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1. Faculty Workload Ratio

   ohtay replied to ohtay's topic in Educators

   Thank you for the information it has been helpful. I took the job due to a quest for a place to belong and ended my nursing career after a national disaster and a death forced a move to a new area. I am committed to the next 15 years with the schoo...

2. Faculty Workload Ratio

   ohtay replied to ohtay's topic in Educators

   Thank you for responding and for the advice to look back at the contracts. Nursing education is very different from the clinical setting. The Union contract states lecture is 1:1, lab/lec, 1:0.89 and clinical 1:0.75. I have started the contra...

3. Faculty Workload Ratio

   ohtay posted a topic in Educators

   I am a new faculty in a community college two-year program. What does the standard workload calculation of the lecture credit mean? The union handbook is vague and has no definition of what the 1:1 ratio means. Is it one hour of teaching or contact...

4. When a pt "gets" to you

   ohtay replied to mmc51264's topic in Relations

   This is a strange way to look at the issue but...When I have potty trained all of my children they looked at me with big eyes that say.."I want to please you but I have no idea of whats going on or how to go about it." and the frustration for both of...

5. Advice for the NOC shift nurse

   ohtay posted a topic in General Nursing

   Hello I'm a RN new to nursing in the SNF setting. I work only NOC shift. It's natural for me to be awake at night. My current issue is being forced to stay into day shift because the day shift nurses refuse to pass their own medication. I have be...