Suspicious about an educator position for new grad MSN

[Adam Maple]

Hello everyone, 

My wife has just completed her MSN and has been job hunting for several months now, applying for positions and not getting any responses. Several days ago she applied to a position at a local university with a relatively new nursing program. The job was posted as a full time nursing educator position with full benefits, etc. She got a call within a few days to set up an interview. So she had her interview and it went very well but during the course of it, she was told that this was not a full time position. She said that the job posted said full time and they said “oh, well HR must have messed that up,” or something like that. Now here is where my suspicion lies: this job has been posted for greater than 30 days on indeed. There are very few educator jobs available and I find it hard to believe that they have not interviewed a single other applicant since the job was posted, which would mean that they know the job description is wrong. Has anyone had any experience with a purposefully wrong job posting to get people in for the interview and offer them a much less desirable job?

Not only that, but they told her that there are no benefits, but the job is an hourly rate (decent) and 32 hours a week. They used both “part-time” and “adjunct” in the interview but this just sounds off to me. Any advice?

For the record, my wife currently works part time as a nurse and carries insurance for our child and herself. I am a health care contractor and don’t have great insurance options. I understand that in this field, you typically have to start at the bottom and work your way up but to me it seems dangerous taking a no benefits job right now when I may not have a contract available at any point in the future. 
I appreciate any feedback. My wife would love to have this job as it is an educator position and she’s always wanted to teach in the college setting but I’m feeling hesitant that she hasn’t asked the right questions and she’s somehow being duped into a position that they haven’t been able to fill.

[Leader25, ASN, BSN, RN]

Bait and switch in hiring  nursing ,hell yeah!Many years ago hired for daytime (too good to be true),then I was told it is  actually nights,"sorry  someone made a mistake."

[amoLucia]

She's being snookered - JMHO.

She needs to protect her health insurance for your family.

Give the educator job search position time. Things are too crazy in these times to take any chances.

[Jedrnurse, BSN, RN]

18 hours ago, Leader25 said:

Bait and switch in hiring  nursing ,hell yeah!Many years ago hired for daytime (too good to be true),then I was told it is  actually nights,"sorry  someone made a mistake."

Did you hit the road right then and there?

[Rnis, BSN, DNP, APRN, NP]

That's a bait and switch..  32 hours a week.....is full time.