Career Outlook: Educators Urgently Needed

In 2018, more than 75,000 qualified nursing students were turned away from educational institutions, due in large part to a nationwide faculty shortage. In addition, more than one-third of today’s nursing faculty will retire by 2025, increasing the urgency of this issue.¹

Meet the need for nursing educators and apply your skills in a wide variety of settings, from online colleges and universities to community health agencies and hospital-based schools of education.

The role of a nurse educator is financially and personally rewarding. If you decide to become a nurse educator, you will enter a market with the responsibility to train and educate the 11 million nurses needed to prevent a further shortage.⁴ You will share your expertise to shape the future of nursing, teaching, and mentoring tomorrow’s nurses.

Professor of Nursing:

$75,100/YEAR

As a Professor of Nursing, you’d teach in a classroom setting on your area of expertise, such as pediatrics, geriatrics, mental health or psychiatric nursing. You’d advise and evaluate your students and potentially contribute scholarship to the nursing body of knowledge.²

Nurse Educator:

$74,642/YEAR

As a Nurse Educator, you’d work within a hospital or other health services organization to train nurses or other health care practitioners. You would create educational curricula and resources, determine educational gaps and needs, lecture large groups and more.³

Course Spotlight: NU 553 – Advanced Pathophysiology

Assess the pathophysiology of common disease states, perform diagnostic tests and address alterations to major body systems that are commonly found in primary care settings.

Course Spotlight: NU 589 – Curriculum Development and Evaluation in Nursing Education

Design and implement a curriculum according to evidence-based teaching and learning theory. Develop course objectives, learning activities, student evaluation methods and more.