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.
I will have my MSN/Nurse Education 11/30/11. God willing and the creek don't rise. I interviewed yesterday for FT faculty position in an ADN program. I am so excited about the prospect, I don't know what I'll do if it is not offered. I have been reading the posts for tips for the new educator and enjoy the fire that everyone has to shape great nurses. I hope I can officially join the ranks soon and utilize everyone's advice.
Specializes in Gerontological, cardiac, med-surg, peds.
I will have my MSN/Nurse Education 11/30/11. God willing and the creek don't rise. I interviewed yesterday for FT faculty position in an ADN program. I am so excited about the prospect, I don't know what I'll do if it is not offered. I have been reading the posts for tips for the new educator and enjoy the fire that everyone has to shape great nurses. I hope I can officially join the ranks soon and utilize everyone's advice.
Welcome to allnurses and the Nurse Educators Forum, Speschalk :welcome: Please keep us posted about the faculty position. This forum is a great place to network and discuss strategies for faculty and student success. Best wishes to you and looking forward to hearing more from you :)
I teach in a LPN program and teach EVERY subject. Needless to say, I don't know them all. I came from trauma, L&D, and ophthomology so I have spent MANY hours over the last 3 years studying myself on things that I was not real familiar with. It has gone well. I also do their clinicals with them. We are on several different floors so I have learn to ask the nurses a lot of questions and they have been great!
Hello! I am currently a nursing assistant teacher also, in a private school (3 week). I recently applied for a position in a community college as a program director for their nursing assistant training. I want to be able to prove, if interviewed, that I am good enough to be able to supervise their instructors and maintain the best quality program. Also that I am staying up-to-date with current literature, and know the best ways to train adults. I'm just wondering if you know of any more resources I could look to to make sure I am ensuring the best program possible, (in the Geriatrics/LTC forum, it has some resources from Hartman posted, but any others?). Any professional organizations that would be worthwhile joining if I got the job, any place to go to for more networking/getting help from others in the same position? I don't have that much LTC experience also, so keeping up on geriatric/LTC info is a need also. Any "must-have" journals or textbooks? Thanks for any and all advice!
New here, and won't have a lot of time to just chat, as I am working full time (LPN program, obviously) and am half way through my MSN with an education emphasis. Found the link doing research and needed a break from PubMed for a few minutes![/b]
Specializes in Gerontological, cardiac, med-surg, peds.
Welcome to allnurses and to the Nursing Educators Forum, sahrdh, conscientiousnurse, and LPNteacher! :welcome:
In response to your inquiry, conscientiousnurse, please check out my three articles in this forum that discuss the marvelous gero resources freely available from the Hartford Foundation :)
Best wishes to you on your journey towards your MSN-nursing education, LPNteacher! :)
We all look forward to hearing more from you in this forum.
Just discovered this faculty thread and want to thank Vicki and all of you for some excellent resources! I have my master's as a Family Nurse Practitioner. I have done ER for 19 years, psych the whole time--per diem, and hospice for many years. I practice as a house-call NP on a per diem basis and just finished my first year of teaching LPNs full-time. I LOVE teaching! I used to teach ACLS and various topics for EMTs, so teaching comes naturally. But, I was stumped as to where to find excellent ideas and resources and all of you have provided so much! I am very grateful to be a part of this group!
Specializes in Gerontological, cardiac, med-surg, peds.
Just discovered this faculty thread and want to thank Vicki and all of you for some excellent resources! I have my master's as a Family Nurse Practitioner. I have done ER for 19 years, psych the whole time--per diem, and hospice for many years. I practice as a house-call NP on a per diem basis and just finished my first year of teaching LPNs full-time. I LOVE teaching! I used to teach ACLS and various topics for EMTs, so teaching comes naturally. But, I was stumped as to where to find excellent ideas and resources and all of you have provided so much! I am very grateful to be a part of this group!
Welcome to the Nursing Educators Forum and to allnurses.com, Bershire1995! We look forward to hearing more from you :)
Specializes in Nsg. Ed, Infusion, Pediatrics, LTC.
Hello, I will begin teaching Fundamentals in Nursing at a local PN program this week. I have roughly 17 years of experience in the following areas: Med/Surg, Pediatrics, Geriatrics, Infusion therapy, and Nursing Administration. I'm so very excited to begin the teaching journey, as this has always been my dream. I'm looking forward to hearing from everyone!
I realize this is an old thread but I wanted to say thanks for starting it! I've enjoyed reading about everyone's role as a nurse educator. I am currently debating on whether to pursue nurse educator courses in conjunction with my FNP/DNP curriculum. I will be going to school full time and also working full-time in a nurse residency program. I've tutored a math course for a local GED program in my area a few years back and I loved it! I am currently teaching a nursing science course for the upward bound program, which is a program soecifically for high school students in hopes that they pursue higher education especially in STEM areas. The opportunity fell into my lap and I have really enjoyed making up my own lessons. I'm just wondering if adding 3-4 courses into my curriculum will be too much for me to handle. I have until this August to decide. Decisions decisions!
Hello, this is great that there is a Nurse educator forum. I am the only Nursing Education Coordinator for our small 43-bed rural hospital. Have been in this role for 8 years. After 25 years I completed my MSN in Leadership and Management in hopes that I will be able to help translate between the administration team and the frontline staff through education and training. My next goal is to achieve my certification in Nursing Professional Development to enhance my practice as an educator. I love nursing education and the many facets I am involved with within our organization. Looking forward to connecting with you all.
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I will have my MSN/Nurse Education 11/30/11. God willing and the creek don't rise. I interviewed yesterday for FT faculty position in an ADN program. I am so excited about the prospect, I don't know what I'll do if it is not offered. I have been reading the posts for tips for the new educator and enjoy the fire that everyone has to shape great nurses. I hope I can officially join the ranks soon and utilize everyone's advice.