Nursing area that provides the most patient education

[germanshep]

Good Afternoon,

I am new to this website and I have been enjoying reading all the blogs. I am graduating in December and am interested in a nursing position that provides the most patient education (other than classroom/university teaching). From some of the blog posts I have been reading, I am concluding that cardiac, OB and Med Surg have a tremendous amount of patient teachings. I am getting ready to apply for positions and I am interested in hearing a nurse's perspective before I apply for the wrong position.

Nursing will be my second career, education being the first. I anticpate on completing a few years of bedside experience before becoming a Nurse Educator.

Thank you in advance!

[lkwashington]

If you are planning on being in a hospital setting, any staff nursing position would involve a lot patient education. We education patients on medications, procedures, safety measures, and equipment from the time of their admission to discharge. Providing education to the patient never ends. There always something to teach patients.

There is a lot of information for us to learn to be able to teach our patients. I hope this helps. Good luck and keep us posted.

[germanshep]

Thank you for your help!

[evolvingrn, BSN, RN]

Education is a part of all bedside nursing. Im a Hospice RN, and education is simply a HUGE part of the job.

[Hospice Nurse LPN, BSN, RN]

Education is a part of all bedside nursing. Im a Hospice RN, and education is simply a HUGE part of the job.

DITTO! Except that I'm a hospice LPN....lots and lots of teaching for the pts and family members. I also have 6 pts in a LTC facility and there is always teaching to be done with the LPN's/CNA's.

[germanshep]

Thanks! I did not even think of hospice until now.

[DogWmn]

I worked in Family Practice and Pediactric clinics and there were tons of patient education things going on and it was continuous over the years.

[germanshep]

Thanks! That position sounds great.

[ChristineN, BSN, RN]

I agree that any sort of nursing position will involve some teaching. In ICU where your pts are intubated/comatose, that might be a tad more difficult. I ditto the idea for OB or mother/baby. You might also consider ER (where you have to educate all your pts on what to do when they go home, if they aren't getting admitted). Peds is interesting because you aren't just educating the pt, but the whole family. I think it would be really hard to find a nursing position that didn't involve some sort of pt education.

[germanshep]

Thanks! I have so many areas of interest and new areas to consider :)

[jlcole45]

You can educate in any nursing setting. It's really up to you as the nurse on how much

pt education you choose to do.

[ObtundedRN, BSN, RN]

Any nursing position has tons of education. Even in the ICU with those intubated/comatose patients, because you still have family members that need to be educated. Teach them about diagnosis, meds, procedures, infection control and isolation precautions, vent/trach care, other daily care activities that may have to be done by family when the pt is discharged. How about diabetic nurse educators too.