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Summary:
The competent Nurse, in the Critical Care and similar clinical setting , practices independently and demonstrates an awareness of all relevant aspects of a situation. Provides routine and complex care, in accordance with patient treatment plans. Continues to develop the ability to cope with and manage contingencies of clinical nursing. Makes appropriate assignments and delegates to other care providers as a means to help manage the clinical situation.
Responsibilities:
Meets expectations of the applicable OneCHRISTUS Competencies: Leader of Self, Leader of Others, or Leader of Leaders.
Meets expectations for flexibility of assignment within the ministry.
Proactively provide assignment availability on a regular basis.
Able to be assigned to more than one unit.
Consistent with the ANA Scope and Standards of Practice, provides nursing care utilizing the nursing process, including assessment, diagnosis, planning, intervention and evaluation for assigned patients.
Addresses increasingly complex psychological, emotional, cultural, and social needs of patient and families in accordance with their level of practice.
Using the appropriate protocol, administers medications and treatments; monitors for side-effects and effectiveness of the treatment prescribed.
Documents patient history, symptoms, medication, and care given.
Assess learning needs and provides education to patients, family members and/or care givers; identify issues and resources.
CORE COMPETENCIES
Standard I: Utilizes the Nursing Process
Uses critical thinking skills to assess the basic physical, psychosocial, social, cultural, spiritual, and development needs of patient and families.
Communicates findings to appropriate healthcare team members.
Develops and uses a specific plan of care and modifies it to meet individual patient needs using evidence-based practice.
Implements patient care and therapeutic procedures; monitors and documents progression of treatment and teaching goals.
Evaluates the care and treatment(s) provided to the patient and the patient response to the care and treatment(s).
Performs timely reassessment and documentation.
Must be able to perform unit-specific competencies based on the specific patient care need for the designated unit's patient population.
Standard II. Patient Throughput & Patient Flow Process
Anticipates and plans for admission/discharge/transfer needs to facilitate patient flow.
Utilizes appropriate systems of communication and tools to facilitate the discharge process.
Coaches on tools and techniques for checking, cross checking and validating orders to ensure accuracy.
Standard III. Unit Operations
Plans, directs, and evaluates the overall nursing care and functions in a particular nursing unit during an assigned shift.
Demonstrates good stewardship in proper use and maintenance of equipment and Supplies.
Assesses departmental staffing needs; actively participates in resourcing efforts.
Educates and trains others on the operations, ethics, and regulations within the industry.
Standard IV. Safe Practice/Quality Care/Regulations
Incorporates patient safety practices/guidelines to promote a safe environment resulting in positive patient outcomes.
Demonstrates accountability for nursing research and quality improvement activities.
Provides evidence-based nursing care.
Communicates patient information effectively across the continuum of care.
Educates and trains others on the operations, ethics, and regulations within the industry.
Knowledge of federal, state and local healthcare-related laws and regulations; ability to comply with these in healthcare practices and activities.
TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES
Clinical Policies and Standards
Follows a specific set of standards and associated clinical procedures
Analyzes policy and standards documentation and ensures organizational compliance..
Provides feedback for improvement of procedures.
Assists in the development and implementation of specific procedures.
Works with control and monitoring mechanisms, tools and techniques.
Health Information Documentation
Shares experiences with maintaining paper and electronic patient documentation.
Walk through the steps and procedures for receiving, validating and updating patient records.
Describes the flow of information between various stations or units.
Discusses the functions, features and document flow of electronic documentation.
Transcribes verbal orders; explains techniques forensuring their accuracy.
Explains health information documentation best practices and their rationale across health care practices.
Medical Equipment
Describes experience with basic medical equipment used in own unit or facility.
Uses standard diagnostic tools and techniques to resolves common equipment problems.
Educates patients about the appropriate use of home medical equipment.
Ensures that all equipment and related supplies are in proper working order prior to use to ensure patient safety.
Inspects, troubleshoots and evaluates incoming equipment.
Medical Order Processing
Shares experiences with processing medical orders for one or more groups of patients or conditions.
Describes functions and features of the system used to enter, validate, update and forward medical orders.
Discusses common errors, their sources and procedures for correcting.
Explains considerations for entering and following standing orders.
Differentiates between standing orders and preprinted orders and considerations for each.
Patient Chart Reading and Interpretation
Describes experiences in reading and interpreting patient charts for patients on unit and under own care.
Reviews patients’ charts for completion and accuracy; identifies and alerts to mistakes or omissions.
Recognizes unexpected readings and alerts nursing or medical staff.
Relates examples of mis-readings or misinterpretations and lessons learned.
Reviews, discusses and validates own interpretation with others.
Patient Safety
Shares experiences with ensuring safety for one or more patient groups or settings.
Explains key features of safety guidelines and procedures for those groups and settings.
Listens and responds to safety inquiries from patients and family members.
Recognizes and addresses physiological and psychological signs of problems.
Describes considerations for patients who can cause to harm to self, versus harm to others.
Utilizes appropriate systems to document misses and near misses, participates in immediate investigating, analysis and reporting in real-time.
Job Requirements:
Education/Skills
~ Bachelor of Science Degree in Nursing, preferred
Experience
~ Minimum of 2 years of combined experience required in both the Critical Care setting and one other specialty (e.G. Medsurg, Telemetry, IMC or Emergency)
~5 years of experience preferred
Licenses, Registrations, or Certifications
BLS required
ACLS required
RN License in the state of employment or compact required
PALS is required at CHRISTUS Children’s Hospital
NRP is required at CHRISTUS Children’s Hospital
Work Schedule:
7PM - 7AM
Work Type:
Full Time
The competent Nurse, in the same or similar clinical setting, practices independently and demonstrates an awareness of all relevant aspects of a situation. Provides routine and complex care, with the ability to on long-range goals or plans. Continues to develop the ability to cope with and manage contingencies of clinical nursing. Makes appropriate assignments and delegates to other care providers as a means to help manage the clinical situation.
Responsibilities:
Meets expectations of the applicable OneCHRISTUS Competencies: Leader of Self, Leader of Others, or Leader of Leaders.Consistent with the ANA Scope and Standards of Practice, provides nursing care utilizing the nursing process, including assessment, diagnosis, planning, intervention and evaluation for assigned patients.Addresses increasingly complex psychological, emotional, cultural, and social needs of patient and families in accordance with their level of practice.Using the appropriate protocol, administers medications and treatments; monitors for side-effects and effectiveness of the treatment prescribed.Documents patient history, symptoms, medication, and care given.Assess learning needs and provides education to patients, family members and/or care givers; identify issues and resources.
