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I'd suck it up and get through it...one day at a time. I worked for a woman who became a tyrant and I wanted to walk away more than I wanted to breathe but I knew it would haunt me. Welcome to academia

I had hoped to be interviewing by now, the HR person said she thought it would be sometime the middle of June. Now she says she hasn't been given the ok to interview for this position yet??? Any thoughts?

Thank you all for the information, I think I will be ok--if I can get an interview. Still waiting. Marie

I am interested in a nursing instructor position for the California prison system. Are there any instructors here? What can I expect if I get an interview? I look forward to your responses

thank you for the reply. What school in Arizona?

Thank you for sharing. Marie

Are there any nurse educators here that were involved in redesigning their curriculum to one that is concept-based? I have written my dissertation proposal and I am getting ready to go to my IRB. I am not seeking participants at this time but wondering if I have a viable study. I have found a few nursing faculty members that are supportive but only a few. Can anyone help me out here? Marie

OK that is the one thing I do love about clinicals, the gossip! Honestly, my students end up talking about something they saw that was disgusting and from there, the conversations go quickly downhill and the stories they tell are usually funny. For me, this is learning too, they will see things they cannot go home and tell their kids or parents about so that part is good. Thanks for the reply.

Thanks for the reply. I see each of my students 2 times during an 8 hour clinical. We talk about their patients, I have them give me report (like a real nurse!) and we talk about their lives and where they want to be after graduation. I work with someone who LOVES clinicals and post-conferences, maybe it is one of those things where you like it or you don't. We'll see if I get to conduct a study on this down the road.

One of my favorite students could only find employment as an RN at a LTC facility and she is hating life. The stories she tells me about management (nurses) are horrible. She is packing her bags, going to design school and will become a "refrigerator nurse" soon. Why are nursing faculty paid 1/2 less than business professors (typical). We are strong in numbers but too busy to stand together. I'm grateful that I will retire in a few years. If I had it to do over, I would never become a nurse. Best to you.

I posted my comments on the student site and wanted to get some thoughts on clinical post-conferences from other faculty members. I hate them. I hated them as a student 25 years ago and, as a faculty member, I still hate them. Our students are exhausted after putting in 8 or 10 hours of direct care, they are brain-dead (for the most part) by the time they get to post-conference. I do not care how well the activities are planned or how excited the faculty member is, the students want to go home. I understand one faculty member is going to require 2 hours of post-conference from the students. She has the best intentions but fails to recognize the nursing student in todays world. Many work full-time, have children and are single parents. I believe with all my being that post-conferences should go away. In the sim-lab, debriefing is a great idea, in the clinical setting forget it. I am completing my dissertation and want to do a study on this soon. What are your thoughts?

There is too much information for nursing students to memorize. There must be a balance of teaching concepts with content, this should be the goal of nursing education. Getting faculty to change their teaching practices continues to be a problem in many schools of nursing. Students need to take responsibility for their learning, it is our job to facilitate this process. If students are doing "everything" but studying, they need to held accountable-if that means getting the boot from school or repeating a semester, so be it.

i am a nursing professor, i am thinking of conducting a study on the benefits of clinical post-conferences. i hated post-conferences as a student (25 years ago) and my feelings have not changed. i see nursing students who come to post-conferences wanting nothing more than to go home. i know i'm burned out, especially when i have two clinicals in a row. i understand a colleague of mine is instituting a 2-hour post-conference for our students--that means the clinical instructor will give another 2 hours of some sort of instruction after the students have had 8 hours of direct patient care. i believe this is asking too much of our students. now, i know nursing scholars and faculty members who will recoil when they read that i think post-conferences need to go away. isn't that how change begins? take a stand and say "no more." nursing students have changed so dramatically over the years, someone must take this into consideration. how many are single parents or work full time? patient acuity has changed leaving students drained at the end of the day. as a nurse, i was exhausted after an 8 hour shift (or 12) and could not give another 2 hours to anyone, i wanted to go home. i believe debriefing is warranted after a simulation but not in the clinical setting. what do you think?