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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 easier. Our whole program went on-line excluding ...

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 questions.

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

If it takes you practicing 20 times, then practice 40 to make sure that you have it down pat. Think of how many times you fell off of your bike or roller skate or whatever until you mastered it. It is unreasonable to think that you would master han...

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 the car). You can do the same thing with the ED - t...

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 do.

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 points on-line. That way the students had the "lectur...

Last semester I had a student who needed to make a 98% on the last two exams in order to pass the course. She worked her tail off - she got a study group together, she went to tutoring, she worked one on one with me and the other teacher of the cours...

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 to do almost any procedure. Just remember that yo...

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 and raisins in a zip loc baggie.

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 demonstrations almost every class period - I only facilitate...

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 word searchs on vocabulary words (they gave the d...

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 do use the site. Reading posts in the student nurs...

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 some travesty occur and call me on it I always te...

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

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 between social services, the doctors, the nurses, ...

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 out that person was dismissed from the program. I d...

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 wasn't for me to decide. When students come to me as a...

To keep this from happening all of our students must attend CNA class and be registered. Never hesitate to ask your instructor anything - that is what you pay him/her for.

I am a Family Nurse Practitioner - I was never an LPN, but I was an ADN, then BSN, now MSN (and I hope soon to be DSN). I teach nursing school - and I went the NP route so that I would really understand disease process and treatments. My students th...

I have been a nursing faculty member for 14 years - and all of the things that you are describing are normal. On the first day we have had students: vomit, faint, hyperventilate, develop hypoglycemia, and one even had a grand mal seizure. And to ...

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 of them for making fun of her. And she would have ...

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 40 years for a crime that they did not commit! You ...

Was the information located in required reading that was assigned to you? At our school it doesn't matter if it wasn't covered in lecture as long as the content came out of the book. How did you find out about this mistake? If they admitted to it,...

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 as an E-Mentor/Computer resource for the new facu...