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I am contemplating applying to GU as well, all your post have been ex-streamly healpfu! GU adviser has been calling me unrelentingly but I'm one to do extensive research before committing to anything. (Life's Experiences are the best lessons learned). From what everyone has been posting, GU seems to be as though you are in the classroom because your are viewing via live video. Are you able to ask questions during the live sessions? I know there are ways to have loans payed for after completing the program as well as obtaining scholarships which can help with tuition, I'm still doing research on them. Has anyone received any scholarships and has GU admissions and Financial aide counselors been helpful with suggestions? Thanks for all responses and previous postings. For those of you in the program now, how's the program coming along, 7 what has been your biggest challenge/s?

I would like to do the exact opposite; work full-time in the university setting and perform Per-Diem work in the hospital setting as clinical staff developer. There seems to be a lot of Per-Diem clinical educator positions in the hospital in my area. Thank you for your comments and suggestions.

Yes, I believe it is as well, but I have seen numerous postings for faculty which is a large metropolitan area and they want PhD prepared. My cousin who lives in FL, and has an BSN was offered and took clinical instructor. If you are going for an MSN in Education I would encourage you to go straight for your PhD and don't stop until you get one if you truly want to teach at the university level. It's just very frustrating when the university sees your potential and experience and still will not hire and perform the mentorship which they say is part of there philosophy. Everyone needs a chance to prove themselves, I don't believe the universities want to put in the time and the money to train and mentor new nurse educators.

Thank you for your comments. Yes, I have applied to community colleges, as well as ADN programs and I receive the same feedback, "you have no teaching experience". I have begun writing my teaching philosophy and am looking into PhD programs. I have strong clinical background in all adult ICU's, Radiology, Community Health as well as Case Management. I know I may need to accept a pay-cut and I am OK with that, I just want to teach nursing which is my ultimate goal. Right now I am working in Case Management/Community Health; I am really considering going back into the hospital for about a year just to have recent hospital experience. I will take all advise seriously; again I thank you.

I am so frustrated: I completed my MSN in nursing education almost a year ago; have applied to several universities and have been turned down because I don't have teaching experience in the classroom or a PhD. All the talk regarding the nurse faculty shortage and the universities want you have teaching experience and to be PhD prepared in order to teach. I always had it in my mind that once I completed my MSN in Nursing Education I would be able to teach in the university; but my dreams have been smashed by the denial. I have more than 15 years of nursing experience: I left the field for 2.5 years to have my child, during that time I completed my studies only to be turned down in the pursuit to teach potential nursing students. Whatever happened to mentoring new nurse educator, allowing them to gain the teaching experience and increasing the number of nursing faculty. I guess they don't want to rid the nursing profession of the nursing faculty shortage. I know the money is not the best, but I'm am not looking at the salary, I just want to prepare other potential nurses to practice and experience the joy of the nursing profession. I don't want to perform the clinical nurse educator role.

Thanks for the great tips. If I'm hired as a faculty member, I will practice your advise. I have completed my MSN-EDU, and I am having trouble finding a faculty position. It seems the only places hiring nurse educators are the the hospitals as a clinical nurse educator. I want to work in a university setting given lectures as well as in the clinical area with student nurses. With all the talk about shortages of nursing faculty, I thought I would have been working already.