About me
I began teaching in 1991 with the American Heart Association while an EMT. Since, I began seriously teaching as an instructor for the Navy at both their crew-served weapons and basic medical schools. My background is in emergency medicine as an EMT and Hospital Corpsman. After seperating from the active-duty Navy, I began teaching at technical colleges in the area of medical assisting. Most days are chanllenging, but that every-once-in-awhile, where you can see a lightbulb turn on makes it worthwhile.
A long time ago, someone told me that the reason most people think they are bad with math is that they had a bad experience early on and decided to give up on it. Before I teach my dosage calc class, I start with a few basic diagrams in which I first draw a capital letter A and ask the students what it means, followed by a lower case a, and then a digram of a horse. Once they have correctly described each, I write a fraction on the board and ask them what it is. After many guesses, I… >>>