Nursing Instructors and Teachers, Postsecondary

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.

Social occupations frequently involve working with, communicating with, and teaching people. These occupations often involve helping or providing service to others.

Social

Investigative occupations frequently involve working with ideas, and require an extensive amount of thinking. These occupations can involve searching for facts and figuring out problems mentally.

Investigative

Artistic occupations frequently involve working with forms, designs and patterns. They often require self-expression and the work can be done without following a clear set of rules.

Artistic

Enterprising occupations frequently involve starting up and carrying out projects. These occupations can involve leading people and making many decisions. Sometimes they require risk taking and often deal with business.

Enterprising

Realistic occupations frequently involve work activities that include practical, hands-on problems and solutions. They often deal with plants, animals, and real-world materials like wood, tools, and machinery. Many of the occupations require working outside, and do not involve a lot of paperwork or working closely with others.

Realistic

Conventional occupations frequently involve following set procedures and routines. These occupations can include working with data and details more than with ideas. Usually there is a clear line of authority to follow.

Conventional

Job Zone Five: Extensive Preparation Needed

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.

Keep abreast of developments in the field by reading current literature, talking with colleagues, and participating in professional conferences.

Plan, evaluate, and revise curricula, course content, course materials, and methods of instruction.

Collaborative editing software

Google Docs

Microsoft Word

Common Curriculum

Learning management system LMS

Moodle

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Martha Highfield

MSN faculty; Research consultant & scholar

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My work combines:

My work combines:

Medicine

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Martha Highfield

MSN faculty; Research consultant & scholar

Education

Career

Career Roadmap

My work combines:

My work combines:

Medicine

Science

Teaching / Mentoring

Recommended Education

My career is related to what I studied. I'd recommend the path I took:

Hurdles

The Noise I Shed

From Peers:

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