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158NNFACULTY Teaching Assistant Professor Career 159NNFACULTY Teaching Associate Professor Career 160NNFACULTY Teaching Professor Career 396NNFACULTY New Teaching Track PreAcademic YearBusiness Title:
CareerTrack Teaching Faculty All Ranks NursingEmployee Type:
Faculty (Fixed Term)Position Term:
Position Details:
THE OPPORTUNITY:
Washington State University College of Nursing at WSU TriCities is currently recruiting candidates to fill a careertrack teaching faculty position in our prelicensure BSN program. We are seeking applicants who are passionate about teaching and working with students in a variety of learning environments.
The College of Nursing offers undergraduate and graduate programs in nursing to over 1000 students systemwide at campuses and satellites in Spokane Vancouver TriCities and Yakima. Washington State University College of Nursing at WSU TriCities offers 1 Prelicensure BSN 2 RN to BSN 3 Master of Nursing (MN) 4 Doctor of Nursing PracticeFamily Nurse Practitioner 5 Doctor of Nursing PracticePsychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner. US News and World report consistently ranks our graduate programs among the top 40 in the U.S. with our DNP program currently ranked as #28 and our MN program ranked as #39. Our BSN prelicensure program graduates more than 280 students annually and is the top producer of RNs in alumni and faculty are recognized for their contributions to research and scholarship clinical practice service and leadership at local regional state and national levels.
Teaching faculty are responsible for:
Teaching undergraduate students in didactic clinical and laboratory courses with occasional assignments in graduate courses based upon expertise or certification.
Advising undergraduate and/or graduate students.
The responsibilities of the position:
Teaching Assistant Professor is 100 teaching.
Teaching Associate or Teaching Full Professor rank is 90 teaching and 10 professional and university service.
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS for Teaching Assistant Professor Teaching Associate Professor & Teaching Professor Ranks:
Earned Masters Degree in Nursing.
Possess an unencumbered RN licensure in Washington State.
ADDITIONAL REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS for Teaching Associate Professor Rank:
Currently serving in the rank of an Associate Professor or equivalent at a postsecondary institution OR;
At least four 4)years of academic teaching experience with demonstrated expertise in academic advising teaching integration of theory and evidencebased practice in instructional approaches demonstrated leadership engagement and dissemination in local community region state or national professional or healthcare related activities.
ADDITIONAL REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS for Teaching Full Professor Rank:
Currently serving in the rank of a Full Professor or equivalent at a postsecondary institution OR;
At least eight 8)years of academic teaching experience and expertise and creativity as a master teacher in specialty areas inundergraduate and/or graduate courses and
Current national or international board certification as a Certified Nurse Educator or in a clinical area as required; Demonstrated mastery in integration of theory and evidence based practice activities into innovative instructional approaches; Demonstrated leadership in college or campus activities pursuing continuous quality improvement of nursing education and the nurse educator role; Demonstrated leadership in college activities policy formation; Demonstrated effective leadership and increased dissemination & engagement in local regional state or national activities.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS for All Ranks:
Experience in teaching didactic and clinical courses and advising students.
Experience with technologyassisted education modalities.
Experience working with diverse populations and/or students.
Demonstrated ability to utilize practicebased research studies to address salient nursing and health care issues.
Nursing leadership experience and engagement in professional nursing organizations.
Interdisciplinary/interprofessional collaboration in practice and/or education.
Experience as a preceptor for prelicensure Bachelor of Science Nursing BSN.
Additional Information:
Area/College:
WSU TriCities College of Nursing
City State Zip:
Richland Washington 99532
Department Link:
Teaching Assistant Professor Rank: $75652.00 without doctoral; $92063.00 with doctoral degree
Teaching Associate Professor Rank: $78367.00 without doctoral; $104678.00 with doctoral degree
Teaching Professor Rank: $94951.00 without doctoral; $122565.00 with doctoral degree
Benefits:
WSU offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes paid sick and vacation leave; paid holidays; medical dental life and disability insurance package for employees and dependents; retirement; deferred compensation and optional supplemental retirement accounts. For a more detailed summary of benefits offered by WSU for Faculty please review the summary of benefits for WSU Faculty and Total Compensation
FTE:
100
Tenure Track:
No
Position Type:
Fixed term Career Track Temporary
Temporary Position:
This is a temporary fixedterm careertrack appointment which is intended to be renewed annually dependent upon performance funding and mutual agreement.
Position Term:
9 months. The position will follow the academic year; August 16 2025 to May 15 2026.
It is anticipated that the successful candidates will begin their appointment as soon as August 1 2025.
Background Check:
This position has been designated by the department to require a background check because it requires access to children or vulnerable adults as defined by RCW 74.34 engages in law enforcement requires security clearance interacts with WSU students in a counseling or advising capacity has access to personal identifying and/or financial information unsupervised access to university buildings/property or other businessrelated need.A background check will not be completed until an initial determination of qualification for employment has been made.
Application Instructions:
Applicants must upload the following list of documents to their online application.
Only electronic application materials submitted through WSU Jobs will be considered.
All documents must be attached before submitting.
Applicants are unable to edit their applications once submitted.
Documents may be submitted in one file or separate files.
Applicants are encouraged to upload as a PDF if possible.
External candidates please upload all documents in the Resume/CV section of your application.
Internal candidates please upload all documents in the Resume/Cover Letter section of your application.
Required Documents:
Curriculum Vitae
Cover Letter please include the position rank and if applicable the specialty sought.
Questions regarding the position may be directed to Christina Chacon WSU TriCities Nursing Academic Director at .
ABOUT WSU TriCites:
A Carnegie R1 highestresearchactivity landgrant university Washington State University is one of the nations top 60 public research universities according to U.S. News and World Report. WSU conducts transformational research and provides worldclass education to a diverse student population of approximately 30000 students statewide. Founded in Pullman in 1890 WSU today consists of four campuses: Pullman 24000 students) Spokane 1200 students) TriCities 2000 students) and Vancouver 3000 students). This multicampus system shares one central administration and one faculty. The various campuses operate as units of one single statewide university campus according to WSUs philosophy of one faculty that is geographically distributed. Additional information about the appeal of joining WSU may be found at As a landgrant institution Washington State University strongly values diversity among its faculty staff and students and is committed to excellence in research learning and outreach to all constituents.
WSUs TriCities campus is in Richland WA on the west banks of the majestic Columbia River. In this region Richland Kennewick and Pasco make up the TriCities Washington. The campus draws from a regional population of approximately 260000 and is expanding its reach both nationally and internationally also benefiting from a newlyrenovated airport. The growing campus has approximately 2000 students who are served by nearly 90 fulltime and 250 adjunct faculty members many of whom are fulltime researchers and scientists at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory or local science and engineering firms. WSU TriCities is experiencing a time of unprecedented growth and development. Legislative support tremendous community leadership and backing and partnerships with businesses and community organizations have resulted in many exciting new and expanded initiatives in dynamic student engagement research and community collaborations. Visit for more information.
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