Department Overview

The program director is an academically qualified and specialty certified faculty member who meets state and national standards for licensure in the APRN specialty at the OHSU School of Nursing. This leadership role has input, responsibility, and oversight for program structure and operations to ensure academic excellence that adheres to Oregon statutes and regulations and national accreditation standards for APRN education and practice. This is an in-person position based in Portland.

 

To be considered for this position, please submit the following documents: 

• Your cover letter that includes: 

• How you meet the minimum qualifications for this position. 
• How you meet any of the preferred qualifications for this position. 
• A general statement describing your teaching and research interests, and how they match with OHSU. 

• A statement that addresses your understanding, contributions, and aspirations regarding Justice, Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging, and how you would support OHSU’s diverse students and surrounding community populations. This statement should also address your perspective on learning about and building trauma-informed relationships with faculty, staff, and students. What would help you feel that you belong and are supported? 

 

OHSU has three missions: healing, teaching, and discovery. In the School of Nursing, these focus to optimize health, prepare nurse leaders, and transform health care. Infusing these is a fourth: to become a trauma-informed and truly anti-racist institution. The School of Nursing has made the same commitment. We, along with all of OHSU, are striving to become a place where every member can be safe, be at their best, and do their best work. With support from OHSU leadership and the Center for Diversity and Inclusion and using a trauma-informed approach, we are transforming our culture, policies, admissions, hiring, and more. 

 

The appointee shall provide services as assigned by the supervisor in furtherance of the university’s missions and goals of teaching, research, patient care, outreach, and public service. 

Function/Duties of Position

Leadership and Administration

• Provides leadership in recruiting qualified faculty for identified programs by serving on search committees and assisting with recruitment functions.
• Engages with community partners across the state and region as needed to establish educational and clinical learning collaborations.
• Develops and establishes program operations that are standardized according to accreditation, APRN program, and School of Nursing practice.
• Leads evaluation and improvement efforts to ensure curricular requirements result in exemplary program and student outcomes.
• Leads faculty collaboration in the development, implementation, and evaluation of curriculum.
• Participates in the budgeting process and policy and procedure development.
• Uses course and program evaluation results for continuous and systematic program improvement.
• Provides ongoing development, engagement, and regular evaluation of program faculty.
• Manages program administration, including faculty workload assignments and course scheduling in consultation with other program directors and Assistant Dean for APRN DNP programs.
• Engages faculty in activities related to recruitment, admission, retention, and progression of students.
• Engages external and internal stakeholders in a manner to expand the program reach, advance the school’s reputation, secure funding, and meet emerging clinical needs.

Curriculum Advancement

• Engages collaboratively in the development, implementation, evaluation, and refinement of curriculum from a foundation of core graduate courses scaffolded with increasing depth and breadth of clinical functioning.
• Ensures, through practice engagement, that current, emerging, and evidence-based knowledge and clinical practices are presented in curriculum.
• Ensures quality and rigor of program outcomes and DNP scholarly projects.
• Provides effective didactic and clinical instruction using appropriate instructional technologies to ensure course and program outcomes are met.
• Guides and monitors overall student learning (didactic and clinical) experiences, assessment, and engagement based on program needs.
• Ensures professional formation occurs among program students.
• Oversees student advising in accordance with SON academic policies.
• Ensures and is involved in annual student review of the program.

Academic and Community Service

• Maintains a network of national, regional, and local professional contacts that informs the direction and function