Assistant Professor of Nursing

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Position Information Job Title Assistant Professor of Nursing Rank Assistant Professor Tenure Information Tenure Track Summary John Carroll University invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position in Nursing to begin as soon as January 2024, but no later than September 2024.

Faculty teaching a nursing course shall provide a syllabus to each nursing student that includes the title of the course, the number of credits, and whether it is a lab, clinical, or didactic, the course description, course objectives, teaching strategies, including the job title, credentials or other information describing the background of an individual teaching, whose qualifications are directly related to the course, the methods of evaluation, the required textbooks or learning resources.

The faculty will then design and implement teaching strategies that will assist a nursing student to meet the course objectives or outcomes, evaluate each nursing student’s achievement and progress, and at the conclusion of each course, the faculty shall compare the number of planned clinical hours as established in the syllabus with the number of clinical and lab hours actually provided to students and report the course data to the administrator.

Faculty are responsible for committee work and adhered to the MEP.

The faculty also have obligations for employment outlined in the document Teaching at JCU : A Guide for Faculty. Some sample responsibilities include timely and proper documentation of midterm and final grades, adherence to FERPA standards, creating syllabi, supervision of teaching assistants, evaluation of student achievement, office hours availability, and additional syllabus requirements.

Duties and Responsibilities Required Qualifications Faculty teaching a nursing course will have proof of completion of an approved registered nursing education program, experience for at least two years in the practice of nursing as a registered nurse, a master’s degree in nursing with a plan for completing a doctoral program within 5 years, and current, valid licensure as a registered nurse in Ohio.

Desired clinical areas of expertise include adult health / medical-surgical nursing, psych-mental health, community health, and / or critical care.

Candidates with expertise in more than one specialty area are highly desired. Preferred Qualifications A doctoral degree in nursing or a related field is preferred.

Normal Work Location, Hours and Conditions This position works primarily in-person from our campus in University Heights, Ohio.

University core business hours are generally 8 : 30 am 5 : 00 pm. However this position will require work to be performed outside of normal business hours based on department.

About John Carroll University

John Carroll University is a private, coeducational, Jesuit Catholic university, founded in 1886, dedicated to developing people with the knowledge and character to lead and to serve.

The University is located in University Heights, Ohio, an attractive residential suburb 10 miles east of downtown Cleveland.

Academically, the University consists of the College of Arts and Sciences and the Boler College of Business, which both include graduate programs.

The University offers 39 Academic Programs in the arts, social sciences, natural sciences, and business at the undergraduate level, and in select areas at the master’s level.

The University enrolls approximately 2,500 undergraduate students and 500 graduate students and has a student-to-faculty ratio of 14 : 1.

John Carroll University is one of 27 Jesuit universities in the United States and has been listed in U.S. News & World Report magazine’s top 10 rankings of Midwest regional universities for more than 30 consecutive years.