Nursing Simulator Educator

The Michigan State University (MSU) College of Nursing (CON) is seeking applications for a Nursing Simulation Educator for our East Lansing campus. This position will be assigned to the East Lansing campus location with the ability to back up the other campus location, Detroit, as needed. This position will assume responsibility for educational activities associated with the operation of the nursing simulation laboratory for students enrolled in graduate and/or undergraduate nursing programs. The East Lansing campus Nurse Simulation Educator will report to the Granger Simulation Lab Manager. Business hours are Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. – 5 p.m. with occasional nights and weekends dependent on enrollment growth and/or curriculum modification as well as scheduling needs. Occasional travel to and from the Nursing Detroit and/or East Lansing locations may also be required. Additional teaching workload may be considered dependent upon candidate interest and skillset.

Position responsibilities include but are not limited to the following:

• Participates in the planning and evaluation of simulation-based education and skill development activities, ensuring alignment with diversity, equity, and inclusive excellence.
• Trains clinical faculty on simulations and tasks, and their delivery and assessments of competency to promote consistency and understanding related to social determinants of health and health equity.
• Develops simulation and skill related content that is aligned with the various program curriculum emphasizing health equity.
• Develops and updates a map of all simulation and task training by course and across programs such that they increase in complexity and call for increased critical thinking/decision making
• Facilitates simulation activities including communication with stakeholders, training of others involved with activities (i.e., standardized patients and sim operator, etc.)
• Delivers high quality and impactful pre-briefing activities, simulation execution, and debriefing with students
• Provides direct demonstration, practice and assessment of nursing skills, ensuring that students understand how bias, inequality, and systemic disparities affect patient care and outcomes.
• Maintains current knowledge within the field of healthcare simulation and integrates methodologies (human patient simulators, standardized patients, VR/AR, etc.) into learning activities that reflect best practices with diverse populations.
• Participates in the envisioning, discussion, development and implementation of realistic clinical scenarios and events that integrate diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), while consulting with appropriate content experts or educational faculty partners
• Masterfully adapts pre-developed simulation scenarios for needed competency achievement that include an understanding of social determinants of health and health disparities (formative and summative)
• Provides standardized patient training
• Collaborates with other Nurse Simulation Educators in the college regarding the facilitation of clinical simulation and skill learning experiences
• Provides input regarding supply and equipment orders each semester and as needed
• Support community outreach events (i.e., GATE, Grandparent’s University, Science Festival, Future Docs, etc.) and Office of Student Affairs events by offering demonstrations, conducting tours, etc.
• Provide classroom education and support as necessary
• Requires occasional travel to the Detroit and/or East Lansing campuses.

All team members in the College of Nursing carry a leadership role that fosters a sense of inclusion, belonging and servant leadership. This includes:

• Demonstrate a commitment to long term, sustained action that increases inclusive practices in health equity across the CON
• Intentionally create an environment that encourages a sense of belonging, inclusive learning, work, and clinical service environments that enable everyone to reach their full potential
• Recognize that inclusion is a journey and strive to move along the continuum of embracing experiences and resources that address anti-racist and anti-oppressive ideas while acknowledging the inward and outward systems that influence bias and cultural awareness
• Strive to be a champion of inclusive practices that lead and transform others and creates initiatives that change structural systems within nursing education which have historically inhibited, disenfranchised, marginalized, and unintentionally excluded underrepresented communities

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, citizenship, age, disability or protected veteran status.

Masters -Nursing

Doctorate -Nursing

• Unrestricted Michigan RN license without probationary status (or eligible)
• Minimum of three years clinical experience in acute care, i.e. critical care, emergency and/or medical/surgical unit
• Minimum of one year of contemporary experience in an educational setting, e.g., nursing education, clinical preceptor, hospital education classes, clinical simulation lab, etc.
• Current Basic Life Support certification
• Excellent communication and organization skills and ability to function independently and within a team
• Commitment to the MSU and CON philosophy, policies, procedures, practices and professional behaviors relative to diversity, equity, and inclusion

• Terminal degree in Nursing
• Knowledge of the INACSL standards for simulation best practices
• Knowledge of educational theory, principles, and methods of adult education
• Experience with instructional technologies such as high-fidelity simulators and low-fidelity manikins
• Working knowledge of Quality Assurance and/or Quality Improvement processes
• Evidence of scholarly engagement
• Experience with distance education
• Experience with healthcare simulation
• Experience working with diverse populations of learners

• Curriculum Vitae
• Cover letter
• Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) statement including descriptions of past experiences and contributions to DEI initiatives
• Contact list of three (3) professional references including full name, title, telephone number and email address

Please address application materials to: Nursing Simulation Educator Search Committee.

Ability to lift, pull and push objects weighing 50 lbs. or more.

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The Michigan State University College of Nursing has been training the next generations of nurses since its founding as the Department of Nursing Education in 1950.

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