JPnAZ

My daughter is in Block 1 of a community college concurrent enrollment nursing program in AZ. She has one 4 hour Zoom lecture per week, on line clinical simulations, and absolutely no actual in person clinical training opportunities due to the SNFs being shut down due to Covid. Her instructor keeps telling her that she needs to learn to "think like a nurse" and eventually "it will just click". Huh? How does someone learn to do that if you never are able to actually see nurses working, have the opportunity to ask questions, and observe everything that goes into "nurse thinking"? I am a practicing physician and can't imagine in med school only learning patient care and the nuances can only be developed with in person clinical experiences. No one ever said one day it will just click in and I'll think like a doctor. My daughter has never worked in any clinical setting. She went from HS to community college to do the pre-reqs and then was accepted into the concurrent enrollment program to get her ADN followed by her BSN. Is it now the standard in nursing education to have such little in person instruction (4 hrs/wk?) and no in person clinical exposure? This is how nurses are now learning? It looks like a self taught nursing on line education program to me. I see her studying, doing NCLEX questions, but she is struggling on tests. I'm trying to figure out how to help her. I don't understand how answering NCLEX questions that have terms, treatments, diseases, etc.. that have never been taught makes sense. Many of the questions might as well be in a foreign language given her current knowledge base. I would be interested to hear other nursing student educational experiences / perspectives as well as educators of nurses regarding these Covid influenced education changes.