What is a nurse educator exactly?
A nurse educator is a current or former nurse that has become a faculty member at a nursing school. Nurse educators serve an essential role as teachers, trainers, mentors, and role models for nursing students as they pass on their clinical expertise to the next generation. Nurse educators may teach in a classroom setting, a clinical setting or both. With the increase in accredited online education programs, there are also increasing numbers of distance teaching jobs for nurse educators. Some nurse educators may also have opportunities lead or collaborate on research projects. What kinds of degree programs have nurse educators as teachers? Former nurses are teaching at every level of professional nursing education, which includes ADN, LPN/LVN, BSN, and Advanced Practice Nursing degree programs. Nurses with specialty areas of expertise may teach those clinical skills in more than one degree program. What are the credentials a nurse needs to become a nurse educator? The educational requir
