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Nursing Instructors and Teachers, Postsecondaryresume guide.

Demonstrate and teach patient care in classroom and clinical units to nursing students. A strong Nursing Instructors and Teachers, Postsecondary resume shows instructing, learning strategies and speaking, and names the tools you have worked with, such as Microsoft Word, Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft PowerPoint.

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01Also called

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Assistant ProfessorAssociate ProfessorClinical Nursing InstructorFaculty MemberInstructorLecturerNurse EducatorNursing InstructorNursing ProfessorProfessor

02Skills employers expect

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Importance is how much the skill matters to the job; level is how much of it the job demands. Both are worth naming on the resume, in this order.

SkillImportanceLevel
InstructingVery highAdvanced
Learning StrategiesVery highAdvanced
SpeakingVery highAdvanced
Active ListeningVery highAdvanced
Reading ComprehensionVery highAdvanced
WritingVery highAdvanced
Active LearningHighAdvanced
Critical ThinkingHighAdvanced
Judgment and Decision MakingHighIntermediate
MonitoringHighAdvanced

03Knowledge areas

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  • Medicine and Dentistry
  • Education and Training
  • Psychology
  • English Language
  • Biology
  • Customer and Personal Service
  • Mathematics
  • Therapy and Counseling
  • Sociology and Anthropology
  • Computers and Electronics

04Common responsibilities

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Ordered by importance. Each one is a bullet waiting for a result and a number.

  1. Evaluate and grade students' class work, laboratory and clinic work, assignments, and papers.
  2. Supervise students' laboratory and clinical work.
  3. Initiate, facilitate, and moderate classroom discussions.
  4. Assess clinical education needs and patient and client teaching needs using a variety of methods.
  5. Compile, administer, and grade examinations, or assign this work to others.
  6. Prepare and deliver lectures to undergraduate or graduate students on topics such as pharmacology, mental health nursing, and community health care practices.
  7. Prepare course materials, such as syllabi, homework assignments, and handouts.
  8. Demonstrate patient care in clinical units of hospitals.
  9. Keep abreast of developments in the field by reading current literature, talking with colleagues, and participating in professional conferences.
  10. Plan, evaluate, and revise curricula, course content, course materials, and methods of instruction.

05Software and tools

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23 tools across 12 categories. The six largest categories are below; Hot marks a hot technology, In demand a tool employers ask for most often.

Computer based training software7
  • Learning management system LMSIn demand
  • Blackboard Learn
  • Desire2Learn LMS software
  • Course management system software
  • Sakai CLE
  • Moodle
  • Common Curriculum
+ 2 more
Word processing software3
Electronic mail software2
Information retrieval or search software2
  • DOC Cop
  • iParadigms Turnitin
Presentation software2
Data base user interface and query software1
  • Blackboard software
Internet browser software1
Medical software1
Multi-media educational software1
  • Interactive learning software
Office suite software1
Optical character reader OCR or scanning software1
  • Image scanning software
Spreadsheet software1

06Education and preparation

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Typical education
Master's Degree
50% of surveyed workers. Others report Doctoral Degree (36%) and Post-Doctoral Training (7%).
Preparation level
Job Zone 5 · Extensive preparation
Usually a graduate degree and extensive related experience.

07Putting it on your resume

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BEE · How to show it

Lead with what you built. For a Job Zone 5 role, hiring managers and parsers both look for outcomes before credentials. Put two or three results at the top of each job entry, with the scale or effect stated plainly.

Name the tools exactly. This occupation is heavy on named software. A skills section that says "Microsoft Word, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Office software" matches more job descriptions than a general phrase. Use the spelling employers use.

Show learning strategies and speaking, not just instructing. Learning strategies and speaking rank close to instructing for this occupation. One bullet per role that shows a decision, a tradeoff or a result covers them.

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