Nursing Tutor

Varsity Tutors, a Nerdy Company; Toronto; Remote; CAD 41,328 - 55,104; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive pay up to $40/hour

Flexible working hours

Fast payment processing

Job summary

Varsity Tutors, a Nerdy Company, is looking for Nursing Tutors to provide personal instruction through an online platform. You will set your own schedule and earn competitive rates, with the potential to reach up to $40/hour. Tutors should have a deep knowledge of nursing concepts and effective communication skills to guide students in their clinical studies and NCLEX preparation. All tutoring is conducted remotely, allowing you to work from home.

Qualifications

• Deep knowledge of nursing fundamentals and health assessment.
• Skilled at teaching clinical reasoning and patient assessment techniques.
• Familiar with nursing curricula for ADN and BSN programs.

Responsibilities

• Provide personalized instruction to students through 1-on-1 online tutoring.
• Guide students through clinical concepts and NCLEX preparation.

Skills

Nursing fundamentals

Clinical reasoning

Patient safety principles

Effective teaching methods

Strong communication skills

Adaptability to learning styles

Job description

About The Job

The Varsity Tutors Live Learning Platform has thousands of students looking for online Nursing tutors nationally. As a tutor on the Varsity Tutors Platform, you'll have the flexibility to set your own schedule, earn competitive rates, and make a real impact on students' academic success and understanding. All from the comfort of your home.

Why Join Our Platform?

• Earn incrementally higher pay for each session with the same student, reaching up to $40/hour.
• Get paid up to twice per week, ensuring fast and reliable compensation for the tutoring sessions you conduct and invoice.
• Set your own hours and tutor as much as you'd like.
• Tutor remotely using our purpose-built Live Learning Platform. No commuting required.
• Get matched with students best‑suited to your teaching style and expertise.
• Our AI‑powered Tutor Copilot enhances your sessions with real‑time instructional support, lesson generation, and engagement features, helping you save prep time and focus on impactful teaching.
• We handle the logistics—you just invoice for your tutoring sessions, and we take care of payments.

What We Look For In a Nursing Tutor

• Advanced Subject Mastery: Deep knowledge of nursing fundamentals, health assessment, pharmacology, pathophysiology, medical‑surgical nursing, pediatric nursing, maternal‑newborn nursing, psychiatric nursing, and community health nursing. Ability to explain nursing process, evidence‑based practice, clinical reasoning, and patient safety principles while preparing nursing students for clinical rotations, NCLEX examination, and professional nursing practice.
• Conceptual Teaching & Problem‑Solving: Skilled at teaching clinical reasoning, patient assessment techniques, and care planning across nursing specialties. Guides students through performing systematic health assessments, administering medications safely, developing nursing care plans, interpreting laboratory values, and prioritizing patient care needs. Emphasizes critical thinking in clinical contexts and connects nursing theory to bedside practice, patient safety, and interdisciplinary healthcare collaboration.
• Curriculum Awareness & Adaptive Instruction: Familiar with nursing curricula for ADN and BSN programs and common challenges such as pharmacology calculations, clinical reasoning development, and NCLEX preparation across content areas. Adapts instruction using clinical case studies, medication calculation practice, and NCLEX‑style questions to support nursing students from fundamentals through advanced medical‑surgical nursing and NCLEX examination readiness.
• Effective Teaching Methods: Ability to identify concepts students commonly struggle with, explain material using multiple approaches, and adapt instruction to meet individual learning needs and styles.
• Strong communication skills and a friendly, engaging teaching style.
• Ability to adapt to different learning styles and student needs.

Ways To Connect With Students

• 1‑on‑1 Online Tutoring – Provide personalized instruction to individual students.
• Instant Tutoring – Accept on‑demand tutoring requests whenever you're available.

Please note: Varsity Tutors does not contract in: Alaska, California, Colorado, Delaware, Hawaii, Maine, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Vermont, West Virginia or Puerto Rico.