Essential Duties and Responsibilities: The Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Program Director will:
• Provide the vision for, and academic leadership of, the Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner Program
• Facilitate student recruitment, advisement, progression, and remediation
• Lead, plan, implement, revise, and evaluate curricula to meet and exceed accreditation standards of the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN)
• Maintain all program accreditation documents including written reports
• Perform formative and summative student and program outcome evaluation including certification pass rates
• Assist in recruitment and ongoing advisement of Adult-Gerontology Acute Care students
• Develop clinical partnerships, evaluate clinical sites/preceptors, and secure and provide oversight for student clinical placement process
• Develop and teach didactic and clinical courses
• Advise and chair student DNP projects
• Help recruit and mentor new faculty
• Maintain an active clinical practice as an Acute Care APRN (may be part of teaching workload) Minimum Education and Experience
• Doctoral degree (DNP, PhD, EdD, or other)
• Current acute care clinical experience
• Experience in higher education and a commitment to teaching excellence PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
• Experience as an Adult-Gerontology Acute Care NP Program Director and/or in APRN program accreditation
• Experience in academic administration/leadership
• Experience in high-fidelity simulation
• Scholarship (e.g., publications, national presentations, grant funding) and active participation in community and/or professional organizations Certifications/Licenses
• Current licensure or eligibility for licensure as a Registered Nurse and APRN in New Jersey
• Board Certification as an Adult-Gerontological Acute Care Nurse Practitioner (or an Adult ACNP who graduated before 2011 Consensus model for curricular changes)