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Nursing Instructors and 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.

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  • Supervise undergraduate or graduate teaching, internship, and research work.
  • Conduct research in a particular field of knowledge and publish findings in professional journals, books, or electronic media.
  • Maintain student attendance records, grades, and other required records.
  • Supervise students' laboratory and clinical work.
  • Plan, evaluate, and revise curricula, course content, course materials, and methods of instruction.
  • Conduct faculty performance evaluations.
  • Conduct faculty performance evaluations.
  • Collaborate with colleagues to address teaching and research issues.
  • Compile, administer, and grade examinations, or assign this work to others.
  • Participate in campus and community events.
  • Keep abreast of developments in the field by reading current literature, talking with colleagues, and participating in professional conferences.
  • Plan, evaluate, and revise curricula, course content, course materials, and methods of instruction.
  • Select and obtain materials and supplies, such as textbooks and laboratory equipment.
  • Initiate, facilitate, and moderate classroom discussions.
  • Select and obtain materials and supplies, such as textbooks and laboratory equipment.
  • Coordinate training programs with area universities, clinics, hospitals, health agencies, or vocational schools.
  • Serve on academic or administrative committees that deal with institutional policies, departmental matters, and academic issues.
  • Participate in student recruitment, registration, and placement activities.
  • Participate in student recruitment, registration, and placement activities.
  • Assess clinical education needs and patient and client teaching needs using a variety of methods.
  • Prepare and deliver lectures to undergraduate or graduate students on topics such as pharmacology, mental health nursing, and community health care practices.
  • Provide professional consulting services to government or industry.
  • Supervise students' laboratory and clinical work.
  • Prepare course materials, such as syllabi, homework assignments, and handouts.
  • Conduct research in a particular field of knowledge and publish findings in professional journals, books, or electronic media.
  • Compile, administer, and grade examinations, or assign this work to others.
  • Keep abreast of developments in the field by reading current literature, talking with colleagues, and participating in professional conferences.
  • Write grant proposals to procure external research funding.
  • Evaluate and grade students' class work, laboratory and clinic work, assignments, and papers.
  • Compile bibliographies of specialized materials for outside reading assignments.
  • Compile, administer, and grade examinations, or assign this work to others.
  • Demonstrate patient care in clinical units of hospitals.
  • Maintain regularly scheduled office hours to advise and assist students.
  • Advise students on academic and vocational curricula and on career issues.
  • Act as advisers to student organizations.
  • Perform administrative duties, such as serving as department head.
  • Mentor junior and adjunct faculty members.

Work Activities

Work Activities

  • Supervise undergraduate or graduate teaching, internship, and research work.
  • Conduct research in a particular field of knowledge and publish findings in professional journals, books, or electronic media.
  • Maintain student attendance records, grades, and other required records.
  • Supervise students' laboratory and clinical work.
  • Plan, evaluate, and revise curricula, course content, course materials, and methods of instruction.
  • Conduct faculty performance evaluations.
  • Conduct faculty performance evaluations.
  • Collaborate with colleagues to address teaching and research issues.
  • Compile, administer, and grade examinations, or assign this work to others.
  • Participate in campus and community events.
  • Keep abreast of developments in the field by reading current literature, talking with colleagues, and participating in professional conferences.
  • Plan, evaluate, and revise curricula, course content, course materials, and methods of instruction.
  • Select and obtain materials and supplies, such as textbooks and laboratory equipment.
  • Initiate, facilitate, and moderate classroom discussions.
  • Select and obtain materials and supplies, such as textbooks and laboratory equipment.
  • Coordinate training programs with area universities, clinics, hospitals, health agencies, or vocational schools.
  • Serve on academic or administrative committees that deal with institutional policies, departmental matters, and academic issues.
  • Participate in student recruitment, registration, and placement activities.
  • Participate in student recruitment, registration, and placement activities.
  • Assess clinical education needs and patient and client teaching needs using a variety of methods.
  • Prepare and deliver lectures to undergraduate or graduate students on topics such as pharmacology, mental health nursing, and community health care practices.
  • Provide professional consulting services to government or industry.
  • Supervise students' laboratory and clinical work.
  • Prepare course materials, such as syllabi, homework assignments, and handouts.
  • Conduct research in a particular field of knowledge and publish findings in professional journals, books, or electronic media.
  • Compile, administer, and grade examinations, or assign this work to others.
  • Keep abreast of developments in the field by reading current literature, talking with colleagues, and participating in professional conferences.
  • Write grant proposals to procure external research funding.
  • Evaluate and grade students' class work, laboratory and clinic work, assignments, and papers.
  • Compile bibliographies of specialized materials for outside reading assignments.
  • Compile, administer, and grade examinations, or assign this work to others.
  • Demonstrate patient care in clinical units of hospitals.
  • Maintain regularly scheduled office hours to advise and assist students.
  • Advise students on academic and vocational curricula and on career issues.
  • Act as advisers to student organizations.
  • Perform administrative duties, such as serving as department head.
  • Mentor junior and adjunct faculty members.

