Nursing Curriculum Subject Matter Expert (SME)

Part-Time | 10–15 hours/week

About the Role

Nightingale is looking for an experienced nursing professional to help us sharpen and strengthen our existing nursing courses. As a Subject Matter Expert, you'll bring your clinical expertise to the table — helping us revise course content, learning activities, and assessments so our Learners graduate with stronger clinical judgment and are truly ready for practice. This is a part-time, flexible-hours role for someone who's passionate about nursing education and wants to shape how the next generation of nurses learns.

What You'll Do

• Serve as a content expert in your nursing specialty (e.g., pharmacology, medical-surgical, community and public health, fundamentals, chronic illness, pediatrics, geriatrics, or maternal health)
• Help redevelop course content with real-world clinical context and evidence-based guidance
• Review and refine learning activities so they build genuine clinical judgment
• Contribute to assessments, including NGN-style items, case studies, and performance-based tasks, ensuring clinical accuracy and realism
• Validate content for accuracy and appropriateness to the learner's level, and flag anything outdated, inconsistent, or missing
• Partner closely with our instructional design, assessment, learning experience design, and VR teams
• Stay current on nursing practice trends and bring fresh recommendations to the table
• Use insights from learner performance data to inform where content needs to evolve

What You Bring

Minimum Qualifications

• Master's degree in nursing
• Active, unencumbered RN license
• Demonstrated expertise in one or more nursing specialty areas
• Experience teaching in a nursing program or serving as a subject matter expert in curriculum/course development
• Familiarity with AACN Essentials (2021) and NCLEX/NGN expectations
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to give clear, actionable feedback
• Comfort working in a structured, deadline-driven development environment
• Strong attention to detail and commitment to evidence-based practice

Preferred Qualifications

• Doctoral preparation
• Recent or current clinical experience
• Experience reviewing or contributing to assessments (test items, case studies, performance-based evaluations)

Why Nightingale

You'll join a collaborative team that treats course quality as a shared mission — working alongside instructional designers, assessment specialists, and fellow clinicians who care as much as you do about getting it right for Learners. This role is a chance to use your clinical expertise to directly shape how nursing education prepares people for real practice.

Budgeted Hiring Range$50—$50 USD

All new hires are required to attend New Collaborator Orientation (NCO) in Salt Lake City, Utah. The College will cover travel, lodging, and other accommodations.

Nightingale’s commitment to diversity and inclusion is reflected both in our learners and collaborators because we believe the best outcomes for learners from underserved and diverse populations are achieved through collaborators with similar backgrounds and cultures. Nightingale Education Group is an equal opportunity employer.

Our Mission (not just words on the wall, we live it, love it, and daily contribute to it): With the primary focus on higher learning in healthcare professions, Nightingale Education Group contributes to elevating education, health, and employment systems through facilitation of academic achievement, personal growth, and professional development of its learners, alumni, and collaborators, while serving diverse communities.

At Nightingale Education Group, our Innovative Education model helps transform rural health landscapes through our blended-distance learning platform. Every person involved with Nightingale Education Group helps to change the lives of our learners, our communities, and ultimately the world by adding to the quality of healthcare. We are proud to have graduated nearly 5,000 nurses serving communities in need. We are serious about our outcomes and have a little bit of fun getting there.

The professional and personal development of our learners and our collaborators is our company’s foundation. Not only do we develop strategies that promote a positive work-life integration, but we also create an environment that invites you to become an expert in your field, be it through higher education or professional development. Put simply, we elevate employment, elevate health, and elevate education. We’re so happy that you’ve found us!

Employment is contingent upon successful completion of a background check and drug screen.