Diane Gullett

Meeting student needs with varying backgrounds

I teach gen-ed students who are entering the core nursing program for ADN. Many of these students are taking a variety of courses none of them the same. Some learners are already taking nursing classes such as Pharmacology where others have no concept of nursing and are in Anatomy and Physiology or Psychology and MIcrobiology. The course I teach is strategies for academic success though the content is really aimed at helping these students learn critical thinking, clinical judgement and decision making as it applies to being a nurse. It is very difficult to gear the teaching and assignments in the class that is intended to prepare the students to be nurses but for some who have no background at all or understand the basics of what nursing will involve because they have yet to be exposed to this concept.