Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist (CRNA) / Assistant Professor

Professional Summary

The MSU College of Nursing invites applications for a teaching position of Assistant Professor to teach in our Nurse Anesthesia Graduate Program. This is a part-time, BENEFIT ELIGIBLE, annual year (12 months) faculty position. The College of Nursing promotes the health of individuals and communities through excellent educational programs to prepare nurse leaders for practice, research, and education. Collaboration with College of Nursing faculty, administrators, agency staff, and students is expected. Assignments are based in East Lansing, Michigan. This position will report to the Nurse Anesthesia Program Director.

Position responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Course management, didactic and skills lab instruction
• Test writing and in-course student performance analysis
• Participation in student recruitment activities
• Participation in student applicant interviews
• Assisting with clinical placements, clinical maintenance and clinical student case management
• Student advisement
• Participation in the academic governance process
• Participation in the accreditation processes and program assessment

In the College of Nursing, we believe Inclusive Excellence and Health and Community Engagement are central to all the work that we do. We seek to understand and appreciate peoples and cultures that are different than our own. We believe in advocacy to support and empower individuals and populations through honest and respectful communication that is evidence-driven, respecting and being inclusive of all the experiences they bring. Given this belief, all team members in the College of Nursing carry a leadership role that fosters a sense of inclusion, belonging and servant leadership. This includes:

• Demonstrate a commitment to long term, sustained action that increases inclusive practices in health equity across the CON
• Intentionally create an environment that encourages a sense of belonging, inclusive learning, work, and clinical service environments that enable everyone to reach their full potential.
• Recognize that inclusion is a journey and strive to move along the continuum of embracing experiences and resources that address anti-racist and anti-oppressive ideas while acknowledging the inward and outward systems that influence bias and cultural awareness.
• Strive to be a champion of inclusive practices that lead and transform others and creates initiatives that change structural systems within nursing education which have historically inhibited, disenfranchised, marginalized, and unintentionally excluded underrepresented communities.

For immediate consideration, please share your CV with Sophia Watts, wattssop@msu.edu.com

For additional information, please contact Dr. Gayle Lourens, Director of the Nurse Anesthesiology Program at loniews8@msu.edu or Tiffany Keck, Human Resources Manager at con.hr@msu.edu.

Required Degree

• Doctorate in Nursing

Minimum Requirements

• Doctoral degree (PhD, DNP, DNAP or equivalent)
• Expertise in central neuraxial and peripheral regional anesthesia
• Current certification/recertification as a Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist (CRNA) by the National Board of Certification and Recertification for Nurse Anesthetists (NBCRNA)
• Unencumbered license to practice as a CRNA (or eligible) in Michigan
• Unrestricted RN license without probationary status (or eligible) in Michigan
• Excellent verbal, written and interpersonal skills

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, citizenship, age, disability, or protected veteran status.

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