Director, DNP Nurse Anesthesia Program; CRNA

Director, DNP Nurse Anesthesia Program (CRNA)

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School of Nursing at the University at Buffalo (UBSON) is seeking the next Director of the Doctorate of Nursing Practice (DNP) Nurse Anesthesia Program (DNP-PD). As a R1 Carnegie and AAU member university, we lead in the doctoral education of Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists (CRNA). The University at Buffalo Program was founded in 1981 by Ira Gunn, CRNA, MLN, FAAN who was a US Army veteran and fierce advocate for nurse anesthetists and nurse anesthesia programs and who was named a Living Legend by the American Academy of Nursing in 2003.

As Program Director (DNP-PD) the primary role is to support the on‑going education, scholarship, and service/practice missions of the UBSON program by providing leadership, oversight, and direction of the program operating in the School of Nursing. The CRNA DNP‑PD helps to ensure that the standards and policies of the UBSON and accrediting agencies (COA/CCNE) are met in the DNP program. The CRNA DNP‑PD works closely with the dean, assistant/associate deans, DNP committee, and faculty to teach and facilitate course offerings and student experiences.

DNP‑PDs report to the Assistant/Associate Dean for the DNP Program and lead in the tri‑partite faculty mission of education, scholarship and service. This is a full‑time faculty appointment where 0.20 FTE of the appointment provides an administrative stipend as the program administrator.

The CRNA DNP‑PD builds, maintains, and sustains a collaborative working environment with the school’s faculty and with students enrolled in the CRNA/DNP programs. This includes implementing the new AACN Essentials (2021) into the curriculum for Level Two (APRN) students to meet CCNE accreditation standards (2024), and meet national (COA), state/agency (NYSED, Office of Professions), and SUNY educational and accreditation standards.

Additionally, the Council on Accreditation (COA) requires that the CRNA program administrator is full time and has current certification or recertification by the National Board of Certification and Recertification for Nurse Anesthetists (NBCRNA). The CRNA Program Administrator also has the authority to prepare and administer the program budget.

The CRNA/DNP‑PD will continue to build and strengthen a core commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion to prepare the leaders of tomorrow for service to their local, regional, state, national and global communities. The School of Nursing and the University at Buffalo aspire to become one of the top 25 public institutions in the nation.

The CRNA DNP‑PD and other DNP‑PDs work with the Office of Student Services, Simulation, and Interprofessional Education team, and the educational staff support team. DNP‑PDs work with accreditation and professional licensing entities, Information Technology Services that manage computer/audio‑visual technology and the testing vendor (Exam Soft), learning management system (Brightspace©), clinical software (Typhon©), exit surveys (Qualtrics©) etc., to develop, expand and maintain CRNA/DNP program excellence.

The DNP program directors also support the assistant/associate dean of DNP Programs to fulfill needs or provide reports, complete annual surveys/audits, evaluation of learning outcomes, student exit surveys, etc. to the offices and committees of the School of Nursing and the Graduate School of the University at Buffalo (UB).

Provide inspired leadership to continuously evaluate and implement the curriculum for their DNP track to ensure academic excellence and compliance with applicable accreditation and licensing requirements consistent with an R1 AAU research intensive university to achieve the tripartite mission focused on education, scholarship, and service/practice of the University at Buffalo.

• Identifying programmatic needs related to faculty assignments, assuring appropriate educational, scholarship, and practice/service goals.
• Work with leadership to identify adjunct faculty needs, hire, and evaluate adjunct faculty.
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