(CCKK) CLINICAL INSTRUCTOR - SCHOOL OF NURSING

Job Overview:

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

iv) Group discussion

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:

1. 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
2. Have a valid Annual Practicing Certificate (APC)
3. Excellent interpersonal, communication and presentation skills
4. Able to work effectively and efficiently as a team member as well as independently
5. Able to communicate effectively and work with the management and other staff; and
6. Possess own transport to be able to commute to students’ clinical area