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Utica University is seeking adjunct instructors to teach clinicals for the Nursing Department at the Syracuse Campus. The role involves teaching in various nursing specialties, including Foundations for Nursing Care, Care of the Aging Population, Medical Surgical Care, Advanced Medical Surgical Nursing, Psychiatric Nursing, Obstetrics, and Pediatrics. This position requires a Master's degree or BS in Nursing, enrollment in a Master's degree program, a NYS Registered Nurse License, and a current BLS certification.
Responsibilities
- Teach Foundations of nursing practice and the nurse-patient relationship.
- Address essential elements of caring, critical thinking, teaching, assessment, communication, and professionalism.
- Explore in-depth the care of older adults and learning strategies to assist the aging population to maintain optimal health with chronic illness.
- Integrate theoretical concepts with the nursing process to facilitate individual and family adaptation to acute stressors within medical-surgical nursing.
- Explore common physiological and psychosocial stressors and related principles of care management.
- Focus on increasing complexity of illness, the nursing process in the adult population, and related principles of patient care management.
- Integrate theoretical, clinical, and professional concepts to provide care for patients with complex health issues.
- Explore maternal, paternal, fetal/neonatal physiologic and psychosocial responses to childbearing.
- Provide care for patients with complex health issues, emphasizing assessment, differential diagnosis, pathophysiology, pharmacology, critical thinking skills, and clinical judgement.
Qualifications
Required
- Master's degree or BS in Nursing and enrolled in a Master's degree program
- NYS Registered Nurse License
- Current BLS certification
- Minimum of two years of clinical experience as a RN
Preferred
- Teaching experience
- Strong communication skills
Full Job Description
Position Information
**Job Title** Adjuncts- Nursing Clinical (Syracuse, NY)
**Posting Number** F00735
**Position Type** Faculty - Non-Tenure Track
**Unionized Position Code** Not applicable
**Hours/Schedule** Determined by Department Chair
**Campus** ABSN Campus, Syracuse NY
**Date Position Available** 01/01/2024
**Posted Salary** $2,064 for Masters prepared or $1,920 for Bachelors prepared
**FLSA Status** Exempt
**Benefits Eligible** No
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Position Summary Information
**Position Summary**
The Nursing Department, in the School of Health Professions and Education, is seeking adjunct instructors to teach clinicals for the Syracuse Campus.
**Location** Syracuse, NY
**Application Deadline**
***Full consideration by*:**
**Open Until Filled** Yes
**Major Responsibilities**
The Nursing Department, in the School of Health Professions and Education, is seeking adjunct instructors to teach in the following specialties:
**NUR** **321: Foundations for Nursing Care:**
Foundations of nursing practice and the nurse-patient relationship. The essential elements of caring, critical thinking, teaching, assessment, communication and professionalism are addressed.
**NUR** **366: Care of the Aging Population:**
In depth look at older adults who constitute a majority and growing proportion of people who receive nursing care. Includes learning strategies to assist the aging population to maintain optimal health with chronic illness.
**NUR** **371: Medical Surgical Care I:**
Builds upon theoretical concepts, integrating the nursing process to facilitate individual and family adaptation to acute stressors within medical-surgical nursing. Common physiological and psychosocial stressor and related principles of care management are explored.
**NUR** **421: Medical and Surgical Nursing Care II**
Focuses on increasing complexity of illness, the nursing process in the adult population, complex physiological and psychosocial stressor, and related principles of patient care management.
**NUR** **471: Advanced Medical Surgical Nursing:**
Integration of theoretical, clinical, and professional concepts to provide care for patients with complex health issues. Emphasis on assessment, differential diagnosis, pathophysiology, pharmacology, critical thinking skills, and clinical judgement.
**NUR** **444: Psychiatric Nursing:**
The nurse client relationship and therapeutic communication techniques as they relate to those with mental health considerations. Neurobiological processes and therapeutic techniques.
**NUR** **365: Obstetrics:**
Maternal, paternal, fetal/neonatal physiologic and psychosocial responses to childbearing. Family theory provides framework for interpreting and understanding the way the family adjusts to pregnancy, birth, and the addition of the newborn.
