Ok, so I thought real hard and long before I decided to post. Yes, I will start off saying, I am extremely tired and over nursing school. Here is my story, I'm a second semester nursing student in a A.S. Nursing Program; however, I transferred from an Accelerated Hospital/BSN program in Indiana near Indianapolis. (I refuse to say the name, because this school is so horrible, no one should ever mention it) Ok, back to my thoughts. I have a background in training/education, I love everything about teaching and being in the learning environment. Do not get me wrong, I'm no super nerd, or the "OMG, I didn't get an A type"! I have a B.S. in Business Education and M.Ed in Adult Education. I have been training for about 5 years in healthcare and 7 years of teaching adults.
Now, here is my problem. Most nursing faculty has ZERO education in adult education or just education as a former career PERIOD. Let me break this down for some of you, I mean not just having a degree in education, but I have never taught anyone besides my patients before. Meaning, I have never written a test question before, I have never performed a needs assessment. I have never written measurable objectives. I have never worked with a large group of adult learners before. I have my masters or docotorate degree now I think I am the S to the H to the I to the (you know the rest). My favorite is, I have never really mastered the English language. I can go on and on, but I'm sure you all get the picture by now. So, at this point, I really am sadden at some of the standards we have for people to be nursing instructors. I know, I know, there is a shortage, cannot do anything about that. But, when will this educational nightmare of nursing school ever evolve into something that is really at the level to be called "nursing education or training"? When will there be an atomsphere of learning in a nursing program besides a pre/post conference? When will the NP that want to be instructors understand they can't teach a NP program and a entry level program co-currently?
It throws me for a total loop, when I see test questions with grammatical & spelling errors. (PSA: Please forgive me if my post has some errors. I will not proof read it or spellcheck, I just got off an 12 hour long clinical in OB & I am sure many are use to this anyway) Tests that have over 90 questions on them with 100 different concepts and learnings. And of cousre I can go on and on. Oh yeah, I know many of you are saying, well I made it through; however, that is not acceptable. THERE MUST BE A CHANGE, THIS IS TOTAL MADDNESS!
Ok, so I am getting sleepy now. I could go on and on, but I need to take a quick nap before I have to wake up at 8pm to work on my careplan for my OB (L&D) clinical today, in which I will probably not get to bed until 2am. So tell me my fellow nursing students and the wonderful, strong, enduring nurses, whom have survived the madness. What can I do? What can we do to improve this formula of nursing school + nursing education that currently = a false positive (keeping it clean for the post)?
Blessings,
Mr. Over it nursing student, (ooo, let me add my alphabet soup...so I can look smart, SN, BS, MEd, L-OmenO-P, Now I know my A, B, C's...LOL
Many clinical instructors have their BSN not their MSN (this is what I have seen).
I am an RN with a BSN and soon MSN in Education and won't be teaching in a university or technical nursing program. Why? Because I don't want to take a $20,000=/year salary cut......
Otessa, BSN, RN
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Many clinical instructors have their BSN not their MSN (this is what I have seen).
I am an RN with a BSN and soon MSN in Education and won't be teaching in a university or technical nursing program. Why? Because I don't want to take a $20,000=/year salary cut......
otessa