CORE COMPETENCIES Standard I: Utilizes the Nursing Process Uses critical thinking skills to assess the basic physical, psychosocial, social, cultural, spiritual, and development needs of patient and familiesCommunicates findings to appropriate healthcare team membersDevelops and uses a specific plan of care and modifies it to meet individual patient needs using evidence-based practiceImplements patient care and therapeutic procedures; monitors and documents progression of treatment and teaching goalsEvaluates the care and treatment(s) provided to the patient and the patient response to the care and treatment(s)Performs timely reassessment and documentationMust be able to perform unit-specific competencies based on the specific patient care need for the designated unit's patient population
Standard II. Patient Throughput & Patient Flow Process Anticipates and plans for admission/discharge/transfer needs to facilitate patient flowUtilizes appropriate systems of communication and tools to facilitate the discharge processCoaches on tools and techniques for checking, cross checking and validating orders to ensure accuracy
Standard III. Unit Operations Plans, directs, and evaluates the overall nursing care and functions in a particular nursing unit during an assigned shiftDemonstrates good stewardship in proper use and maintenance of equipment and SuppliesAssesses departmental staffing needs; actively participates in resourcing efforts.Educates and trains others on the operations, ethics, and regulations within the industry
Standard IV. Safe Practice/Quality Care/Regulations Incorporates patient safety practices/guidelines to promote a safe environment resulting in positive patient outcomesDemonstrates accountability for nursing research and quality improvement activitiesProvides evidence-based nursing careCommunicates patient information effectively across the continuum of careEducates and trains others on the operations, ethics, and regulations within the industryKnowledge of federal, state and local healthcare-related laws and regulations; ability to comply with these in healthcare practices and activities
TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES Clinical Policies and Standards Follows a specific set of standards and associated clinical proceduresAnalyzes policy and standards documentation and ensures organizational complianceProvides feedback for improvement of proceduresAssists in the development and implementation of specific proceduresWorks with control and monitoring mechanisms, tools and techniques
Health Information Documentation Shares experiences with maintaining paper and electronic patient documentationWalk through the steps and procedures for receiving, validating and updating patient recordsDescribes the flow of information between various stations or unitsDiscusses the functions, features and document flow of electronic documentationTranscribes verbal orders; explains techniques for ensuring their accuracyExplains health information documentation best practices and their rationale across health care practices
Medical Equipment Describes experience with basic medical equipment used in own unit or facilityUses standard diagnostic tools and techniques to resolves common equipment problemsEducates patients about the appropriate use of home medical equipmentEnsures that all equipment and related supplies are in proper working order prior to use to ensure patient safetyInspects, troubleshoots and evaluates incoming equipment
Medical Order Processing Shares experiences with processing medical orders for one or more groups of patients or conditionsDescribes functions and features of the system used to enter, validate, update and forward medical ordersDiscusses common errors, their sources and procedures for correctingExplains considerations for entering and following standing ordersDifferentiates between standing orders and preprinted orders and considerations for each
Patient Chart Reading and Interpretation Describes experiences in reading and interpreting patient charts for patients on unit and under own careReviews patients’ charts for completion and accuracy; identifies and alerts to mistakes or omissionsRecognizes unexpected readings and alerts nursing or medical staffRelates examples of mis-readings or misinterpretations and lessons learnedReviews, discusses and validates own interpretation with others
Patient Safety Shares experiences with ensuring safety for one or more patient groups or settingsExplains key features of safety guidelines and procedures for those groups and settingsListens and responds to safety inquiries from patients and family membersRecognizes and addresses physiological and psychological signs of problemsDescribes considerations for patients who can cause to harm to self, versus harm to othersUtilizes appropriate systems to document misses and near misses, participates in immediate investigating, analysis and reporting in real-time Job Requirements:
Education/Skills Bachelor of Science Degree in Nursing, preferred Experience 1 year of experience in the related nursing specialty preferred Licenses, Registrations, or Certifications BLS requiredRN License in state of employment or compact In accordance with the CHRISTUS Health License, Certification and Registration Verification Policy, all Associates are required to obtain the required certifications for their respective positions within the designated time frame.
Work Schedule:
MULTIPLE SHIFTS AVAILABLE
Work Type:
Full Time
CHRISTUS Spohn Hospital Corpus Christi - Shoreline overlooking Corpus Christi Bay is the largest and foremost acute care medical facility in the region, with a full range of diagnostic and surgical specialty services in cardiac, cancer, and stroke care. It is the leading emergency facility in the area with a Level II Trauma Center in the Coastal Bend, staffed with physicians and nurses specially trained in emergency services.
- The Pavilion and North Tower house a state-of-the-art emergency department, ICU, Cardiac Cath Lab and surgical suites
- A teaching facility in affiliation with the Texas A&M University System Health and Science Center College of Medicine
- Accredited Chest Pain Center
- Accredited Joint Commission Stroke Team
Summary:
The competent Nurse, in the Critical Care and similar clinical setting, practices independently and demonstrates an awareness of all relevant aspects of a situation. Provides routine and complex care, in accordance with patient treatment plans. Continues to develop the ability to cope with and manage contingencies of clinical nursing. Makes appropriate assignments and delegates to other care providers as a means to help manage the clinical situation.
Responsibilities:
- Meets expectations of the applicable OneCHRISTUS Competencies: Leader of Self, Leader of Others, or Leader of Leaders.
- Meets expectations for flexibility of assignment within the ministry.
- Proactively provide assignment availability on a regular basis.
- Able to be assigned to more than one unit.
- Consistent with the ANA Scope and Standards of Practice, provides nursing care utilizing the nursing process, including assessment, diagnosis, planning, intervention and evaluation for assigned patients.
- Addresses increasingly complex psychological, emotional, cultural, and social needs of patient and families in accordance with their level of practice.
- Using the appropriate protocol, administers medications and treatments; monitors for side-effects and effectiveness of the treatment prescribed.
- Documents patient history, symptoms, medication, and care given.
- Assess learning needs and provides education to patients, family members and/or care givers; identify issues and resources.
CORE COMPETENCIES
Standard I: Utilizes the Nursing Process
- Uses critical thinking skills to assess the basic physical, psychosocial, social, cultural, spiritual, and development needs of patient and families.
- Communicates findings to appropriate healthcare team members.
- Develops and uses a specific plan of care and modifies it to meet individual patient needs using evidence-based practice.
- Implements patient care and therapeutic procedures; monitors and documents progression of treatment and teaching goals.
- Evaluates the care and treatment(s) provided to the patient and the patient response to the care and treatment(s).
- Performs timely reassessment and documentation.
- Must be able to perform unit-specific competencies based on the specific patient care need for the designated unit's patient population.
Standard II. Patient Throughput & Patient Flow Process
- Anticipates and plans for admission/discharge/transfer needs to facilitate patient flow.
- Utilizes appropriate systems of communication and tools to facilitate the discharge process.
- Coaches on tools and techniques for checking, cross checking and validating orders to ensure accuracy.
Standard III. Unit Operations
- Plans, directs, and evaluates the overall nursing care and functions in a particular nursing unit during an assigned shift.
- Demonstrates good stewardship in proper use and maintenance of equipment and Supplies.
- Assesses departmental staffing needs; actively participates in resourcing efforts.
- Educates and trains others on the operations, ethics, and regulations within the industry.
Standard IV. Safe Practice/Quality Care/Regulations
- Incorporates patient safety practices/guidelines to promote a safe environment resulting in positive patient outcomes.
- Demonstrates accountability for nursing research and quality improvement activities.
- Provides evidence-based nursing care.
- Communicates patient information effectively across the continuum of care.
- Educates and trains others on the operations, ethics, and regulations within the industry.
- Knowledge of federal, state and local healthcare-related laws and regulations; ability to comply with these in healthcare practices and activities.
TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES
Clinical Policies and Standards
- Follows a specific set of standards and associated clinical procedures
- Analyzes policy and standards documentation and ensures organizational compliance..
- Provides feedback for improvement of procedures.
- Assists in the development and implementation of specific procedures.
- Works with control and monitoring mechanisms, tools and techniques.
Health Information Documentation
- Shares experiences with maintaining paper and electronic patient documentation.
- Walk through the steps and procedures for receiving, validating and updating patient records.
- Describes the flow of information between various stations or units.
- Discusses the functions, features and document flow of electronic documentation.
- Transcribes verbal orders; explains techniques for ensuring their accuracy.
- Explains health information documentation best practices and their rationale across health care practices.
Medical Equipment
- Describes experience with basic medical equipment used in own unit or facility.
- Uses standard diagnostic tools and techniques to resolves common equipment problems.
- Educates patients about the appropriate use of home medical equipment.
- Ensures that all equipment and related supplies are in proper working order prior to use to ensure patient safety.
- Inspects, troubleshoots and evaluates incoming equipment.
Medical Order Processing
- Shares experiences with processing medical orders for one or more groups of patients or conditions.
- Describes functions and features of the system used to enter, validate, update and forward medical orders.
- Discusses common errors, their sources and procedures for correcting.
- Explains considerations for entering and following standing orders.
- Differentiates between standing orders and preprinted orders and considerations for each.
Patient Chart Reading and Interpretation
- Describes experiences in reading and interpreting patient charts for patients on unit and under own care.
- Reviews patients' charts for completion and accuracy; identifies and alerts to mistakes or omissions.
- Recognizes unexpected readings and alerts nursing or medical staff.
- Relates examples of mis-readings or misinterpretations and lessons learned.
- Reviews, discusses and validates own interpretation with others.
Patient Safety
- Shares experiences with ensuring safety for one or more patient groups or settings.
- Explains key features of safety guidelines and procedures for those groups and settings.
- Listens and responds to safety inquiries from patients and family members.
- Recognizes and addresses physiological and psychological signs of problems.
- Describes considerations for patients who can cause to harm to self, versus harm to others.
- Utilizes appropriate systems to document misses and near misses, participates in immediate investigating, analysis and reporting in real-time.
Job Requirements:
Education/Skills
- Bachelor of Science Degree in Nursing, preferred
Experience
- Minimum of 2 years of combined experience required in both the Critical Care setting and one other specialty (e.g. Medsurg, Telemetry, IMC or Emergency)
- 5 years of experience preferred
Licenses, Registrations, or Certifications
- BLS required
- ACLS required
- RN License in the state of employment or compact required
- PALS is required at CHRISTUS Children's Hospital
- NRP is required at CHRISTUS Children's Hospital
Work Schedule:
7PM - 7AM
Work Type:
Full Time
Summary:
The competent Nurse, in the Medsurg or Telemetry clinical setting, practices independently and demonstrates an awareness of all relevant aspects of a situation. Provides routine and complex care, in accordance with patient treatment plans. Continues to develop the ability to cope with and manage contingencies of clinical nursing. Makes appropriate assignments and delegates to other care providers as a means to help manage the clinical situation.
*This is a PREMIUM PAY position.*
Responsibilities:
Meets expectations of the applicable OneCHRISTUS Competencies: Leader of Self, Leader of Others, or Leader of Leaders.
Meets expectations for flexibility of assignment within the ministry.
Proactively provide assignment availability on a regular basis.
Able to be assigned to more than one unit.
Consistent with the ANA Scope and Standards of Practice, provides nursing care utilizing the nursing process, including assessment, diagnosis, planning, intervention and evaluation for assigned patients.
Addresses increasingly complex psychological, emotional, cultural, and social needs of patient and families in accordance with their level of practice.
Using the appropriate protocol, administers medications and treatments; monitors for side-effects and effectiveness of the treatment prescribed.
Documents patient history, symptoms, medication, and care given.
Assess learning needs and provides education to patients, family members and/or care givers; identify issues and resources.
CORE COMPETENCIES
Standard I: Utilizes the Nursing Process
Uses critical thinking skills to assess the basic physical, psychosocial, social, cultural, spiritual, and development needs of patient and families.
Communicates findings to appropriate healthcare team members.
Develops and uses a specific plan of care and modifies it to meet individual patient needs using evidence-based practice.
Implements patient care and therapeutic procedures; monitors and documents progression of treatment and teaching goals.
Evaluates the care and treatment(s) provided to the patient and the patient response to the care and treatment(s).
Performs timely reassessment and documentation.
Must be able to perform unit-specific competencies based on the specific patient care need for the designated unit's patient population.
Standard II. Patient Throughput & Patient Flow Process
Anticipates and plans for admission/discharge/transfer needs to facilitate patient flow.
Utilizes appropriate systems of communication and tools to facilitate the discharge process.
Coaches on tools and techniques for checking, cross checking and validating orders to ensure accuracy.
Standard III. Unit Operations
Plans, directs, and evaluates the overall nursing care and functions in a particular nursing unit during an assigned shift.
Demonstrates good stewardship in proper use and maintenance of equipment and Supplies.
Assesses departmental staffing needs; actively participates in resourcing efforts.
Educates and trains others on the operations, ethics, and regulations within the industry.
Standard IV. Safe Practice/Quality Care/Regulations
Incorporates patient safety practices/guidelines to promote a safe environment resulting in positive patient outcomes.
Demonstrates accountability for nursing research and quality improvement activities.
Provides evidence-based nursing care.
Communicates patient information effectively across the continuum of care.
Educates and trains others on the operations, ethics, and regulations within the industry.
Knowledge of federal, state and local healthcare-related laws and regulations; ability to comply with these in healthcare practices and activities.
TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES
Clinical Policies and Standards
Follows a specific set of standards and associated clinical procedures.
Analyzes policy and standards documentation and ensures organizational compliance.
Provides feedback for improvement of procedures.
Assists in the development and implementation of specific procedures.
Works with control and monitoring mechanisms, tools and techniques.
Health Information Documentation
Shares experiences with maintaining paper and electronic patient documentation.
Walk through the steps and procedures for receiving, validating and updating patient records.
Describes the flow of information between various stations or units.
Discusses the functions, features and document flow of electronic documentation.
Transcribes verbal orders; explains techniques for ensuring their accuracy.
Explains health information documentation best practices and their rationale across health care practices.
Medical Equipment
Describes experience with basic medical equipment used in own unit or facility.
Uses standard diagnostic tools and techniques to resolves common equipment problems.
Educates patients about the appropriate use of home medical equipment.
Ensures that all equipment and related supplies are in proper working order prior to use to ensure patient safety.
Inspects, troubleshoots and evaluates incoming equipment.
Medical Order Processing
Shares experiences with processing medical orders for one or more groups of patients or conditions.
Describes functions and features of the system used to enter, validate, update and forward medical orders.
Discusses common errors, their sources and procedures for correcting.
Explains considerations for entering and following standing orders.
Differentiates between standing orders and preprinted orders and considerations for each.
Patient Chart Reading and Interpretation
Describes experiences in reading and interpreting patient charts for patients on unit and under own care.
Reviews patients’ charts for completion and accuracy; identifies and alerts to mistakes or omissions.
Recognizes unexpected readings and alerts nursing or medical staff.
Relates examples of mis-readings or misinterpretations and lessons learned.
Reviews, discusses and validates own interpretation with others.
Patient Safety
Shares experiences with ensuring safety for one or more patient groups or settings.
Explains key features of safety guidelines and procedures for those groups and settings.
Listens and responds to safety inquiries from patients and family members.
Recognizes and addresses physiological and psychological signs of problems.
Describes considerations for patients who can cause to harm to self, versus harm to others.
Utilizes appropriate systems to document misses and near misses, participates in immediate investigating, analysis and reporting in real-time.
Job Requirements:
Education/Skills
~ Bachelor of Science Degree in Nursing, preferred
Experience
~ Minimum of 2 years of combined experience required in Medsurg and Telemetry
~5 years of experience preferred
Licenses, Registrations, or Certifications
BLS required
ACLS required
RN License in the state of employment or compact required
Work Schedule:
MULTIPLE SHIFTS AVAILABLE
Work Type:
Full Time
Summary:
The competent Nurse, in the Medsurg or Telemetry clinical setting, practices independently and demonstrates an awareness of all relevant aspects of a situation. Provides routine and complex care, in accordance with patient treatment plans. Continues to develop the ability to cope with and manage contingencies of clinical nursing. Makes appropriate assignments and delegates to other care providers as a means to help manage the clinical situation.
*This is a PREMIUM PAY position.*
Responsibilities:
Meets expectations of the applicable OneCHRISTUS Competencies: Leader of Self, Leader of Others, or Leader of Leaders.
Meets expectations for flexibility of assignment within the ministry.
Proactively provide assignment availability on a regular basis.
Able to be assigned to more than one unit.
Consistent with the ANA Scope and Standards of Practice, provides nursing care utilizing the nursing process, including assessment, diagnosis, planning, intervention and evaluation for assigned patients.
Addresses increasingly complex psychological, emotional, cultural, and social needs of patient and families in accordance with their level of practice.
Using the appropriate protocol, administers medications and treatments; monitors for side-effects and effectiveness of the treatment prescribed.
Documents patient history, symptoms, medication, and care given.
Assess learning needs and provides education to patients, family members and/or care givers; identify issues and resources.
CORE COMPETENCIES
Standard I: Utilizes the Nursing Process
Uses critical thinking skills to assess the basic physical, psychosocial, social, cultural, spiritual, and development needs of patient and families.
Communicates findings to appropriate healthcare team members.
Develops and uses a specific plan of care and modifies it to meet individual patient needs using evidence-based practice.
Implements patient care and therapeutic procedures; monitors and documents progression of treatment and teaching goals.
Evaluates the care and treatment(s) provided to the patient and the patient response to the care and treatment(s).
Performs timely reassessment and documentation.
Must be able to perform unit-specific competencies based on the specific patient care need for the designated unit's patient population.
Standard II. Patient Throughput & Patient Flow Process
Anticipates and plans for admission/discharge/transfer needs to facilitate patient flow.
Utilizes appropriate systems of communication and tools to facilitate the discharge process.
Coaches on tools and techniques for checking, cross checking and validating orders to ensure accuracy.
Standard III. Unit Operations
Plans, directs, and evaluates the overall nursing care and functions in a particular nursing unit during an assigned shift.
Demonstrates good stewardship in proper use and maintenance of equipment and Supplies.
Assesses departmental staffing needs; actively participates in resourcing efforts.
Educates and trains others on the operations, ethics, and regulations within the industry.
Standard IV. Safe Practice/Quality Care/Regulations
Incorporates patient safety practices/guidelines to promote a safe environment resulting in positive patient outcomes.
Demonstrates accountability for nursing research and quality improvement activities.
Provides evidence-based nursing care.
Communicates patient information effectively across the continuum of care.
Educates and trains others on the operations, ethics, and regulations within the industry.
Knowledge of federal, state and local healthcare-related laws and regulations; ability to comply with these in healthcare practices and activities.
TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES
Clinical Policies and Standards
Follows a specific set of standards and associated clinical procedures.
Analyzes policy and standards documentation and ensures organizational compliance.
Provides feedback for improvement of procedures.
Assists in the development and implementation of specific procedures.
Works with control and monitoring mechanisms, tools and techniques.
Health Information Documentation
Shares experiences with maintaining paper and electronic patient documentation.
Walk through the steps and procedures for receiving, validating and updating patient records.
Describes the flow of information between various stations or units.
Discusses the functions, features and document flow of electronic documentation.
Transcribes verbal orders; explains techniques for ensuring their accuracy.
Explains health information documentation best practices and their rationale across health care practices.
Medical Equipment
Describes experience with basic medical equipment used in own unit or facility.
Uses standard diagnostic tools and techniques to resolves common equipment problems.
Educates patients about the appropriate use of home medical equipment.
Ensures that all equipment and related supplies are in proper working order prior to use to ensure patient safety.
Inspects, troubleshoots and evaluates incoming equipment.
Medical Order Processing
Shares experiences with processing medical orders for one or more groups of patients or conditions.
Describes functions and features of the system used to enter, validate, update and forward medical orders.
Discusses common errors, their sources and procedures for correcting.
Explains considerations for entering and following standing orders.
Differentiates between standing orders and preprinted orders and considerations for each.
Patient Chart Reading and Interpretation
Describes experiences in reading and interpreting patient charts for patients on unit and under own care.
Reviews patients’ charts for completion and accuracy; identifies and alerts to mistakes or omissions.
Recognizes unexpected readings and alerts nursing or medical staff.
Relates examples of mis-readings or misinterpretations and lessons learned.
Reviews, discusses and validates own interpretation with others.
Patient Safety
Shares experiences with ensuring safety for one or more patient groups or settings.
Explains key features of safety guidelines and procedures for those groups and settings.
Listens and responds to safety inquiries from patients and family members.
Recognizes and addresses physiological and psychological signs of problems.
Describes considerations for patients who can cause to harm to self, versus harm to others.
Utilizes appropriate systems to document misses and near misses, participates in immediate investigating, analysis and reporting in real-time.
Job Requirements:
Education/Skills
~ Bachelor of Science Degree in Nursing, preferred
Experience
~ Minimum of 2 years of combined experience required in Medsurg and Telemetry
~5 years of experience preferred
Licenses, Registrations, or Certifications
BLS required
ACLS required
RN License in the state of employment or compact required
Work Schedule:
MULTIPLE SHIFTS AVAILABLE
Work Type:
Full Time
JOB SUMMARY
The Registered Nurse (RN) is a licensed professional who uses the BSWH nursing professional practice model to coordinate patient care delivery by the health care team. Using the nursing process, the RN assesses the patient, identifies nursing diagnoses based on responses to health problems, develops and implements an individualized plan of care, and evaluates the patient's response. The RN promotes safe passage for their patients by using knowledge of patient needs and the healthcare environment to assist patients to transition through the healthcare encounter without any preventable complications or delays. The RN delegates interventions to health care personnel based on the Texas Nursing Practice Act, each patient's condition and the competencies of the employee.
RN job is to be used for RNs in hospital inpatient and outpatient departments with 24X7 staffing which include those departments with on-call staffing on the off shifts. Examples of hospital inpatient and outpatient procedural areas: GI Lab, Pain Management, Dialysis, Infusion Centers and IV Services.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS OF THE ROLE
Clinical Judgment: Using clinical reasoning, conducts accurate clinical assessments according to practice standards. Identifies and prioritizes patient and family needs. Develops, implements and evaluates the nursing plan of care. Modifies plan to meet clinical outcomes.
Clinical Inquiry: Systematically evaluates the quality and effectiveness of nursing practice, including, but not limited to, nursing sensitive indicators. Supports evidence-based practice changes through research utilization and experiential learning. Participates in quality/performance improvement initiatives.
Caring Practices: Creates a compassionate, supportive, safe and therapeutic environment for patients, families and staff. Develops therapeutic relationships with patient and family and maintains appropriate boundaries. Manages both emotional and physical pain with the aim of promoting comfort and healing and preventing unnecessary suffering.
Response to Diversity: Recognizes, appreciates and incorporates a patient's and family's unique differences, such as culture, spiritual beliefs, gender, race, ethnicity, lifestyle, socioeconomic status, age, and values, into an individualized plan of care.
Advocacy and Moral Agency: Preserves and protects the confidentiality, autonomy, dignity and rights of patient and family and represents their concerns. Creates an individualized plan that accurately reflects patient and family values and goals. Identifies and helps resolve ethical and clinical concerns.
Facilitation of Learning: Facilitates learning for patients and families, nursing staff, other members of the health care team and community; integrating appropriate education throughout the continuum of care to help them participate and/or make informed decisions about their health care and treatments, including health promotion and disease prevention. Assesses and documents learning needs and outcomes.
Collaboration: Works collaboratively and interdependently with colleagues and community to develop and implement an integrated plan of care. Open and sensitive to all team members' unique contributions. Delegates tasks and care to appropriate staff and ensures timely follow-up.
Systems Thinking: Uses strategies and available resources for problem-solving for patients, family and staff. Recognizes that resources are limited and considers factors related to safety, effectiveness and efficiency in planning and delivering patient care.
Professionalism: Improves nursing practice and the work environment through participating in shared governance and decision-making processes and meaningfully recognizing the contributions of others. Participates in the staffing process from education and planning to evaluation. Identifies personal goals and commits to ongoing professional growth through continuing education, networking with professional colleagues, membership and involvement in professional nursing organizations, self-study, professional reading, certification and seeking advanced degrees. Contributes to the professional development of peers, colleagues and others. Demonstrates commitment to community service.
KEY SUCCESS FACTORS
Knowledge and understanding of nursing and patient care standards and procedures.
Knowledge of laws, rules and regulations; standards and guidelines of certifying and accrediting bodies; hospital and department/unit standards, protocols, policies and procedures governing the provision of nursing care applicable to the area of assignment.
Knowledge of medical terminology; principles and practices of health promotion, risk reduction, illness and disease prevention and management; medications and drugs, common dosages, their physical and physiological effects, and possible adverse reactions.
Knowledge of medical and professional nursing ethics and patient privacy rights.
Must be able to communicate thoughts clearly, both verbally and in writing.
Interpersonal skills to interact with a wide-range of constituencies.
Must have critical thinking and problem-solving skills.
Ability to observe changes in the medical condition of patients and effectively communicate these changes to other nursing staff members and physicians/providers.
Ability to provide age-specific, quality, patient-centered care to all patients through the nursing process and standards of nursing practice with sensitivity and respect for the diversity of human experience and to develop, evaluate, implement and, as necessary, modify a patient care plan to meet the needs of individual patients.