**NUR** **446: Pediatrics:**
The nurse's role in promoting adaptation in the childbearing family. Particular stressors include perinatal complications, well-child health promotion, and childhood illness.
**Driving Responsibilities**
**Travel**
**Supervises**
**Education Required** Master's
**Certification Required**
**Education & Experience Qualifications**
-Master's degree or BS in Nursing and enrolled in a Master's degree program
-NYS Registered Nurse License required
-Must have a current BLS certification
-Minimum of two years of clinical experience as a RN
**Minimum Skills/Abilities**
-Teaching experience preferred
-Must have strong communication skills
**Applicant Documents Instructions**
Applicants must apply to the Adjunct Portal. To apply please use the following link: https://www.utica.edu/hr/adjunct.cfm and click on "APPLY NOW"
**Reference letters will be solicited**
**EEO/AA Statement**
Utica University is committed to affirmative action, equal opportunity and the
diversity of its workforce. All qualified applicants will receive
consideration for employment without regard to race, creed, color, sex,
pregnancy, ethnic or national origin, religion, marital status, age, sexual
orientation, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status,
disability, citizenship status, genetic predisposition, domestic violence
victim status, or protected status under applicable local, state, or
federal law.
**Commitment to a Diverse and Inclusive Campus Community**
Our community of students, faculty and staff reflect a diversity of
experiences, opinions, and cultural backgrounds shaped by biology, society,
history, and choice. Our community includes members who are diverse by
virtue of their race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, ability,
religious and/or spiritual affiliations, and socio-economic status, as well
as the number of other ways in which who we are influences how we see the
world. Furthermore, we value and celebrate diversity, and this results in
a commitment to multiculturalism. We believe that within the community of
human persons, all cultures, perspectives, and beliefs about faith, ideals,
taste and lifestyles are of equal value. Our diversity deepens our
commitment to nurture a multicultural environment in which we engage with
others and blend perspectives, to learn about diverse cultures, to explore
who we are and where we come from and to accept one another without
prejudice. The Utica University Mission and Values Statement includes a
commitment to fostering diversity in perspective, background, and
experience within an environment that is dedicated to the freedom of
expression and the open sharing of ideas.
**Commitment to Supporting and Hiring Veterans**
Located in the heart of central New York, Utica University is a comprehensive,
independent, private institution founded in 1946 to offer options for
University study to veterans returning from the second world war. More than
seventy years since veterans returned from WWII, this tradition of serving
veterans is still held in high regard here at UC, and we are proud to
welcome veterans as students and as valued members of our faculty and
professional staff.
**Posting Specific Questions**
Required fields are indicated with an asterisk (*).
1. How did you hear about this employment opportunity?
2. HercJobs.org (HERC Higher Ed Recruitment Consortium)
3. HigherEdJobs.com
4. InsideHigherEd.com
5. Observer Dispatch (Utica OD)-newspaper
6. Ithaca Journal
7. Personal Referral
8. Utica University Website
9. Albany Times Union
10. Binghamton Press & Sun
11. careerbuilders.com
12. centralnewyorkhelpwanted.com
13. Chronicle.com (Chronicle of Higher Ed website)
14. Elmira Star Gazette
15. Utica University Online Employment Website
16. DiverseEducation.com (Diverse Issues in Higher Education
17. Historically Black Colleges and Universities
18. Indeed.com
19. Current Utica University Employee
20. Referred by a Utica University Employee
21. Referred by a non Utica University Employee
22. Twitter
23. LinkedIn-Job Posting
24. LinkedIn-Recruited by Utica University HR
25. Centralnewyorkhelpwanted.com
26. Syracuse Post Standard-newspaper
27. Albany Times Union-newspaper
28. Facebook
29. Job Fair
30. Search Firm
31. NCAA
32. PRISM Network
33. HBCU Connect
34. DiverseJobs
35. Other
36. Please provide more details regarding the source of your referral?(Open Ended Question)
**Applicant Documents**
**Required Documents**
**Optional Documents**