nurse educator certificate

[mysterious_one, ASN, RN]

The University of Texas Medical Branch offers a nurse educator certificate for BSN educated RN's and so does Kaplan. How likely is it to be able to get a job in the nurse education field ( at a Nursing school or in hospital)? I'm not sure that I want to go the Masters route. This would be much faster, I still have to get my BSN and the certificate is only 5 extra courses.

[traumaRUs, MSN, APRN]

I think you will find that anMSN is the minimum education level.

[Whispera, MSN, RN]

My experience is that I could teach with a BSN, but could only teach clinicals or those courses they couldn't find MSN's or DNS's to teach. Plus, I got paid lots less when I taught as a BSN than after I had my MSN. I also had to be working on a MSN in order to be able to teach when I had my BSN.

[AOx1]

The minimum education is a master's degree where I work.

[Jess89c]

Ball State University (BSU) has a post-baccalaureate certificate (or post-BSN) in nursing education:

http://cms.bsu.edu/Academics/CollegesandDepartments/Nursing/MastersDegrees/OnlineMastersProg/PostBANursingEd.aspx

You could later complete your MSN (Educator) at BSU since the courses in the post-baccalaureate certificate are in the MSN (Ed) track.

http://cms.bsu.edu/Academics/CollegesandDepartments/Nursing/MastersDegrees/OnlineMastersProg/LeadershipPoS.aspx

Just an option for those who want to attain a post-baccalaureate certificate before jumping all the way into an MSN program.

[JBudd, MSN]

I'm thinking you might be able to use the certificate in hospital for a unit educator position, as the education positions I've seen posted in house don't ask for an MSN. Most of the nursing schools that I know about require an MSN minimum for classroom teaching.

[mysterious_one, ASN, RN]

Thanks everyone for their replies