Job Description

Job Title: Standardized Patient

Job Summary: The Standardized Patient (SP) at Frontier Nursing University portrays characteristics of real patients in course-situated interactions with students. Standardized Patients will be physically examined and/or interviewed by students and faculty as part of the student's learning experience. The Standardized Patient will use measurement tools to assess student behaviors.


Supervisor Responsibility: None

Duties and Responsibilities:

1. Uses a case script detailing specific emotions, behaviors, and disease signs/symptoms for presentation during simulated learning situations.


2. Presents case information in a standardized manner, as elicited by students. 3. Remains in a specific patient character as trained when responding to student questions. 4. Accurately remembers encounters with students for the purpose of scoring student behaviors. 5. Provides educationally constructive verbal feedback within a structured format. 6. Accepts ongoing feedback from faculty and Innovation Center faculty/staff to incorporate into case simulations


7. Adheres to SP policies and procedures.


Required Skills and Abilities Required:
• Minimum of a high school diploma
• Acting and experience as a SP preferred
• Experience in health professions, communication, or education preferred
• Excellent verbal communication skills
• Reliable computer and web-communication skills, including use of Google suite and Microsoft Office products and web conferencing software
• Flexibility and reliability with scheduling and assignments
• Ability to read and absorb detailed case information and follow written and verbal instructions • Strong attention to detail
• Willingness to be viewed and recorded throughout simulated patient encounters and feedback sessions
• Ability to maintain confidentiality and display diplomacy


Reporting Relationship
• Reports to the Associate Dean of Academic Affairs

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