The University of Iowa (UI) College of Nursing seeks a leader with a deep commitment to academic excellence, collaboration, diversity, and student success for the position of Associate Dean of Graduate Practice Programs.
The Associate Dean for Graduate Practice Programs has administrative leadership, oversight, and coordination, including responsibilities for the day-to-day academic operations of the Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) and Masters of Science in Nursing (MSN) programs in the College of Nursing. This position works with the Executive Leadership Team and Academic/Student Services to ensure the quality and the vitality of the DNP and MSN programs.
About the College of Nursing
As a leader in nursing education, research, and practice innovations, the UI College of Nursing has received national recognition by U.S. News & World Report, ranking seven of its graduate programs in the top 25 in the nation (in comparison to all public and private schools).
The college is committed to promoting diversity and inclusion in achieving our education, research, service and practice missions, as demonstrated through our Pillars of Diversity.
About the University of Iowa
The University of Iowa is one of the nation's premier public research universities with more than 32,000 students from 114 countries and all 50 states. Founded in 1847, it is the state's oldest institution of higher education and is located alongside the picturesque Iowa River in Iowa City. A member of the Association of American Universities since 1909 and the Big Ten Conference since 1899, the UI is home to one of the largest and most acclaimed medical centers in the country, as well as the famous Iowa Writers' Workshop. The university also has a pervasive spirit of entrepreneurship that guides student start-ups, new enterprises built on faculty discoveries, and other innovations.
At the University of Iowa, we recognize the important relationship between productive careers, dual careers, and quality personal lives, visit https://worklife.uiowa.edu/ to learn more.
About Iowa City, Iowa
Iowa City is consistently voted one of the best places to live in the country. It's where small town hospitality meets big city amenities, where friendly meets adventurous. It's a place where everyone's welcome.
Responsibilities:
Provides Leadership and administrative direction for the DNP and MSN Programs
Program Quality
* Ensures overall integrity/quality in the delivery of graduate practice academic programming within the College of Nursing and secures appropriate resources to meet those needs.
* Monitors national, regional, and local trends in nursing, health care and nursing education to assure competitiveness in nursing education programs offered at the College.
* Leads change in academic programming based on principles of continuous improvement and knowledge of national and state academic standards and mandates.
* Participate in strategic planning for all of the College's academic mission in collaboration with collegiate faculty, staff, the executive leadership team, and the Dean.
* Leads the College of Nursing efforts with regard to public relations related to academic programs.
* Facilitates faculty shared governance among graduate academic program leaders to assure ongoing improvement and maintenance of high-quality academic programs.
* Provides leadership in implementing the College of Nursing Evaluation Plan for Master's and DNP programs through a continuous quality improvement process; monitors evaluation and program outcomes measures/benchmarks in collaboration with Student Services; reports outcome data on a regular basis to the College/University and prepares reports of outcome data for accreditation reviews/reports.
* Co-leads, with the Associate Dean for Undergraduate/RN programs, on preparing the CON self-study and processes related to accreditation and reaccreditation.
* Confirm appropriate accreditation standards are met and communicate with all relevant bureaus and accreditation agencies e.g. American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN), Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE), National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculty (NONPF), National Task Force (NTF), Council on Accreditation of Nurse Anesthesia (COA) and/or American Organization of Nursing Leadership (AONL).
Faculty Recruitment and Retention
* Collaborates with the Executive Associate Deans and Division Heads to recruit, hire, mentor, and retain faculty consistent with the strategic needs of the College.
* Establishes policies and programs that demonstrate a commitment to an inclusive environment that attracts and retains a diverse workforce and nurtures a culture where every employee feels valued, is able to function at his/her best and is challenged to maintain the necessary robust skill set necessary to meet the growing and changing needs of the college.
Student Success
* Collaborates with the Academic/Student Services staff in the development of recruitment materials, student orientation, advising, disciplinary actions, student grievances, graduate student government programming, student academic progression, records/reports and graduations/commencements.
* Provides leadership and advisory guidance to the graduate program directors and faculty forums/councils regarding curriculum and policies for admission and academic progression.
* Provides leadership to optimize a holistic admission process to maximize the diversity of the DNP and MSN student body.
* Oversees currency of student handbooks.
* Works with Student Services to forecast course offerings, course scheduling, and final DNP defense scheduling.
* Collaborates with appropriate faculty, clinical placement coordinator, and Graduate program directors to identify and evaluate clinical placement sites for graduate programs.
* Develop long-term strategies to deliver academic program services and competencies that keep pace with technology/practice trends.
* Supervise and evaluate Academic/Student Services staff and completes annual performance reviews.
* Works with College's Strategic Communication Director to maintain currency of DNP and MSN websites, virtual platforms, and digital products.
* Oversight of College of Nursing offerings on NEXus and collaboration on national advisory boards as appropriate.
* Administers the CON Nurse Faculty Loan Program (NFLP)
Promotes teaching excellence in DNP and MSN education
* Integrate faculty teaching preferences, expertise, and available effort allocation to create faculty's teaching assignments.
* Develops and implements programming for faculty to develop expertise in teaching.
* Collaborates with the Division Heads in providing input on faculty evaluations of teaching for the graduate faculty administrative review process.
* Promotes innovation and inquiry in nursing education; identifies strategic partners for innovation in DNP and MSN education.
* Collaborates with faculty, Office of Nursing Research and Scholarship, Center for Advancement, and executive team members in the preparation of program grant applications & scholarships development to support DNP and MSN nursing education programs in the College.
Represents the College of Nursing DNP and MSN programs within the University and to external constituents
* Represents the College of Nursing DNP and MSN programs within the university and to external constituents; including recruiting events and presentations/publications.
* Identifies strategic community, state, national and international professional partnership opportunities.
* Provides leadership in collaboration with University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics (UIHC) to create strategic direction to facilitate excellence in the use of simulation for both education and practice.
* Serves as liaison between the College of Nursing and the University on issues of academic policy and programming.
* Represents the College to the broader community, including regulatory and accreditation bodies, on issues related to graduate nursing education; represent the College of Nursing at state, regional, national, international professional meetings, and legislative activities related to graduate nursing education.
* Provides information regarding the DNP and MSN programs to outside constituents including, state, regional and national accrediting bodies as well as cooperating colleges in Iowa.
* Provides leadership to collaborate with other disciplines in order to advance interprofessional education.
* Collaborates with university admissions and graduate advising center.
Oversees budget for DNP and MSN Programs
* Effectively guides the utilization of resources and directs the budgets that support the graduate academic programming of the College.
* Facilitates judicious utilization of resources for advancing excellence in clinical education, in collaboration with academic program leaders and the leader of the NCEC.
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