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Job Summary
Responsible for all aspects of the Doctor of Nurse Anesthesia Practice Completion and Nurse Anesthesia Educator programs at MTSA.
Qualifications
- CRNA with current Re-certification
- Earned Doctoral Degree
- Current APN licensure
- Minimum of five (5) years of teaching and educational administrative experience
- Post-Graduate level courses in curriculum, instruction, and evaluation
- Minimum of five (5) years of clinical experience as a CRNA.
Responsibilities
The Director performs each of the following functions:
- Interviews, hires, and evaluates all faculty with academic appointments for the Doctor of Nurse Anesthesia Completion Program and Nurse Anesthesia Educator Program
- Maintenance of faculty records
- Determines the academic schedules
- Ensures the development of manuals for curriculum plan and course outlines
- Reviews Course Outlines and Objectives for courses
- Reviews student performance for courses
- Participates in teaching classes
- Ensures that student evaluations of academic courses/faculty are reviewed
In the role to support the Admissions Department, performs each of the following functions for the DNAP Completion and Nurse Educator programs:
- Reviews all applications for admission
- Oversees the verification and review of references for number, content, and appropriate referral
- Assures orderly processing and handling the selection of the new class
In the role of support to the Executive Vice President in performing each of the following functions:
- Develops, maintains, amends, and implements School policies governing the academic program
- Develops and maintains the DNAP Completion and Nurse Educator handbooks
- Develops and maintains policy governing qualifications of instructional staff and documentation of compliance with criteria
- Reviews and directs revisions of policies as the appropriate committees propose policy changes
- Collaborates with the department of Institutional Effectiveness to direct Self-Studies for Reaffirmation of Accreditation from the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC)
- Collaborates with the Department of Institutional Effectiveness to assure appropriate submission of IPEDS data
- Director for Nurse Faculty Loan Program
- Collaborates regarding office staff needs
- Reviews evaluations by faculty and students, in conjunction with the Evaluation Committee
- Other duties as assigned by the Executive Vice President
In the role of a professional CRNA educator, attends the following meetings when appropriate:
- AANA Assembly of School Faculty
- AANA National Convention
- AANA Mid-Year Assembly
- Tennessee Association of Nurse Anesthetists (TANA) Annual meeting
- Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC) Annual Meeting
- Workshops presented by the Council on Accreditation (COA)
- Workshops presented by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC)
- Professional development workshops
Reporting
Reports to the Executive Vice President, with frequent communication with Vice President, Finance & Administration and MTSA President
Committee Involvement
- MTSA Faculty/Staff Committee member
- President’s Council Committee member
- Nurse Anesthesia Program Council
- ECRC Committee
- Informatics Committee
- Evaluation Subcommittee and Committee
- Academic Affairs Committee (BOT subcommittee)
Terms of Employment
Full time employment by Middle Tennessee School of Anesthesia