Teachers

Some people really have no business stepping foot inside an educational institution. This semester I have had instructors that have totally changed my life for good and bad. One clinical instructor has allowed me to grow and progress to a level I never considered possible as a nurse. She expected so much out of me and I desired each week to impress her, to know my stuff, and to perform on the clinical floor. I will always be grateful for the instruction AND the confidence that she has shown in me.

Another instructor is a joke to the word education and has no business attempting to instill knowledge, that she has not gained into students attempting to learn a new art. She is a brand new instructor and  has an aura about her that seems as though she believes her self gods gift to nursing education when in reality she commands disrespect, pity, and disdain.

From the experience I have only strengthen my desire to one day enter nursing education and provide students with the guidance they deserve. Nursing school should be hard and demanding and require a great deal of effort. This does not mean however that instructors should adopt a sense of godliness when in reality their knowledge is severely lacking. Nursing education is currently suffering from a lack of quality faculty to fill the thousands of faculty openings across the country and regrettably the students are suffering.

I have attended 5 universities in the course of my education including; private, public, Division I, regional, Online, and community colleges . . . and I have never been so disgusted by the quality of my education or an instructor as I am at this point. The good thing is . . . . only 6 days left in the semester!!!!!

Here is what I have learned about what a teacher should be to aid their students:

• Be prepared - don't just show up with pre printed slides provided by another instructor or the book publisher. Do some homework and be sure that you at least have a basic grasp on the material you will be presenting.

• Be Humble -  you don't know everything, don't pretend that you do.  Your students will respect you more if you can admit you gaps in knowledge.
• Be Respectful - if you say something  .. . do it! Understand that you students are adults too and deserve basic common respect as does any human being.  If you arrange a meeting . . . BE THERE!
• Respond to Emails and Phone calls - enough said.
• Provide Clear Instructions - if the instructions are provided clearly once you will not have to do it again.  Simply prepare lessons and assignments with the end in mind provide a rubric and give this to students.
• Practice what you preach - your students will be watching you.  We don't know how to be nurses yet. Practice what you preach.
• Don't become a teacher if you do not have basic communication skills 
• Give feedback - we are here to learn . . . help us!
• If students are failing your course - ITs YOUR FAULT! if good students are doing badly in your course yet doing well on national exams . . . its time to look at yourself!

I will always be grateful for the excellent teachers that I have had and the many well prepared instructors that take the needed time to provide us with the education that we hope to attain while spending an enormous amount on it.  The sad thing is. . . the one bad apple can spoil the bunch! Lawn service allen tx

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Exercise

I have been spending the past couple of days working on building a website about running bleachers.  This has kept me pretty busy, but it is something that I love.  Not the running bleachers as much as just the working out and staying in shape.  This keeps me sane during nursing school. Anyway check it out I don't think you will be dissappointed.

Get NCLEX prep tool

This tool from ATI is a great NCLEX prep tool. You can throw it on your ipod or iphone and practice NCLEX questions wherever you are . . . check it out.

 There are also a few free NCLEX prep tools.  This one costs about $20 but I think it is worth it.

Nursing School Test Taking

Okay, I've gotta plug this book one more time because it saved be during my first semester of nursing school.  It is called Test Success: Test-Taking Techniques for Beginning Nursing Students (click to view on Barnes & Noble), testing is a bit different in a BSN program, you are required to "think critically" and this book really helps you learn the game.  Thats all it really is, BSN tests are a game and once you figure out the strategies it becomes much easier.

Med Error

I admit it, I'm not proud of it, I knew it would come some day but I just hoped it would not be so early in my career.  I made a medication error.  I gave my patient Lactobacillus in the wrong form.  Lucky for the patient and me this was a VERY small and insignificant medication error.  I was supposed to give him another form of this probiotic but failed to read closely enough and administered the wrong med.  I immediately told my nurse and teacher who were supportive and cautioned me to read more carefully and pay better attention in the future. I felt pretty lousy, although it wasn't really a big deal, what if it had been. I have learned my lesson!

Respiratory Nursing

Clinicals this weekend in many ways restored my desire to be a nurse.  I think it had a lot to do with my clinical instructor.  She was mean, nice, helpfull . . . you get the picture.  She drilled us about our patients, their conditions, and the meds they were on, but at the same time she treated us like adults and allowed us to see many procedures and found opportunities to see procedures, practice skills etc.  Sadly, clinical instructors as good as her are hard to come by but on the up note this was the first time in nearly two months that I was excited to be in nursing school.

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Cardiac Cycle Animation

Learning the cardiac cycle is essential to preforming well in nursing school and in working as a professional nurse.  Below are a few links to help learn the cardiac cycle.  There are some animations on the cardiac cycle.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGlFBzaTuoI&feature=related                           

Below is a link to the best series of videos that I have found.  It is by a professor named Dr. Najeeb and he uses them in his USMLE prep course.  Search through his youtube page to find many other helpful videos.  This series of 8 videos on the cardiac cycle should leave you with a very complete understanding.  He provides his own animations of the cardiac cycle.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbivIaFPoQI