Indigenous Clinical Simulation Educator

Indigenous Clinical Simulation Educator
Online applications must be received before 12:00am on:
November 4, 2024
If a date is not listed above, review the Applicant Instructions below for more details.
Available Title(s):
255O-YNCSNPS – Instruction & Classroom Support Technician 3
Business Title:
Indigenous Clinical Simulation Educator
Employee Type:
Classified
Position Details:
Summary of Duties:
Reporting to the Assistant Director for Native American Health Sciences (NAHS) and the Center for Native American Health (CNAH), the Indigenous Clinical Simulation Educator (ICSE) is an unprecedented and unique role that will support the mission, purpose and goals of the Native Health Sciences and will work collaboratively with leadership, healers, faculty, and staff across the institute to ensure evidence-based clinical standards and simulation best practices are integrated from the Indigenous lens. The ICSE is primarily responsible for managing and maintaining daily operations of an Indigenous culturally centered health and clinical simulation space by operating the simulation suites overall space, equipment, technologies, Indigenous standardized patient program, clinical simulation case scenario curriculum, scheduling and coordinating simulation workshops and instruction, supervising oversight of the traditional medicine rooms, storage, plants, work, scheduling tribal herbal knowledge keepers to present, and providing expertise in the area of culturally centered clinical simulation pedagogies.
The ICSE assists the Director and faculty within the CNAH simulation space with culturally and clinically appropriate equipment purchases, inventories, simulation room set-up and take down, application of healing modalities and moulage, recording and playback of simulations, maintenance and operations of manikin/s, audio, visual, surrounding simulation lab equipment, trainer kits, and other inventory within the CNAHs Indigenous Clinical Simulation suites and spaces. Additionally, the ICSE will provide curricular and assessment guidance for educational activities related to simulation. This includes assist in coaching, teaching, and support of Indigenous Healers and faculty who author and present Indigenous based clinical patient case scenarios and other healing modality and perspective teachings. At times, this may include tribal community members who provide teachings from within the Centers simulation spaces as well.
The ICSE will also assist the Assistant Director of NAHS and CNAH, by supporting the scheduling of Indigenous Healer cohort training sessions, simulations with WSU Health Sciences students and pre-health students, internal and external stakeholders and tribal community members, and event planning within the CNAH. The ICSE will also provide expertise in the areas of co-developing internal culturally meaningful and sustainable simulation policies, procedures, co-teach or teach health, culturally centered, and/or clinical simulation with Indigenous healers as to balance western clinical standards with Indigenous perspectives, and assist in coaching and supporting Indigenous standardized patients with their roles in simulation. This includes collaboration in simulation professional development to design, implement, facilitate, and debrief manikin-based, standardized patient, virtual simulation, and other simulation modalities.
The duties of this role will include maintenance of simulation equipment including partial task trainers and low to high-fidelity manikins. Additionally, this position will be responsible for collaborating closely with the College of Medicine and Nursing simulation faculty and staff, and faculty within the Colleges of Medicine, Nursing, and Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences. This role will assist with student simulation support and event planning.
This position supports Interprofessional Education (IPE), i