Hello everyone: I am on a committee that makes decisions about which students get re-admitted to the program after they've failed (at our college, it is two courses or the same course twice). We...
This is a timely subject. Our program is transitioning away from NANDA labels and focusing more on Tanner's model of clinical judgment. This shift is due to the upcoming changes in NCLEX. Keep in...
What semester are you teaching? Your school should have policies guiding student behaviors and expectations. For example, the school should have a specific medication administration policy. Also...
We allow it in our nursing program. It is in our course manuals. One anecdote though...a somewhat embarrassing one. The teachers gave the class a break. A student left her recording device on...
Hi colleagues: I teach a first semester nursing skills course. We are a bit in the dark ages because we (my colleagues and I) watch our nursing students perform skills in person...so they are...
My orientation was 12 weeks long, and that was 25 years ago, so I don't think this has anything to do with today's nurses. I feel badly for this new nurse as it sounds like she wasn't mentored or...
Yes, we give students immediate feedback (verbal and written) explaining what they missed on the performance test. Then they have one week to practice in the nursing lab and refine their skill, after...
Hi everyone: In our nursing program, in the first semester, we require students to successfully pass several different nursing skills (BP, oral medication administration, parenteral medication...
Yes, indeed. We do not return the scantrons until the students have looked over the test booklets together in their small groups (our exams have 25-30 questions, the review takes about 30-40...
I just posted a separate entry about collaborative test review. We (nursing faculty) also felt the same way (defensive, etc) but collaborative test review has really minimized these stressful...