Skills

  • Operation and Control

    Using equipment or systems.

  • Equipment Maintenance

    Planning and doing the basic maintenance on equipment.

  • Science

    Using scientific rules and strategies to solve problems.

  • Quality Control Analysis

    Testing how well a product or service works.

  • Speaking

    Talking to others.

  • Mathematics

    Using math to solve problems.

  • Reading Comprehension

    Reading work-related information.

  • Service Orientation

    Looking for ways to help people.

  • Operations Analysis

    Figuring out what a product or service needs to be able to do.

  • Learning Strategies

    Using the best training or teaching strategies for learning new things.

  • Coordination

    Changing what is done based on other people's actions.

  • Technology Design

    Making equipment and technology useful for customers.

  • Active Listening

    Listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions.

  • Critical Thinking

    Thinking about the pros and cons of different ways to solve a problem.

  • Systems Evaluation

    Measuring how well a system is working and how to improve it.

  • Management of Personnel Resources

    Selecting and managing the best workers for a job.

  • Management of Financial Resources

    Making spending decisions and keeping track of what is spent.

  • Persuasion

    Talking people into changing their minds or their behavior.

  • Negotiation

    Bringing people together to solve differences.

  • Instructing

    Teaching people how to do something.

  • Troubleshooting

    Figuring out what is causing equipment, machines, wiring, or computer programs to not work.

  • Operations Monitoring

    Watching gauges, dials, or display screens to make sure a machine is working.

  • Writing

    Writing things for co-workers or customers.

  • Social Perceptiveness

    Understanding people's reactions.

  • Monitoring

    Keeping track of how well people and/or groups are doing in order to make improvements.

  • Complex Problem Solving

    Noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it.

  • Active Learning

    Figuring out how to use new ideas or things.

  • Systems Analysis

    Figuring out how a system should work and how changes in the future will affect it.

  • Equipment Selection

    Deciding what kind of tools and equipment are needed to do a job.

  • Judgment and Decision Making

    Thinking about the pros and cons of different options and picking the best one.

  • Installation

    Installing equipment, machines, wiring, or computer programs.

  • Programming

    Writing computer programs.

  • Time Management

    Managing your time and the time of other people.

  • Management of Material Resources

    Managing equipment and materials.

  • Repairing

    Repairing machines or systems using the right tools.

WorkKeys®

Applied Math
5
Workplace Documents
6
Graphic Literacy
5

Abilities

  • Category Flexibility

    Grouping things in different ways.

  • Oral Comprehension

    Listening and understanding what people say.

  • Near Vision

    Seeing details up close.

  • Hearing Sensitivity

    Telling the difference between sounds.

  • Trunk Strength

    Using your lower back and stomach.

  • Gross Body Equilibrium

    Keeping your balance or staying upright.

  • Mathematical Reasoning

    Choosing the right type of math to solve a problem.

  • Speed of Closure

    Quickly knowing what you are looking at.

  • Flexibility of Closure

    Seeing hidden patterns.

  • Extent Flexibility

    Bending, stretching, twisting, or reaching with your body, arms, and/or legs.

  • Fluency of Ideas

    Coming up with lots of ideas.

