Description
The Rutgers School of Nursing invites applications for tenure-track faculty positions. The successful candidate will be responsible for providing leadership contributing to the advancement of patient care and nursing scholarship within the School of Nursing. This individual will become a valued faculty member of the Division of Nursing Science. Salary and academic rank will be commensurate with scholarly achievements including funded research and publication record, as well as other relevant professional experience. The position will be based in either Newark or New Brunswick, NJ.
Successful candidates will demonstrate the expertise and commitment to advance nursing science through research, teaching excellence, advisement and mentorship of PhD students, and potentially undergraduates and DNP students as well. We are seeking visionary scientists who will make solid contributions to the academic life of the School. We offer highly competitive salaries and benefits; start-up packages are available.
Established in 2023, the Center for Health Equity and Systems Research (CHESR), at Rutgers School of Nursing provides a nexus for rigorous research that elucidates the harmful effects of systematic inequities on health outcomes and quantifies the impact of approaches designed to mitigate them.
Rutgers Health Overview:
New Jersey’s premier academic health center, Rutgers Health takes an integrated approach to educating students, providing clinical care, and conducting research, all with the goal of improving human health. Aligned with Rutgers University–New Brunswick and collaborating university wide, RBHS includes eight schools, a behavioral health network, and five centers and institutes that focus on cancer treatment and research, neuroscience, advanced biotechnology and medicine, environmental and occupational health, and health care policy and aging research.
Our elite and renowned faculty are teachers, health researchers and providers, and scientists with unparalleled experience who advance medical innovation and provide patient care informed by the latest research findings. We offer an outstanding education and training in medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, public health, nursing, biomedical research, and the full spectrum of allied health careers. An important mission of RBHS is to promote the careers of faculty, staff, and learners.
Through this community of healers, scientists, and scholars, Rutgers is equipped as never before to transform lives.
School Overview:
The School of Nursing is one of eight schools that make up the Rutgers University, Rutgers Health. . As part of the Rutgers Health division, the School of Nursing offers unique opportunities in education, research, and practice at a leading national research university which is the state’s preeminent, comprehensive public institution of higher education.
Innovative academic offerings include bachelor’s (BSN), master’s, post-master’s, Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) , and PhD programs that are preparing nurse leaders of today and tomorrow at campus locations in Newark, New Brunswick, and Blackwood, NJ. Our BSN, master’s and DNP programs are ranked by US News and World Report as being among the highly rated programs in the nation.
As one of the nation’s largest, most comprehensive nursing schools, the Rutgers School of Nursing is dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in education, evidence-based research and health care delivery, and promotion of community health. The school is dedicated to meeting the educational needs of current and future students through innovative teaching and learning strategies in the undergraduate and graduate programs. Moreover, the school has distance education offerings that include online hybrid options. Students have the opportunity to enroll in a variety of baccalaureate and graduate programs.
Rutgers University School of Nursing is ranked among the nation’s top 15 in 2022-2024 US News and World Report, as No. 14 in Best Nursing Schools: Master’s and No. 6 in Best Nursing Schools: Doctor of Nursing Practice.
Rutgers School of Nursing is committed to fostering a diverse, equitable and inclusive community and seeks faculty and staff who embrace this commitment. Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is an equal opportunity, affirmative action institution.
** To address the current and projected critical shortage of nurse faculty in the State of New Jersey by providing an incentive for persons to enter graduate nursing education programs by offering student loan redemption in exchange for full-time faculty employment at a school of nursing in the State of New Jersey for a five-year period following completion of the approved graduate degree program.
https://he7606.hesaa.org/Pages/NursingFacultyLoanRedemptionProgram.aspx
Requirements
PhD – area of expertise or focus of program of research, that links to our educational mission and vision;
Eligibility for appointment at least at the rank of Assistant Professor tenure-track whose program of scholarship has had successful extramural support and is published in peer-reviewed, quality health-related journals.
Applicants should have a focused program of scholarship in an area complementary to nursing science;
Skill at grant writing as evidence by securing extramural support for research;
Expertise in teaching and mentorship of undergraduate and graduate students
Interest and demonstrated expertise in teaching identified courses that complement the programs of study at the School of Nursing;
Registered Nurse (or willing to acquire NJ RN license)
The School is particularly interested in areas of genomics, community-based participatory work, self and family illness management, HIV and infectious diseases, child health, and social determinants of health.
