puggymae replied to Sunflower3's topic in Educators
I have been teaching on-line for quite a while now. It is more labor intensive initially than just lecturing in the classroom. Once you get everything lined out and set up it makes your life a lot easier. Our whole program went on-line excluding ...
The general rule at our school is two questions per hour of lecture. You are allowed to make more if you think the content lends to more, but all of the questions have to be NCLEX style questions.
If it takes you practicing 20 times, then practice 40 to make sure that you have it down pat. Think of how many times you fell off of your bike or roller skate or whatever until you mastered it. It is unreasonable to think that you would master han...
When my students go to the OR I arraign to have them meet a patient in registration. The student then follows the patient to the holding room, to the OR suite, recovery and then to the floor (or to the car). You can do the same thing with the ED - t...
puggymae replied to vickie0117's topic in Educators
I had to make small changes over the course of time to get away from lecturing. One of the first things I did was make my course "web-enhanced." I posted all of my lecture notes, outlines, power points on-line. That way the students had the "lectur...
Last semester I had a student who needed to make a 98% on the last two exams in order to pass the course. She worked her tail off - she got a study group together, she went to tutoring, she worked one on one with me and the other teacher of the cours...
At our school you cannot go to clinical if you have any limitations. A cast would certainly be a limitation. If it extends down onto the hand - how would you wash your hands. And you need two hands to do almost any procedure. Just remember that yo...
Why aren't you allowed to take your lunch to clinical? That is stupid on the school's part. You could take prepacked peanut butter crackers or cheese crackers in your clipboard. Or a handful of nuts and raisins in a zip loc baggie.
puggymae replied to vickie0117's topic in Educators
It would be great if we could all visit other faculty members to get ideas for our clinicals and classrooms! I rarely "lecture" in the classroom - students are in charge of presentations or demonstrations almost every class period - I only facilitate...
puggymae replied to vickie0117's topic in Educators
I assign the students (in groups of two or three) to do a post conference program. It is amazing at the things they come up with. I teach OB so some of the things that my students have done include word searchs on vocabulary words (they gave the d...
I always recommend this site to my students. I do not make it a requirement that they join but I include it on my course Syllabus as a valuable resource. I have gotten great feedback from those who do use the site. Reading posts in the student nurs...
puggymae replied to BeenThereDoneThat74's topic in Educators
I always tell students: When you aren't working under my license you can do things however you want to - until then you will do it the way we teach it in the program. At the clinical site if they see some travesty occur and call me on it I always te...