sensitivity to maintain collaborative relationships with other healthcare professionals, clients, and students.

WORK ENVIRONMENT.

The work environment characteristics described here represent those encountered while performing the essential functions. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

NOTICE: The above job profile does not include all essential and nonessential duties of this job. All employees with disabilities are encouraged to contact Human Resources to review and discuss the essential and nonessential functions of the job. An employee with a disability can evaluate the job in greater detail to determine if she/he can safely perform the essential function of this job with or without reasonable accommodation.

Salary commensurate with experience and ranges between $53,000 to $57,737