Director of Nursing

Description

The Director of Nursing is responsible for the implementation of the approved nursing program at a local campus. The Director represents the College within the community and is a leader in promoting and implementing the mission, vision, and values of HCI College. Responsibilities include overseeing day-to-day operations for the specific program as well as ensuring long‑range success of the program, while promoting success through meeting the College and program mission objectives.

The Director is also responsible for maintaining quality and regulatory standards including oversight of program faculty, policies, and curriculum development/implementation. The Director serves as a representative of the program to regulatory and accreditation bodies, and to other internal and external constituencies. The position reports to the Dean of Academic Affairs and supervises instructional and support staff within that program.

• Communicate with the Dean of Academic Affairs concerning operational, regulatory, and accreditation issues as appropriate while maintaining the highest standards of regulatory compliance.
• Collaborate with students, faculty, and staff to create an environment that supports learning and professional growth.
• Provide extensive academic support services to students within the program guidelines.
• Enforce existing College and programmatic policy.
• Complete required reports analyzing the curriculum alignments.
• Attend training as necessary to maintain knowledge and ensure compliance.
• Lead professional growth in‑service education for the faculty.
• Participate in activities at the College, in the community, and at professional levels.
• Participate in professional development (i.e., continuing education, professional activities, conference presentations, scholarly publications, etc.).
• Liaison with community agencies, schools, special programs, and interest groups affecting student services offered to HCI students.
• Establish and maintain cooperative working relationships with local high schools, colleges, universities, and state, local and federal agencies.
• Collaborate with the Director of Admissions on product knowledge and training of representatives as requested.
• Comply with all governmental regulations and standards of accreditation:
• Interpret and oversee compliance with pertinent federal, state, and local laws, rules and accreditation regulations pertaining to the program.
• Assist in preparation of accreditation materials for school.
• Assist Career Services with standards on placement per accreditation guidelines.
• Prepare program reports for all regulatory and accreditation bodies.
• Ensure classrooms, labs, and other common academic areas meet any required accreditation and programmatic requirements.
• Understand institutional accreditation as it applies to the managed program.
• Represent the program to the local advisory committee and the state board of nursing.
• Prepare program reports for the state board of nursing, regulatory and accreditation bodies.
• Establish and maintain a local advisory committee.
• Maintain communication with industry professionals and advisory committee members
• Monitor faculty members in accordance with HCI College guidelines:
• Hire, orient, supervise, and evaluate classroom and clinical/externship faculty as needed to support the program(s).
• Coordinate faculty scheduling within the program.
• Assist faculty as needed in the preparation of lesson plans, learning activities and evaluation of the learner’s knowledge.
• Supervise and evaluate program faculty per accreditation requirements.
• Conduct Faculty Classroom Observations at least once per term.
• Ensure that annual faculty development plans are completed for each faculty member.
• Conduct or provide professional development workshops for faculty and staff designed to improve the campus climate for students.
• Assist in the resolution of student and faculty issues.
• Facilitate regular programmatic faculty meetings, represent the program to the local advisory committee, facilitate curriculum review meetings. This includes a published agenda and minutes of the meetings.
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