Job Description

Standardized Patient (SP)

The University of Tennessee Southern enthusiastically invites applications for the position of Standardized Patient (SP), (Part Time, Staff Position). This is an as needed position with responsibilities in Nursing, housed in the School of Nursing and Health Sciences. The position's primary responsibility is to portray a patient (or patient's family member) in realistic and repeatable ways with specific medical conditions, symptoms, and emotional states according to detailed case scenarios. This is an as needed, hourly position with advanced scheduling and no minimum hours of work guaranteed.

Responsibilities

Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

• Portray patients with specific medical conditions, symptoms, and emotional states according to detailed case scenarios
• Participate in various encounter types, including history-taking, physical examinations, and challenging conversations

Qualifications

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities (KSAs) required:

Required Minimum Qualifications:

• Successful completion of ID/DRA299 Standardized Patient Practicum and/or Registered Nurse (RN) with an unencumbered or retired license (must be able to show proof)
• Ability to memorize a case script and portray the case effectively
• Must have strong reading and writing skills to absorb and use the detailed case training and exam procedural information
• Be of legal status to work in the U.S. and pass a background check
• Trained to simulate all aspects of the case script: history of the current problem, affect, emotions, behavior, and physical findings

Preferred knowledge, skills, and abilities:

• Applicants with acting and/or teaching experience are encouraged to apply, though this is not an obligatory skill set
• Training and/or experience in theatre, film, education, communication, or behavioral science is beneficial, but not required

Required level/type of experience and/or years of experience:

• Typically requires a high school diploma and six months of relevant experience, or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.

About Us

Located in southern middle Tennessee, UT Southern is about 70 miles south of Nashville and 40 miles north of Huntsville, Alabama. The campus is nestled in the small community of Pulaski and currently enrolls about 800 students a year.

UT Southern is the newest campus to join the UT System, evolving from UT's acquisition of Martin Methodist College in 2021. Students enrolling at UT Southern enjoy a private-college experience at an affordable, public-school cost. Among the many advantages are low student-teacher ratios and high classroom personalization. More than 30 academic programs of study are available through the divisions of business, education, humanities, mathematics and sciences, nursing and social sciences. UT Southern is a college community where friends become family, where learning leads to doing and where everyone sees opportunity.

Job Info

Job Identification 6126

Job Category Medical

Locations 433 West Madison Str., Pulaski, TN, 38478, US

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