Tips for New Nurse Educators

Thanks to all for the wonderful tips. As a new educator, do you have anything to share on how to present a lesson on myocardial infarction to LPN students?

Kim

I am currently working on setting up a program for LPN's. I am in phase one and for the most part finding good community support even thoug other programs exost in the area. I received a letter from one of the larger hospitals that we would only be able to get clinical experience at night or on weekends. This will certainly be a problem for most students with jobs and families. I am wondering how to continue with this program if they will not be offered the experiences they need. I would appreciate any suggestions or help any one has to offer with completing my proposals to the state and with working with the local clinical sites.

Hi. I am new to this forum and new to teaching. I have been hired to teach nursing students in a tech college. I am going to be assigned a mentor. I have met several of the faculty and most of them seem really nice. I am teaching in a rural area so there is only a hand full of nursing instructors. I am working on my masters degree in nursing education so I am going to have my hands full this fall. I was wondering if those of you who have been teaching if you could tell me the names of some good nursing mnemonic books that you may have used. I have enjoyed reading your other posts. Thank you.

Thank You ALL for being here. As a new nurse educator, I feel overwhelmed at times and have just discovered this wonderful site. I am very happy to know there are so many out there I can look to for help and support. Great job on all the above, it's a really big help when just starting out!

This site has many many student acitivities and resources for the instructor. Try the assessments...you move the mouse over the patient and collect data...then you chart.....there is a comparison to the charting also...very cool. http://freenursetutor.com

I found some really cool stuff http://freenursetutor.com. The assessments are cool......the student can run the mouse over the body and collect data....then chart....very coool

Hi all, I'm new to the forum. It's been great reading the postings thus far. I'm currently enrolled in a Master's Program with an emphasis on education. I've been in the field for about 15 years now, with most of my experience in Public Health, some in Med/Surg, ICU, Hospital supervisor, and Triage in a multi-disciplinary clinical setting. I'm investigating current employment opportunities as an instructor in LPN programs. (In my State, one can teach at that level with a Bachelor's degree). It's a bit overwhelming, thinking about all of the knowledge required to instruct students, maintaining a working knowledge on clinical issues that I have been far removed from for most of my career. I really feel that teaching will be a two-way street. I know from preceptoring students through their Public Health rotation in that past, that I learned as much as I taught. I was hoping that the peer relationships in the educational arena would be a bit more friendly to the neophyte educator. From some of the comments I have read, it appears that politics reign eternal, even in academia. The school that I am doing my teaching demonstration for tomorrow has the first semester lecture and test material from a partner school. The remainder of the course will be constructed by the faculty. I know that most of the discussion among nursing professionals has been "baccalaureate for entry", but I don't see nurses that have incurred that expense rushing to fill positions at long term care facilities, that are growing in number due to the aging population. Hopefully, the LPN students will want to continue their education, and will realize that nursing is not a stagnate profession. Thank you for all the wonderful advice. I'm sure I will be back with specific questions if I am lucky enough to obtain my goal of employment with the educational institute I am interviewing with.

Excellent advice, and good luck to those of you going into the nursing education field. This is my second year as full time faculty in a BSN program. It is extremely difficult to go from being an expert to a job where I am a novice! One of my mentors told me that it takes about 5 years to have a solid educator. My background is critical care, and it takes 2 to 3 years to have a solid ICU nurse. The pointers/tips that I have learned on this website have been invaluable to me. Especially, my first year, I wanted to RUN back to critical care! The students make it worth it.
Thanks, VickiRN
Mymimi