Sessional - Faculty - Fall 2026 in Kamloops, British Columbia at Thompson Rivers University

The School of Nursing, BScN program, is seeking sessional faculty for the Fall 2025 semester. Courses are scheduled from September 9 to December 11, 2026, with an additional week for practice course evaluations and an exam period for theory courses.

Positions are available in:

(YEAR 1) NURS1700 - Professionalism and Leadership 1: Introduction to the Profession of Nursing - This course is an introduction to the profession of nursing. Students are introduced to the curriculum's foundational perspectives and concepts and how these relate to nursing practice. Students explore nursing history, the evolution of nursing, and the health care system. Students will explore their individual and professional values and beliefs to develop their professional nursing self-concept. Students critically reflect on the role of gender, race, and class in the social construction of nursing as a profession, explore their responsibility for safe and ethical nursing practice, and discover the governing bodies that regulate nursing.

(YEAR 2) NURS2740 - Nursing Practice 3: Promoting Health and Healing - In this nursing practice experience, students will develop caring relationships with individuals and families to promote health and support understanding of their health and healing processes when experiencing more complex health challenges, both episodic and chronic. Students will have opportunities to practice nursing approaches that accompany this understanding. Students will work with families and individuals in the home and community, in agencies, and in care facilities to incorporate concepts and learning from all the courses in this semester into their nursing practice. The community and society are considered as contextual influences on the promotion of health for the individual and the family. Areas of Practice include Mental Health, Community, med/surg, and Maternity.

(YEAR 3) HLSC3650 - Health Sciences: Pathophysiology - This course builds on concepts introduced in Pathophysiology 1 with an emphasis on complex health alterations. Students will learn about the presentation and pathogenesis of health alterations across the life span. In selected units, diagnostics, epidemiology, epigenetics, nutrition, and environmental impacts will be introduced. Topics will be closely aligned with current nursing practice and connected to concepts in other nursing courses.

(YEAR 3) NURS3730 – Health and Health Promotion 5: Health Transitions - In this course, students continue to expand their understanding of knowledge that nurses use in practice. The focus is on the client's experience of health including people living with chronic and episodic health challenges. This course provides opportunity to incorporate multiple sources of knowledge including pathophysiology into their nursing practice.

(YEAR 3) NURS3740 - Nursing Practice 5: Promoting Health and Healing - This nursing practice experience continues to provide opportunities for students to develop caring relationships with individuals and families experiencing complex health challenges while coming to understand their health and healing processes. Students will have opportunities to practice nursing approaches that accompany this understanding. Students work with families and individuals in the home and community, in agencies, and in care facilities to incorporate concepts and learning from all the courses in this semester into their nursing practice. Areas of Practice include Acute med/surg.

(YEAR 4) NURS4380 - Nursing Practice 7:Promoting Health and Healing in Complexity - This nursing practice experience continues to provide opportunities for students to develop caring relationships with individuals and families experiencing complex health challenges while coming to understand their health and healing processes. Students will have opportunities to practice nursing approaches that accompany this understanding. Students work with families and individuals in the home and community, in agencies, and in care facilities to incorporate concepts and learning from all the courses in this semester into their nursing practice.

(YEAR 4) HLSC4650 - Health Sciences: Pathophysiology 3 - This course builds on the concepts introduced in Pathophysiology 1 with an emphasis on complex health alterations. Students will learn about the presentation and pathogenesis of health alterations across the lifespan. In selected units, diagnostics, epidemiology, epigenetics, nutrition, and environmental impacts will be explored. Topics will be closely aligned with current nursing practice and connected to concepts in other nursing courses.

• Master’s degree required;
• Holds a Bachelors Degree in Nursing;
• Three (3) years full time or equivalent hours of nursing experience;
• Experience in teaching nursing and/or clinical practice;
• Evidence of continuous learning in your area of nursing;
• An understanding of, and experience in, the Canadian healthcare system; and
• Current BCCNM registration in good standing without limits or conditions, or eligibility for registration with BCCNM prior to appointment.

*Official transcripts will be required prior to appointment.

NOTE: To learn more about Thompson Rivers University or living in Kamloops or Williams Lake please visit our Careers website. External Candidates invited to interview will be required to bring a copy of their transcripts to the interview.