Dean - School of Nursing

The dean, reporting to the Provost, is responsible for leadership and oversight of the College's nursing programs, including the following responsibilities:

• Leadership of all nursing faculty and appropriate support personnel.
• Application of expert knowledge and skills in providing:
  • Fiscal oversight for the department, including preparation, monitoring, and implementation of program budgets
  • Innovative leadership of curriculum development and course delivery
  • Leadership and oversight of program assessment and continuous improvement
  • Adherence to approval and compliance with accreditation bodies' requirements
  • Timely and accurate document preparation and communication, and
  • Maintenance of high-quality programs which serve the needs of the College, the students, the healthcare system and the community.

Essential Functions

• Promotes the College's core values and standards of excellence through teamwork, caring, integrity, commitment to our mission and values, respectful communication, maintenance of a safe and professional environment, synergistic partnerships with those we serve, and anticipation of students', colleagues', and community needs. Maintains professional confidentiality in all aspects of job performance.

• Engages in transformational leadership behaviors to promote leadership engagement of teammates as exemplified by the following:
  • Leads with excitement by operating with energy, intensity, and positive emotional support; has the capacity to keep others enthusiastic and involve
  • Adopts an achievement orientation with high expectations for self and others.
  • Manages performance and development through role definition, motivation, and reward of team members, provision of feedback with coaching and mentoring of team members, valuing differences that each team member makes and connecting their role to organizational and team success.
  • Builds relationships that promote partnerships throughout the College, CHS, and community. Delegates effectively,
  • Encourages collaboration that includes enlisting the talents of others to help meet objectives.
  • Values the ideas and opinions of others and collects input as part of the decision-making process
  • Manages conflict through active listening, diffusion of conflict before it starts, problem solving, and working with difficult team members to resolve conflict issues.
  • Keeps other administrators aware of emerging issues through effective communication.

• Oversees and leads quality management of the nursing programs.
  • Collaborates with the offices of Admissions and Student Affairs to recruit, select, and retain students
  • Ensures that the Program Chairs assign faculty workloads, considering individual areas of expertise and equality of assignments.
  • Acts on recommendations regarding issues related to student progression, including dismissal.
  • Ensures monthly faculty meetings are held for the purpose of informing, gathering input, sharing professional development information, and making decisions or recommendations which further the College's mission.
  • Gathers and uses feedback from a variety of sources in completing and delivering annual performance appraisals of direct reports.
  • Ensures annual performance appraisals are completed to evaluate nursing program faculty and staff members.
  • Ensures equipment selection, repair, maintenance, and storage is appropriate to the needs of the programs, students, and faculty members.
  • As needed and as time permits, teaches classes in accordance with nursing faculty job summary.
  • Works with the Program Chairs to identify appropriate clinical areas/facilities needed to help students accomplish course and program outcomes.
  • Routinely reviews student retention and progression issues with Program Chairs to assure appropriate degree of rigor is maintained within a student-oriented context.
  • Annually validates current RN licensure for nursing faculty members.
  • Maintains open communication and serves as a role model for nursing faculty and students.
  • Serves as acting Program Chair in the absence of appointed Chairs.

• Leads the development and implementation of the nursing curriculum which reflects innovative, futuristic programming, meets approving and accrediting bodies' requirements, and responds to the needs of the students and the external community.
  • Guides and collaborates with the curriculum committee regarding requests related to nursing courses, the philosophy, framework, outcomes, and curriculum maps.
  • Ensures nursing syllabi are developed by the course faculty under the guidance of the Program Chairs to reflect current nursing theory and practice, consistency within and between courses, appropriate level of expectations and progression, and program philosophy and framework.
  • Leads program faculty in planning, implementing, and assessing program mission, goals, and outcomes.
  • Reviews outcome data and assists appropriate parties in developing performance improvement actions and measures.
  • Assures the nursing programs are current and meet the needs of the community, the healthcare system, and the students.

• Collaborates with the Provost to define and maintain accreditation requirements, i.e., NC Board of Nursing, SACSCOC, ACEN, CCNE and/or others as deemed appropriate.
  • Reviews information from agencies related to proposed or implemented changes in requirements.
  • Provides data or files reports as requested.
  • Coordinates program site survey visits.
  • Annually reviews affiliation agreements and makes recommendations to the Provost regarding revisions or renewals.

• Initiates and coordinates the employment process when new or replacement personnel for the nursing programs are required.
  • Forwards to the Provost completed personnel forms which are consistent with CHS Human Resources policy, College needs, and the department's budget.
  • Works with Human Resources to assure an adequate base of faculty position applicants exists for open positions. 
  • ​​​​Selects and guides interview teams, resulting in personnel recommendations to the Provost.
  • Verifies that final candidates meet all established education, experience, and certification/licensure requirements.
  • Orients new teammates or delegates to the appropriate person.