Nursing Instructors and Teachers, Postsecondary

What Does a Nursing Instructors and Teachers, Postsecondary Do?

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.

Day-to-Day Responsibilities

• 1Evaluate and grade students' class work, laboratory and clinic work, assignments, and papers.
• 2Supervise students' laboratory and clinical work.
• 3Initiate, facilitate, and moderate classroom discussions.
• 4Assess clinical education needs and patient and client teaching needs using a variety of methods.
• 5Compile, administer, and grade examinations, or assign this work to others.
• 6Prepare and deliver lectures to undergraduate or graduate students on topics such as pharmacology, mental health nursing, and community health care practices.
• 7Prepare course materials, such as syllabi, homework assignments, and handouts.
• 8Demonstrate patient care in clinical units of hospitals.

Required Skills

• Learning Strategies
• Speaking
• Writing
• Reading Comprehension
• Active Listening
• Monitoring
• Critical Thinking
• Active Learning
• Blackboard Learn
• Blackboard software
• Collaborative editing software
• Common Curriculum
• Course management system software
• Desire2Learn LMS software
• DOC Cop
• Email software
• Google Docs
• Image scanning software

Nursing Instructors and Teachers, Postsecondary Salary