cnburton

cnburton has 22 years experience and specializes in ICU,PACU, M/S, Tele & ED.

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1. How come we arent considered APN's?

   cnburton replied to Heogog53's topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

   You just found out and you are graduating? I knew before I started and I have taken the core classes too. I am 55 and maybe will go on for my post masters certificate for NP after I am done next...

2. Job availability for nurse educators

   cnburton replied to caitiecait's topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

   I know that finding good clinical sites for students is one of the issues and even with different shifts, there may be students of various levels from the BSN and ADN program on the same...

3. Job availability for nurse educators

   cnburton replied to caitiecait's topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

   Yes! I would do the NP and then get a post masters certificate in teaching, if I were younger and doing it again. Too bad I didn't find this site a few years ago. I do believe the clinically competent...

4. How come we arent considered APN's?

   cnburton replied to Heogog53's topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

   Titles are not really all that concerning to me. In addition to the clinical component, I was connecting the pay inequity in as a possible rationale for this separation. I certainly do not have the...

5. How come we arent considered APN's?

   cnburton replied to Heogog53's topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

6. How come we arent considered APN's?

   cnburton replied to Heogog53's topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

   Why is that the criteria? Why isn't getting an " advanced" degree enough? I am taking Advanced pharmacology and Advanced patho to teach it and explain it to many others and that requires advanced...

7. Job availability for nurse educators

   cnburton replied to caitiecait's topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

   Exactly! We certainly don't have a shortage of sports to watch....I think that is what we need to do to convince them!The way to cure this shortage is to pay more. I know we don't go into nursing...

8. Clinical Nurse Educator's Job description

   cnburton replied to Roro's topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

   Jbudd I think with all this interest that you should publish.... for those asking about the differences: The difference between community college and university level is you can teach in the clinical...

9. How come we arent considered APN's?

   cnburton replied to Heogog53's topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

   There are many more nurse educators who do not continue to practice nursing in the clinical setting as staff nurses than those who do. I teach part time as adjunct clinical faculty for a community...

10. How much time involved in one grad class for MSN in Education?

    cnburton replied to stephva1008's topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

    I did my BSN online and took two classes at a time and worked full time without a problem. Grad school is different, there is so much reading to do. It is not unusual to have 20 articles to 10...

11. Job availability for nurse educators

    cnburton replied to caitiecait's topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

    Yes I understand that it is the schools who do the pay for educators, and many of them are public universities which are partly funded by our state government and ultimately us, as taxpayers. Why do...

12. Job availability for nurse educators

    cnburton replied to caitiecait's topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

    It is interesting that we all know that educators are not well paid and we do it because we love it. The reality is we do have to pay our bills just like anyone else. If there is a nursing shortage...