Principal Faculty-Nursing

School: The School of Health Sciences

Position Type: Full-Time (1.0 FTE)

Reports to: Program Director

Purpose: Teaching (Primary), Coordination and Supervision of Individual Courses

The Principal Faculty will:

• Support the mission, vision, and ideals of the College and the Nursing program.
• Engage in teaching, scholarship, and service activities as defined in the Faculty Personnel Policies and the Constitution of the Corporate Faculty.
• Serve as principal faculty in the Nursing program with assigned teaching duties based on background and experience in class, clinical, laboratory, and simulation settings.
• Provide academic advisement to Nursing students
• Develop courses and teach undergraduate Nursing
• Oversee the clinical, laboratory, and simulation learning experiences
• Develop and pursue a research and scholarly agenda engaging students
• Contribute to accreditation and registration requirements
• Facilitate program assessment and evaluation
• Provide service to the college and profession
• Assist in the development and evaluation of curricula and programs

Education and Experience:

Essential:

• Current active licensure to practice professional nursing in Missouri and has never been disciplined in any jurisdiction.
• MS in Nursing from an Accredited College or University that includes a clinical component.
• Experience teaching at the collegiate or university level.
• Ability and clinical experience across more than one specialty area.
• Record of clinical experience, more than 3 years.
• Ability to flex teaching style to a wide-variety of learners.
• Excellent collaborative and interpersonal communication skills.

Highly Desired:

• DNP or PhD in Nursing from an Accredited College or University.
• Doctoral research experience.
• Experience teaching baccalaureate level nursing, prelicensure.
• Experience with accreditation and program assessment.
• Experience in engaging undergraduate students in research opportunities.
• Specialty certification.
• Multiple areas of expertise including medical-surgical nursing.

Stephens College offers excellent benefits, including vacation/holiday/sick pay, health/dental/life insurance, tuition waiver and College-paid retirement plan.