• Ensures congruence between the mission of the College and University and the educational goals of the nurse anesthesia program in collaboration with the Program Director
• Ensures congruence with standards established by the Council on Accreditation for Nurse Anesthesia Educational Programs, American Association of Colleges of Nursing, Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education, Pennsylvania Board of Nursing, and certifying agencies in collaboration with the Program Director
• Monitors the policies of the program’s accrediting agency to ensure that the nurse anesthesia program maintains compliance in collaboration with the Program Director
• Assists the Program Director in planning, implementing, and evaluating the nurse anesthesia program curricula in cooperation with the faculty and staff
• Assists the Program Director in planning, implementing, monitoring and evaluating the nurse anesthesia program budget that ensures adequate operating expenses, academic resources, appropriate number of faculty and support staff, and funds for faculty development
• Assists the Program Director in day to day program operations
• Administers anesthesia one day per week in order to maintain their clinical expertise and participates in clinical instruction of students when they are assigned to the University affiliated hospital (s)
• Reviews completed program applications
• Participates as a member of the nurse anesthesia admissions selection committee
• Assists the Program Director in tracking and obtaining clinical placements for students
• Assists the Program Director in collaborating with the College’s Director of Simulation and Clinical Skills to plan and implement laboratory and simulation activities
• Assists the Program Director in planning and implementing orientation for new students
• Assists the Program Director with supervising, recruiting, interviewing, hiring, orientating, and evaluating of clinical faculty
• Maintains open channels of communication with students, course faculty and staff
• Participates in developing, implementing and evaluating a plan for success in the NCE in collaboration with the Program Director and faculty
• Serves as a mentor and role model for teaching and clinical faculty
• Provides an environment conducive to student engagement and participation and the assimilation and enrichment of a diverse student body
• Provides oversight for student advisement and remediation
• Serves as resource person to faculty for course related responsibilities
• Assists the Program Director maintaining program data base in collaboration with staff
• Prepares monthly and annual reports as requested by Program Director
• Collaborates with College leadership team and University support services related to recruitment, marketing, admission, registration, progression and graduation activities.
• Verifies that students have met all requirements for graduation in collaboration with faculty as requested by Program Director
• Tracks pass rates on national certification examination in collaboration with Program Director and faculty
• Assists Program Director in reviewing the nurse anesthesia program curriculum annually as part for the systematic evaluation plan
• Collaborates with the Program Director and the nurse anesthesia faculty to ensure a curriculum that is consistent with the other advanced nurse practitioner programs offered within the College of Nursing and the educational standards of the Council on Accreditation of Nurse Anesthesia Educational Programs
• Organizes the curriculum to ensure logical sequence of teaching and learning: identifies minimum clinical competencies required of all graduates; participates in the didactic teaching program; maintains program records/files, current cumulative student records/files, and clinical faculty records/files in collaboration with administrative assistant
• Represents the College on select University Committees
• Teaching as assigned

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