The chance to combine clinical experience with academic teaching and to shape future generations of nurses are just some of the rewards of a career as a nurse lecturer.
Becoming a nurse lecturer ‘is an opportunity to share your knowledge, expertise and enthusiasm to develop future nurses and inspire them’, says Dr Agnes Fanning, assistant director of nursing programmes at the Queen’s Nursing Institute (QNI).
A lecturer position also gives nurses the chance to ‘support students to achieve competence and confidence in their clinical practice’, says Dr Owena Simpson, UK head of education at the Royal College of Nursing (RCN).
As well as ‘helping people to achieve’, the position of nurse lecturer means ‘you are also learning’, she says.
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