Learning as a nurse educator

Despite all of the pictures of food and fun on this blog, we would be lying if we said we were not also learning the role of the nurse educator.From clinical, classrooms, visiting hospitals, clinics and schools of nursing we are learning so much about nursing education and healthcare in Jamaica!

Christina works with a pathophysiology tutorial group on Monday mornings where the students apply their classroom knowledge of physiology (how the body works) and pathologies of the body (what can go wrong) to clinical scenarios. Christina enjoys the aspect of guiding students through the critical thinking process and helping them use the nursing process in analyzing situations. She has learned the challenges faced in working with a large group of 120 students in tutorial from crowd control (noise), to speaking loudly and slow enough for students to understand better, and how to facilitate meaningful discussion in such a large group (moderator role). After this past Monday, Christina is not convinced such a large group is conducive to meeting the objective of having meaningful group discussion! This is one of many examples encountered thus far and Christina continues to work hard as she crafts lectures for this week and next as well as work with faculty to design a better mode to present the tutorials!

Cindy is working with the third year students who are studying Speciality Care such as ENT, Orthopedics and Neurology. Cindy has been in the classroom and clinical setting. She has been at both the University and Public Hospitals. She also spent a day in a local clinic. She especially enjoys working with students in the clinical setting and is learning more from the students than she is sharing with them. They are such bright students with so much potential.

Third Year Students-Smiling even when they are stressed out!