About this role
Position Summary
The Nursing Faculty member plans, delivers, and evaluates learning experiences that support course and program outcomes, safe nursing practice, and student success. Faculty serve as educators, evaluators, mentors, professional role models, and contributors to curriculum, governance, program evaluation, and continuous improvement.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
Teaching, Clinical, and Simulation Instruction
- Teach assigned nursing courses in classroom, clinical, laboratory, simulation, hybrid, or online settings.
- Plan, implement, evaluate, and revise syllabi, learning activities, instructional materials, assignments, examinations, and educational resources.
- Use evidence-based teaching strategies that promote learner engagement, critical thinking, clinical judgment, communication, professional identity, and safe nursing practice.
- Supervise and evaluate students in clinical, laboratory, and simulation environments. Verify readiness for practice and intervene when performance presents an actual or potential safety concern.
- Design and facilitate simulation experiences, including prebriefing and debriefing, using appropriate technology, fidelity, and assessment methods.
- Maintain current clinical competence and comply with clinical agency requirements, patient privacy standards, regulatory expectations, and professional standards.
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Assessment, Feedback, and Student Success
- Use valid formative and summative methods to evaluate knowledge, skills, clinical judgment, professional behavior, and achievement of course outcomes.
- Provide timely, specific, constructive, and documented feedback on academic, laboratory, simulation, and clinical performance.
- Maintain accurate and timely attendance, grade, competency, conference, remediation, and other required academic records.
- Identify students experiencing academic, clinical, or professional difficulty. Provide advising, mentoring, remediation, and referral to appropriate support services.
- Apply academic integrity, grading, attendance, progression, conduct, and evaluation standards consistently while protecting confidential information.
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Curriculum, Program Evaluation, and Governance
- Participate in curriculum design, mapping, implementation, evaluation, and revision to maintain alignment with Board of Registered Nursing requirements, accreditation standards, program outcomes, current nursing practice, and healthcare trends.
- Collect, analyze, and use course, student, and program outcome data to improve teaching, learning, and program effectiveness.
- Participate in systematic program evaluation, continuous quality improvement, accreditation, regulatory review, and institutional reporting activities as assigned.
- Participate in faculty meetings, committees, shared governance, policy review, strategic initiatives, and program events.
- Collaborate professionally with students, faculty, staff, administrators, clinical partners, and community stakeholders.
Educational Philosophy and Competency Integration
- Integrate Jean Watsons Unitary Caring Science Theory throughout learning experiences in a manner consistent with the programs educational philosophy.
- Model compassionate, culturally responsive, relationship-centered, holistic, and patient-centered nursing practice.
- Integrate QSEN competencies: patient-centered care, teamwork and collaboration, evidence-based practice, quality improvement, safety, and informatics.
- Create inclusive and psychologically safe learning environments that promote trust, dignity, inquiry, reflection, accountability, civility, and professional growth.
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Professional Development and Scholarship
- Maintain competence in nursing practice, nursing education, instructional technology, simulation, and assigned teaching areas.
- Participate in orientation, faculty development, continuing education, peer review, and evaluation activities.
- Use feedback, outcome data, current evidence, and self-reflection to improve teaching effectiveness.
- Engage in scholarly, professional, or service activities appropriate to the faculty role and institutional expectations.
- Maintain all required licenses, certifications, approvals, health clearances, training, background requirements, and clinical agency onboarding.
Qualifications
Qualifications
Required
- Active, unrestricted registered nurse license in the jurisdiction required for the assignment.
- Education, professional experience, and clinical competence required by the institution and applicable Board of Registered Nursing regulations.
- Eligibility for faculty approval, when required, for assigned instructional responsibilities.
- Proficiency with learning management systems, instructional technology, electronic communication, and educational resources used by the institution.
- Ability to communicate effectively, exercise sound professional judgment, work collaboratively, and meet established deadlines.
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Preferred
- Certified Nurse Educator or relevant national specialty certification.
- Experience teaching in classroom, clinical, laboratory, simulation, hybrid, or online settings.
- Experience with simulation pedagogy, Next Generation NCLEX preparation, and clinical judgment assessment.
- Experience with curriculum development, accreditation, program evaluation, continuous quality improvement, or nursing education leadership.
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Physical, Cognitive, and Environmental Requirements
The employee must perform the essential functions of the position, with or without reasonable accommodation. Depending on assignment, duties include prolonged standing and walking, movement throughout instructional and clinical settings, demonstration and observation of nursing procedures, use of computers and educational technology, effective communication, evaluation of student performance, response to safety concerns, and travel to assigned locations. External clinical agency requirements apply when assigned.
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Classification Statement
This job description identifies the principal functions of the position and does not list every task. The institution may assign related duties consistent with faculty qualifications, institutional needs, applicable law, regulatory and accreditation requirements, and contractual obligations.
NLN Core Competency Crosswalk
The crosswalk below identifies the primary sections where each NLN Core Competency for Academic Nurse Educators is reflected in this job description.
NLN Core Competency
Primary JD Section(s)
How the Competency Is Met
I. Facilitate Learning
Teaching, Clinical, and Simulation Instruction
Plans, delivers, revises, and evaluates evidence-based learning experiences across instructional settings.
II. Facilitate Learner Development and Socialization
Assessment, Feedback, and Student Success; Educational Philosophy and Competency Integration
Provides advising, feedback, remediation, mentoring, professional role modeling, and inclusive learning support.
III. Use Assessment and Evaluation Strategies
Assessment, Feedback, and Student Success; Teaching, Clinical, and Simulation Instruction
Uses formative, summative, clinical, competency, and simulation-based evaluation methods.
IV. Participate in Curriculum Design and Evaluation of Program Outcomes
Curriculum, Program Evaluation, and Governance
Participates in curriculum mapping, evaluation, revision, outcome analysis, and program improvement.
V. Function as a Change Agent and Leader
Curriculum, Program Evaluation, and Governance; Professional Development and Scholarship
Contributes to governance, policy review, strategic initiatives, collaboration, and improvement activities.
VI. Pursue Continuous Quality Improvement in the Nurse Educator Role
Curriculum, Program Evaluation, and Governance; Professional Development and Scholarship
Uses outcome data, feedback, current evidence, peer review, and self-reflection to improve effectiveness.
VII. Engage in Scholarship
Professional Development and Scholarship
Engages in scholarly, professional, service, and evidence-informed activities appropriate to the faculty role.
VIII. Function within the Educational Environment
All essential duty sections; Required Qualifications
Works within institutional, regulatory, accreditation, clinical agency, ethical, and professional expectations.