(CCKK) Clinical Instructor - School of Nursing
make known the job description of a Clinical Instructor (CI) in facilitating, supervising, and teaching of students in the clinical areas.
- Acts as liaison between the college and the hospital / health care facilities authorities.
- Liaises with the Clinical Posting Unit (CPU) Executive, Programme Coordinator (Nursing) and Head of Programme (Nursing) for all matters pertaining to clinical posting.
- Liaises with the CPU Executive for students’ transportation and hostel arrangement (for areas outside of Kota Kinabalu, Sabah).
- Plans and prepares clinical posting roster according to the semester clinical posting objectives.
- Orientates students to the clinical area on their first day of clinical posting for every semester. Organizes, carries out and records teaching session in the clinical areas:
i) Incidental teaching
ii) Case presentation
iii) Bed-side teaching
v) Health education sessions
- Demonstrates and teaches students in carrying out procedures that are not within their level of training, but of which will be beneficial to the students.
- Supervises and assesses students in carrying out procedures in the clinical areas.
- Signs log books for students who are deemed competent in carrying out procedures at the students’ expected standards.
- Conducts Running Assessment (30%) and Evaluation of Students (10%) before the end of clinical posting.
- Monitors students’ attendance and maintains record of absenteeism throughout clinical posting.
- Summarizes the students’ attendance at the end of clinical posting period.
- Compiles and submits all reports and clinical posting forms/documents to the CPU Executive (or to the Programme Coordinator Nursing) / Head of Programme (Nursing), in the absence of CPU Exec.) o Attends to students’ welfare and safety in the clinical areas
Required Qualification:
- Candidate must possess a bachelor’s degree or Diploma in Nursing with a minimum of five (5) years of clinical experience. Having a Post Basic is an added advantage
- Have a valid Annual Practicing Certificate (APC)
- Excellent interpersonal, communication and presentation skills
- Able to work effectively and efficiently as a team member as well as independently
- Able to communicate effectively and work with the management and other staff; and
- Possess own transport to be able to commute to students’ clinical area