Part-Time Faculty - Undergraduate Nursing, Academic Year 2025-2026

The University of Southern Maine’s School of Nursing Online MSN Program is seeking applications for anticipated Part-Time Faculty positions for the Fall 2025 and Spring 2026 semesters.  Our Fall semester begins September 1, 2025. These positions involve teaching clinical nursing to pre-licensure students enrolled in our baccalaureate nursing program. The exact meeting dates, times, and course durations may vary depending on the lab, lecture, or clinical section.

There will also be required training and orientation sessions before the start of the semester, specific to the course(s) the selected individual will be teaching.

School of Nursing has a comprehensive mentorship program. Each course is led by a Course Lead Faculty, who serves as the subject matter expert, mentors part-time faculty, and ensures consistency in course structure, syllabus design, and content delivery across sections.

Faculty responsibilities include orienting, teaching, supervising, grading, and evaluating pre-licensure nursing students. Clinical sections will have up to 8 students per clinical, depending on location, lab/simulation sections may have 12-16 students per lab, and lectures typically have 30-35 students per section.
These roles offer an excellent opportunity for nursing professionals to contribute to the development of future nurses while benefiting from a supportive teaching environment.
Teaching opportunities could involve any of the following lab, lecture, or clinical courses, depending on SON's needs and the applicant's skill set, experience, interest, and availability.   

We are seeking instructors for the following courses:

Introduction to Professional Nursing, Leadership, and Ethics (NUR 270) - The purpose of this course is to introduce students to the profession of nursing. A major focus of this course is for students to critically think about nursing profession, historical and theoretical frameworks, ethical principles, professional values, and standards of nursing practice including role of advocacy. Content and activities focus on enhancing students’ capabilities in the areas of writing and speaking, critical thinking, information technology and information literacy, teamwork, and self-assessment within the context of understanding the role of the professional nurse.  3-credit lecture, meets once per week, Portland Campus.

Health Assessment Lab (NUR 301) - This laboratory course provides knowledge and skills essential to conduct an in-depth bio-psycho-social-cultural, holistic health assessment of well individuals through the lifespan. Emphasis is placed on data collection through development of communication and physical examination skills. Data will be analyzed and nursing diagnoses developed.  1 credit, 2 hours per week for 14 weeks, Portland campus.

Nursing Fundamentals Lab (NUR 307) - This course focuses on the cognitive basis, scientific principles, and manipulative component of psychomotor skills used when implementing foundational nursing therapeutics, which promote, maintain, and restore the health of the client.  2 credits, 4 hours per week for 14 weeks, Portland campus.

Intermediate Nursing Skills/Simulation Lab (Med/Surg) (NUR 313) - This laboratory and simulation course builds on the theory, scientific principles, and psychomotor skills introduced in prerequisite courses. Its focus is to develop basic psychomotor and communication skills through kinetic learning in simulated clinical scenarios built from protocol cases from adult and older health course and clinical work. Demonstrations, role-playing, critical thinking and decision-making will be the framework for skill building. Active and independent laboratory participation will permit the student to demonstrate self-direction as a learner.  1 credit, 4 hours per week for the last 7 weeks of the semester, Portland campus. Team-taught with 2 faculty members per lab section.

Pediatric Nursing Skills/Simulation Lab (NUR 417) - This laboratory and simulation course builds on the theory, scientific principles and psychomotor skills introduced in the corequisite course in the care of children. The focus is on developing communication, psychomotor skills, and critical reasoning through kinesthetic learning in simulated clinical scenarios for childrearing and childbearing families with an emphasis on the developmental needs/ care of the child and psycho-physiological processes in childbearing. Demonstrations, return demonstrations, role playing, communication, decision making, clinical reasoning, nursing process and debriefing are constituents of the framework for the knowledge and skills developed in this course.  0.5 credits, 2 hours every other week (7 total meetings). Multiple sections available on Tuesdays.

Reproductive and Sexual Health Nursing