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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 critical care, ER, Management, teaching.

I am currently employed as a clinical edcuator for staff in a telemetry amd M/S and Peds area although my background is Critical area and emergency nursing.I have my BSN and am currently searching porgrams to complete my Masters in Nursing Administration (thinking about the future). I currently also teach ACLS, BLS and PALS and am employed part time as adjunct faculty for a university and teach clinicals for them. Oh... and I am PICC certified and teach others this skill. Whewwwwwww...................

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Hi Vicky,

I am a new graduate student. I am working on my MSN in the Nurse Educator tract. I saw your website and registered. I could use any support that I can get. I also welcome the feedback that is offered in this type of forum. Looking forward to using this site more often.

Sonya

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Found a place that offers scholarships for post grad training in how to become an educator:

http://www.internationalgme.org

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Specializes in Education and oncology.

Hi!

This is a great forum, should have joined earlier! I am a nurse educator at a small ADN college just outside Boston and also work in town on an adult BMT unit. I wish more was being done about the nursing faculty shortage- I am 44 and the "baby" of my school, teaching here for 5 years. Most of the folks I teach with are going to retire in the next 10 years. Not sure what I (and we) are going to do, we're already turning away countless qualified applicants. The pressure will be on in a short time. Thanks for this post.

Jess RN, MSN, OCN

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Hi Vcky & all,

I am a BSN RN working as a Nurse Educator in a private hospital in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. I came here from Atlanta, Ga. about 7 months ago as a Critical Care staff nurse. The Nurse Educator position came open so I applied and got the position. I have about 16 yrs experience, mostly Critical Care.

I have always enjoyed the teaching aspect of nursing. I find working with culturally diverse nurses a challenge! But I truly enjoy teaching them and sharing what I have learned over the years.

I'd like to start on my MSN soon and get my certication as Nurse Educator. I look forward to interacting in this forum!

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Specializes in Gerontological Nursing.

:cheers: Hello to all nurse educators!!! I am a clinical nurse facilitator for a graduate diploma in gerontological nursing. I've been working in this capacity for four years now and I am enjoying it. I have a masters in nursing education and a post graduate diploma in gerontological nursing and I am hoping to start my doctor of education degree next year. I am new to this forum but I am glad to know that their is a thread for nurse educators to facilitate exchange of information. :cheers:REDROOSTER...

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Specializes in Education and oncology.

Welcome Redrooster, I see you're fairly new to allnurses too. It's a great forum, and I'm thrilled to see nurses from all over the world. I have taught 6 years at an associate (2 year nursing program) affiliated with a college. We encourage our graduates to go on and continue their education. I teach the adult med/surg content- all oncology, and end of life issues. I love it, because that's been my practice for over 25 years. When my husband is done with his second career education (social work), I hope to begin a PhD program. Good luck with your ongoing schooling too!

Just curious, how many students do you have? We have 40 in our lecture and I take 7 to the hospital for clinicals. Our biggest class yet. :lol2:

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Specializes in Gerontological Nursing.
Welcome Redrooster, I see you're fairly new to allnurses too. It's a great forum, and I'm thrilled to see nurses from all over the world. I have taught 6 years at an associate (2 year nursing program) affiliated with a college. We encourage our graduates to go on and continue their education. I teach the adult med/surg content- all oncology, and end of life issues. I love it, because that's been my practice for over 25 years. When my husband is done with his second career education (social work), I hope to begin a PhD program. Good luck with your ongoing schooling too!

Just curious, how many students do you have? We have 40 in our lecture and I take 7 to the hospital for clinicals. Our biggest class yet. :lol2:

:cheers:Hello Jess, Thank you very much for welcoming me to the forum. Our specialist post graduate nursing programme is also run in partnership with a university, the programme is quite unique because it is a combinaton of post-graduate diploma (1st year) and masters degree in nursing (2nd year). Students with Bsc in nursing are the only students accepted in the programme and they have two options, if they only want to specialized they can go for the 1st year and if they want to continue and have the masters degree they can continue to the second year and graduate with masters degree in nursing with their specific speciality e.g. Msc in palliative, rheumatology & gerontological nursing.

We only have few students enrolling in our nursing specialization programme, for the gerontological nursing the biggest number so far is 13 registered nurses, rheumatology is the same and palliative care has the biggest number of students max of 25 nurses.

