Nurse Educators, Introduce Yourselves!

kmrmom42 · Feb 13, 2005

Hello all,

I haven't been to this part of allnurses.com before but now I have more of a need to see what is up here.

I am someone who took a circuitous route to my current place in life. To make a long story shorter I didn't know what I wanted to be when I grew up.

So, in this order I have done the following:

1979 BA in Psychology(specializing in Developmental) with a minor in Anthropology

1982 Certified Childbirth Educator (through ICEA)

1987 Was a Community Educator/Sexual Assault Counselor

1993 MA in Community Psychology

1996 ADN-RN

Worked on a sub-acute unit for 9 months, was a Case Manager in Home Health for about a year, did Med-Surg for 9 months and then got to where I wanted to be in the first place....L&D!

2001 Certified Lactation Counselor

I have been an L&D nurse for the past six years and I am within 2 months of:

2005 MSN!!

The reason I am interested in finding out what everyone is sharing in this forum is that last week I finally realized a dream when my boss told me that I need to start writing a job description for my own job as Education Coordinator for our unit which includes, antepartum, L&D, Mother/Baby Unit, Level 1 nursery and a small pediatric unit. I am very, very happy and excited. Currently I run and teach all of the parent education classes and I will now be adding staff education. One of my first efforts will be Mock Drills for OB emergencies that will also serve as my final project for my MSN.

I am interested in any advice anyone has to give. I love to teach and I love nursing...combining the two is the best job I can imagine!

Karen

P.S. I am not young like so many of you other whippersnappers!! I would be right up there pretty darn close to the average age of nursing faculty if I chose to go that route!

Carlos Casteneda · Feb 22, 2005

Hello all,
I haven't been to this part of allnurses.com before but now I have more of a need to see what is up here.
I am someone who took a circuitous route to my current place in life. To make a long story shorter I didn't know what I wanted to be when I grew up.
So, in this order I have done the following:
1979 BA in Psychology(specializing in Developmental) with a minor in Anthropology
1982 Certified Childbirth Educator (through ICEA)
1987 Was a Community Educator/Sexual Assault Counselor
1993 MA in Community Psychology
1996 ADN-RN
Worked on a sub-acute unit for 9 months, was a Case Manager in Home Health for about a year, did Med-Surg for 9 months and then got to where I wanted to be in the first place....L&D!
2001 Certified Lactation Counselor
I have been an L&D nurse for the past six years and I am within 2 months of:
2005 MSN!!
The reason I am interested in finding out what everyone is sharing in this forum is that last week I finally realized a dream when my boss told me that I need to start writing a job description for my own job as Education Coordinator for our unit which includes, antepartum, L&D, Mother/Baby Unit, Level 1 nursery and a small pediatric unit. I am very, very happy and excited. Currently I run and teach all of the parent education classes and I will now be adding staff education. One of my first efforts will be Mock Drills for OB emergencies that will also serve as my final project for my MSN.
I am interested in any advice anyone has to give. I love to teach and I love nursing...combining the two is the best job I can imagine!
Karen
P.S. I am not young like so many of you other whippersnappers!! I would be right up there pretty darn close to the average age of nursing faculty if I chose to go that route!

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kmrmom42 · Feb 22, 2005

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Sorry? I have no idea what you are referring to? :confused:

florencernmsn · Feb 23, 2005

Hello everyone. I'm new to this forum. I am a nurse educator at an ADN program in Northern California. I've been teaching full time for the last 8 years. My specialty area is Med-Surg. I love what I do and after working to improve my teaching skills, I'm ready to move on to bigger and better things, like curriculum development.

Welcome to the Nurse Educator Forum. It is my desire that you find this a warm, inviting place and will come here often for friendly, collegial discussions.
Let me introduce myself: I have been an ADN nurse educator in a small community college in North Carolina for the past two years. My areas of specialty are medical-surgical, OBGYN and immediate newborn, and cardiac nursing. In addition to teaching, I conduct clinicals on general medical-surgical, PEDS, postpartum, and cardiac stepdown units. Along with being a full time nursing instructor, I am working on my Masters in Nursing Education. I am enrolled in a fully online curricula and have been very satisfied with this so far.
I have learned much these past two years but, I have so much more to learn! I look forward to hearing from you.

