Medical-Surgical Nursing Clinical Instructor - Fort Pierce, FL

Description

The International College of Health Sciences (ICHS) is seeking a dedicated and skilled Medical-Surgical Nursing Clinical Instructor to join our academic team. This position offers an exciting opportunity for experienced medical-surgical nursing professionals to instruct and supervise nursing students in acute-care hospital settings. Our faculty plays a vital role in shaping the next generation of healthcare professionals, supporting ICHS’s mission to deliver innovative and quality education.

Located in the vibrant South Florida area, ICHS is dedicated to shaping the future of healthcare professionals through innovative educational approaches.

Purpose

The Medical-Surgical Nursing Clinical Instructor provides direct supervision, instruction, and evaluation to nursing students during clinical rotations in acute-care medical-surgical environments. This role ensures students develop the practical skills, clinical judgment, communication abilities, and professional behaviors necessary to provide safe, patient-centered nursing care to adult patients with a variety of medical and surgical conditions.

Location: Fort Pierce, Florida

Available Schedules: Clinical schedules may include days, evenings, nights, weekends, and/or twelve-hour shifts based on clinical-site and academic needs.

Responsibilities

Clinical Instruction & Supervision

• Supervise, mentor, and evaluate nursing students during clinical rotations in medical-surgical and other adult acute-care hospital units.
• Provide direct, on-site oversight of students while they deliver patient care, perform clinical skills, administer medications, complete documentation, and communicate with patients and members of the interdisciplinary care team.
• Demonstrate and teach best practices in medical-surgical nursing, including patient assessment, care planning, medication administration, clinical prioritization, patient education, infection prevention, safety, and discharge planning.
• Assist students in developing sound clinical judgment, time-management skills, delegation awareness, critical-thinking abilities, and appropriate escalation of patient-care concerns.
• Ensure student compliance with clinical-site policies and procedures, including patient-safety requirements, confidentiality standards, medication-administration protocols, documentation expectations, and infection-control practices.
• Monitor student performance and provide timely, constructive feedback to support student development and safe clinical practice.
• Foster a supportive, inclusive, and professional clinical learning environment that promotes student confidence, accountability, and competence.

Curriculum Implementation

• Collaborate with academic leadership and course faculty to implement medical-surgical clinical objectives aligned with course outcomes and program requirements.
• Integrate current evidence-based nursing practices, standards of care, and clinical guidelines into student instruction.
• Reinforce classroom and laboratory concepts through real-time clinical teaching, guided reflection, and post-conference discussions.
• Participate in the development, delivery, and evaluation of clinical learning activities, simulations, skills validation, and student remediation as needed.
• Evaluate student achievement of clinical competencies and communicate concerns, progress, and recommendations to the appropriate academic leadership.

Professional Communication & Collaboration

• Serve as a professional liaison among ICHS, clinical-site staff, students, faculty, and academic leadership.
• Maintain open, timely, and professional communication with unit leadership, hospital staff, faculty, and students.
• Collaborate with clinical-site personnel to support a productive learning environment while maintaining respect for patient-care operations and hospital workflows.
• Attend faculty meetings, orientation sessions, clinical-site meetings, training programs, and professional-development activities as required.

Administrative Duties

• Complete accurate and timely documentation of student attendance, clinical hours, performance, competencies, progress, and evaluations.
• Report student performance issues, patient-safety concerns, clinical-site concerns, and incidents to the appropriate academic leadership promptly.
• Maintain required clinical-faculty credentials, compliance documentation, licensure, and certifications in accordance with institutional and clinical-site requirements.
• Ensure compliance with institutional, state, accreditation, clinical-site, and regulatory standards governing nursing education and student clinical experiences.

Requirements

Qualifications

Education / Experience / Knowledge

• Unencumbered Florida or Compact State RN license required.
• Minimum of four years of clinical experience as a registered nurse required.
• Strong recent medical-surgical nursing experience in an acute-care hospital environment required.
• Recent experience caring for adult patients with complex medical and surgical conditions strongly preferred.
• Minimum of a Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) from an accredited school required.
• Experience in clinical instruction, preceptorship, charge nurse responsibilities, staff development, or nursing education preferred.
• Experience supervising, mentoring, coaching, or evaluating nursing students, new graduates, or newly hired nurses is strongly preferred.

Required Skills

• Strong current knowledge of medical-surgical nursing practice, including comprehensive patient assessment, medication administration, clinical prioritization, care planning, patient education, safety, infection prevention, and interdisciplinary collaboration.
• Ability to supervise nursing students in a fast-paced acute-care hospital environment while maintaining a high standard of patient safety and professional accountability.
• Ability to assess student performance, provide clear and constructive feedback, and support the development of clinical judgment and professional nursing behaviors.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to communicate effectively with students, faculty, hospital staff, patients, families, and interdisciplinary teams.
• Ability to respond appropriately to changing patient conditions and guide students in recognizing and escalating clinical concerns.
• Proficiency with electronic health-record documentation systems and Microsoft Office Suite.
• Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively with diverse teams and across multiple clinical sites.
• Commitment to upholding the highest standards of professional, ethical, and patient-centered nursing practice.

Additional Requirements

• Must reside within commuting distance of Fort Pierce, Florida.
• This is not a remote position; regular on-site presence at assigned clinical locations is required.
• Ability to work flexible hours, including early mornings, evenings, nights, weekends, and/or twelve-hour clinical shifts as needed.
• Must be able to satisfy all ICHS and clinical-site onboarding, health-screening, immunization, background-check, drug-screening, and compliance requirements.