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Many of the hospitals that we are contracted with do not want students in shift report. I personally believe that first semester students may not necessarily fully comprehend what is said in shift report and I am not sure how much learning would take...

Hi, You make very valid points that need to be reinforced to instructors. You have touched on several issues that cause students frustration. These are issues that students seem to respond about on facultly evaluations.

Hi, A test review in my point of view should give feedback to a student in order to learn, first and foremost. A student should be able to understand the concepts that were not clear to them on the exam. This should be a learning process. On the flip...

Hello! At the school where I teach, our first time pass rates have risen. We have been using ATI and we have a progression policy with consequences for not being successful on the ATI exams. The students take the ATI exams starting in the second seme...

Hi, The teaching salaries have gotten better in California, but it really depends on what school district you are with. My daughter teaches fourth grade in a Title 1 school in their fourth year of program improvement and is entering her second year o...

In the program where I teach, pharmacology is integrated through each course. The program offers a mandatory online pharm course in the first semester, but it concentrates on dosage calculation and not pharmacokinetics, which I think students do need...

Hi, You are not old fashioned at all! A curriculum revision should not only align itself with the organization's mission and philosophy statement, but your department mission and philosophy statement should serve as the foundation for your curriculum...

Hi, The majority of the hospitals that our school are contracted with require the faculty to attend a mandatory one day clinical competency marathon each year. These marathons are usually offered twice a year in January and early in August. All equip...

Hi to all, great to meet all of you! I have been a nurse educator for seven years at a community college. I teach first and second year nursing students beginning and advanced med/surg. I enjoy this so much and I have learned a great deal. I have jus...

Thank you for sharing this.

Rapid Interpretation of EKGs by Dale Dubin,MD. The illustrations are great, it is easy to read, my students love it. It is now in its sixth edition and I used it when I was in my critical care course over 20 years ago Dee

I believe that if you crush all the meds and flush down the tube at once, you run the very high risk of clogging the tube, and secondly, if your patient should have a reaction to something you just gave, you would not know what it was exactly, not h...

You should definitely have your own malpractice insurance Dee

Vicki, I think that only the life threatening arrhythmias need to be taught. I do understand that students spend clinical time on medsurg floors that have telemetry capabilities on them, but I still think that the life threatening ones are sufficien...

Katie, You might want to look into Indiana University School of Nursing, they have an online PhD program. They have an excellent reputation! Good luck Dee

I know this response may be late in coming to you , but I have just run across your question. My group did a paper on your specific question about educational opportunities offered on the internet for nurses when I was in graduate school. What the g...

janmae, I think to some degree nursing education must take some blame for this phenomenon. I graduated in 1973 and I know that I was in culture shock when I got out into the "real world" and started working because it was nothing like I expected. The...

Serani, Unfortunately, I think nursing has become somewhat "task oriented" or should I say still is? The psychosocial needs of the patient, although studied and studied ad nauseam, seems to be by the wayside. As an educator, I know that we place a gr...

mjost, This reply may be late, I have just become a member and have come across your query. I am a new nursing educator having just received my MSN 2 years ago. Salary is based on steps and also on experience in the field. I have been an RN for 29 ye...

Caron, In northern California in the hospitals that I have worked at, anesthesia does epidural bolusing. The RN may help prepare the injection for the anesthesiologist, but that is the extent of it. Again, I think it would depend on the policy of the...

[ Wittman, I am a nursing instructor at a community college ADN program. The students use concept mapping in the clinical area for their pathophysiology preps, for critical thinking and for their care plans if they wish. It is like everything else, s...

I was hoping that I would find something about nursing skills lab. I am the manager for a skills lab in an ADN program in California. I have beeen in this position for 2 years now and I am enjoying it. But I am new at this and I would also like some...