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Welcome to the Nurse Educator Forum. It is my desire that you find this a warm, inviting place and will come here often for friendly, collegial discussions.

Let me introduce myself: I have been an ADN nurse educator in a small community college in North Carolina for the past two years. My areas of specialty are medical-surgical, OBGYN and immediate newborn, and cardiac nursing. In addition to teaching, I conduct clinicals on general medical-surgical, PEDS, postpartum, and cardiac step-down units. Along with being a full time nursing instructor, I am working on my Masters in Nursing Education. I am enrolled in a fully online curricula and have been very satisfied with this so far.

I have learned much these past two years but, I have so much more to learn! I look forward to hearing from you.

Specializes in CC, ED, L&D, CDE, Education, Advice.

Dear rpic:

I graduated in June 2006 from an all online MS in Education program. Where are you enrolled? I went to California State University East Bay. I have my BSN and have somewhat regreted that I didnt get my MSN in Nursing. I did get a raise and it has opened some doors, but I think an MSN is mre valuable if you want to teach in a schol of nursing.

What do you want to know about Mentoring and Precepting?

TreeSaw RN

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Specializes in telemetry, long-term care, oncology.

re; precepting; I need to write a proposal for our hospital, offering to precept local nursing students. I want to include evaluation forms, and a general list of expectations for the day to day precepting.

rpric

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Hello colleague,

I am a home health nurse who does the staff development in our agency. My plan is to be a staff development coordinator/educator in a hospital or long term facility. Do you have any book recommendations,seminars, classes? What is the fastest route to get certification? Thanks

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Hi all

I will be graduating in Feb/march with my masters in education focused in curriculum design and instruction. I have been in nursing since 87 but after I got my BSN I decided to broaden my teaching with a M.ed. I enjoy teaching A & P, psych ect... as well as nursing research and clinical. I work at a college with first year and 2nd year students, I LOVE my job, I just wish it paid better. I think we as a society would get more nursing instructors if it did... I make 10K less a year teaching than what I did as a neuro nurse. But for the love of it "I'll sacrafice"...

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Specializes in ER.

Hi everybody,

I am a brand new Er educator in a community hospital. My long term goal is to obtain my masters and teach in a RN program. So far the job has been challenging since the last educator left in Aug and I took over in Nov. I have found so much to do and learn and not much left from the last person doing the job. :o I have been enjoying reading through the postings on this board!

Jessica

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Specializes in Gerontological, cardiac, med-surg, peds.

:welcome: A warm welcome to all our newbies - nursechick1, TreeSawRN, consuelo, sadie van, and errneducation! Look forward to more of your posts. Enjoy the forum :)

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Specializes in Educator/ICU/ER.

I started as a nursing educator at a local community college last August. The city I am in saw the beginnings of 2 new nursing schools!

We now have 8 in our area! The school I am at now lost 2 educators and a director, so we are working on making the whole thing better! The salary is Much, MUCH less, but it is year round so that is nice. I stayed part time at the hospital to keep my skills up, so that is helping with the income. I will graduate May 2008 with my MSN in the education track. It seemed I was overloaded with reworking the syllabus for 3 semesters, working on my lectures and doing my grad school work (6 hours). It will be all for the best. It is so exciting to see the students "get it"! Next year should be much better!

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Specializes in Gerontological, cardiac, med-surg, peds.

A warm welcome to you, also, Goodoldnurse !

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Hi

I hear what your saying about the pay being MUCH lower than what we as staff nurses are used to seeing, I guess even though its a finacial challenge, one has to do what they love, love what they do and turn in pop cans for the rest :)

van

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What are the typical qualifications needed to become a nurse educator? I am a former elementary school teacher interested nursing. I already have a masters in education. Would I still need a MSN to teach nursing? Would a BSN suffice?

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Specializes in Educator/ICU/ER.

Really depends on your state. In Oklahoma you have to have your BSN to be adjunct and be working on MSN to be faculty in the community colleges and some of the BSN programs. You would need to visit with one of the schools.

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Hello, I am a generic BSN who graduated, it seems, in 1911. Nah, actually 1978!!! It hasn't been easy. I have many stories, and many experiences, but totally value life long learning. I wish to spend the remainder of my RN days teaching. Right now, I am an ER Nurse Educator, and enrolled in a traditional MSN program, where I am focusing on Nurse Education. After that, who knows. I've had my CCRN and CEN, but let them both go. I will regain my CEN very soon. I am glad to be able to post and, even more, to read, here. I look forward to reading anything that will help me become a better educator for current and future RN's. I very much value the profession of Nursing.

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