need some feedback from nursing students about microbiology competencies

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Hello to all,

I am a professor of microbiology. I am trying to gather some information from nursing students (those who are still in nursing school as well as those who are out of school and have already taken the NCLEX) about what microbiological concepts are requisite for 1) your understanding of nursing class information , and 2) the NCLEX exam. This information is to be presented to other professors of microbiology: we are trying to come up with the best curriculum to cover necessary topics for nursing students.

1. What were the topics that keep re-surfacing in your nursing classes (nosocomial infections, tuberculosis, antibiotics, etc.)

2. What do you WISH you had learned better in micro that you thought you would never see again (metabolism, immunology, etc)?

3. What was NOT covered in micro that you wish that you had had?

4. Which nursing classes depend more on your prior knowledge of micro than other nursing classes?

5. What topics in LAB really came in handy, and which did not?

6. What kinds of questions did you see on the NCLEX that covered any topic in microbiology?

7. Was your microbiology course specifically for nurses (primarily) or was it a general course (one course for ALL majors in any area of healthcare)?

Thanks so much for giving me some input.

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Hello to all,

I am a professor of microbiology. I am trying to gather some information from nursing students (those who are still in nursing school as well as those who are out of school and have already taken the NCLEX) about what microbiological concepts are requisite for 1) your understanding of nursing class information , and 2) the NCLEX exam. This information is to be presented to other professors of microbiology: we are trying to come up with the best curriculum to cover necessary topics for nursing students.

1. What were the topics that keep re-surfacing in your nursing classes (nosocomial infections, tuberculosis, antibiotics, etc.)

2. What do you WISH you had learned better in micro that you thought you would never see again (metabolism, immunology, etc)?

3. What was NOT covered in micro that you wish that you had had?

4. Which nursing classes depend more on your prior knowledge of micro than other nursing classes?

5. What topics in LAB really came in handy, and which did not?

6. What kinds of questions did you see on the NCLEX that covered any topic in microbiology?

7. Was your microbiology course specifically for nurses (primarily) or was it a general course (one course for ALL majors in any area of healthcare)?

Thanks so much for giving me some input.

1.You have listed "hot topics" in number one.

2.My micro course was heavy on immunology.

3.Would loved to have learned about prion disease, but the prof was teaching from info 10 yrs dated. He would not discuss "new" info.

4.Am just getting into the clinical portion, so cannot answer this yet.

5. Sterile technique, general knowlege of pathogens, how they spread, etc.

6. NA

7. Premed, 5 hours, upper level.

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I am a junior nursing student. I took microbiology last year and loved it!

1. Antibiotics, immunology, noscomial infections, metabolism, and genetics are all topics that are common in nursing courses.

2. No matter how often I see it (and I have more times than I want to think about!), I always have a difficult time with metabolism.

3. My micro course did not cover epidemiology or specific kinds of infections, such as noscomial, skin, respiratory, wound, blood/lymph, etc. This is unfortunate because this is what we see the most of in our nursing courses.

4. Pathophysiology probably depends the most on micro. However, it is expected that we know the material for all of our clinical courses as well. For example, medical-surgical or critical care nursing require a lot of micro knowledge.

5. It was too long ago, but I do remember learning to do an ELISA. With my course, we also had to conduct a lab, completed over several weeks, to determine the specific type of bacterium that we were given through testing. This was very interesting, but I don't know how applicable to nursing.

6. I haven't taken it yet!

7. The course was an upper level course for all majors.

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Hello to all,

I am a professor of microbiology. I am trying to gather some information from nursing students (those who are still in nursing school as well as those who are out of school and have already taken the NCLEX) about what microbiological concepts are requisite for 1) your understanding of nursing class information , and 2) the NCLEX exam. This information is to be presented to other professors of microbiology: we are trying to come up with the best curriculum to cover necessary topics for nursing students.

1. What were the topics that keep re-surfacing in your nursing classes (nosocomial infections, tuberculosis, antibiotics, etc.)

2. What do you WISH you had learned better in micro that you thought you would never see again (metabolism, immunology, etc)?

3. What was NOT covered in micro that you wish that you had had?

4. Which nursing classes depend more on your prior knowledge of micro than other nursing classes?

5. What topics in LAB really came in handy, and which did not?

6. What kinds of questions did you see on the NCLEX that covered any topic in microbiology?

7. Was your microbiology course specifically for nurses (primarily) or was it a general course (one course for ALL majors in any area of healthcare)?

Thanks so much for giving me some input.

Just graduated still studying for NCLEX but here's my opinion:

1. All of those that you mentioned were constant throughout our nursing program.

2. Gram neg. and Gram pos. bacteria and what specific diseases that they went with.

3. I can't think of anything for this ?

4. I am in ADN program so I would say that it would have to be basic diseases esp. with the nosocomial infections, etc...Torch diseases

5. As a nursing student, I didn't think that the actual "staining" process was as important as knowing what the causes were and the ways that they could be prevented and treated (although this was covered in nursing a little more insight would have been handy)

6. Haven't covered that yet but will let you know after June 7 if you want.

7. My class was not specifically designed for nursing, but, at the first of the semester the instructor did ask by a show of hands, who was specifically going into nursing and over 2/3 of students were. The instructor tried to gear it more towards nursing. I took the honors class for our microbiology class and the things that I thought taught me the most were id of unknown bacteria, and just seeing what kinds of germs we all harbor..........swabbing the spout on the drinking fountain and the handles from the college bathroom door made quite a lasting impression on me as far as knowing how important it is to wash hands in between patients.

Good luck with the presentation.

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swabbing the spout on the drinking fountain and the handles from the college bathroom door made quite a lasting impression on me as far as knowing how important it is to wash hands in between patients.

How true!! The dirtiest place was the handle for the paper towels...gross.

1. antibiotic resistance, nosocomial infects, right antibiotics for right organism.

2. Love immunology, wish we covered more of that.

3. Wish we covered more pertinent infections. Didn't really get into diseases that much, just, TB is caused by this and this is what is looks like under a scope...

4. I feel like you should have micro before any nursing class-we get into diseases right away

5. Loved gram staining! It's jsut good to see how it all comes together

6. One more year to go on that one!

7. Micro for gen bio majors (micro was my original degree when I switched over to nursing :) )

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HI!

My professor teaches a micro intro course. He was big on humoral and specific immunity and patho. He blew through half the text quickly just so we could get in all the patho. He is also teaching the BSN patho I am taking this fall and I think he was getting us ready for it!

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so glad to know that you truly care for your students.... your a great professor... wish i had that in nursing program

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