I am attending a community college while I work on my prereqs, and hope to attend the nursing school at the same college in the Fall for the ADN, though I will eventually go on to a BSN and then Master's program.
I had to download the school catalog yesterday because my teenage son threw mine away; as I was looking over the pages coming out of the printer I was suprised to see that none of my instructors this semester hold higher than a bachelor's degree. It looks like only a few of the instructors at the school have a master's degree (the nursing instructors do). I was under the impression that you had to have a master's to teach at the college level.
Is this common? Are the standards at community colleges lower than those at universities? Or am I getting a sub-standard education with worthless credits that won't transfer? The school has students transfer to unverisities all the time, so surely it's legit?
I "think" you can have your BSN to teach but must also be enrolled in a MSN program in order to get a position. Thats what I have been told by past instructors anyway.
I plan on teaching at some point in addition to working a floor. I want to give back to the profession-teachers are SOOOOOO needed!
Are you in Tulsa or OKC? I'm doing prereq's at TCC right now and know that although most of my teachers have had masters, it seems like a lot of the adjunct do not. There are a lot of gen ed teachers who teach at the high school level during the day and then teach TCC at night - especially in English, it seems. I'm starting the LPN program at Tulsa Tech in May and when I did the CNA class last fall the instructor told me that the nursing instructors there have to start working on their master's degrees if they don't already have one.
ChristineN, BSN, RN
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At my CC, all of my instructors have had master's degrees, and one even had a Ph.D!