General computer skills, including but not limited to: Microsoft Office, information security, scheduling and payroll systems, electronic medical documentation, and email.
BENEFITS
Our competitive benefits package includes the following
- Immediate eligibility for health and welfare benefits
- 401(k) savings plan with dollar-for-dollar match up to 5%
- Tuition Reimbursement
- PTO accrual beginning Day 1
Note: Benefits may vary based upon position type and/or level
QUALIFICATIONS
- EDUCATION - Grad of an Accredited Program
- MAJOR - Nursing
- MAJOR - Nursing
- MAJOR - Nursing
- EXPERIENCE - 2 Years of Experience
- CERTIFICATION/LICENSE/REGISTRATION -
Registered Nurse (RN)
Basic Life Support (BLS): BLS or BLS within 30 days of hire or transfer.
Baylor Scott & White Continuing Care Hospital
Job Title: RN
Location: Temple, TX
Job Status/Hours: Full-Time, Days (3) 12-hour shifts per week
Department: Skilled Nursing Unit
Unit Specifics: 23 beds, 5:1 nurse/patient ratio
Baylor Scott & White Continuing Care Hospital – Temple is a 48-bed, highly advanced medical facility offering private treatment rooms and 24-hour access to a team of physicians located in Temple, Texas.
Our modern, patient-focused facility delivers comprehensive therapies for patients requiring extended hospital stays. Rather than chronic care, the Baylor Scott & White Continuing Care Hospital provides acute care, which involves active but short-term treatment following a severe medical condition or during recovery from surgery. It is also home to our skilled nursing facility.
CCH is like a small family. Staff and inter-disciplinary teams know and care for each other. We work hard but have fun at the same time. Every decision made is in the best interest of staff and the patients
JOB SUMMARY
The Registered Nurse (RN) is a licensed professional who uses the BSWH nursing professional practice model to coordinate patient care delivery by the health care team. Using the nursing process, the RN assesses the patient, identifies nursing diagnoses based on responses to health problems, develops and implements an individualized plan of care, and evaluates the patient's response. The RN promotes safe passage for their patients by using knowledge of patient needs and the healthcare environment to assist patients to transition through the healthcare encounter without any preventable complications or delays. The RN delegates interventions to health care personnel based on the Texas Nursing Practice Act, each patient's condition and the competencies of the employee.
RN job is to be used for RNs in hospital inpatient and outpatient departments with 24X7 staffing which include those departments with on-call staffing on the off shifts. Examples of hospital inpatient and outpatient procedural areas: GI Lab, Pain Management, Dialysis, Infusion Centers and IV Services.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS OF THE ROLE
Clinical Judgment: Using clinical reasoning, conducts accurate clinical assessments according to practice standards. Identifies and prioritizes patient and family needs. Develops, implements and evaluates the nursing plan of care. Modifies plan to meet clinical outcomes.
Clinical Inquiry: Systematically evaluates the quality and effectiveness of nursing practice, including, but not limited to, nursing sensitive indicators. Supports evidence-based practice changes through research utilization and experiential learning. Participates in quality/performance improvement initiatives.
Caring Practices: Creates a compassionate, supportive, safe and therapeutic environment for patients, families and staff. Develops therapeutic relationships with patient and family and maintains appropriate boundaries. Manages both emotional and physical pain with the aim of promoting comfort and healing and preventing unnecessary suffering.
Response to Diversity: Recognizes, appreciates and incorporates a patient's and family's unique differences, such as culture, spiritual beliefs, gender, race, ethnicity, lifestyle, socioeconomic status, age, and values, into an individualized plan of care.
Advocacy and Moral Agency: Preserves and protects the confidentiality, autonomy, dignity and rights of patient and family and represents their concerns. Creates an individualized plan that accurately reflects patient and family values and goals. Identifies and helps resolve ethical and clinical concerns.
Facilitation of Learning: Facilitates learning for patients and families, nursing staff, other members of the health care team and community; integrating appropriate education throughout the continuum of care to help them participate and/or make informed decisions about their health care and treatments, including health promotion and disease prevention. Assesses and documents learning needs and outcomes.
Collaboration: Works collaboratively and interdependently with colleagues and community to develop and implement an integrated plan of care. Open and sensitive to all team members' unique contributions. Delegates tasks and care to appropriate staff and ensures timely follow-up.
Systems Thinking: Uses strategies and available resources for problem-solving for patients, family and staff. Recognizes that resources are limited and considers factors related to safety, effectiveness and efficiency in planning and delivering patient care.
Professionalism: Improves nursing practice and the work environment through participating in shared governance and decision-making processes and meaningfully recognizing the contributions of others. Participates in the staffing process from education and planning to evaluation. Identifies personal goals and commits to ongoing professional growth through continuing education, networking with professional colleagues, membership and involvement in professional nursing organizations, self-study, professional reading, certification and seeking advanced degrees. Contributes to the professional development of peers, colleagues and others. Demonstrates commitment to community service.
KEY SUCCESS FACTORS
Knowledge and understanding of nursing and patient care standards and procedures.
Knowledge of laws, rules and regulations; standards and guidelines of certifying and accrediting bodies; hospital and department/unit standards, protocols, policies and procedures governing the provision of nursing care applicable to the area of assignment.
Knowledge of medical terminology; principles and practices of health promotion, risk reduction, illness and disease prevention and management; medications and drugs, common dosages, their physical and physiological effects, and possible adverse reactions.
Knowledge of medical and professional nursing ethics and patient privacy rights.
Must be able to communicate thoughts clearly, both verbally and in writing.
Interpersonal skills to interact with a wide-range of constituencies.
Must have critical thinking and problem-solving skills.
Ability to observe changes in the medical condition of patients and effectively communicate these changes to other nursing staff members and physicians/providers.
Ability to provide age-specific, quality, patient-centered care to all patients through the nursing process and standards of nursing practice with sensitivity and respect for the diversity of human experience and to develop, evaluate, implement and, as necessary, modify a patient care plan to meet the needs of individual patients.
General computer skills, including but not limited to: Microsoft Office, information security, scheduling and payroll systems, electronic medical documentation, and email.
BENEFITS
Our competitive benefits package includes the following
- Immediate eligibility for health and welfare benefits
- 401(k) savings plan with dollar-for-dollar match up to 5%
- Tuition Reimbursement
- PTO accrual beginning Day 1
Note: Benefits may vary based upon position type and/or level
QUALIFICATIONS
- EDUCATION - Grad of an Accredited Program
- MAJOR - Nursing
- MAJOR - Nursing
- MAJOR - Nursing
- EXPERIENCE - 2 Years of Experience
- CERTIFICATION/LICENSE/REGISTRATION -
Registered Nurse (RN)
Basic Life Support (BLS): BLS or BLS within 30 days of hire or transfer.
