Director, DNP Family Nurse Practitioner program

The Program Director is expected to be a practicing clinician that is knowledgeable about DNP and family nurse practitioner practice, education, accreditation standards, and regulations.

Possess (or be eligible for) current registered nurse license and hold or be eligible for North Carolina licensure as a nurse practitioner in the state of North Carolina; Current national certification as a Family Nurse Practitioner ( FNP); meet the North Carolina Board of Nursing's requirements for nurse educator.

The Department of Nursing has around 560 students, which includes the pre-licensure BSN, the online RN to BSN, and the online MSN programs with a concentration in nursing education. The BSN, RN to BSN, and MSN programs are fully accredited by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education ( CCNE). The Department is in the process of developing a new DNP Nurse Practitioner program to begin in fall of 2025.

Learn more at https://nursing.appstate.edu/

Appalachian State University's Beaver College of Health Sciences (BCHS) is transforming the health and quality of lives of individuals, families, and communities through inclusive practices, interprofessional collaboration, and innovation in teaching, scholarship, service, and clinical outreach. The BCHS supports over 3,400 students in nine undergraduate and nine graduate degree programs, organized into six academic departments. The programs are located in Boone in the Holmes Convocation Center and the Leon Levine Hall of Health Sciences, the cornerstone of Boone's Wellness District. We also have a presence on our new campus in Hickory. The college supports the Appalachian Institute for Health and Wellness and has a collaborative partnership with the Wake Forest School of Medicine's Physician Assistant Program and multiple health and human service agencies across the region. Learn more at https://healthsciences.appstate.edu

Reporting to the Chair of the Department of Nursing, the position requires national certification as a Family Nurse practitioner and doctoral preparation in nursing. Candidates who are in the dissertation stage of their terminal degree are eligible to apply if all degree requirements are completed by the date of appointment.

The DNP Program Director will assume a faculty position as well as an internal leadership position in the Department of Nursing. Specifically, the purpose of the position is to provide leadership in developing the curriculum, oversee the Doctor of Nursing Practice program (Family Nurse Practitioner concentration), and teach in the DNP program. This may include teaching in the classroom, clinical settings, simulation, or online. The Director will serve as a leader, ambassador, and representative for the DNP program and is responsible, in collaboration with the faculty, for maintaining the quality of the academic curriculum through development, implementation, and evaluation; accreditation; program evaluation; student recruitment, admissions and progression; and student advisement. As a member of the faculty, the director will be expected to contribute to teaching, practice, scholarship, and service, including participation in official activities of the department, college, and university, among others.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential job duty satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform essential job functions.

ABD with reduction in rank and salary: ABD will be considered for this position. Evidence of successful defense of the dissertation must be received by July 31 for a fall hire or November 30 for a spring hire. If confirmation of defense is not provided by the deadline, the candidate will receive a new one-year fixed-term contract and be hired at the rank of Instructor. The candidate's salary will also be reduced to a lower rate commensurate with other full-time instructors in the same department. However, if degree verification is provided before the end of the one-year fixed-term contract, the candidate will be returned to the rank of assistant professor with commensurate compensation beginning July 1 of the following academic year.

No ABD consideration: Only candidates with an earned doctorate or terminal degree from an accredited institution will be considered for the position. Since ABD will not meet the minimum requirements, ABD will not be considered.

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The continued employment of a special faculty member during the term appointment may be made expressly contingent on items such as the continued availability of funding from any source, on enrollment levels, or any other contingency established by the institution.

The continued employment of a special faculty member during the term appointment may be made expressly contingent on items such as the continued availability of funding from any source, on enrollment levels, or any other contingency established by the institution.