puggymae

puggymae specializes in OB, NP, Nurse Educator.

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1. Teaching Online

   puggymae replied to Sunflower3's topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

   I have been teaching on-line for quite a while now. It is more labor intensive initially than just lecturing in the classroom. Once you get everything lined out and set up it makes your life a lot...

2. 3.5hr lecture = 8 test ques?

   puggymae replied to jjjoy's topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

   The general rule at our school is two questions per hour of lecture. You are allowed to make more if you think the content lends to more, but all of the questions have to be NCLEX style

3. Skills Lab

   puggymae replied to nursex3's topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

   How have you done skills lab in the past? Or is this a completely new

4. Clinical observation assignment (guided)

   puggymae replied to boysx3's topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

   When my students go to the OR I arraign to have them meet a patient in registration. The student then follows the patient to the holding room, to the OR suite, recovery and then to the floor (or to...

5. Post clincal conference topic ideas

   puggymae replied to vickie0117's topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

   I forgot - students work up to the expectation that you have for them. If you only expect them to sit there and listen, then that is all they will

6. Post clincal conference topic ideas

   puggymae replied to vickie0117's topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

   I had to make small changes over the course of time to get away from lecturing. One of the first things I did was make my course "web-enhanced." I posted all of my lecture notes, outlines, power...

7. Can I still go to clinical??

   puggymae replied to lmh2brn's topic in General Students

   At our school you cannot go to clinical if you have any limitations. A cast would certainly be a limitation. If it extends down onto the hand - how would you wash your hands. And you need two hands...

8. Healthy Clinical Lunch?

   puggymae replied to GypsyRose07's topic in General Students

   Why aren't you allowed to take your lunch to clinical? That is stupid on the school's part. You could take prepacked peanut butter crackers or cheese crackers in your clipboard. Or a handful of nuts...

9. Post clincal conference topic ideas

   puggymae replied to vickie0117's topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

   It would be great if we could all visit other faculty members to get ideas for our clinicals and classrooms! I rarely "lecture" in the classroom - students are in charge of presentations or...

10. Post clincal conference topic ideas

    puggymae replied to vickie0117's topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

    I assign the students (in groups of two or three) to do a post conference program. It is amazing at the things they come up with. I teach OB so some of the things that my students have done include...

11. Educators, do you recommend allnurses.com to your students?

    puggymae replied to Brian's topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

    I always recommend this site to my students. I do not make it a requirement that they join but I include it on my course Syllabus as a valuable resource. I have gotten great feedback from those who...

12. Do as I say, not as they do

    puggymae replied to ReinventingMyselfAgain's topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

    I always tell students: When you aren't working under my license you can do things however you want to - until then you will do it the way we teach it in the program. At the clinical site if they see...

13. nursing instructors

    puggymae replied to prettylittlenurse2b's topic in General Nursing

    It is illegal to disclose information such as who is passing/failing to other people (even a students

14. Urgent Response Needed

    puggymae replied to DaFreak71's topic in General Nursing

    The hospital should have a patient care representative (or patient ombudsman). The family could contact him/her and voice their concern and what they want done. The patient rep can set up a meeting...

15. My future in nursing looks bleak, advice?

    puggymae replied to jennah982's topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

    At our school we do not take any student who has a lifting restriction as a lot of lifting goes on in the clinical area. Once we had a student who lied about having a restriction - and when it came...