Position Summary:

Rutgers School of Nursing invites applications for an inspiring and innovative leader to serve as Director of our Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner Program. In this hybrid academic/administrative role, the successful candidate will oversee the direction and management of the program, work collaboratively with colleagues from nursing and other professions, model high standards of clinical practice, teaching excellence, and scholarship, and actively participate in professional organizations and School of Nursing faculty governance. The position is primarily in the graduate program but the candidate may teach across programs.

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)

Requirements

Minimum Qualifications and Experience:

Doctoral degree (DNP, PhD, EdD, or other)

Current licensure or eligibility for licensure as a Registered Nurse and APRN in New Jersey

Board Certification as an Adult-Gerontolgical Acute Care Nurse Practitioner (or an Adult ACNP who graduated before 2011 Consensus model for curricular changes)

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