Nursing Instructor Iv

**Req ID: 182409**
**Company: Nova Scotia Health**
**Location: Western Zone, Yarmouth Regional Hospital**
**Department: The NSHealth Learning Institute for Health Care Providers**
**Type of Employment: Permanent Hourly FT (100% FTE) x 1 position(s)**
**Status: NSNU** **Nursing Position**
**Posting Closing Date: 22-Jun-24**

Nova Scotia Health is the largest provider of health services in Nova Scotia, with some specialized services also offered to clients throughout Atlantic Canada. We’re on a mission to achieve excellence in health, healing and learning through working together, which is reflected in the hospitals, health centres and community-based programs we operate across the province. Our passionate team of professionals provides a variety of high-quality inpatient and outpatient services including academic, tertiary, and quaternary care, as well as continuing care, primary health care, public health, and mental health and addictions. Join a diverse team of innovators, collaborators and creative thinkers today.

The Interprofessional Practice and Learning team facilitates and advances person-centered care through evidence-based professional practice and learning strategies and programs that are designed provincially and implemented locally to enhance collaborative learning and practice. The Interprofessional Practice and Learning team takes a leadership role in creating a culture of collaboration with a focus on team-based care, evidence-informed practice, and learning and professional development to improve health outcomes for patients, families and communities. Through strong partnerships with the academic sector, regulators, and government, the Interprofessional Practice and Learning team has an integral role in influencing and operationalizing health system priorities.

**About the Opportunity**:
The NS Health Learning Institute for Health Care Providers within Interprofessional Practice and Learning (IPPL) plays a leadership role within the organization in creating a culture of learning with a focus on transition to specialty practice programs, entry-level transition to practice, interprofessional practice education (IPE) and continuing professional practice development. The Learning Institute promotes accountable professional practice in quality practice environments, facilitates patient and family centered care, fosters collaborative team relationships and supports research and evidence-based practice.

Reporting to the Manager, The Learning Institute, the Nursing Instructor IV is responsible for planning, executing and evaluating professional development learning experiences for entry level and specialty level programming and assisting the Nurse Educator in curriculum development through the Learning Institute’s Provincial Mandate. This position promotes the advancement of professional nursing practice within the Nova Scotia health care community. The Nursing Instructor IV has the primary responsibility to maintain and deliver educational programming for Registered Nurses, both in classroom and web-based delivery. This position promotes the advancement of professional nursing practice within the Nova Scotia health care community. The Nursing Instructor IV practices according to the Registered Nurses Act, Nova Scotia College of Nursing, and Standards of Practice of Registered Nurses.

This position will support the Emergency Nursing Program with a particular focus on blended learning.

Please note this position requires periodic travel to facilities within Nova Scotia. A valid driver’s license and access to transportation is required.

**About You**:
We would love to hear from you if you have the following:

- Bachelor of Nursing/Bachelor of Science of Nursing required
- Active practicing license in good standing with Nova Scotia College of Nurses (NSCN) required
- Certificate course or CNA certification in Emergency nursing required
- Certificate course in adult education (or equivalency) preferred
- Minimum two (2) years' recent and continuous clinical experience in Emergency nursing required
- Current experience with classroom, on-line and skill/simulation teaching, including low to high fidelity simulation required
- Current experience with coordinating and implementing skill and simulated based teaching and assessment methods required
- Previous preceptor experience required
- BLS for Health Care Providers certification required
- Demonstrated recent professional development relevant to maintaining currency in practice and education
- Demonstrated ability to work with interprofessional groups of learners/employees in a variety of educational settings (e.g. classroom, online, lab, practice setting)
- Demonstrated ability to develop strong working relationships with key partners
- Demonstrated ability to work independently and as a member of a team
- Demonstrated ability to set priorities and meet deadlines
- Well-developed verbal and written communication skills
- Skills and experience