Job Description

The University of Tennessee Health Science Center College of Nursing Department of Acute and Tertiary Care invites applications for the position of full-time non-tenure track Assistant/Associate Professor in the Doctor of Nursing (DNP) program. The UT Health Science Center embraces four missions: education, research, clinical care and institutional service.

This faculty position will be responsible for final development, coordination and teaching within the DNP Program: Nurse Executive Concentration. There may be teaching responsibilities outside of the Nurse Executive Concentration. The UT Health Science Center embraces four missions: education, research, clinical care and institutional service. Position includes educational responsibilities along with service, leadership, and scholarship responsibilities.

As concentration coordinator responsibilities include:

• Develops and implements policies and procedures in conjunction with the CON faculty to ensure that the outcome criteria, as mandated by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE) and specialty organizations are met.
• Responsible for concentration-specific recruitment and admissions, curriculum review, monitoring program/specialty standards, coordinating clinical practice experiences, and monitoring clinical contracts/placements.
• Provides assistance and support to the concentration faculty and orients preceptors.
• Tracks and evaluates student evaluations of the concentration.
• Actively engages in the identification and expansion of concentration-specific clinical experiences.
• Ensures that the Associate Dean of Academic Affairs, IOR, and faculty advisors are aware of student progression issues.
• Collaborate with Department Chairs to determine faculty assignments within the concentration.
• Allows growth of faculty teaching within the concentration by providing support to IORs who have overall responsibility and oversight of courses to which they are assigned.
• Counsels students to ensure program completion and success by following the provided plans of study.
• Recommendations needed for changes in student plans of study.
• Functions as a resource for other faculty within the concentration and/or the DNP program when addressing areas of concern related to student performance.
• Reviews concentration content annually to ensure that course content is current.
• Collaborate with DNP concentration coordinators and other interprofessional colleagues to promote interprofessional experiences.
• Monitors and tracks concentration certification pass rates and graduation rates.
• Actively engages in concentration-specific specialty organizations.

Teaching responsibilities include both didactic coursework and experiential supervision of students. Research/scholarship activities as well as service responsibilities will be determined in collaboration with the Department Chair.

EDUCATION: Earned Doctoral Degree from an accredited university required.

LICENSE: Certification/recertification as an Executive Nurse preferred. Must be eligible to sit for certification. Unencumbered licensure as a registered nurse and advanced practice nurse in Tennessee or eligibility to obtain licensure in Tennessee required.

EXPERIENCE: Substantive expertise is required as a Nurse Executive with completion of a DNP degree in Nurse Executive or Nurse Leadership. Expertise in teaching and active engagement in appropriate professional organizations is highly desirable. Evidence of scholarship, including research and/or grants, is desirable.

If you need additional information about this position, please contact:

Sherry Webb, Associate Professor and Chair

Acute & Tertiary Care Department

UTHSC College of Nursing

874 Union Avenue, Memphis, TN 38163

(901) 448-4148; Email: swebb14@uthsc.edu

For benefits information, please visit

https://www.uthsc.edu/hr/benefits/documents/benefits-preview-packet.pdf

THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER

UT Health Science Center has educated more than 53,000 health care professionals on three campuses across the state – Memphis, Knoxville, and Chattanooga. The UT Health Science Center campuses include colleges of Health Professions, Dentistry, Graduate Health Sciences, Medicine, Nursing and Pharmacy. Patient care, professional education and research are carried out at hospitals and other clinical sites across Tennessee.

• One of the first DNP programs in the country.
• Accredited since 2009.
• Offers BSN-DNP and MSN-DNP tracks.
• Offers dual DNP-PhD.
• DNP specialty tracks include Adult Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner, Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP), Pediatric Nurse Practitioner, Pediatric Acute Care Nurse Practitioner, Neonatal Nurse Practitioner, Nurse Anesthesiology, Family Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse Practitioner, and Nurse Midwifery. Dual options include Adult Gerontology Acute Care-FNP, Psych Mental Health Nursing-FNP, and Pediatric Primary Care-Pediatric Acute Care Nurse Practitioner concentrations.

The University of Tennessee Health Science Center is a statewide flagship, public, academic health institution in Tennessee. Founded in 1911, the mission of the University of Tennessee Health Science Center is to improve the health and well-being of Tennesseans and the global community by fostering collaborative education, research, scientific discovery, clinical care, and public service. Employing more than 4,600 people on its faculty, staff, and not-for-profit corporation faculty practice groups, and with more than 3,200 students across the state, UT Health Science Center contributes $4 billion to the economy of Tennessee.

Part of the University of Tennessee System, the Health Science Center is headquartered in Memphis and includes all six of UT’s doctoral-degree-granting health science colleges -- Medicine, Dentistry, Pharmacy, Nursing, Graduate Health Sciences, and Health Professions. UT Health Science Center spans the state with its four major, regional clinical health science locations in Memphis, Knoxville, Chattanooga, and Nashville, as well as more than 100 clinical education sites across Tennessee. UT Health Science Center is the largest educator of health care professionals in the state and operates the state’s largest residency and fellowship advanced training programs.

Located in West Tennessee on the banks of the Mississippi River, Memphis is the second-largest city in the state and among the largest cities in the Southeast. The Greater Memphis metropolitan area has more than 1.3 million residents, and the city ranks among those with the lowest cost of living in the country. It is home to a vibrant restaurant scene, a revitalized Downtown, the Midtown Arts District, many scenic neighborhoods, an active medical district, and a burgeoning airport in the midst of a $214 million modernization.

Memphis boasts attractions, including Elvis Presley’s Graceland, the Memphis Grizzlies, historic Beale Street, the National Civil Rights Museum, the second-largest urban county park in the United States, and the Memphis in May World Championship Barbecue Cooking Contest.