EVOLVING ROLES OF NURSES EDUCATORS IN DIVERSE ENVIRONMENTS – C918

Tell me how you organize, plan and prioritize your work. I spend my office hours using “time-chunking” that creates blocks of time devoted to tasks to minimize reactions to interruptions. When I have a responsibility identified I then write down the goals, deadlines and how to accomplish the task. The “time-chunking” technique helps me to stay focused and productive. 3. What are the biggest barriers or issues that nursing students face today? Students biggest barriers and issues are time, internal motivation, balancing family and school. More nursing courses moving online can find students requiring a dedication of 8-hours per week for each class. Many students must learn creative ways to harmonize their school life with jobs, children and families in order to be successful. 4. What factors do you consider when developing curriculum? New student-centered curriculum developments are designed based on 3 factors NCLEX pass rates, course completion rates and student surveys. When the course is created, and goals are set it is then reported for accreditation. As a group we have recently taken student feedback and adjusted a 2-credit pharmacology course and split it into two 1 credit classes to improve the pass rate. 5. Share an experience in which personal connections to coworkers or others helped you to be successful in your work. The nursing program now has a thread that connects all the semesters together and this is because the faculty works well together. We have 4 PhD level instructors, and everyone teaches subjects that are comfortable to them. We learn from each other and share nursing experiences EVOLVING ROLES OF NURSES EDUCATORS IN DIVERSE ENVIRONMENTS – C918 5 and common goals when developing course content. We truly care for all our students and go over and above to ensure they complete the nursing program. Their success is proof of our collaboration to make a program that produces nurses that give superior patient care. B. Panopto Video Presentation