Nursing Faculty Position

Open Rank Research Nursing Faculty Position

Open Rank Research Nursing Faculty Position

The School of Nursing at UT Health San Antonio invites Nurse Researchers to apply for a full-time tenure-track or tenured position at an Associate/Professor rank. Applicants are required to have completed a doctoral degree with a research focus. Rank and salary will be commensurate with qualifications and experience.

• Conducting discovery and knowledge-generating research
• Submitting applications for external funding of research
• Supporting the research and teaching mission of the School of Nursing
• Potential clinical practice opportunities

• A research doctorate in nursing or a related field.
• Evidence of a strong program of research and scholarship.

The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UT Health San Antonio) is designated as a Carnegie R1 Research Institution, the highest level of research activity recognized by the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. This distinction reflects its significant research expenditures, doctoral degree programs, and faculty resources. UT Health Science Center San Antonio is set to merge with The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA), pending approval by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC).

UTSA, also a Carnegie R1 university, is nationally recognized for its strengths in AI, data science, cybersecurity, and engineering. Once approved, the merger will create the third-largest research university in Texas, further elevating the region’s academic and research impact. San Antonio, a $44.3 billion bioscience and healthcare hub, offers a dynamic environment with year-round recreation and a favorable cost of living.

UT Health San Antonio seeks to provide the best in health career education, conduct groundbreaking biomedical research, while also providing the best patient care and community service to San Antonio and the South Texas/Border Region. With undergraduate, graduate, and postgraduate programs, UT Health San Antonio is a major academic health science university composed of six schools:
School of Medicine, School of Health Professions, School of Nursing, Dental School, and Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences and the School of Public Health. For more information on UT Health visit our website scsa.edu

School of Nursing:

The School of Nursing is at the forefront of academic nursing, leading excellence through innovative teaching, quality research, compassionate care, and community service in South Texas and beyond. It offers both undergraduate and graduate degrees, including BSN, DNP and PhD degrees and specialty certificates. Today, the school’s enrollment consists of 261 graduate students and 755 undergraduate students, including 37% first generation college students and 19% male nursing students, almost twice the national average.

The School of Nursing employs a state-of-the‑art Center for Simulation Innovation for clinical education, as well as a growing patient care practice providing primary and acute care at our own clinic, Wellness 360 and at a variety of community partner sites. As leaders in community outreach, we also operate a mobile health unit used for disaster relief and other missions.

Faculty enjoy a wide range of engagement through our research programs, Center for Community‑Based Health Promotion with Women and Children and a new Center on Smart and Connected Health Technologies. Collaborative, interprofessional research opportunities include the Glenn Biggs Institute for Alzheimer’s & Neurodegenerative Disease, Barshop Institute for Longevity & Aging Studies, Center for Research to Advance Community Health and more. Our School of Nursing is home to some of the most unique population health and community‑based health research in the region and in the state of Texas.

Faculty scholarship is supported by a dedicated team in the Office of Nursing Research and Scholarship.

Visionary leaders in the School of Nursing have been nationally recognized for their commitment to the…