# Instructor, Learning Lab

**Company**: Western Governors University (WGU)
**Location**: Houston, TX
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: part-time
**Salary**: $38.79 - $58.17
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Education

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## Description

We are seeking a clinically experienced Instructor, Learning Lab to join our team at WGU's Clinical Learning & Simulation Center in Houston, TX. As an Instructor, Learning Lab, you will facilitate student learning and performance assessment in on-site Clinical Learning Labs. Your teaching responsibilities will include traditional basic nursing skills and nursing care with high-fidelity simulation.

**Responsibilities:**

- Serve as a professional role model for students in dress, communication, deportment, problem-solving, care delivery, and patient advocacy.

- Demonstrate understanding of and participate in implementing the philosophy and goals of the nursing program.

- Provide constructive feedback to students.

- Use evidence-based tools and measures to evaluate students' clinical learning.

- Maintain communication with the Supervisor, Lab Faculty to make appropriate student referrals for remediation or other needs.

- Engage in teaching through demonstration, practice, and assistance.

- Facilitate student advancement through the performance of basic nursing skills to resolve simple and complex patient care situations via high-fidelity simulation.

- Assist students with application of clinical judgment, critical thinking, problem-solving, and reflection.

- Promote, provide, and maintain a safe learning experience.

- Incorporate student and self as an integral part of the nursing team in the provision of safe patient care when teaching in a simulated environment.

- Support quality improvement measurements related to faculty and student satisfaction.

- Provide orientation and substantial first cohort support to new Learning Lab Instructors and Simulation Technicians during onboarding.

**Requirements:**

- MSN required (contingent on State Board of Nursing regulations).

- 2+ years of professional work experience.

- Demonstrated subject matter expert with assigned content or practice area(s).

- Active and unencumbered RN License in the State of Texas.

**Preferred Qualifications:**

- Strong experience with distance education and distance learning students.

- Experience in simulation-based education.

- Experience with integrated technology systems and tools.

**Salary Range:** $38.79 - $58.17

**Benefits:**

- Mental healthcare

- Retirement savings plan

- Wellbeing program

- Prorated paid holidays and accrued sick time

## Skills

### Required
- nursing
- simulation-based education
- clinical judgment
- critical thinking

### Nice to have
- distance education
- integrated technology systems

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