jmqphd

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1. NANDA history

   jmqphd replied to jmqphd's topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

   I'm having difficulty with students struggling to find the exact NANDA dx for their patient's problems. Rather than reason through their assessment data and synthesize in their own minds their...

2. NANDA history

   jmqphd posted a topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

   [TABLE=width: 100%] [TR] [TD=bgcolor: #f3f1f0, colspan: 2]1973: Kristine Gebbie and Mary Ann Lavin call the First Task Force to Name and Classify Nursing Diagnoses. Members plan to meet biannually in...

3. University Administration promoting Inequality - You?

   jmqphd replied to tealady's topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

   I teach at a proprietary school and there is a genuine equality in the sense that faculty in general ed are paid comparably to nursing faculty. It has to do with how many "face hours" you have, plus...

4. Are you a nurse with "alternative" spiritual beliefs?

   jmqphd replied to GadgetRN71's topic in Spirituality, Religion

   Hmmmm... interesting conversation. There hasn't been any "Xtian" input yet so, since I qualify, I'll put in my 2 cents worth. I think what some of you have experienced is "being witnessed to." If...

5. Cheating ADN STUDENTS in lecture

   jmqphd replied to prof joe's topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

   Testing policy is in the student handbook and specifies much of what was stated above. All of our tests are on our website so it's done on line. We scramble the questions and the distractors. Same...

6. Instructor prep time

   jmqphd replied to dmapp63's topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

   I'm full time and 3 hours prep for 1 hour lecture is maybe close to fair. I'm OCD about this and may take longer. Takes longer especially if you're starting from scratch on a new topic. Gotta...

7. "Caring behaviors"

   jmqphd replied to jmqphd's topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

   Thanks much... I'll talk to our librarian tomorrow!

8. "Caring behaviors"

   jmqphd replied to jmqphd's topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

   Excellent. I think we should make our CET more expansive in regards to all the people in the patient care environment, including other care-givers, significant others, family members and so forth....

9. Working for the Rich Population?

   jmqphd replied to winter_green's topic in General Nursing

   Your question seems odd to me. What do you mean? In a hospital, a spa, cruise-ship??? The days of the boutique general hospitals as I remember them, is pretty much

10. "Caring behaviors"

    jmqphd posted a topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

    Our Clinical Evaluation Tool has an item that requires a rating on Caring behaviors. There's no definition of the term, not in the tool itself, or any syllabus, handbook or catalogue. Consequently,...

11. University refuses to accept credits from neighboring ADN program

    jmqphd replied to jmqphd's topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

    Not sure what you mean by nationally accredited. AACN is the agency that accredits schools awarding the BSN (like yours). NLNAC accredits ADN programs around the country. There are no other...

12. University refuses to accept credits from neighboring ADN program

    jmqphd replied to jmqphd's topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

    Our retention rate is very high. the vast majority that get into the clinical semesters will graduate... though sometimes they may need to repeat a course. We're even seeing that go down as a %...

13. University refuses to accept credits from neighboring ADN program

    jmqphd posted a topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

    We are a proprietary nursing school that is doing a bang up job producing well respected graduates. Our first time pass rate is 91.4%. Our placement rates are excellent. Our students are in high...

14. The False Advertising of For-Profit Institutions

    jmqphd replied to PeepnBiscuitsRN's topic in General Students

    There was a post from a former HR person who said any resume that mentions U of Phoenix or other proprietary school is dumped no matter what else the applicant has to offer. And speaking of which......

15. Switching Jobs

    jmqphd replied to nurseontheway's topic in General Nursing

    It's not so bad and I'll bet you ramp up more or less gradually. Hopefully you get a good orientation and a good preceptor. In my view, the thing that makes the biggest difference is the team-work....