want to teach nursing near lakeland fl

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greetings! I am a bsn-rn in md, with 7 years of nursing experience, and thinking of moving to the lakeland florida area to teach in a nursing school. i guess i still need to get an msn. how are the job prospects out there? what kind of master's degree would i need to qualify to teach, and what would be the least expensive and fastest way to do it? thanks.

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Specializes in Education, FP, LNC, Forensics, ED, OB.

Hello and Welcome to allnurses.com

Good to have you.

I moved your thread to the Florida Nurses forum for a better resoponse.

Good luck with your plans as an educator!! And, we hope you enjoy the site.

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sorry, i don't know much about nursing education since i am on the other side of it (student), but i did have a clinical instructor who has a BSN; i believe she's working on an MSN. she taught our nursing techniques (1st semester) class in conjunction with being our clinical instructor. from my understanding she was adjunct, or not a regular nursing ed. staff member.

so, maybe being an adjunct professor while working on your masters may be an option for you?

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greetings! I am a bsn-rn in md, with 7 years of nursing experience, and thinking of moving to the lakeland florida area to teach in a nursing school. i guess i still need to get an msn. how are the job prospects out there? what kind of master's degree would i need to qualify to teach, and what would be the least expensive and fastest way to do it? thanks.

One of my instructors has a Master's in Arts with a focus on Education

(When and where she went, Columbia up state, they didn't have a "Nursing Master's)

One of the others has a Master's in Nursing

Several have BSN and are working towards, slowly they say, towards the MSN (Nursing education focus I believe).

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Specializes in Med-Surg.

Any Masters will do, but since you're interested in teaching why not an MSN in Nursing Education?

If Lakeland is like the Tampa Bay area, lots of prospects. With your BSN you can teach LPNs, and you can take a clinical group of ADN students (but you can't lecture in class).

Good luck.

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Any Masters will do, but since you're interested in teaching why not an MSN in Nursing Education?

If Lakeland is like the Tampa Bay area, lots of prospects. With your BSN you can teach LPNs, and you can take a clinical group of ADN students (but you can't lecture in class).

Good luck.

Yup! Our BSN instructors, come to our skills labs....go on clinicals as "assistants to main instructors." Although at our school they don't accept an instructor unless the are nearly completed with or have their Masters. Our director of nursing and dean of nursing both are phD and were both NP. Most of them still work in the field as active nurses so it is really nice to have them around to pick their brains. It is GREAT to be exposed to so many nurses who are at so many different levels of nursing.

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