Does the nursing profession really want to eliminate the nurse faculty shortage?

[uwaga]

I am so frustrated: I completed my MSN in nursing education almost a year ago; have applied to several universities and have been turned down because I don't have teaching experience in the classroom or a PhD. All the talk regarding the nurse faculty shortage and the universities want you have teaching experience and to be PhD prepared in order to teach. I always had it in my mind that once I completed my MSN in Nursing Education I would be able to teach in the university; but my dreams have been smashed by the denial. I have more than 15 years of nursing experience: I left the field for 2.5 years to have my child, during that time I completed my studies only to be turned down in the pursuit to teach potential nursing students. Whatever happened to mentoring new nurse educator, allowing them to gain the teaching experience and increasing the number of nursing faculty. I guess they don't want to rid the nursing profession of the nursing faculty shortage. I know the money is not the best, but I'm am not looking at the salary, I just want to prepare other potential nurses to practice and experience the joy of the nursing profession.

I don't want to perform the clinical nurse educator role.

[beachyfe]

Try starting out as a part-time adjunct instructor in an LPN or ADN program. Once you get a bit of teaching experience under your belt you can move up. But, just like in any other type of job, you often have to start at the "bottom" and get a little experience first. Then you'll have more to put on your resume and also have an idea of what teaching is really like. Best wishes!