Instructor Prelicensure Clinical

About This Role

Teach and mentor prelicensure nursing students in an experiential clinical setting, ensuring their success within clinical placements and fostering learning through innovative practices. This role supports WGU's mission to expand access to higher education.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a professional role model for students in communication, ethical comportment, and problem-solving.
• Provide expertise in an assigned content area and maintain current knowledge in their field.
• Foster student learning through innovative teaching practices, including how to perform duties in the clinical setting.
• Respond with urgency to meet student needs and communicate professionally and respectfully with students and all other members of the WGU community.
• Make appropriate student referrals for remediation or other needs, utilizing WGU policies and procedures.
• Communicate with the student's assigned coach/preceptor as needed to discuss student progress and concerns.
• Provide final review and approval for student's clinical time.
• Offer proactive support and outreach to assigned students.
• Use technology-based teaching and communication platforms to aid students in the development of competencies.
• Submit electronic clinical student evaluation form(s) after completion of clinical intensive.

Requirements

• MSN degree
• Current, unencumbered RN license
• Two years of relevant professional experience
• Demonstrated subject matter expert in job-relevant content or practice area

Qualifications

• Master's degree in nursing
• Two years of relevant professional nursing experience

Nice to Have

• Doctorate, or terminal degree in a specific content area
• Strong experience with distance education and distance learning students
• Prior experience in clinical teaching/nursing education

Benefits