Nursing Instructors and Teachers, Postsecondary
- Bright Outlook
- Rapid Growth
Demonstrate and teach patient care in classroom and clinical units to nursing students. Includes both teachers primarily engaged in teaching and those who do a combination of teaching and research.
What you’d do
- Evaluate and grade students' class work, laboratory and clinic work, assignments, and papers.
- Supervise students' laboratory and clinical work.
- Initiate, facilitate, and moderate classroom discussions.
- Assess clinical education needs and patient and client teaching needs using a variety of methods.
- Compile, administer, and grade examinations, or assign this work to others.
- Prepare and deliver lectures to undergraduate or graduate students on topics such as pharmacology, mental health nursing, and community health care practices.
- Prepare course materials, such as syllabi, homework assignments, and handouts.
- Demonstrate patient care in clinical units of hospitals.
Skills that matter
- Instructing
- Learning Strategies
- Speaking
- Active Listening
- Reading Comprehension
- Writing
How to get there
Extensive preparation: most need graduate school, such as a master's degree or higher
Also called
- Assistant Professor
- Nursing Instructor
- Nursing Professor
- Professor
- Associate Professor
- Clinical Nursing Instructor
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