Clinical Coordinator of Nursing Programs/Clinical Assistant/Associate/Full Professor - Albany, United States - University at Albany

Description

Job Description:
The University at Albany, State University of New York, invites applications for Clinical Coordinator of Nursing Programs.

This is a unique and exciting opportunity to optimize public and population health nursing education within the School of Public Health's 35+ year partnership with the New York State Department of Health and Wadsworth Laboratories.

This relationship offers distinct student experiential learning placements and opportunities for nursing faculty and students to engage in collaborative research projects and programs.

New York's Capital Region offers students and faculty unparalleled opportunities to engage in New York State health policy and partner with public health agencies, a Level 1 trauma system, and Magnet designated health care systems.

The University at Albany's nursing programs emphasize population and community health learning opportunities.

Currently, the RN to BS in Nursing program is offered as a hybrid online and in-person format while the MS in Population Health Nursing program is offered by distance learning format.

The School of Public Health has a robust established internship program for the Master of Public Health program and has longstanding affiliation agreements with numerous organizations that will be utilized for nursing placements.

The Clinical Coordinator of Nursing Programs will be a key part of the planning and expansion of additional nursing programs.

The Clinical Assistant/Associate/Full Professor position is a New York State 12-month clinical faculty position, with clinical rank commiserate with applicant experience and qualifications.

The position includes administrative responsibilities as Clinical Coordinator of Nursing Programs.

The Clinical Coordinator of Nursing Programs/Clinical Assistant/Associate/Full Professor will work closely with students to arrange clinical placement sites in conjunction with nursing courses with clinical components.

Responsibilities include; planning and organizing the clinical courses to meet course learning objectives; ensuring students meet all clinical-related program and agency requirements, ensuring that all correspondence and documentation with clinical agencies is complete and current each semester, reviewing clinical site evaluations and making recommendations for change based on evaluation data, and maintaining ongoing communication with clinical partners.

Additional responsibilities include participation in assessment activities, committee assignments, and academic advising.

As clinical faculty, the Clinical Coordinator of Nursing Programs/Clinical Assistant/Associate/Full Professor will be responsible for teaching nursing courses and advising and mentoring nursing students.

Teaching load will consist of approximately 5-credits of nursing courses with clinical components each term (fall, spring, summer).

In addition to mentoring and advising nursing students, the Clinical Coordinator of Nursing Programs will actively engage in university and community service.

We are especially interested in candidates with a commitment to fostering an environment of inclusion and collegiality among a culturally diverse school community.

Successful candidates are expected to engage in clinical, health policy, or teaching scholarship related to nursing in areas complimentary to one or more of the School of Public Health academic departments: Biomedical Sciences; Environmental Health Sciences; Epidemiology and Biostatistics; Health Policy, Management and Behavior.

The University at Albany is a Carnegie Foundation "Very High Research Activity," or R-1, designated program with signature strengths in health sciences and health equity, emergency preparedness, climate science, and public affairs and policy that provide a rich and collaborative interdisciplinary environment.

This position may qualify for academic-practice joint appointment considerations.

Qualified candidates who wish to seek joint appointment with an existing department of health, health department, health care system or other clinical provider are encouraged to apply.

Candidate Review will also be based on the National League for Nursing 2018 Competencies for an Academic Nurse Educator:

• Function within the Education and Health Care Environments
• Function in the Clinical Educator Role
• Operationalize the Curriculum
• Abide by Legal Requirements, Ethical Guidelines, Agency Policies, and Guiding Framework
• Facilitate Learning in the Health Care Environment
• Demonstrate Effective Interpersonal Communication and Collaborative Inter-professional relationships
• Apply Clinical Expertise in the Health Care Environment
• Facilitate Learner Development and Socialization
• Implement Effective Clinical and Assessment Evaluation Strategies

Primary Responsibilities:

• Planning and organizing the clinical courses to meet course learning objectives.
• Ensuring students meet all clinical-related program and agency requirements.
• Ensuring that all correspondence and documentation with clinical agencies is complete and current each semester.
• Reviewing clinical site evaluations
• Making recommendations for change based on evaluation data.
• Maintaining ongoing communication with clinical partners
• Teaching nursing courses and advising and mentoring nursing students.
• Teaching load will consist of approximately 5-credits of nursing courses with clinical components each term (fall, spring, summer).
• Actively engage in university and community service
• Engage in clinical, health policy, or teaching scholarship related to nursing in areas complementary to one or more of the School of Public Health academic departments: Biomedical Sciences; Environmental Health Sciences; Epidemiology and Biostatistics; Health Policy, Management, and Behavior.

Additional Responsibilities:

• Participation in assessment activities, committee assignments, and academic advising.

Requirements:

Minimum Qualifications:

• A Doctoral Degree in nursing, education, or related field (Ph.

D., DNP, or EDD) from a college or university accredited by a U.S. Department of Education or internationally recognized accrediting organization by 5/31/2024. Candidates who will not hold the degree by this date will not be considered.

• Evidence of a program of scholarship, educational administration, and/or expert clinical skills with leadership in area of nursing specialization.
• Previous teaching experience in academic and/or clinical setting.
• Unrestricted license to practice as a registered nurse in New York State or eligibility for such license.
• Applicants must demonstrate an ability to develop inclusive and equitable relationships within our diverse campus community.
• Applicants must demonstrate an ability to support diversity, equity, access, inclusion, and belonging relative to their role.

Preferred Qualifications:

• PhD in nursing
• Three or more years of clinical nursing experience
• Experience coordinating clinical learning experiences for nursing programs at the undergraduate and graduate level
• Experience establishing individual site affiliation agreements for graduate nursing students
• Experience with online/remote teaching
• Demonstrated understanding of advising and competency-based learning
• Specialist or advanced-level practice qualifications in public health or population health nursing (certification in public health, school nursing, ambulatory care nursing, correctional nursing, occupational health nursing, disaster/emergency nursing, or the equivalent)
• Experience with curriculum development, implementation, and evaluation at the undergraduate and graduate level
• Evidence of a program of scholarship, educational administration, and/or clinical skills in executive nursing leadership, public health or population health nursing specialty
• Experience with accreditation of academic nursing programs
• Experience as graduate student or clinical/teaching faculty at an R-1 designated university

Additional Information:

Professional Rank and Salary Range:
Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor (12 months)

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• Cover letter stating all the required minimum qualifications and any of the applicable preferred qualifications.
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• Research Statement
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A review of applications will start on March 20, 2024, and will continue until the position is filled.