Provides routine and complex care, in accordance with patient treatment plans.
Continues to develop the ability to cope with and manage contingencies of clinical nursing.
Makes appropriate assignments and delegates to other care providers as a means to help manage the clinical situation.
Responsibilities: Meets expectations of the applicable OneCHRISTUS Competencies: Leader of Self, Leader of Others, or Leader of Leaders.
Meets expectations for flexibility of assignment within the ministry.
Proactively provide assignment availability on a regular basis.
Able to be assigned to more than one unit.
Consistent with the ANA Scope and Standards of Practice, provides nursing care utilizing the nursing process, including assessment, diagnosis, planning, intervention and evaluation for assigned patients.
Addresses increasingly complex psychological, emotional, cultural, and social needs of patient and families in accordance with their level of practice.
Using the appropriate protocol, administers medications and treatments; monitors for side-effects and effectiveness of the treatment prescribed.
Documents patient history, symptoms, medication, and care given.
Assess learning needs and provides education to patients, family members and/or care givers; identify issues and resources.
CORE COMPETENCIES Standard I: Utilizes the Nursing Process Uses critical thinking skills to assess the basic physical, psychosocial, social, cultural, spiritual, and development needs of patient and families.
Communicates findings to appropriate healthcare team members.
Develops and uses a specific plan of care and modifies it to meet individual patient needs using evidence-based practice.
Implements patient care and therapeutic procedures; monitors and documents progression of treatment and teaching goals.
Evaluates the care and treatment(s) provided to the patient and the patient response to the care and treatment(s).
Performs timely reassessment and documentation.
Must be able to perform unit-specific competencies based on the specific patient care need for the designated unit's patient population.
Standard II.
Patient Throughput & Patient Flow Process Anticipates and plans for admission/discharge/transfer needs to facilitate patient flow.
Utilizes appropriate systems of communication and tools to facilitate the discharge process.
Coaches on tools and techniques for checking, cross checking and validating orders to ensure accuracy.
Standard III.
Unit Operations Plans, directs, and evaluates the overall nursing care and functions in a particular nursing unit during an assigned shift.
Demonstrates good stewardship in proper use and maintenance of equipment and Supplies.
Assesses departmental staffing needs; actively participates in resourcing efforts.
Educates and trains others on the operations, ethics, and regulations within the industry.
Standard IV.
Safe Practice/Quality Care/Regulations Incorporates patient safety practices/guidelines to promote a safe environment resulting in positive patient outcomes.
Demonstrates accountability for nursing research and quality improvement activities.
Provides evidence-based nursing care.
Communicates patient information effectively across the continuum of care.
Educates and trains others on the operations, ethics, and regulations within the industry.
Knowledge of federal, state and local healthcare-related laws and regulations; ability to comply with these in healthcare practices and activities.
TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES Clinical Policies and Standards Follows a specific set of standards and associated clinical procedures.
Analyzes policy and standards documentation and ensures organizational compliance.
Provides feedback for improvement of procedures.
Assists in the development and implementation of specific procedures.
Works with control and monitoring mechanisms, tools and techniques.
Health Information Documentation Shares experiences with maintaining paper and electronic patient documentation.
Walk through the steps and procedures for receiving, validating and updating patient records.
Describes the flow of information between various stations or units.
Discusses the functions, features and document flow of electronic documentation.
Transcribes verbal orders; explains techniques for ensuring their accuracy.
Explains health information documentation best practices and their rationale across health care practices.
Medical Equipment Describes experience with basic medical equipment used in own unit or facility.
Uses standard diagnostic tools and techniques to resolves common equipment problems.
Educates patients about the appropriate use of home medical equipment.
Ensures that all equipment and related supplies are in proper working order prior to use to ensure patient safety.
Inspects, troubleshoots and evaluates incoming equipment.
Medical Order Processing Shares experiences with processing medical orders for one or more groups of patients or conditions.
Describes functions and features of the system used to enter, validate, update and forward medical orders.
Discusses common errors, their sources and procedures for correcting.
Explains considerations for entering and following standing orders.
Differentiates between standing orders and preprinted orders and considerations for each.
Patient Chart Reading and Interpretation Describes experiences in reading and interpreting patient charts for patients on unit and under own care.
Reviews patients’ charts for completion and accuracy; identifies and alerts to mistakes or omissions.
Recognizes unexpected readings and alerts nursing or medical staff.
Relates examples of mis-readings or misinterpretations and lessons learned.
Reviews, discusses and validates own interpretation with others.
Patient Safety Shares experiences with ensuring safety for one or more patient groups or settings.
Explains key features of safety guidelines and procedures for those groups and settings.
Listens and responds to safety inquiries from patients and family members.
Recognizes and addresses physiological and psychological signs of problems.
Describes considerations for patients who can cause to harm to self, versus harm to others.
Utilizes appropriate systems to document misses and near misses, participates in immediate investigating, analysis and reporting in real-time.
Job Requirements: Education/Skills Bachelor of Science Degree in Nursing, preferred Experience Minimum of 2 years of combined experience required in Medsurg/Telemetry and Intermediate Care 5 years of experience preferred Licenses, Registrations, or Certifications BLS required ACLS required RN License in state of employment or compact required PALS required at CHRISTUS Children’s Hospital Work Schedule: 7PM
- 7AM Work Type: Full Time
Salary range:
The UC academic salary scales set the minimum pay at appointment. See the following table for the current salary scale for this position: . The current full-time salary range for this position is $70,977-$199,722. Placement on the scale is commensurate with college teaching experience.
Percent time:
15% to 100%
Anticipated start:
Positions usually start in July or August for Fall, January for Spring and June for Summer.
Review timeline:
Applications will be accepted and reviewed for unit needs through November 2027. Applications are typically considered in April and May for fall course needs, in September and October for spring course needs, and February and March for summer course needs. The pool will close November 2027; applicants wishing to remain in the pool after that time will need to submit a new application.
Application Window
Open date: June 10, 2025
Most recent review date: Tuesday, Jun 24, 2025 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time)
Applications received after this date will be reviewed by the search committee if the position has not yet been filled.
