Nursing Curriculum Subject Matter Expert (SME)

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.

• →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• →Validate content for accuracy and appropriateness to the learner's level, and flag anything outdated, inconsistent, or missing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

• 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

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

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.

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.