Carlos Casteneda · Feb 23, 2005

Sorry? I have no idea what you are referring to?

perhaps this will help

http://www.nursing-standard.co.uk/archive/search_fr.asp?inst=&GroupID=1&LoginCode=222307030|16716 let me know

jollyl · Feb 25, 2005

Hi,

I am DON at a LTC facility and was on line looking for some information. I am trying to put together an in-service for my liscensed nursing staff about narcotic safety and responsability. \We recently had a narcotic theft in our building and some poor practices were brought to light. I am trying to provide my staff with some information that will be meaningful and drive the point home regarding how imoportant it is to keep the med room locked, count evertime the keys change hands, etc. Is there any info you could provide me with that might be helpful?

Thanks, Leslie

Welcome to the Nurse Educator Forum. It is my desire that you find this a warm, inviting place and will come here often for friendly, collegial discussions.
Let me introduce myself: I have been an ADN nurse educator in a small community college in North Carolina for the past two years. My areas of specialty are medical-surgical, OBGYN and immediate newborn, and cardiac nursing. In addition to teaching, I conduct clinicals on general medical-surgical, PEDS, postpartum, and cardiac stepdown units. Along with being a full time nursing instructor, I am working on my Masters in Nursing Education. I am enrolled in a fully online curricula and have been very satisfied with this so far.
I have learned much these past two years but, I have so much more to learn! I look forward to hearing from you.

rnphd2b · Feb 25, 2005

Hello,

I am the Director of a private single purpose nursing school in Colorado. We opened in January of 2004 and commenced our first PN class in July and our first RN class in September.

I have been teaching nursing since 1985 and have been a director since 2000. I love it even with the typical things with which we all struggle......getting qualified faculty, allocating clinical sites and keeping students satisfied. I have taught in the private sector , community colleges and state universities and it is the same everywhere. We are in it together.

I look forward to gaining much knowledge and insights from all of you on this forum.

thanks for being here.

easyfun · Mar 5, 2005

I am also a nurse educator, and recently joined allnursescom. I am in desparate need of pediatric competencies for our nursing personnel We are in the wake of a repeat department of helath survey. If you have access to any pediatric competencies would you please send them to [email protected]. Thank you so very much

My specialities are ICU, trauma, if I can be of assistance please let me know.

klhigg2 · Mar 9, 2005

I am a Staff Development Specialist at a Children's Hospital in Kentucky. I have worked in the job for about a year and before that I worked as a pediatric Acute care nurse on an Infant/Toddler unit.

I work many all of the new graduates to the children's hospital and the one thing I love the most is the one year program we have that assist the new graduate to transition from the role of a student nurse to one of a professional nurse.

I look forward to the reading many of the discussion on the site.

easyfun · Mar 18, 2005

Hi all - I'm new to this board, but not new to nursing education. I have been teaching nursing for 7 years in a school with just about all levels of nursing education, (BSN, RN-BSN, MSN, and PhD programs). I teach both BSN and MSN courses. Our total enrollment is approximately 350 students in all of our various programs.

I am also new to this boad and a nurse educator. Since you have taught many nursing education programs, would you recommend a few MSN programs preferrably on line. Have you ever heard of Walden University's on line nursing program. What concentration is your MSN in ?

Thanks for the information.

CRNAsoon · Mar 21, 2005

I was just accepted to the Walden University MSN program for education and will be starting next week. If I can answer any questions for you, just let me know. Any other Walden students out there?

I am also new to this boad and a nurse educator. Since you have taught many nursing education programs, would you recommend a few MSN programs preferrably on line. Have you ever heard of Walden University's on line nursing program. What concentration is your MSN in ?
Thanks for the information.

rababdiab · Apr 6, 2005

Iam working as education coordinator for pediatric units in an oncology center, I have master degree in nursing education, Iam iintersted in nursing education as well as oncology nursing, always want to learn more and more. [