Final date: Wednesday, Nov 25, 2026 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time)
Applications will continue to be accepted until this date, but those received after the review date will only be considered if the position has not yet been filled.
Position description
The College of Computing, Data Science, and Society at the University of California, Berkeley invites applications for a pool of qualified temporary lecturers to teach CDSS courses should an opening arise. Screening of applicants is ongoing and will continue as needed. The number of positions varies from semester to semester (fall, spring and summer sessions), depending on the needs of the unit.
About CDSS:
Established July 1, 2023, the College of Computing, Data Science, and Society (CDSS) is the first new college at Berkeley in over 50 years. The College was created to meet the demands and opportunities at a time when data touches nearly every aspect of our lives. Innovations in computing and statistics are converging to create unprecedented opportunities to use data science, machine learning, and artificial intelligence to tackle pressing societal challenges from human health to climate change.
CDSS offers outstanding undergraduate major programs in Computer Science, Data Science, and Statistics. Over 1,500 students graduated with a degree in these majors in Spring 2024, and one in four held a second major in another discipline. CDSS undergraduates study with faculty from a wide range of fields, where they gain the knowledge, skills, and experiences needed to succeed in today's datafied world, interact with data ethically, and masterfully engage as informed leaders.
CDSS seeks candidates who can support the success of all students through inclusive curriculum, classroom environment, and pedagogy.
Responsibilities:
CDSS is seeking outstanding instructors to be appointed in the non-Senate Lecturer title series who can teach small and large courses. We are particularly interested in instructors who can teach courses that satisfy the Human and Social Dynamics of Data and Technology requirement for the college. This requirement is designed for the purpose of developing an understanding of how technology and data interact with human and societal contexts, including ethical considerations and applications such as education, health, law, natural resources, and public policy. Examples include: Anthropology of Science, Data, and Technology; Artificial Humanities: AI, Language, and Fiction; and Data and Justice.
Teaching a CDSS course may include holding office hours, assigning grades, advising students, preparing course materials (e.g.,slides, syllabus, homework assignments), providing clear and prompt feedback on student work, and maintaining the course website.
Please note: The use of a lecturer pool does not guarantee that an open position exists. See the review date specified in AP Recruit to learn whether the unit is currently reviewing applications for a specific position. If there is no future review date specified, your application may not be considered at this time.
Division:
Qualifications
Basic qualifications (required at time of application)
Must have an advanced degree or be enrolled in an advanced degree program at the time of application.
Additional qualifications (required at time of start)
Advanced degree. Candidates must already be authorized to work in the United States.
Preferred qualifications
A Ph.D. or equivalent international degree that is cross-disciplinary with data science in either the social sciences, humanities, education, health, law, natural resources, public policy, computer science, statistics, or engineering, is preferred.
Ability to support the success of all students through inclusive curriculum, classroom environment, and pedagogy.
Application Requirements
Document requirements
Curriculum Vitae - Your most recently updated C.V.
Cover Letter
Statement of Teaching - Please discuss prior teaching experience, teaching approach, and future teaching interests. This can include, for example, specific efforts, accomplishments, and future plans to support the success of all students through inclusive curriculum, classroom environment, and pedagogy.
Reference requirements
- 3-4 required (contact information only)
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JPF04959
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Job Summary
The College of Computing (CoC) at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) invites applications and nominations for two inaugural Krishna A. Bharat Professorships in Computational Journalism, at its campus in Atlanta, Georgia. The Bharat Professorships will further research and innovation that focuses on information access in the public sphere, exploring responsible, civic-minded approaches to computational journalism and civic technologies broadly. The chair is endowed by Krishna Bharat, a Georgia Tech doctoral alumnus in computer science and the founder of Google News.
The scope of this search is not limited to journalism as conventionally defined. It may include candidates whose backgrounds span a variety of fields that inform civic life - including communication, public policy, political science, statistics, and law - who have the ability to teach and mentor a student body and to promote an inclusive and welcoming educational and work environment. Examples of research might include (but are in no way limited to) understanding the impact of algorithmic recommendations on political discourse; exploring how AI and machine learning can support new models of journalism with a positive societal impact; analysis of court records at scale to understand the impact of new laws on legal outcomes; addressing the spread of misinformation and disinformation in social networks; using algorithms or computer simulations to study gerrymandering; or the role of information visualization to investigate and communicate complex information.
Georgia Tech prides itself on its technological resources, collaborations, high-quality student body, and its commitment to building an outstanding and diverse community of learning, discovery, and creation. We strongly encourage applicants whose values align with our institutional values, as outlined in our Strategic Plan. These values include academic excellence, diversity of thought and experience, inquiry and innovation, collaboration and community, and ethical behavior and stewardship. Georgia Tech has policies to promote a healthy work-life balance and is aware that attracting faculty may require meeting the needs of two careers.
Responsibilities
We seek transformative scholars and leaders who can bring about a synergy of various multidisciplinary methods in computational research, in fostering collaboration between citizens, government entities, and other stakeholders, or in enhancing and improving civic engagement, governance, and the overall functioning of communities and societies.
The ideal candidate's research and teaching could encompass a broad range of solutions and approaches aimed to bridge the gap between citizens and government, creating a more transparent, responsive, and participatory democratic environment. They should have a demonstrated record of success as a respected researcher, academician, or professional in relevant areas, a sincere commitment to teaching, and a deep dedication to the ethos of service to an informed, diverse public. Applicants and nominees from computer science, information science, journalism, policy, law, communication, the media industry, and all related fields are welcome.
Required Qualifications
Applicants are expected to hold a terminal degree in their field and should have the ability to teach and mentor a student body.
Preferred Qualifications
Candidates for these endowed chair professorships must present qualifications suitable for appointment in one or more of the College of Computing's five schools (Interactive Computing; Cybersecurity and Privacy; Computer Science; Computational Science and Engineering; and Computing Instruction). Joint or adjunct appointments in other colleges may also be possible.
Required Documents to Attach
Application materials should be submitted via Academic Jobs Online ajo/jobs/31031. Candidates must include a curriculum vitae and a cover letter that addresses the applicant's contributions and vision for computational journalism and civic technology at Georgia Tech and beyond. Questions about the position or process, as well as confidential nominations for the position, can be emailed to the chair of the search committee, Dr. Keith Edwards: .
Preference will be given to applications submitted before January 15, 2026, but we will continue accepting applications until the position is filled.
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Additionally, USG supports Freedom of Expression as stated in Board Policy 6.5 Freedom of Expression and Academic Freedom found on-line at policymanual/section6/C2653.
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Other Information
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