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I am currently an RN working at the Texas Medical Center in downtown Houston. I work on a Transplant ICU unit and I love it.
My dream (one of the many) is to be a college professor. I would like to go back to school and go for it, but I'm not sure what route to take. I know I can get my Master's in Nursing and teach nursing, but I'd also love to teach Pathology, Biology, Chemistry and the like.
Any suggestions of the best route to take to realize my dream? I know visiting college counselor would be the way to go, but I don't have access to one since I am not currently enrolled anywhere.
I'd appreciate any input. Thanks again for reading!
I know that the school where I work (nice location, but low presteige and open admissions student body) has their pick of 50 applicants for biology or chemistry tenure track jobs, but has an insanely hard time finding qualified nursing faculty. Nursing is also one of the few jobs that we've been hiring for the past few years despite a general external full-time hiring freeze.
Master's of nursing will also get you 'through the system' and into the job market quicker. Even community colleges these days frequently prefer PhDs instead of Masters degrees for tenure track/continuing contract positions.
I am currently an RN working at the Texas Medical Center in downtown Houston. I work on a Transplant ICU unit and I love it.
My dream (one of the many) is to be a college professor. I would like to go back to school and go for it, but I'm not sure what route to take. I know I can get my Master's in Nursing and teach nursing, but I'd also love to teach Pathology, Biology, Chemistry and the like.
Any suggestions of the best route to take to realize my dream? I know visiting college counselor would be the way to go, but I don't have access to one since I am not currently enrolled anywhere.
I'd appreciate any input. Thanks again for reading!
You will have to get a PhD in one of those subjects.
I agree, you will need a PhD. My cousin just completed her PhD program to teach in the nursing programs at a couple colleges. I don't know what her exact degree is in however.
You can probably teach Chemistry at the college level but it will be at a nursing school or community college and you will not be a tenure track professor. If you want to teach at a prestigious school, you will need a PhD from a better school than the one from which you seek tenure. So for Chemistry, get yourself over to U of Delaware, MIT, etc. BTW, you can be a medical doctor with a specialty easier than you can get a good PhD in Chemistry.
Before you do the work, make sure there are college teaching jobs. Talk to some folks who have college teaching jobs in your field and ask them what the journey was like. I can tell you from my own experience and that of friends that, as others have said, you must have attended a prestigious school and/or be "somebody" in the field to work at a decent school.
Before you do the work, make sure there are college teaching jobs. Talk to some folks who have college teaching jobs in your field and ask them what the journey was like. I can tell you from my own experience and that of friends that, as others have said, you must have attended a prestigious school and/or be "somebody" in the field to work at a decent school.
If a decent college in a major metro posts an opening for an associate professor of Chemistry there will be 1000 applicants including 50 grad students from the college itself. If you publish something really interesting as a PhD candidate at a really good school, you can get a job.
You can probably teach Chemistry at the college level but it will be at a nursing school or community college and you will not be a tenure track professor. If you want to teach at a prestigious school, you will need a PhD from a better school than the one from which you seek tenure. So for Chemistry, get yourself over to U of Delaware, MIT, etc. BTW, you can be a medical doctor with a specialty easier than you can get a good PhD in Chemistry.
I doubt it. I only had to take one year of college chemistry in my nursing curriculm, a BSN program at a highly ranked school, and my school has now changed that to one semester of a course called "Chemistry for the health professions".
I doubt it. I only had to take one year of college chemistry in my nursing curriculm, a BSN program at a highly ranked school, and my school has now changed that to one semester of a course called "Chemistry for the health professions".
From what I read, there is a real shortage of nursing professors, though you have to have at least an MSN.
I'd agree with that, but she had said that she could get a Masters and I meant if she gets a MS in Nursing she could take enough Chemistry to teach Chemistry at a nursing school or community college.
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I know I can get my Master's in Nursing and teach nursing, but I'd also love to teach Pathology, Biology, Chemistry and the like.
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