Compare Advanced Practice Psychiatric Nurses & Nursing Instructors and Teachers, Postsecondary District Of Columbia

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Salary

View the mid-level salary in both your current job and your selected occupation. (Annual salaries apply to people who work full-time year-round.)

Advanced Practice Psychiatric Nurses $99,000
Nursing Instructors and Teachers, Postsecondary $100,300

Similar skills & knowledge

These skills are commonly used in both your current job and your selected occupation.

Social Perceptiveness
Understanding people's reactions.

Service Orientation
Looking for ways to help people.

Biology
Knowledge of plant and animal organisms, their tissues, cells, functions, interdependencies, and interactions with each other and the environment.

Administration and Management
Knowledge of business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, human resources modeling, leadership technique, production methods, and coordination of people and resources.

Customer and Personal Service
Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction.

Sociology and Anthropology
Knowledge of group behavior and dynamics, societal trends and influences, human migrations, ethnicity, cultures and their history and origins.

Medicine and Dentistry
Knowledge of the information and techniques needed to diagnose and treat human injuries, diseases, and deformities. This includes symptoms, treatment alternatives, drug properties and interactions, and preventive health-care measures.

Philosophy and Theology
Knowledge of different philosophical systems and religions. This includes their basic principles, values, ethics, ways of thinking, customs, practices, and their impact on human culture.

Time Management
Managing your time and the time of other people.

Judgment and Decision Making
Thinking about the pros and cons of different options and picking the best one.

Systems Analysis
Figuring out how a system should work and how changes in the future will affect it.

Active Learning
Figuring out how to use new ideas or things.

Computers and Electronics
Knowledge of circuit boards, processors, chips, electronic equipment, and computer hardware and software, including applications and programming.

Personnel and Human Resources
Knowledge of principles and procedures for personnel recruitment, selection, training, compensation and benefits, labor relations and negotiation, and personnel information systems.

English Language
Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar.

Coordination
Changing what is done based on other people's actions.

Monitoring
Keeping track of how well people and/or groups are doing in order to make improvements.

Systems Evaluation
Measuring how well a system is working and how to improve it.

Critical Thinking
Thinking about the pros and cons of different ways to solve a problem.

Administrative
Knowledge of administrative and clerical procedures and systems such as word processing, managing files and records, stenography and transcription, designing forms, and other office procedures and terminology.


skills & knowledge Gaps

These are areas where you might have skill gaps. People working in your selected job generally need higher levels in these skill and knowledge areas than people working in your current job.

Instructing Skills & Knowledge Gaps for Advanced Practice Psychiatric Nurses
Advanced Practice Psychiatric Nurses
Medium
Instructing Skills & Knowledge Gaps for Nursing Instructors and Teachers, Postsecondary
Nursing Instructors and Teachers, Postsecondary
High

Instructing
Teaching people how to do something.


Typical Level Of Training

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Typical level Of training for Advanced Practice Psychiatric Nurses
Advanced Practice Psychiatric Nurses

Bachelor's degree

Typical level Of training for Nursing Instructors and Teachers, Postsecondary
Nursing Instructors and Teachers, Postsecondary

Doctoral or professional degree

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Licensing

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Licensing for Advanced Practice Psychiatric Nurses
Advanced Practice Psychiatric Nurses

License may be required in District of Columbia

Licensing for Nursing Instructors and Teachers, Postsecondary
Nursing Instructors and Teachers, Postsecondary

No license found in District of Columbia


Certification

Certifications help you get ahead or qualify for different jobs. You usually have to pass a test to earn one, and then you can show employers that you have the skills and knowledge needed to do well on the job.

Certification for Advanced Practice Psychiatric Nurses
Advanced Practice Psychiatric Nurses

9 related certifications

Certification for Nursing Instructors and Teachers, Postsecondary
Nursing Instructors and Teachers, Postsecondary

3 related certifications

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