Nursing Educator Salary

[fbhopern]

Hello Everyone,

I am interested in getting my MSN to be a college nursing educator. You know the professors who took us to the hospital for clinical and lectured in class? That's what I want to do..Just the feeling of taking nursing students to hospital for clinical excites me!!. I love teaching. Anyways to get to the point, I was wondering how much does a professor makes who teaches at ADN programs?. I checked in google and I am getting all different kinds of number. So if anyone can pls give me an idea, that will really help!. Waiting for feedback. Thanks guys!

[RegularNurse]

I make 40/hr teaching pharmacology as an adjunct faculty. I do it about 10-15 hours a week. I could probably go full time but I like to mix it up so I continue working as a staff nurse three days a week (39/hr.)

At large private colleges where I live clinical faculty make 50+/hr. Clinical instructors are a special breed and it is a much harder job than didactic faculty.

[jeanrnurse]

You can use your love of teaching as a hospital-based Staff Development Educator and make very good money. All the comments about academic teaching positions are correct.

Salaries will be different depending on the part of the country you are in, of course.

I recently saw an ad for an Adjunct Clinical Instructor here; it was $1750 for the entire term.

FT Instructors who teach theory get 64K in private schools, 48-55K in commuity colleges in this area.

Pitiful, yes?

[HOPEforRNs, ADN, BSN, MSN]

I work in a BSN program doing skills and simulation. I do a lot of teaching and remediation of skills and I design and run high-fidelity simulations (and some with human patient actors). I also do some research pertaining to simulation, especially interprofessional. I work mostly 8-4 Mon-Fri with summers off and make in the mid $50s. There is no "work outside of work" because I'm not directly teaching any class. So if you want education to be your thing but you can't take a huge hit, it is doable. I work at the bedside as a RN during the summer for extra money too.