puggymae

puggymae

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...

  16. A classmate is going to QUIT! Please help...

    puggymae replied to kukukajoo's topic in General Students

    Usually people who want to quit nursing school know what they need to do for their life at that minute. I have had students quit the week before graduation for no reason that I could see - but it...

  17. Before you make fun of a patient, make sure they can't see you.

    puggymae replied to Jo Dirt's topic in General Nursing

    Obviously those nurses have never heard of the Golden Rule - the one about Do Unto Others.... My mother (all 4 feet 9 inches of her) would have gotten out of the bed and knocked the crap out of both...

  18. Patient Family reporting poor care

    puggymae replied to nickikh23's topic in General Nursing

    I for sure would tell the NM that you were not there on that night. This reminds me of one of those TV shows where bystanders pick innocent people out of a line up and that person goes to prison for...

  19. Medi-Tech anyone?

    puggymae replied to emsboss's topic in General Nursing

    I absolutely hate it. The reasons are so numerous and varied that there are not enough years in my life to share them all with you. It is not easy to learn (and I am very computer literate and serve...

  20. Funniest thing that happened to you in your first days on the job?

    puggymae replied to AngelfireRN's topic in General Nursing

    I only had two days of orientation (who had even heard the word preceptor/preceptorship back then?) on days and went to night shift. The first night one of the other nurses told me to take the doctors...

  21. blood products question

    puggymae replied to RachelRN25's topic in General Nursing

    Call the blood bank/lab. Somewhere in your facility there is a policy - they should be able (I hope!) to tell you what it

  22. Rarely discussed side of nursing

    puggymae replied to grv68's topic in General Nursing

    I work with several faculty members who served as nurses in the Gulf War, others served in Vietnam. Some of the stories that they share with us sound like they came right out of MASH. Other stories...

  23. Reasonable requests made to the med-surg nurses?

    puggymae replied to Jo Dirt's topic in General Nursing

    I have really had a bad day - and your comments about your family made me laugh out loud - Thank you! :kiss By the way, I think I might have been married to your brother - or maybe you have your...

  24. "Confessional?"

    puggymae replied to CyndieRN2007's topic in General Nursing

    I worked in a family practice clinic and saw a patient who thought she was pregnant. She urinated in a cup and I ran a pregnancy test which was positive. I went back to the room to tell her the news...

  25. Has anyone ever appealed a decision letter from nursing school?

    puggymae replied to poundofsugar's topic in General Nursing

    At our school we look at things like that because so many people apply for so few spots in class - 356 applications for 20 spots. (Our main campus had 600+ applications for 50 spots). The lowest GPA...