Assistant Professor Of Nursing

Req Id: 30348

Job Title: Assistant Professor of Nursing

Job Description:

Job Summary

The School of Nursing in the College of Health and Human Sciences (HHS) at Purdue University invites applications for an academic year tenure-track Assistant Professor position beginning in Fall of 2024. The faculty member will be expected to conduct research and teach courses that enhance or complement the School's priority areas of health systems and quality improvement, informatics and data analytics, health promotion across the life course, family health, population health, or gerontological nursing and long-term care across all levels. The faculty member will be able to teach in the School's nationally ranked undergraduate and graduate programs, including the DNP and PhD.

Nursing Faculty Research

There will be excellent opportunities to advance the faculty member's research career. For example, the faculty member will receive mentorship and will have opportunities to collaborate with School of Nursing faculty whose interests range across the above priority areas.

In addition, there will be opportunities for collaboration with faculty members in the College of Health and Human Sciences (HHS) and other academic units at Purdue. The School of Nursing has a culture that values and rewards research, teaching and engagement with the community. The School offers mentorship, protected time and other forms of support devoted to faculty members early in their careers.

Faculty in the School can take advantage of Purdue's internal research grant programs and its wide array of research centers, such as the Center on Aging and the Life Course, Center for Families, Cooperative Extension, and Regenstrief Center for Healthcare Engineering. The School's faculty members have current cross-disciplinary studies involving physical activity and other health promotion, cancer prevention, social media, healthcare quality improvement, palliative and end of life care, nursing workforce issues, aging and long-term care, community health, simulation, robotics and data science to name a few.

Research and Teaching Enviroment

The School of Nursing takes excellent advantage of its research environment and ties to health care and other community organizations. The School administers 4 nurse-managed Federally Qualified Community Health Centers in rural, medically under-served communities in north central Indiana.

These health centers, which serve an ethnically diverse population many of whom are uninsured, are clinical training sites for nursing and other health professions. They also are excellent settings for quality improvement projects, nursing interventions, health promotion research, and health disparity studies by nursing students and faculty.

The School also has extensive ties to local and regional hospitals, health care systems, public health departments, long-term care facilities. Faculty members are engaged in research projects with state health and human service agencies, and with colleagues at the Indiana University Schools of Nursing and Medicine and Roudebush VA Medical Center. Ties with Purdue Extension, which has staff on site in the School of Nursing, afford the opportunity to secure funding and to reach out to rural communities throughout Indiana for health-related research and continuing education projects.

Requirements of the Application

Applicants must have a PhD in nursing or a related field. Applicants must have a Bachelor's Degree in Nursing, (Master's Degree in Nursing is preferred) and be eligible for licensure in Indiana.

The doctoral degree must be in hand by the start date. The applicant must have a record of research and teaching in line with the missions of the School.

Applications

Applicants should submit: (1) a cover letter of interest; (2) curriculum vitae; (3) two peer-reviewed journal articles or other examples of written work; (4) a research statement; and (5) a teaching statement. Letters of recommendation will be requested at a later date for finalists for the position. To apply visit https://careers.purdue.edu/job-invite/30348/

The College of Health and Human Sciences and the School of Nursing are committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion, and belonging. Our leadership, faculty, staff, and students are engaged in many efforts that are consistent with this commitment.

Application review will begin April 29, 2024, and continue until the position is filled. A background check is required for employment in this position.

Questions regarding the position may be sent to Dr. Greg Arling, Chair of the Search Committee, garling@purdue.edu.

Purdue University is an EOE/AA employer. All individuals, including minorities, women, individuals with disabilities, and veterans are encouraged to apply.

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Posting Start Date: 3/19/24