Director, Acute Surgical Pain Management Fellowship

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Job Summary

Responsible for all aspects of the Acute Surgical Pain Management Fellowship (ASPMF) 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 ASPMF Director performs each of the following functions:

  • Interviews, hires, and evaluates all faculty with academic appointments for the Fellowship
  • 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 in Fellowship and other programs at the School
  • Ensures that student evaluations of academic courses/faculty are reviewed

As the ASMPF Chief Clinical Coordinator, performs each of the following functions for the Fellowship:

  • Establishes and maintains multiple clinical affiliations, and assures valid contracts
  • Ensures that site visits are made
  • Plans and publishes each of the following:
    • Performance-based objectives relevant to the students’ performance
    • Performance-based objectives for specific affiliating institutions
  • Determines, schedules, and supervises the publication of each of the following:
    • Student affiliation rotation schedules
    • Student vacation and holiday schedules
    • Students’ Clinical Experience Records
  • Ensures that summary evaluations of students’ clinical performance are reviewed
  • Ensures that evaluations of affiliate sites and clinical instructors are completed and reviewed

In the role of ASPMF Director of Admissions, performs each of the following functions for the ASPMF:

  • Reviews all applications for admission
  • Oversees verification of originality of transcripts
  • Oversees the verification and review of references for number, content, and appropriate referral
  • Oversees the distribution of appropriate selection materials to the Acute Surgical Pain Management Council
  • 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 Acute Surgical Pain Management Fellows Handbook
  • 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
  • Assists with applications for various grants completed by entities/persons within MTSA
  • Collaborates with the Executive Vice President 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 MTSA President

Committee Involvement

  • MTSA Faculty/Staff Committee member
  • President’s Council Committee member
  • Nurse Anesthesia Program Council
  • Informatics Committee
  • Evaluation Subcommittee and Committee
  • Academic Affairs Committee (BOT subcommittee)
  • Faculty Curriculum PD program
  • MTSA/AANA ASPMF Council

Terms of Employment

Full time employment by Middle Tennessee School of Anesthesia