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Department Head - Medical Surgical Nursing
University of Illinois at Chicago College of Nursing

General Description:

The Department Head as chief executive officer for the department is expected to recruit and mobilize accomplished faculty to set the departmental strategic directions and activities that complement and contribute to the strategic directions of our research-intensive College. For the cadre of faculty appointed into the Department, s/he will create a generative environment for advancing scholarship productivity (teaching/learning, research/discovery, practice/service) and assure that faculty have balanced responsibilities suited to their rank and scholarship expertise and goals and the tools or resources needed for innovative productivity. S/he will collaborate with the other department heads to assure that the College curricula are expediently operational, advocate for and seek resources (time, money, space) within and outside the College to advance strategic directions, make outcomes visible, and collaborate with others on the College administrative team and beyond to manage and grow resources. This is a part-time administrative position combined with faculty research scholarship for a person eligible for late mid to senior faculty rank.

Organizational Relationship:

Administratively, the Department Head will be facilitated by and accountable to the Dean and will be a member of the administrative leadership team (deans, department and unit heads).

General Activities and Responsibilities:

College:

• Facilitate the execution and evolvement of innovative nursing science curricula across the College degree programs, clinical and translational research discoveries and practice/service opportunities, especially related to faculty expertise in acute and long term chronic care of adults, particularly for older adults.
  
• Assure that the interface between students, staff, alumni and faculty is synergistic.


• Facilitate the attainment of extramural research funding across clusters of investigators in collaboration with the Associate Dean of Research.


• Seek and advocate for resource allocation to and manage the departmental resources.
  
• Initiate and collaborate in recruiting research- and clinical practice-intensive faculty.
  
• Conduct faculty and staff recruitment, screening, appointment, orientation, evaluation, promotion and other aspects of career development for the department.

University and Campus:

• Act as liaison to campus groups related to the business practices of the campus.


• Facilitate and communicate departmental decisions regarding faculty or staff performance, including appointments and promotions for faculty or staff, activities analyses, merit reviews, award nominations and peer, student or class evaluations.

External Community:

• Develop and market department-centric programs and outcomes.


• Connect with community leaders and agencies for learning, research and practice/service initiatives.

Qualifications:

A doctoral degree with extensive teaching/learning experience and a recognized program of extramurally funded and published research, administrative leadership experience in academia favored.

Salary Range:

Commensurate with qualifications and experience.

Please submit letter of intent and curriculum vitae electronically to:

jshaver@uic.edu

Joan L. Shaver, PhD, RN, FAAN
Professor and Dean
University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC)
College of Nursing M/C 802
845 S. Damen Ave.
Chicago, IL 60612-7350
(312) 996-7808 lesinski@uic.edu (Executvie Assistant)
(312) 996-8066 (FAX)

UIC COLLEGE OF NURSING

UIC is a comprehensive public urban research university (with 25 thousand students in 15 colleges), we offer a world-class nursing education (with over 325 undergraduate and 600 masters and doctoral students earning BSN, MS(N), PhD, or DNP degrees). Serving much of the state with four regional campuses (Urbana, Peoria, Rockford and Quad Cities) we provide top-flight educational access for students and nurses - right in their own communities. The College is ranked 3rd by the National Institutes of Health for extramural awards to nursing schools (FY 2006). Through the College Institute for Healthcare Innovation, we are testing novel models of direct care and extending our expertise to interface with practice partner organizations. Our Great Cities commitment is enacted through extensive community outreach. We ignited our global focus on nursing and health in 1986, when we became the first U. S. World Health Organization Collaborating Center for Nursing.

MEDICAL SURGICAL NURSING DEPARTMENT

The Medical Surgical Nursing (MSN) Department ( http://tigger.uic.edu/nursing/about/msn.shtml ) is focused on both basic science and clinical approaches to health problems experienced by adults. The research and practice areas for medical-surgical nursing faculty include a variety of settings such as hospital units, ambulatory care departments, long-term care facilities, homes and communities. Faculty members provide leadership and teach in the PhD, BSN and pre-licensure portion of the second-degree Graduate Entry Programs. The advanced practice specialty contributions to the MS and DNP programs include: nurse practitioner and clinical nurse specialist options in Acute Care , Adult, Adult/Geriatrics, and Geriatrics and an Optional Advanced Practice Palliative Care Nurse Certificate Program.

The MSN Department has 34 FTE-professorial ranked faculty (regular, clinical and research) of whom more than a dozen have federal research funding, 16 FTE (30 clinical instructors), 5 state-funded staff and multiple research staff. A budget is appropriated to the department as are earned monies from research (both direct and indirect) and practice. The MSN Department Head acts as administrative coach/consultant to the Director of the Regional Program in Urbana.

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