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Overview: 

The Informatics Coordinator shall be responsible to the Directors and the Dean of Health Science for oversight of simulation and lab activities, program technology resources, and collaboration with other coordinators and faculty to achieve program outcomes.

The Informatics Coordinator shall be responsible for:

1. Compliance with minimum standards.
2. Ongoing planning, systematic development, implementation and evaluation in relationship to the philosophy and outcome criteria of the ADN and PN programs.
3. Providing input on program related policies regarding recruitment, admission, retention, promotion, and graduation of students
4. Instruction and evaluation of students.
5. Participating in and evaluating goals for recruitment, admission, retention, promotion and graduation of students.
6. Ensuring availability of academic advisement and guidance of students.
7. Maintaining student records per program and institutional policies.
8. Ensuring confidentiality of student records.
9. Maintaining clinical and educational competencies in area of instructional responsibilities.
10. Participation in student activities as appropriate.
11. Participation in departmental and institutional policies and decision-making.
12. Serving as assigned mentor for less seasoned and new faculty
13. Participating in budget requests
14. Facilitating alignment of courses in collaboration with the coordinators, directors, and faculty. 
15. Linking program outcomes to performance criteria.
16. Participate in professional development pertinent to best-practices in nursing education, including simulation.
17. Provide and track professional development and training for faculty and staff regarding best practices in simulation, debriefing, and instructional technology to support faculty.

The Informatics Coordinator is expected to work a minimum of 40 hour work week.  This position has no teaching load.  The primary responsibilities are to oversee the simulation and lab activities, clinical remediation, and management of program technology resources for the Level One and Two programs on all campuses. There is travel involved with this position.

Essential Duties: 

1. Serve as the expert and faculty advisor to ensure simulation experiences align with best practices and are consistent throughout program.
2. Collaborate with faculty regarding their simulation ,skills lab, varied instructional experience goals/objectives and work with them to provide competency-based experiences.
3. Implement varied instructional experiences that meet program objectives through collaboration with faculty. (i.e. high-fidelity simulation, virtual reality, standardized patient simulation, Learning Space)
4. Provides best-practice updates to faculty in simulation and debriefing and associated training to support faculty.
5. Serves as the expert, provides training and support for software utilized by students and faculty in the nursing department (i.e. Sim Chart, ATI, ExamSoft, virtual reality, simulation etc.).
6. Serves as the liaison to maintain needed communication between students, faculty, and contracted resources.
7. Oversee the nursing laptops available for student use (recommendation for software, updates, troubleshoots problems and creates work orders for ITS).
8. Create opportunities for all SFCC nursing cohorts to be in the lab for simulations.
9. Create and schedule enhancement/remediation simulations in collaboration with student success coordinator and nursing faculty for individual students or student cohorts.
10. Schedule annual simulator and Learning Space maintenance and communicate maintenance needs to contracted simulator and video equipment company as needed.
11. Maintains and updates policies and procedures for clinical skills lab and simulation room and assures available to students and faculty.
12. Assist with development of the budget for supplies, equipment, and software needed to implement and maintain the programs.
13. Obtain and maintain the disposable supplies needed for student use in the nursing lab to include extended campuses.
14. Maintain the nursing laboratory and keep the area neat; includes new equipment, equipment repair, etc.
15. Maintain the resources/textbooks in the Student Resource Center at all campuses.  Order new resources/textbooks as needed.
16. Map clinical simulation experiences to clinical objectives and graduate competencies.
17. Collects, analyzes, and initiates improvements based on program data.  
18. Supply data to faculty for program review. 
19. Analyzes data to complete a matrix on simulation and skills lab as a program evaluation tool.
20. Performs and analyses results of student evaluations of simulation as a component of quality improvement plans.
21. Make recommendations for implementation of the changes in curriculum.
22. Avail self to students for individualized and/or group instruction to support student success.
23. Collaborate with coordinator and other staff as appropriate regarding student absences, remediation, and other student issues.
24. Use appropriate software to report student concerns in order to increase retention and completion rates.
25. Collaborate with other Health Science departments and clinical/community partners to develop and implement inter-professional simulations into curriculum.
26. Communicate with appropriate institutional personnel/departments on the development of opportunities for the community to utilize simulation for competency training.
27. Collaborate with clinical and community partners to strengthen partnerships.  
28. Participate in the Nursing Student Success Team.        
29. Participate in the Nursing Program Advisory Board.
30. Serve on campus, department and community councils/committees as requested by the Director or other members of the Executive Leadership Team.
31. Attend all college, division and department meetings.
32. Meet SFCC expectations of in-service attendance.
33. Assist with delivery of new student orientation every semester.
34. Actively participates in professional nursing organizations
35. Participates in departmental recruitment activities.
36. Attend SFCC Health Science pinning and graduation ceremonies.
37. Completes other duties as assigned.

The preceding duties have been provided as examples of the essential types of work performed by positions within this job classification.   Management reserves the right to add, modify, change or rescind work assignments as needed.

Qualifications: 

Education:

Meet minimum standards for State Board approval, Bachelor’s degree in nursing with clinical component. Master’s degree in Nursing or higher advanced nursing degree preferred. Evidence of active pursuit of a Master’s degree in Nursing or willingness to start a Master’s program in nursing within the first year of hire will be considered. The Master’s Degree in Nursing must have a clinical component in either the Bachelors of Science in Nursing or Master’s with major in Nursing. 

Skills:

Shall be currently licensed to practice as a registered professional nurse in Missouri.

Nursing license cannot ever have been disciplined related to public safety. Should be active in professional nursing organizations. Current BLS/CPR

Knowledge of Microsoft Office tools, demonstrate evidence of excellent oral and written communication skills, demonstrate student centeredness, be able to interact with a broad range of people with diverse backgrounds both on and off campus in a positive manner, demonstrate a commitment to the philosophy and mission of the community college.

Behaviors:

Exhibit qualities of emotional maturity, genuineness, self-confidence, common sense, judgment, fairness, creativity, discretion, decisiveness, resiliency, adaptability, courage of convictions, tolerance for ambiguity, integrity and trustworthiness, ability to make good, consistent and fair decisions (based on fact and data), ability to work with cross-functional teams and to foster teamwork.  Current immunizations as outlined in Health Science Immunization Policy and meet clinical site requirements. Successfully pass required drug and background checks

Experience:  

Shall have the equivalent of 2 years of full-time experience within 5 years or have 2 years of part-time experience in the last 5 years and evidence of active pursuit of a Master’s of Science in Nursing or higher advanced degree.  Experience shall be in nursing education, clinical practice, or administration.

*Completed applications will include cover letter, resume, three contact references, and unofficial transcripts (official transcripts must be requested upon hire). Employment will require a criminal background check at College expense. Preference is given to Missouri residents.

AA Statement: SFCC is an equal opportunity employer. It is the policy of State Fair Community College not to discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability, ancestry, national origin, or veteran status in its educational programs, activities or employment as required by law in regard to admissions, awarding financial aid, access to courses and programs, and all student services as well as the recruitment, admission and retention of students.