RN jobs with high amount of patient/family teaching

[Junebug0710]

Hi everyone,

I am a nursing student and have found that I absolutely love patient and family teaching more than anything. I was wondering what type of nursing specialties have this...one of my teachers mentioned becoming a Certified Diabetic Educator, but I was wondering what other jobs/specialties would fit this as well, including jobs that require advanced degrees. What do you guys think?

[CoffeeRTC, BSN, RN]

Be surprised, but in LTC/ rehab there are tons of teaching opps. Diabetic care/ diet, cardiac care, rehab, adls. Most of our pts are short term and younger and are very uneducated about there new health problems when they come to us from the hospital.

[tokmom, BSN, RN]

I do admits and discharges. All I do is education.

[chicookie, BSN, RN]

Bloodless Medicine. All I do is teaching, even though jobs like mine are super rare. :)

[tewdles, RN]

As said in an earlier post, hospice has a HUGE education component. Typical 60 min visit = 15 min physical assessment, 30 min education/collaboration, 15 min documentation.