Assistant Professor of Nursing

Assistant Professor of Nursing

Posted on 10/14/2025

Accepting applications

About this position

Florida Southern College announces a 9-month full-time, tenure track-eligible position in the Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) Program track. This position would start mid academic year in spring 2026 and would fall under the faculty appointment renewal provisions of the Faculty Handbook. The School of Nursing and Health Sciences(SNHS) provides programs for nursing, which includes the BSN, MSN, and DNP programs, as well as an Exercise Science program.

This faculty position reports directly to the BSN Program Director and is officially supervised by the Dean of the School of Nursing and Health Sciences. The incumbent will be an active faculty member of the CCNE-accredited BSN program and may be assigned to teach in other SNHS programs based on the needs of the School and the College. Key responsibilities include:

• Provide both didactic and clinical instruction in the BSN program and other programs as needed to meet the needs of the SNHS and Florida Southern College
• Maintain positive relationships and active collaborations with the major clinical/community serving the BSN program.
• Demonstrate collaboration, collegiality, and support for program excellence.
• Provide advising and mentoring for students to advance student success
• Engage in research and/or scholarly activities (if tenure-track)
• Engage in professional and community service
• Contribute to ongoing curriculum and program improvements
• Participate in faculty governance through service on Program, School, and College committees

About our ideal candidate

Requirements include a doctorate in nursing from an accredited institution, a Florida registered nursing licensure (active or eligible), an established record of teaching, and clinical experience.

About us

The College's health and wellness plans along with generous paid time-off benefits are in addition to rewarding employee benefits such as the tuition grant and 403(b) plan.

The employee tuition grant is a remarkable benefit that covers the cost of 100% of the College's tuition for dependent children of faculty and staff who have been employed with the college fulltime for one year. Employees can also take advantage of the benefit for themselves.

The Defined Contribution Retirement Plan is a 403(b) plan in which the college automatically contributes 7% of the eligible employee's earnings into a retirement fund whether the employee chooses to participate or not. The account has a comprehensive investment portfolio and allows the employee to control their investment choices. At 6 years of service, the employer contribution amount is elevated to 10%. Employees can choose to participate through pre-tax payroll deductions when ready!

Florida Southern College is committed to diversity and inclusion in hiring, campus life, and intellectual engagement and welcomes applications from all interested candidates. The college actively seeks a wide variety of candidates and enthusiastically looks to diversify our workforce.

Florida Southern College has a strong commitment to the principles of equal employment opportunity. The college recruits, hires, trains, transfers, promotes and compensates individuals and makes all personnel decisions without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, national origin or ancestry, marital status, veteran status, or physical or mental disability unrelated to an individual's ability to perform the job, in accordance with applicable law.

Founded in 1883, Florida Southern College is the oldest private college in the state. The College maintains its commitment to academic excellence through 70+ undergraduate programs and distinctive graduate programs in business administration, education, nursing, and physical therapy. Florida Southern has a 14:1 student-to-faculty ratio, is an award-winning national leader in engaged learning, and boasts 30 NCAA Division II National Championships. Florida Southern is ranked at #8 among the "Best Regional Universities in the South" by U.S. News & World Report in its 2022 "Best Colleges" guide and is included in The Princeton Review's 2022 Best 387 Colleges guide and the "Fiske Guide to Colleges 2022." The 2021-2022 Colleges of Distinction guidebook praises Florida Southern's AACSB accredited Barney Barnett School of Business and Free Enterprise alongside the College's School of Education and its Ann Blanton Edwards School of Nursing and Health Sciences. Poets&Quants, U.S. News & World Report, Fortune, and The Princeton Review further laud the Barney Barnett School of Business and Free Enterprise and the Ann Blanton Edwards School of Nursing and Health Sciences as foremost programs in the nation for business and nursing education. Home to the world's largest single-site collection of Frank Lloyd Wright architecture, FSC has appeared on The Princeton Review's top 20 "Most Beautiful Campus" national listing for 12 consecutive years. Connect with Florida Southern College.