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.
Hi, I am a new Staff Deveopment coordinator at a pediatric rehabilitation hospital. I was a staff nurse and PNP before taking this position. The hospital has never had a staff dev. coordinator. I would welcome advice from other educators. We have generally 25 patients and 40 nurses. I started by forming an nursing orientation program and a preceptor program. I am now working on needed in-services. What do most educators feel is their priority?
I have taken the long walk through the corridors of the university of Johannesburg, paid money and was given books. Excitment oh yea! My dream nurse educator. Please help what are the diffences between human resource manangement and personnel management and why professionalism is demanded from human resource mangement. I did go to introduce myself but all post are from 2005.
Specializes in CC, ED, L&D, CDE, Education, Advice.
Dear 99:
I'm not sure why you are asking about the difference between human resource management and personnel management, perhaps it is a difficulty in understanding the English terms. From my perspective they are the same thing.
Are you saying that you have applied to nursing school and been accepted and that you hope to start nursing school with the goal of becoming a nurse educator?
I am an RN completed the course at afrox nursing college, now to further my studies I have enrolled at varsity, to do a one year diploma course as nurse educator. I have an assignment to do! As an english speaking south african [lol] I thank you for answering my question! Many other questions will be posted, I pray that someone like you will answer them. Thanks again.
Hello, this is my first time on a nursing forum. I have been a nurse for 15 years and I have my BSN in nursing and right now I am shopping around for a MSN program and also grants and scholarships to help out (I am still trying to pay for my BSN!). I have just been hired as a clinical educator on a medical/pediatric unit. This will be my first job as an educator. I have taught some TNCC classes before but have never held a position as an educator and I am a bit scared. My background is primarily ER, but when I began nursing I worked for 4 years on a med/surg unit and I really loved it. This is a weird thing for me because I have never been in a position where people want and listen to my ideas and I can implement them for my role. I am just orienting now, but one of the big ideas that I have is for a preceptor class/program. I want not only to give those people that want to teach the opportunity to teach but also offer a support program to suppor them in their efforts. I am open to any suggestions, ideas or assistance that anyone has to offer, and I will do the same.
Hi CN102696! Welcome to the Nurse Educator Forum. Good luck to you! I feel confident that you will do just fine. I've only been an educator (in a Community Hosp) for abt 2 years and I have learned a lot. Your ideas about having a preceptorship program is great. Focus on the Adult Learning Priniciples. There will be challenges but there are also many rewards. I'd like to think that when I educate/teach that it is my way of giving back to our nursing profession. I love it when I orientate and get new grads on board. They are scared and it is up to us to make that first impression and help lead the way. I think "mentorship" would actually expand the preceptorship concept. We do need to do our best to retain these nurses.
Specializes in Education, FP, LNC, Forensics, ED, OB.
hi
i am a RN from the phil
being a nurse educator is my ultimate dream
i would like to ask how can i achieve that dream?
what are the steps? hospital work? how many years? any additional degrees i must take?? should i specialize a particular field before i teach?
tnx
Hello, itsfun2b,
Great to have you join the Nurse Educators forum.
As with any educator, experience is a must.
It depends upon what type of educator you desire. Are you wanting to teach on the college/university level? If so, most will require at least an MSN. Some requre the doctorate in order to teach, especially if you desire tenure.
Some of the community colleges will allow the BSN prepared to teach if they are working on the MSN or PhD.
If you desire to be a clinical instructor, most will allow this if you are BSN prepared.
I am new to nurse educators. I am presently the Lab Coordinator at a college of nursing in Ohio. I teach selected portions of nursing courses in collaboration with the lead course instructor. I have also taught nursing assessment for LPN to BSN students. I am additionally responsible to administer practicum testing and dosage calculations testing for nursing students. I am enrolled in an online Ms in nursing education program. The curriculum plan has be scheduled to finish in October 2006. I look forward to challenging discussions. thanks Camillan2604
I'm new to the role of Nurse Educator, but I'm an "old" nurse with 30+ years of working experience. My specialty was the Perioperative arena, but after many years of dealing with hospital politics, I decided to take a new route. I am now a nursing instructor for the ADN program at a junior college in the panhandle of Florida, and I'm loving it! In addition, I'm working towards my MSN through an online program. Currently, I'm the lab and clinical instructor for first year students. As a first year instructor myself, I think this was an excellent place for me to start. Any advice or hints would be most welcome.
bambou
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