nursing field with "teaching" aspects

lkwashington · Jul 16, 2010

Education is provided to ALL patients about their medications and disease processes You can even teach patient about safety. In my opinion, there is no specialty in nursing that teach more. If you not teaching the patients, you are teaching the families. There will some patients you are unable to teach such as patients on mechanical ventilation or advanced dementia. This is where the family teaching comes in if the patient have family members.

classicdame, MSN, EdD · Jul 16, 2010

Virtually every nurse is a teacher in some regards, but to be more specific, some nurses become educators for their unit. It is possible to get an Advanced Practice license and be a Certified Nurse Specialist. That role is a combination of nursing and education. So there are many options. Getting that license is the first step.

April, RN, BSN, RN · Jul 16, 2010

Some nurses work as diabetes educators or lactation consultants. Those are a couple of examples of nursing jobs that are more focused more on teaching. I worked on a cardiac unit and those patients required a lot of education on how to manage their diet, activity, medications, daily weights, etc, once they got home.

cb_rn · Jul 17, 2010

home health has a lot of education required for family and patients and hospice is huge on education

Otessa, BSN, RN · Jul 17, 2010

hi everyone... i have a question regarding the different fields of nursing. I've been researching and i find Oncology interesting, any oncology nurses? I was wondering, which nursing field involves more "teaching" you know telling/informing/teaching patients. I enjoy teaching but would be interesting to mix that in nursing. I know there is nurse educator and teaching college, but i was wondering the other fields, if they involve teaching, somewhat. thanks

No matter the specialty you are ALWAYS teaching: the patient, family, co-worker's , etc.

LouisVRN, RN · Jul 17, 2010

I work on a med/surg floor. One of my biggest regrets is I don't have more time to teach. Not to mention, I work nights, who REALLY WANTS to learn about how to administer a Lovenox injection, the signs/symptoms of altered glucose, or how to be partial weight bearing at 2 am? LOL. Honestly, I love teaching my patients though, I am actually going to be working with my director to try to improve the teaching we provide our patients and the requirement to teach our patients. In addition to teaching patients, I also have the ability to precept new-grads/ new-hires and students I LOVE it. It is one of the most fufilling aspects of my job. I had one of my "preceptees" question what the person orienting her told her, she said it just didn't seem right and she wanted to know what I thought. I wanted to hug her! She's a new grad, but any part I played in giving her the confidence to question another nurse telling her to do something is all the proof I need to continue doing what I do, not to mention she was spot-on with her concern. :)

My advice would be, go with what you love. You will have ample opportunity to teach in any field of nursing but if you truly love what you do as well that shows.

Hospice Nurse LPN, BSN, RN · Jul 17, 2010

I work in hospice and teach pts and families at every visit. Education is actually one of our "check boxes". Good luck in your career.