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Postsecondary Nursing Teacher

Postsecondary Nursing Teacher

  • Inspire future nurses by teaching essential patient care skills and knowledge.
  • Shape healthcare's future by guiding and evaluating nursing students' progress.
  • Blend teaching with research to advance nursing education and practice.
💰 Earn $61K-$120K
📚 Doctoral or Professional Degree

Overview

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.

Scoop

Minimum Education

Doctoral or Professional Degree

Career Prospects

Excellent (Increasing by 5% or more)

Training Time

Over 4 years

Job Openings

8,900 in Total

Earnings

$94,240 Med. in CA

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Day-to-Day

  • 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.

Best For You If...

YOU Like 💕

  • Relating with or serving others
  • Thinking and problem solving

You are skilled in 💫

  • Active Listening
  • Speaking
  • Reading Comprehension
  • Instructing
  • Active Learning
  • Learning Strategies

You value 🙏

  • Job security
  • Independence
  • Working Conditions
  • Having freedom
  • Relationships
  • Personal relationships

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