  • Depth Perception

    Deciding which thing is closer or farther away from you, or deciding how far away it is from you.

  • Explosive Strength

    Jumping, sprinting, or throwing something.

  • Visualization

    Imagining how something will look after it is moved around or changed.

  • Dynamic Flexibility

    Quickly and repeatedly bending, stretching, twisting, or reaching out with your body, arms, and/or legs.

  • Memorization

    Remembering words, numbers, pictures, or steps.

  • Number Facility

    Adding, subtracting, multiplying, or dividing.

  • Rate Control

    Changing when and how fast you move based on how something else is moving.

  • Inductive Reasoning

    Making general rules or coming up with answers from lots of detailed information.

  • Written Expression

    Communicating by writing.

  • Glare Sensitivity

    Seeing something even if there is a glare or very bright light.

  • Time Sharing

    Doing two or more things at the same time.

  • Stamina

    Exercising for a long time without getting out of breath.

  • Oral Expression

    Communicating by speaking.

  • Wrist-Finger Speed

    Making fast, simple, repeated movements of your fingers, hands, and wrists.

  • Speech Recognition

    Recognizing spoken words.

  • Far Vision

    Seeing details that are far away.

  • Speed of Limb Movement

    Quickly moving your arms and legs.

  • Night Vision

    Seeing at night or under low light.

  • Control Precision

    Quickly changing the controls of a machine, car, truck or boat.

  • Manual Dexterity

    Holding or moving items with your hands.

  • Peripheral Vision

    Seeing something to your side when your are looking ahead.

  • Visual Color Discrimination

    Noticing the difference between colors, including shades and brightness.

  • Originality

    Creating new and original ideas.

  • Information Ordering

    Ordering or arranging things.

  • Arm-Hand Steadiness

    Keeping your arm or hand steady.

  • Deductive Reasoning

    Using rules to solve problems.

  • Problem Sensitivity

    Noticing when problems happen.

  • Response Orientation

    Quickly deciding if you should move your hand, foot, or other body part.

  • Spatial Orientation

    Knowing where things are around you.

  • Multilimb Coordination

    Using your arms and/or legs together while sitting, standing, or lying down.

  • Gross Body Coordination

    Moving your arms, legs, and mid-section together while your whole body is moving.

  • Auditory Attention

    Paying attention to one sound while there are other distracting sounds.

  • Written Comprehension

    Reading and understanding what is written.

  • Reaction Time

    Quickly moving your hand, finger, or foot based on a sound, light, picture or other command.

  • Static Strength

    Lifting, pushing, pulling, or carrying.

  • Speech Clarity

    Speaking clearly.

  • Finger Dexterity

    Putting together small parts with your fingers.

  • Perceptual Speed

    Quickly comparing groups of letters, numbers, pictures, or other things.

  • Selective Attention

    Paying attention to something without being distracted.

  • Dynamic Strength

    Exercising for a long time without your muscles getting tired.

  • Sound Localization

    Noticing the direction that a sound came from.

Knowledge

  • Sales and Marketing

    Knowledge of principles and methods for showing, promoting, and selling products or services. This includes marketing strategy and tactics, product demonstration, sales techniques, and sales control systems.

  • Customer and Personal Service

    Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction.

  • Sociology and Anthropology

    Knowledge of group behavior and dynamics, societal trends and influences, human migrations, ethnicity, cultures, and their history and origins.

  • Geography

    Knowledge of principles and methods for describing the features of land, sea, and air masses, including their physical characteristics, locations, interrelationships, and distribution of plant, animal, and human life.

  • Economics and Accounting

    Knowledge of economic and accounting principles and practices, the financial markets, banking, and the analysis and reporting of financial data.

  • Foreign Language

    Knowledge of the structure and content of a foreign (non-English) language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition and grammar, and pronunciation.

  • Engineering and Technology

    Knowledge of the practical application of engineering science and technology. This includes applying principles, techniques, procedures, and equipment to the design and production of various goods and services.

  • Computers and Electronics

    Knowledge of circuit boards, processors, chips, electronic equipment, and computer hardware and software, including applications and programming.

