ProfJosh

I don't have much control over the labs. For prep reasons, those kind of all have to be the same. I want the class to be hard, but not needlessly hard. Needfully hard, but fair and testing you on things you will actually use. I want to focus more on things line virulence, epidemiology, and antimicrobial drugs. Talk more about how bacteria and viruses cause specific symptoms and why we use this drug to treat that disease and how impairing the immune system in this way will make you susceptible to that sort of disease. But if I spend more time going into detail on that, the time has to come from somewhere.

Hey all, I teach Microbiology, primarily to pre-nursing students. You all probably had to take it to get where you are. I am revamping my course and while I know a lot about micro, I don't know very much about being a nurse or nursing student. What are the Microbiology topics you have found most useful to your experience in nursing school? And what are the topics that are like, "Why did they bother teaching me this, I have never and will never need to know it"? The standard micro curriculum spends a lot of time teaching microbial metabolism and genetics, bacteriophage lifecycles, horizontal gene transfer, cell structure, and stuff like that. All awesome stuff as far as I am concerned, but I'm not sure it is even important background material for nurses. I am considering eliminating all that and making more room for disease mechanisms, virulence, autoimmune diseases, and more info on viruses and vaccines. But I don't want to accidentally eliminate something that is really important background info or that is heavily tested on the TEAS or NCLEX. What do y'all think?