Nurse Educator
What the work is
Designs, plans, implements and evaluates the delivery of nursing education and staff development programs, and manages educational resources.
Would you enjoy the work?
These are the main tasks in the official description. Mark how each one sounds to you.
- Plans and organises the delivery of nursing education programs for nursing students
- Implements nursing education programs, including developing curriculum, teaching materials and assessment tools
- Designs nursing education programs based on the needs of the target audience
- Evaluates the effectiveness of nursing education programs and makes improvements as required
- Manages educational resources, including budgeting, procurement and maintenance of equipment and materials
- May focus on general nursing topics or specialise in a particular area of nursing
Try it
A simulation and a case study from this kind of work, set in the education unit of a fictional regional hospital, working with wards and new graduate nurses. They are fictional.
The kind of days you could have
Good days
- A nervous graduate leads their first handover and gets it right
- A change you tested on one ward spreads to others because it clearly helps patients
- A nurse you taught years ago turns up as the person running the ward
Hard days
- Wards are too short-staffed to release anyone for training, and your session half empties
- The data says a popular practice is not working, and people are attached to it
- Juggling teaching, writing, meetings and a calendar that is full six weeks ahead
Written by Career Calling as a general guide. Real roles vary by employer and place.
Work a mission
Step into a simulated workplace in this field, with a brief from your manager.
Description and tasks: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Occupation Standard Classification for Australia, 2024, Version 1.0 (opens another site), occupation 265231, used under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. The skill guide above is our plain English summary.