  • Building and Construction

    Knowledge of materials, methods, and the tools involved in the construction or repair of houses, buildings, or other structures such as highways and roads.

  • Education and Training

    Knowledge of principles and methods for curriculum and training design, teaching and instruction for individuals and groups, and the measurement of training effects.

  • Philosophy and Theology

    Knowledge of different philosophical systems and religions. This includes their basic principles, values, ethics, ways of thinking, customs, practices, and their impact on human culture.

  • Biology

    Knowledge of plant and animal organisms, their tissues, cells, functions, interdependencies, and interactions with each other and the environment.

  • Personnel and Human Resources

    Knowledge of principles and procedures for personnel recruitment, selection, training, compensation and benefits, labor relations and negotiation, and personnel information systems.

  • Mechanical

    Knowledge of machines and tools, including their designs, uses, repair, and maintenance.

  • Physics

    Knowledge and prediction of physical principles, laws, their interrelationships, and applications to understanding fluid, material, and atmospheric dynamics, and mechanical, electrical, atomic and sub-atomic structures and processes.

  • Production and Processing

    Knowledge of raw materials, production processes, quality control, costs, and other techniques for maximizing the effective manufacture and distribution of goods.

  • Law and Government

    Knowledge of laws, legal codes, court procedures, precedents, government regulations, executive orders, agency rules, and the democratic political process.

  • Telecommunications

    Knowledge of transmission, broadcasting, switching, control, and operation of telecommunications systems.

  • Administrative

    Knowledge of administrative and office procedures and systems such as word processing, managing files and records, stenography and transcription, designing forms, and workplace terminology.

  • Transportation

    Knowledge of principles and methods for moving people or goods by air, rail, sea, or road, including the relative costs and benefits.

  • Psychology

    Knowledge of human behavior and performance; individual differences in ability, personality, and interests; learning and motivation; psychological research methods; and the assessment and treatment of behavioral and affective disorders.

  • English Language

    Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar.

  • Communications and Media

    Knowledge of media production, communication, and dissemination techniques and methods. This includes alternative ways to inform and entertain via written, oral, and visual media.

  • Medicine and Dentistry

    Knowledge of the information and techniques needed to diagnose and treat human injuries, diseases, and deformities. This includes symptoms, treatment alternatives, drug properties and interactions, and preventive health-care measures.

  • History and Archeology

    Knowledge of historical events and their causes, indicators, and effects on civilizations and cultures.

  • Chemistry

    Knowledge of the chemical composition, structure, and properties of substances and of the chemical processes and transformations that they undergo. This includes uses of chemicals and their interactions, danger signs, production techniques, and disposal methods.

  • Therapy and Counseling

    Knowledge of principles, methods, and procedures for diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation of physical and mental dysfunctions, and for career counseling and guidance.

  • Public Safety and Security

    Knowledge of relevant equipment, policies, procedures, and strategies to promote effective local, state, or national security operations for the protection of people, data, property, and institutions.

  • Administration and Management

    Knowledge of business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, human resources modeling, leadership technique, production methods, and coordination of people and resources.

  • Fine Arts

    Knowledge of the theory and techniques required to compose, produce, and perform works of music, dance, visual arts, drama, and sculpture.

  • Design

    Knowledge of design techniques, tools, and principles involved in production of precision technical plans, blueprints, drawings, and models.

  • Food Production

    Knowledge of techniques and equipment for planting, growing, and harvesting food products (both plant and animal) for consumption, including storage/handling techniques.

  • Mathematics

    Knowledge of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, statistics, and their applications.

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Pay

  • Typical Salary
  • $110,960
    $76,640
    $39,900
    Ohio
    US
    $130,320
    $80,780
    $49,120