Our students are required to do placement in acute care of the older person and psychiatry of old age. During their placement they go to the hospital one at a time as we only have limited hospital wards that are dedicated to care of the older person and can only accomodate small number of students. The placement wards also take med students, social worker, ot, pt and care assistants at the same time.

Facilitating nurses who chose to study gerontological nursing is really challenging but rewarding to me because I am helping to educate our colleagues about the group of people that are sometimes overlooked in our society in terms of healthcare services and ignored due to lack of understanding of the aspects of old age.

I see that you are also interested in end of life issues, this is also a very important part in care of the older people. Our palliative nurse tutors are the one's providing this lecture to our students.

Thanks again and goodluck to you and your husband.

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" Always remember, the only thing that separates us from older people is our age"

RED - RGN, MSc, Hdip, Bsc, BSOT

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Specializes in OB, Midwifery, GYN, Mgmt, Military.

Good day, I thought I had posted early but didn't see myself so thought I would try again. I am new to education. I am a CNM and to give my self a break decided to take on a position with a new ADN program as maternal child health educator. Being a new program, we (I) am developing the curriculum, teaching lecture, lab and clincal. Organizing tests, and community projects, reading assignments etc. The term is half over, I was great for the OB portion, but am scared regarding the peds portion. Any hints, ideas, consolations, anything....

I laughed when I read the one post about working 6 hrs a day...This has been a lot more work, though I like it, then I bargained for.

Any help or comments would be appreciated. Lynn

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Specializes in Education and oncology.

Hi Meme2- I see you're relatively new to this blog too! ((Welcome))! :heartbeatWe nursing faculty need to support each other! Re: Pedi- boy you have an overwhelming task of starting your program. The one I teach was established as a diploma program decades before I started, transitioned to ADN 1996, so I had little to build from ground up. Do you have "sister" ADN college that you could tap into? Seems silly to reinvent the wheel when it already exists. If there is a college near you, might be helpful to call/meet their pedi faculty and see if they have anything they'd be willing to share with you.

Do you have a good pedi textbook? A lot of our texts come with CD's that have additional teaching matierial on them. We use Lewis for our med-surg, and the Instructor's Electronic Resource includes lesson plans, a test bank and case studies. Lastly, you might find resources on the web- I tell my students "Google is my best friend." I don't know where you're located, but if you're remote, some universities might have resources via web you could tap into.

I hope this is helpful; you have quite a task on your shoulders, but know you're not alone! Good Luck! :smiletea2:I know you won't drown!

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Specializes in OB, Midwifery, GYN, Mgmt, Military.

Thank you Jess, so I am not imagining the problem..yes it is overwhelming. But I have so baffled the students with my OB knowledge I hope I do as well with the Peds...anyway. I was told, I could not use the nursing program down teh street...I guess too much competition or I was told even that it was illegal to use anything from them.. I agree why re invent the wheel. The book we are using is Hockenbery and Wong...IT is 2000 pages...and we need to complete it all before the 10 week term is up. I move into Peds next week.

This is a sharp group of students, and the good thing for me..not them, is that the pediatric unit will only allow one student at a time, so I am not bombarded with questions right now. So..I guess I will learn with me. And refer them back to the book. I just do not want to do a disservice to them. thanks for your reply it is good to know I am not alone in cyperspace....

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Specializes in Education and oncology.

((Lynn)) you are not alone! I'm not shocked that the nearby schools guard their coveted info. Sigh. One of the pitfalls that we are guilty of in nursing. Can't imagine the same thing happening in law or medicine. OK. :icon_roll

About the 2000 pages you must finish before going on to peds. Our med surg text is 1860 pages for the entire semester and we *still* don't go over every topic. If you can get an NCLEX test bank, it might help you whittle down what you need to focus on. Hopefully the students will use their books for several years as new grads; and they can use it for reference to look up topics that weren't taught in school. Bottom line, just focus on diseases/conditions likely to be found on boards and most encountered in the clinical setting.

Educators out there- do you agree? Do you have any other suggestions?

Re: going on to peds with OB background- do you have time to befriend some of the pedi nurses and see if they would be willing to do an inservice on a pedi topic? Not sure of amt of time you have, but when I taught pedi assessment, I had the older students bring their babies and children in for them to practice on before they went to the clinical setting. Help allay their anxiety, and they got used to well kids before tackling the sick ones. Again, don't know how realistic this is for your setting. Hang in there, it sounds like you're doing a great job! :bow:

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