Assistant​/Associate Professor Nursing & Health Studies, Tenure-Eligible​/UMKC School of Nursin

Division of Research Education

Located in the heart of Kansas City on the Health Science District campus, the University of Missouri Kansas City (UMKC) School of Nursing and Health Studies offers pre-licensure BSN, MSN, DNP, and PhD programs to over 1,400 students. The School has full accreditation from the Commission for Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE) and UMKC is HLC accredited. We are a team with a passion for nursing and a mission to improve health outcomes for all.

School of Nursing and Health Studies | UMKC

University of Missouri-Kansas City;
School of Nursing and Health Studies;
Division of Research Education. Located in the heart of Kansas City on the Health Science District campus, the University of Missouri Kansas City (UMKC) School of Nursing and Health Studies offers pre-licensure BSN, MSN, DNP, and PhD programs to over 1,400 students. The School has full accreditation from the Commission for Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE) and UMKC is HLC accredited.

We are a team with a passion for nursing and a mission to improve health outcomes for all.

School of Nursing and Health Studies | UMKC. The UMKC School of Nursing and Health Studies is a partner within the UMKC Health Sciences District which houses the Schools of Medicine, Nursing and Health Studies, Pharmacy, and Dentistry. The District strives to be a premier academic health district, engaging in cutting-edge social and biomedical research and entrepreneurship, delivering state-of-the-science health care, and educating the next generation of health care professionals.

Health Sciences District
- Home Suite | University of Missouri-Kansas City. For decades, UMKC has served Kansas City as its top public research university and is currently designated as a Carnegie Research 1 institution. R1 Designation
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- Home Suite | University of Missouri-Kansas City. UMKC provides unique opportunities for research and health care collaboration across its Schools of:
Medicine, Dentistry, Nursing and Health Studies, and Pharmacy as well as University Health physicians, regional health care institutions, and the University of Missouri System’s Next Gen Data Science and Analytics Innovation Center. What is dSAIC? – Data Science and Analytics Innovation Center. Research expertise at the School of Nursing and Health Studies spans the full translational continuum, from basic science through direct patient care and community-engaged research across the lifespan.

Our faculty conduct funded research focused on individuals, families, and communities across three broad areas: clinical/biological research, health systems and outcomes research, and nursing education research.

The School of Nursing and Health Studies at the University of Missouri
- Kansas City seeks applications for a full-time, 12-month tenured/tenure-track Assistant or Associate Professor to teach and conduct original, externally funded research within the Department of Nursing. The successful applicant will foster innovative research by mentoring students in the Department’s Division of Research Education and promoting excellence in the development of scholarly expertise within their chosen areas of research. Opportunities exist for collaboration with interprofessional and multidisciplinary teams, as well as researchers at all stages of their careers, from students to established, externally funded investigators.

Faculty are expected to disseminate their scholarship through peer-reviewed publications, competitive grant applications, and extramural funding. The successful applicant will also demonstrate the ability to teach across undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral programs within the Department’s Divisions of Nursing Education, Clinical Practice, and Research Education.

• Maintain a sustained, externally funded program of research and scholarship.
• Mentor undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral students in research and scholarly activities.
• Provide service appropriate to their faculty rank.
• Advance the mission and strategic priorities of the School of Nursing.

Regular on-campus presence is an essential…