Ohio Employment Trends

  • Currently Employed 4,150
  • Yearly Projected Openings 360

Typical Education

Personality

Social: 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

Tools

  • Anatomical human mannequins for medical education or training
  • Angioplasty balloon catheters
  • Apnea monitors
  • Arterial blood gas monitors
  • Bedpans
  • Blanket frames or lifters
  • Blood pressure cuff kits
  • Blood pressure recording units
  • Blood transfusion administration kits
  • Canes
  • Cardiac output CO monitoring units
  • Cardiac pacemaker generators or cardiac resynchronization therapy pacemakers CRT-P
  • Chest tubes
  • Clinical trapeze bars
  • Compact disk players or recorders
  • Computerized medication dispensing cabinets
  • Continuous passive motion CPM devices
  • Crutches
  • Desktop computers
  • Dial calibrated intravenous flowmeters or regulators
  • Digital camcorders or video cameras
  • Digital cameras
  • Digital video disk players or recorders
  • Electrocardiography EKG transmitters or telemetry devices
  • Emergency or resuscitation carts
  • Endoscopic hemostatic balloons or needles or tubes or accessories
  • Enteral feeding infusion pumps
  • Epidiascopes
  • Extremity restraints
  • Facial shields
  • Flow sensors or regulators or components
  • Geriatric chairs
  • Glucose monitors or meters
  • Goggles
  • Handheld thermometer
  • Hydrometers
  • Infusion pump kits
  • Inkjet printers
  • Intraaortic balloon pumps
  • Intracranial pressure ICP monitoring units
  • Intravenous or arterial catheter trays
  • Intravenous or arterial fluid warmers
  • Intravenous tubing with catheter administration kits
  • Lancets
  • Laser fax machine
  • Laser printers
  • Liquid crystal display projector
  • MP3 players or recorders
  • Medical acoustic stethoscopes
  • Medical aspiration or irrigation syringes
  • Medical exam or non surgical procedure gloves
  • Medical exam or procedure tables for general use
  • Medical oxygen masks or parts
  • Medical staff isolation or cover gowns
  • Medical tape measures
  • Medical ultrasound or doppler or echocardiograph monitors
  • Mercury blood pressure units
  • Microphone stand
  • Microphones
  • Mobile medical services automated external defibrillators AED or hard paddles
  • Mobile medical services cardio pulmonary resuscitation CPR boards
  • Multimedia projectors
  • Multiparameter vital sign units
  • Nasogastric tubes
  • Nebulizers
  • Non invasive bi level machines
  • Non invasive continuous positive air pressure machines
  • Notebook computers
  • Ophthalmoscopes or otoscopes or scope sets
  • Orthopedic traction hardware or weights
  • Ostomy appliances
  • Overhead projectors
  • Patient bed or table scales for general use
  • Patient chairs
  • Patient controlled analgesia infusion pumps
  • Patient floor scales
  • Patient lifts
  • Patient shifting boards
  • Perfusion oxygen or hematocrit saturation monitors
  • Pericardiocentesis needles or kits
  • Peripherally inserted central catheters PICC
  • Peritoneal dialysis administration sets
  • Photocopiers
  • Pill crushers or splitters for the physically challenged
  • Portable data input terminals
  • Projection screens or displays
  • Resuscitation masks
  • Scanners
  • Scientific calculator
  • Shower or bath chairs or seats for the physically challenged
  • Sitz baths for the physically challenged
  • Skin staple removers or kits
  • Slide projectors
  • Special purpose telephones
  • Specimen collection container
  • Spill kits
  • Spirometers
  • Stethoscope headsets
  • Surgical clamps or clips or forceps
  • Surgical drain or set accessories
  • Surgical scissors
  • Suture removal kits or trays or packs or sets
  • Tablet computers
  • Teleconference equipment
  • Televisions
  • Therapeutic heating or cooling blankets or drapes
  • Thoracentesis sets or trays
  • Touch screen monitors
  • Tourniquets
  • Tracheotomy surgical instrument sets
  • Urethral urinary catheters
  • Urinalysis analyzer accessories or supplies
  • Vascular or compression apparel or support
  • Ventricular assist devices
  • Videoconferencing systems
  • Walkers or rollators
  • Web cameras
  • Whirlpool tub

Technology

  • Calendar and scheduling software
  • Computer based training software
  • Data base user interface and query software
  • Electronic mail software
  • Information retrieval or search software
  • Internet browser software
  • Medical software
  • Multi-media educational software
  • Office suite software
  • Optical character reader OCR or scanning software
  • Presentation software
  • Spreadsheet software
  • Word processing software
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