I teach psych nursing and have recently been told that I need to assign homework for every chapter. Our text does not come with a workbook. Any ideas on homework assignments? There are 22 chapters - I...
I went into psych nursing prior to getting any medical experience. Although I love psych nursing I always felt a desire to work general med surge for the experience. I have my MSN in nursing education...
daisylouhoo replied to daisylouhoo's topic in Nursing Career
My understanding is that there is a big need for educators but I cannot say for sure about full time positions. The school I work at now offers day full time positions. Evenings is part time only....
Thanks for the feedback. I like your "what I learned " assignment. Many times I am pretty sure 0% of the students did the assigned readings by the responses they give in class. I just graduated in May...
daisylouhoo replied to Dahliadiaz's topic in Nursing Career
I took a CNA course the summer prior to starting nursing school. It only took a couple of weeks. The benefit was being comfortable with giving direct patient care. So when I started clinical I was...
daisylouhoo replied to denicola.c's topic in Psychiatric
I worked inpatient psych for 5 years before going into home care. Definitely agree with previous posts. Wouldn't have gone straight to home health w/out prior experience and own malpractice insurance...
daisylouhoo replied to Gn_lv's topic in Home Health
I am a home health nurse in CT. The agency I work for required one year experience of nursing to qualify. In home care you are alone in the community and in my opinion it would be safer to have...