I would love to teach.

I probably have the patience to teach but not sure that I would ever consider it.  It takes a special kind of person to teach and it's just not my cup of tea.  Maybe after I have spent some time in nursing and want a set schedule and but Good luck to you and God bless!  :-)

John ~~  I agree with you the classroom setting would not be for me but it would be nice to see the growth in new students on the clinical floor.  Good point!!  ; - )

I would love to go back to teaching whether it be clinical or lecture.  The sad thing is the reason why there are so few nurses, nobody wants to teach it.  It would be really great when I retire. 

 How very interesting from everyone!

Sorry, I seem absent lately. We are moving to a new home and I have to work and move at the same time and am trying to do all of it before school starts!

I think teaching is amazing. I do not think I can afford to give up my good job with Kaiser to do it though. Perhaps as a nurse educator in a clinic or hospital?

I love to see people understand what you have just explained and grow from the experience....

Nanceekaye

I wouls love to be an educator.  I recently registered to complete my RN degree, then plan on working in the field while obtaining further education to obtain my MSN Ed.  I believe that I will have a lot of things to contribute to the Nursing field as a teacher and will continue to strive for my goals.

nanceekaye says ...

 Does anyone out there want to be a teacher of nurses or am I the only one?

I am currently teaching a MA program in Washington DC this have been doing to put myself through school, I though about becomming an educator and have recently started classes for both majors. So I attend two both juinor college and a university. I am doing together to get finish with school sooner.  So no your not the only one. I love both fields and could not make up my mind which one I love better so I decided to do both.

YAHOO.COM">IRI5RN@YAHOO.COM    WHERE DO GOOD NURSES COME FROM, no other than good devoted , well educated instructors.  In the early 1950,s  our instructors were actually well qualified nurses who not only knew their stuff but acted the part.  AND also our medical, surgical, pediatrics, orthropedics, in addition to other medical fields were taught by doctor specialist.  These class were followed by our nurse instructors to cover the  nursing aspects of patient care.  Good nurses are giving, &  caring as if thier patients were family.  When doing your work as a nurse. it is not just a job, because with the salaries of today ,  YOU are a very "special person"  doing the job you took the oath to do.  When you accept a position as a nurse on floorduty in our hospitals , wear the uniform  clean and white, the cap  you earned .and  keep you shoes clean and white.  Thats why nurses wear white.  The word white means pure.  In this day and time waitress   look  more clean and neat than nurses do.  What do my friends  feel about  the way nurses  their images reflected today/Iris Dacal-teijeiro

Yes, working on my MSN to teach nurses - love nursing and teaching (12+yrs) undergrad university setting with health majors - Would like to transition ton their nursing program after I finish next year. I took out loans to do it. Not many options for grad students.

I spent 4 years as the clinical educator for our ED.  That was enough for me.  I prefer to teach new er nurses at the bedside during their orientation.