Common Threads between Teaching and Nursing

There really are some common threads between teaching and nursing, as I have discoverd these past two years as a new teacher.

Teaching requires seeing the potential in your students and creatively addressing individual needs.
Nursing requires you to see the real person behind the disease or illness or situation, and creatively solving problems.

Teaching requires you to set aside stereotypical ideas regarding people.
Nursing requires you to set aside stereotypical ideas regarding people.

Teaching often involves nursing in the sense of extending care and concern to a student.
Nursing often involves teaching a person how to care for themselves.

Teaching requires you to be other centered.
Nursing demands that you be other centered.

So, these two careers are very much intertwined with each other. There are some differences between them as well...which I will explore in my next post.

Kathy Redmond