dudette10 MSN, RN

dudette10 has 14 years experience as a MSN, RN and specializes in Med/Surg, Academics.

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1. Do you share teaching materials with other professors?

   dudette10 replied to SafetyNurse1968's topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

   It's ridiculous that your colleagues are not sharing their materials with you. It helps to have a basic template that you can then revise to fit your style, especially for a someone teaching a course...

2. HIV patients

   dudette10 replied to jessxrn24's topic in Patient Safety Issues

   I have taken care of AIDS patients and HIV positive patients. Standard precautions. I had a spot of blood come from a kinked catheter during IV removal on an HIV positive patient. It landed on my...

3. Skills Lab, Creative ideas?

   dudette10 replied to Ashley Lynn's topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

   Students LOVE skills labs because they feel more "nursey," and it increases their self-efficacy. They will love it, regardless. There are some teaching-learning strategies to consider. The most...

4. Any tips on how to become faculty?

   dudette10 replied to bug2621's topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

   Most brick-and-mortar schools use adjuncts for clinical teaching and full-time faculty for classroom teaching (along with clinical responsibilities). Online teaching may be a different situation for...

5. Transitioning to Nurse Educator?

   dudette10 replied to syoung078's topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

   For academic nurse educator, it really depends on the type of program/school you will be teaching for to determine if you can get by with an MSN or need a doctorate to even get your foot in the door....

6. Anyone else been turned off to academia?

   dudette10 replied to AmeliasAunt's topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

   The burnout in academia is based on leadership decision-making to 1) let students slide through for things that are clearly expulsion-worthy (and stated as such in the student handbook) and 2)...

7. Vaccination for clinical

   dudette10 replied to Grad 2020's topic in General Students

   This. Clinical sites require it. No vax; no clinical. You've entered the wrong

8. Nursing instructor gave a Warning for being late to first day of clinicals despite emailing her? What should I do?

   dudette10 replied to faithandfood's topic in General Students

   Most things are definitely avoidable. If you saw the reasons for the 20 "exceptions" request per term, you would

9. Nursing instructor gave a Warning for being late to first day of clinicals despite emailing her? What should I do?

   dudette10 replied to faithandfood's topic in General Students

   This is what you don't understand about teaching. I get about 20 requests for "exceptions" every single term. One out of the 20 is unavoidable. The rest are bad planning or special snowflake...

10. Nursing instructor gave a Warning for being late to first day of clinicals despite emailing her? What should I do?

    dudette10 replied to faithandfood's topic in General Students

    Yes, because of clinical hour requirements. Those requirements by the accrediting bodies are not a "monster" to keep nursing students in line. They are there to avoid predatory schools that do not...

11. MSN in Nursing Education Online - Practicum?

    dudette10 replied to fsaleif's topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

    I earned my online nursing education degree from a brick-and-mortar in another state that had been around for more than 100 years. I had an excellent nursing education experience. I secured my own...

12. Precepting for New Nursing Educator? Not here!

    dudette10 replied to ayneday's topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

    Yes, yes, and

13. Precepting for New Nursing Educator? Not here!

    dudette10 replied to ayneday's topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

    It is well documented that expert nurses have a significant learning curve to be expert educators. And, the methods of teaching and assessment are the foundations of teaching....it's a specialty in...

14. What is most important to chart on?

    dudette10 replied to Red_Diamond's topic in General Nursing

    I worked acute care floors, and I became a master at documentation. Determining what was necessary for the care of my patient and skipping everything else. The following was my standard routine. Of...

15. Let go/resign from new grad 6 months in

    dudette10 replied to shaza111's topic in General Nursing

    Yes, a million times. Depending on the way things are done on a particular unit, doing a CHG bath and making someone NPO overnight is no big deal, even if surgery is decided against or delayed. NOT...