Position Details Position Information RecruitmentPosting Title: Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Program Specialty Director & Faculty Member
Department: Advance Nursing Practice
Salary Details A range of 110000 - 150000
Offer Information The final salary offer may be determined by several factors including but not limited to the candidates qualifications, experience, and expertise, and availability of department or grant funds to support the position. We also take into consideration market benchmarks if and when appropriate and internal equity to ensure fair compensation relative to the universitys broader compensation structure. We are committed to offering competitive and flexible compensation packages to attract and retain top talent.
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• Medical, prescription drug, and dental coverage • Paid vacation, holidays, and various leave programs • Competitive retirement benefits, including defined contribution plans and voluntary tax-deferred savings options • Employee and dependent educational benefits • Life insurance coverage • Employee discounts programs
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Posting Summary Rutgers School of Nursing invites applications for an inspiring and innovative leader to serve as Director of our Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner Program. In this hybrid academic-administrative role, the successful candidate will oversee the direction and management of the program, work collaboratively with colleagues from nursing and other professions, model high standards of clinical practice, teaching excellence, and scholarship, and actively participate in professional organizations and School of Nursing faculty governance.
The position is primarily in the graduate program, but the candidate may teach across programs.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities The Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Program Director will:
• Provide the vision for and academic leadership of the Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner Program • Facilitate student recruitment, advisement, progression, and remediation • Lead, implement, revise, and evaluate curricula to meet and exceed accreditation standards of the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) • Maintain all program accreditation documents, including written reports • Perform formative and summative student and program outcome evaluation, including certification pass rates • Assist in recruitment and ongoing advisement of Adult-Gerontology Acute Care students • Develop clinical partnerships, evaluate clinical sites, preceptors, and secure and provide oversight for student clinical placement process • Develop and teach didactic and clinical courses • Advise and chair student DNP projects • Help recruit and mentor new faculty • Maintain an active clinical practice as an Acute Care APRN, may be part of teaching workload
Position Status Full Time
Posting Number: 26FA0118
Posting Open Date: 02/05/2026
Posting Close Date: [Not specified]
Qualifications Minimum Education and Experience: • Doctoral degree (DNP, PhD, EdD, or other) • Current acute care clinical experience • Experience in higher education and a commitment to teaching excellence
Preferred Qualifications: • Experience in academic administration and leadership • Experience in high-fidelity simulation • Scholarship (e.g., publications, national presentations, grant funding, and active participation in community and/or professional organizations)
Certifications/Licenses: • Current licensure or eligibility for licensure as a Registered Nurse and APRN in New Jersey • Board Certification as an Adult-Gerontological Acute Care Nurse Practitioner or an Adult ACNP who graduated before 2011 (Consensus model for curricular changes)
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Overview Rutgers Health New Jerseys premier academic health center, Rutgers Health takes an integrated approach to educating students, providing clinical care, and conducting research, all with the goal of improving human health. Aligned with Rutgers University-New Brunswick and collaborating university-wide, RBHS includes eight schools, a behavioral health network, and five centers and institutes that focus on cancer treatment and research, neuroscience, advanced biotechnology, and medicine, environmental and occupational health, and health care policy, and aging research.
Our elite and renowned faculty are teachers, health researchers, and providers, and scientists with unparalleled experience who advance medical innovation and provide patient care informed by the latest research findings. We offer an outstanding education and training in medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, public health, nursing, biomedical research, and the full spectrum of allied health careers.
An important mission of RBHS is to promote the careers of faculty, staff, and learners. Through this community of healers, scientists, and scholars, Rutgers is equipped as never before to transform lives.
School Overview The School of Nursing is one of eight schools that make up the Rutgers University-Rutgers Health. As part of the Rutgers Health division, the School of Nursing offers unique opportunities in education, research, and practice at a leading national research university, which is the states preeminent comprehensive public institution of higher education.
Innovative academic offerings include bachelors (BSN), masters, post-masters, Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP), and PhD programs that are preparing nurse leaders of today and tomorrow at campus locations in Newark, New Brunswick, and Blackwood, NJ. Our BSN, masters, and DNP programs are ranked by US News and World Report as being among the highly rated programs in the nation.
As one of the nations largest and most comprehensive nursing schools, the Rutgers School of Nursing is dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in education, evidence-based research, and health care delivery, and the promotion of community health.
The school is dedicated to meeting the educational needs of current and future students through innovative teaching and learning strategies in the undergraduate and graduate programs. Moreover, the school has distance education offerings that include online, hybrid options. Students have the opportunity to enroll in a variety of baccalaureate and graduate programs.
Rutgers University School of Nursing is ranked among the nations top 15 in 2022-2024 US News and World Report as No. 14 in Best Nursing Schools: Masters and No. 6 in Best Nursing Schools: Doctor of Nursing Practice.
To address the current and projected critical shortage of nurse faculty in the State of New Jersey, by providing an incentive for persons to enter graduate nursing education programs, by offering student loan redemption in exchange for full-time faculty employment at a school of nursing in the State of New Jersey for a five-year period following completion of the approved graduate degree program.
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