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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.

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Hi, I'm Judy, and the new Director of Allied Health at a small but great community College in Northern California. I came from private industry, a for profit emergency department, was a clinical instructor in a BSN program and now this. I have a wonderful mentor, the previous director and instructor, who just retired. Yes, half the pay, but.... great.

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Specializes in Tele, ICU, ED, Nurse Instructor,.

Hello all!

I am sort of new to this forum. I have been posting for awhile here. I have been a clinical nursing instructor since August 2010, in a PN program at Centura College. I really enjoy the program, students, and faculty/staff. I started my nursing career on a Tele/PCU. Since May of this year I have been working in a float pool which allow me to be able to work different units such as ED, ICU, Med-Surg, Oncology Med-Surg, and of course Tele/PCU. I have always been interested in nursing education. While in nursing school I used to substitute teach in a local community public school system. I will be attending Walden University this January to earn my MSN in education. I would love to teach in a ADN and/or BSN program. I love to read you all past and present posts on how you all lives are going while providing good education to our future nurses. It would be great to for us to continue to keep each posted how things are going.

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which online program are you using?

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Specializes in nursing education.

Congrats on starting at Walden. I am about to finish. It has been great. I have enjoyed their program, and would recommend it highly. Good luck!

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Specializes in Tele, ICU, ED, Nurse Instructor,.
which online program are you using?

Im using Walden University.

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Where are you at in your program?

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Where are you at in your program?

I will be starting in January. I am studying for the PCCN at the moment.

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Specializes in nursing education.

Cool! I am about to be done. It has been a great ride.....good luck!

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Cool! I am about to be done. It has been a great ride.....good luck!

Thanks, I will keep you all posted.

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I am an lpn that just got a job as a lab coordinator in a nursing lab. I am in charge of scheduling and running all of the simulation equipment. I start next month but I am trying to get a headstart on this job. I am looking for ideas on how to make the simulations more lifelike. Does anyone have any suggestions? They have a lot of equipment from the Laerdel company.

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Hello

I am a current nursing student in an ADN program. I always thought I wanted to work in Pediatrics or a NICU. Last term an instructor planted the idea of becoming nursing faculty in my head. I had never imagined that I would want to become a teacher, but the more I thought about it the more I realized that I really wanted to do it. I started to notice myself helping other students on things like the head to toe assessment, and studying for finals. I even noticed a change in the way I interacted with others in the clinical setting.

I have heard that there are RN to MSN programs and that is what I am planning on right now. Does anybody have any advise?

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I am a current nursing student in an ADN program. I always thought I wanted to work in Pediatrics or a NICU. Last term an instructor planted the idea of becoming nursing faculty in my head. I had never imagined that I would want to become a teacher, but the more I thought about it the more I realized that I really wanted to do it. I started to notice myself helping other students on things like the head to toe assessment, and studying for finals. I even noticed a change in the way I interacted with others in the clinical setting.

I have heard that there are RN to MSN programs and that is what I am planning on right now. Does anybody have any advise?

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