Nursing Instructors & 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.
Also called: Assistant Professor, Nursing Instructor, Nursing Professor, Professor
Knowledge:
- medicine and dentistry
- therapy and counseling
- teaching and course design
Skills:
- talking to others
- using the best training or teaching strategies for learning new things
- noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it
- teaching people how to do something
- changing what is done based on other people's actions
Abilites:
- communicate by speaking
- listen and understand what people say
- make general rules or come up with answers from lots of detailed information
- use rules to solve problems
Personality:
Description: People interested in this work like activities that include helping people, teaching, and talking.
They do well at jobs that need
- Dependability
- Integrity
- Attention to Detail
- Initiative
- Adaptability/Flexibility
- Cooperation
Technology:
Computer based training software
- Blackboard Learn
- Learning management system LMS
- Google Docs
- Microsoft Word
- Email software
- Microsoft Outlook
