Temporary Faculty- CHHS​/SON Clinical Academic Year 2026-2027

Overview

The School of Nursing, located within the College of Health and Human Services, is seeking temporary/part time faculty for clinical teaching in the prelicensure nursing program to create a pool for advance and short-notice teaching assignments based on program demand for the  Academic Year.

Courses may include:

• Foundations
• Adult Health
• Maternal-Infant
• Community
• Mental Health
• Capstone (senior clinical preceptor experience)

The  Academic Year includes the following semesters:

• Fall 2026
• Spring 2027
• Summer 2027

Undergraduate course teaching:
Master s degree with 9 graduate credit hours in the teaching discipline from an accredited institution.

Graduate course teaching:
Terminal doctoral degree in the teaching discipline from a regionally accredited institution.

Those with equivalent verifiable professional experience, certifications, and licensures in the discipline may also be considered.

Prelicensure or graduate teaching experience preferred.

• Nurse Practitioner (NP) faculty must have an active North Carolina NP license and board certification
• Prelicensure nursing faculty must have a North Carolina RN license

The School of Nursing (SON) within the College of Health and Human Services (CHHS) at the University of North Carolina Wilmington (UNCW) has an outstanding legacy of serving the people of southeastern North Carolina through education, scholarship, and service. The SON is dedicated to excellence in the development of healthcare professionals through in-depth education, professional partnerships, applied research, regional engagement, and community outreach and impact.

The SON is a National League of Nursing Center of Excellence in Nursing Education, specifically in the area of promoting the pedagogical expertise of faculty. The SON is located in McNeill Hall, a state-of-the-art facility that includes offices, classrooms, a large lecture hall, computer laboratories, student success areas and learning commons, and the Simulation Learning Center. The Simulation Learning Center uses high, medium, and low-fidelity human patient simulators as teaching and learning tools for nursing education.

Through the use of simulation, we strive to create a realistic environment and a powerful learning experience that promotes the cognitive, affective, physical, and social development of the student as well as the incorporation of inter-professional collaborative experiences for students across the degree programs in the College.

The SON offers the following degree and certificate programs:

• BSN in Nursing (Prelicensure, RN-BSN, Accelerated)
• MSN in Nursing (Nurse Educator)
• Nurse Educator Certificate
• DNP
• BSN to DNP (Family Nurse Practitioner, Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner, Adult-Gero Nurse Practitioner)
• MSN to DNP (Nurse Executive Leadership and Post-APRN concentrations)
• Post DNP Psych Mental Health Certificate (beginning Fall 2026)
• Clinical Research: BS in Clinical Research;
  Post-Baccalaureate Certificate in Clinical Research Operations; MS in Clinical Research and Product Development

Over 2,400 students are enrolled in programs within the SON. The SON has over 80 full-time faculty and employs over 60 part-time faculty per semester.

The College of Health and Human Services was created in July 2010 to provide UNCW with a new mechanism to link and focus its health-related research, professional continuing education, and health knowledge dissemination and application. In the formative stage of development, the CHHS is currently home to three professional schools:
School of Health and Applied Human Sciences, School of Nursing, and School of Social Work. This is an outstanding opportunity to join a dynamic College that seeks to be nationally recognized for its inter-professional collaboration, community engagement and impact, and implementation science. The faculty, staff and students of the CHHS are committed to the pursuit of excellence and enhancing health and quality of life across the lifespan for individuals, families and communities in southeastern North Carolina and beyond.

The University of North Carolina Wilmington, the state s coastal university, is dedicated to the integration of teaching, mentoring, research and service. Widely acknowledged for its world-class faculty and staff and continuously recognized at a national level for scholarly excellence and affordability, UNCW offers a powerful academic experience that stimulates creative inquiry and critical thinking. A public institution with nearly 18,000 students, UNCW offers a full range of baccalaureate- and graduate-level programs, as well as doctoral degrees in educational leadership, marine biology, nursing practice and psychology;

and many distance learning options, including clinical research, an accelerated RN-to-BSN program, an Executive M.B.A.…