Nursing Academic Success Coordinator

Schreiner University; Kerrville (TX); Sur place; USD 60 000 - 80 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Schreiner University seeks an Nursing Academic Success Coordinator to provide specialized academic support to pre-nursing and nursing students. The role blends nursing subject expertise with tutoring, coaching, and NCLEX preparation to help students progress and prepare for licensure.

The role collaborates with faculty and nursing leadership to differentiate academic support from instructional duties while promoting student success across undergraduate and vocational nursing programs.

Qualifications

• Current, unencumbered Texas or compact RN license required.
• Bachelor's degree in Nursing (BSN) required; master's degree preferred.
• Nursing practice experience to support pre-nursing and nursing students.

Responsabilités

• Provides individual and small-group tutoring to pre-nursing and nursing students in nursing coursework and labs.
• Maintains tutoring hours and targeted academic support for referred or identified students.
• Develops nursing-focused study sessions, workshops, and review sessions.
• Helps students develop study habits, time-management, test-taking strategies, and learning approaches.
• Provides academic support for NCLEX-style examinations including analysis and test-taking strategies.
• Provides coaching and helps students create individualized study plans.
• Recruits, trains, and supervises nursing peer tutors and coordinates tutoring.
• Maintains records of attendance for tutoring and workshops.
• Refers students to campus resources like advising, tutoring, Writing Center, Career Services.

Connaissances

RN license

BSN

Teaching

Tutoring

Communication

Organizational skills

Microsoft Office

Educational technology

Formation

Texas RN license (unencumbered)

BSN required

Master's degree preferred

Outils

MS Office

Educational tech tools

Description du poste

SUMMARY OF RESPONSIBILITIES

The Nursing Academic Success Coordinator is a professional academic-support staffmember within the Office of Academic Success who provides specialized academicsupport to pre-nursing and nursing students. The position combines subject-areaexpertise with evidence-based tutoring, academic coaching, learning strategies, andassessment preparation to help students successfully navigate their coursework/labs andprepare for progression through their academic program and, ultimately, professionallicensure examinations.

The position works collaboratively with faculty and nursing program leadership tosupport student success while maintaining clear distinctions between academic supportand faculty responsibilities for course instruction, curriculum, assessment, grading, andacademic progression decisions. The student population served includes all pre-nursingand nursing students in the undergraduate and vocational nursing programs: Vocational Nursing, Associate Degree in Nursing, and Bachelor of Science in Nursing.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

• Provides individual and small-group tutoring to pre-nursing and nursing students in nursingrelated coursework/labs.


• Maintains regular tutoring hours and provides targeted academic support to students referred byfaculty or identified through established student-success processes.


• Develops and facilitates nursing-focused study sessions, workshops, review sessions, and otheracademic-support programming.


• Helps students develop effective study habits, time-management skills, test-taking strategies, andapproaches to learning and retaining complex nursing content.


• Provides academic support for standardized nursing assessments and NCLEX-styleexaminations, including question analysis, clinical reasoning, prioritization, and test-takingstrategies.


• Provides academic coaching and helps students develop individualized study and success plans based on their academic needs.


• Recruits, trains, schedules, and supervises nursing peer tutors and coordinates nursing tutoring.


• Maintains appropriate records of attendance to tutoring, coaching, workshops, and otheracademic-support activities.


• Refers students to appropriate campus resources, including advising, accessibility services,tutoring, Supplemental Instruction, the Writing Center, Career Services, and other AcademicExcellence programs.


• Maintains current knowledge of nursing subject matter, evidence-based learning strategies, andcurrent NCLEX-RN and Next Generation NCLEX testing frameworks.


• This position may require teaching.


• Performs other duties related to academic support and student success as assigned.

EDUCATION, EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS REQUIRED

• Current, unencumbered Texas or compact Registered Nurse (RN) license required


• Bachelor's degree in Nursing (BSN) required; master's degree in nursing, education, or a relatedfield preferred.


• Nursing practice experience sufficient to provide subject-area expertise to pre-nursing andnursing students.


• Experience providing tutoring, academic support, teaching, mentoring, or related student-supportservices preferred.


• Familiarity with nursing education, standardized nursing assessments, and NCLEX-RN/NextGeneration NCLEX testing preferred.


• Current American Heart Association Healthcare Provider BLS/CPR required; ACLS and/orPALS preferred.


• Strong communication, interpersonal, organizational, and problem-solving skills.


• Ability to work independently and collaboratively with faculty and staff.


• Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications and common educational technology.