Nursing educators: Why did you become a teacher?

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Specializes in Customer service.

I'm curious of your intrinsic motivators. 

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Specializes in Urgent Care, Emergency Department.

I love learning and helping others to learn. For several years I was serving as the educator for the clinics I worked at until my position was eliminated. I transitioned into leadership for a couple of years and realized it was not for me. Now I am teaching for a practical nursing program and absolutely love my job! 

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Specializes in Occupational Health Nursing.

Most of them are also fit to be in nursing leadership. 

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I love learning, and I enjoy helping others learn.  Teaching others to be safe, competent, caring nurses leads to improved patient outcomes.  If every student I teach ends up being a little better of a nurse than they would have been without my influence, I'm positively impacting a far greater number of patients than I ever could as one individual bedside nurse.  I also feel like patients deserve competent nurses, and that requires invested faculty who really care and have high, but reasonable, expectations. I don't like the us versus them mentality that some nursing faculty and students hold towards each other.  The best academic and clinical outcomes occur when it's us (faculty and students working together) FOR them (patients).

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