# Prelicensure Clinical Instructor (Hourly)

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

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## Description

We are seeking a Prelicensure Clinical Instructor (Hourly) to join our team at Western Governors University (WGU). As a Clinical Instructor, you will be responsible for teaching and mentoring students in experiential clinical coursework in a remote or onsite environment.

**Job Summary:** The Clinical Instructor works on a team to support an assigned group of students and offers specialized instruction on challenging experiential/clinical coursework. The Clinical Instructor ensures students are successful within their clinical placement setting as they oversee clinical learning.

**Responsibilities:**

- Act as a steward for carrying out WGU's mission and strategic vision

- Demonstrate a high level of commitment, effectiveness, and consistency

- 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 students' learning through innovative teaching practices

- 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

- 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 forms after completion of clinical intensive

- Collaborate with other professionals within the university to promote a positive, student-obsessed atmosphere

**Requirements:**

- Master's degree in nursing

- Two years minimum nursing experience

- Unencumbered RN license

- Active, unencumbered license in designated state

- Strong written and verbal communication skills

- Ability to work well under stress and meet deadlines

- Capacity for self-motivation and working independently

**Preferred Qualifications:**

- 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

**Salary:** $38.79 - $58.17 per hour

**Benefits:** This is a part-time, intermittent position that may be eligible for mental healthcare, retirement savings plan, wellbeing program, and prorated paid holidays and accrued sick time.

## Skills

### Required
- nursing
- clinical teaching
- communication
- problem-solving
- time management

### Nice to have
- distance education
- distance learning
- doctoral degree

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