NEW Nursing Instructor Orientation Requirements

NEW Nursing Instructor Orientation Requirements

NEW Nursing Instructor Orientation Requirements

______/______School:______Unit:______

Instructor Name Email Address

The following outlines the required components for the NEW Nursing Instructor’s Orientation and requirements at Gwinnett Medical Center (GMC). All completed documents need to be returned by scanning and emailing documents to .

  1. Communicate the following information to Learning Resources when contacting Linda Horst to inform her you will be an instructor: ( ; 678-312-4239.)

Your name

Contact information (phone, email)

Name of college/university you are affiliated with.

Last 4 numbers of your SS# (used to apply for access within GMC systems for computer based learning (CBL) in Netlearning (NL) and for your medication/supply access on the unit you are assigned to.)

  1. The following documents need to be scanned and emailed where appropriate

Current copy of RN License

Current copy of CPR

Drug and Background Screening through Advantage or PreCheck – release your results to GMC.

Complete the ID Badge Excel form and return to Linda Horst with a picture of yourself (head shot, professional dress, and plain background)

Flu shot documentation (Nov. 1st through March 31st)

Faculty Agreement – either Board of Regents or Non-Board of Regents

  1. Complete with their affiliated school.

Basic Nursing Skills and Acknowledgement– see pg. 2

  1. Complete in conjunction with Learning Resources

Computer Based Learning (CBL) in NetLearning – “New Nursing Instructor Orientation & Annual CBLs”.

Use NL login sent to you to access CBL. It is desirable to complete the CBLs prior to attending Nursing Orientation.

Refer to attached central orientation schedule – see pg. 3. Thencontact Linda Horst to:

Schedule and attend Nursing Orientation; and

Complete the Computer Training Form and send to Marlene McLarnon – email address is on form to request your place in Computer Training class.

Review Human Resource Policies – pg. 4 (these will be emailed to you)

Review Administrative Policies – pg. 4 (these will be emailed to you)

  1. Complete in conjunction with unit you are assigned to

Any Unit CBLs as directed by unit preceptor/designee.

Deparmental Orientation for Nursing Instructors for (separate packet will be emailed to you after you contact Linda Horst and tell her what unit you will be on):

  1. Level 1 = Instructors who will have only Fundamental Student groups
  2. Level 2 = all other student groups do

Please schedule time to work a shift on the unit you are assigned to become familiar with the unit, set up lines of communication, particularly how to report back to the nurses and how they want assignments designated.

/ Instructor Name:
Date: / PLEASE PRINT
School:

NURSING INSTRUCTOR Basic Nursing Skills Validation

Acknowledgement Statements

Directions:

  1. Complete this document including the Nursing Resource that supports the competency criteria used to validate your competency on the skills below.
  2. Print this document and obtain the signature from school faculty authorized to validate these competencies.
  3. Sign at the bottom and then turn this signed document in to the student placement coordinator, Linda Horst in Learning Resources. This form is to be completed once for each nursing instructor.

I acknowledge that I have met with the school faculty/designee named below and have been validated as competent on the following basic nursing skills using the nursing resource named below:
  1. Complete head to toe physical assessment (including skin assessment)
  2. Nursing Process and DAR Documentation
  3. Vital Signs – HR, RR, BP, and temperature
  4. Plan of Care principles
  5. Medication Administration including 5 rights of administration, medication calculations, and safe medication administration.
  6. IV Starts
  7. IV Management
  8. Oxygen placement – nasal and oral suction
  9. PEG and NG tube management
  10. Wound care, dressing changes

*Fill in the blanks below with the Nursing Resource Used to validate competency and the competency criteria:

Title: ______Publisher: ______Edition:______

Example:Title: Lippincott’s Nursing Procedures; Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; Edition: 6th Edition.

School Faculty validating nursing instructor competencies as named below:

______/______/______Date Signed: ____/____/____

Faculty SignaturePrint NameTitle

Nursing Instructor Nursing Instructor Signature:

______/______Date Signed: ____/____/____

Instructor SignaturePrint Name

Policies

Read the following policies. Sign your name in the right hand column after you have read them. When finished scan and upload to this document to the placement center.

1.4 Human Resources Policies
  • Dress & Appearance # 300-505 (Wear school uniform or lab coat.)
  • Confidentiality of Health Information #800-03
  • Use of Protected health Information for Research #100-110
  • Family Violence #500-06
  • Harassment #300-103
/ ______sign that you have read, understand, and will comply with the Human Resource Policies.
1.5 Administrative Policies
  • Alternative Communication Services #100-76
  • Interpretation and Translation #100-77
  • Spanish in house/Language Line/Sign Language Interpreter
  • Performance Improvement Policy: Policy # 100-30
  • Patient surveys
  • Response to comments and statistics collected
  • Service Recovery: Policy # 100-31
  • Tobacco Free Facilities # 900.01.04
/ ______sign that you have read, understand, and will comply with the Administrative Policies.
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