IntroductionI began my nursing career in India, then came to the United States and became a registered nurse. I went into nursing thinking that nursing is a profession that will always allow me to have a job and that all of my patients will get better. However, from my experiences, I understood that nursing is more than just giving medications and requires clinical skills, cultural sensitivity, ethics, care of others and lifelong learning about others and the evolving field of medicine. Florence Nightingale once said: Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires exclusive devotion and preparation as hard as the work of any painter or sculptor; For what is having to do with a dead canvas or a dead marble, compared to having to do with the living body, the temple of the spirit of God? It is one of the Fine Arts: I almost said, the most beautiful of the Fine Arts. (Masters, 2005 (p.186) Working with new graduate nurses instilled in me the goal of sharing my knowledge and expertise with others and teaching others the art of nursing. My short-term goals are to complete the master's program by the summer of 2014. My second goal is to obtain a job as a nurse educator in a hospital and work with my charge nurse to provide a continuing education program for the hospital staff and students I would like to integrate my Master's degree program from the State University to help hospital staff and patients in their learning process, with the use of new technologies to facilitate learning and communication. understanding My long term goal is to gain experience and skills as a nurse educator to become a nursing educator instructor I will be able to train new educators in graduate programs for. the...... middle of paper ......es mentioned above provide the skills and competencies of a nurse educator new to my journey as an educator. , I believe that developing well-rounded skills in all areas is a lifelong process, and I will strive to demonstrate excellence in these skills. Reference Halstead, JA (2007). Nurse educator skills: Creating evidence-based practice for nurse educators. National Nursing League. Masters, K. (Ed.). (2005). Development of roles in professional nursing practice (p. 186). Sudbury, MA: Jones & Bartlett Learning. National Nursing League. (2005a). Core Nurse Educator Skills © with Task Statements. Retrieved from http://www.nln.org/profdev/corecompetencies.pdf Poindexter K. (2013). Novice nurse educator entry-level competency for teaching: A national study. J Nurses Educ. 52(10) 559-566. do I: 10.3928/01484834-20130913-04