creldridge | March 22, 2009
If you haven’t yet, be sure to check out the links in the right-hand menu bar on the home or main page. Some of the links lead to websites with terrific educational programs and interactive teaching tools; others lead to health care blogs and other random things that should interest nursing and health science faculty [...]
creldridge | March 21, 2009
There’s a lot of aiding and abetting going on at St. John’s College of Nursing and Health Sciences at Southwest Baptist University-Springfield. You might think I’m writing about something criminal, since we usually hear the phrase "aiding and abetting" in the context of someone helping a lawbreaker do something illegal. "Abetting" is actually a lovely [...]
creldridge | March 18, 2009
I love emails like this, from a faculty member who teaches pediatrics:
"I want to tell you about some students who went "above and beyond" in the clinical setting. First, two students actually volunteered for an EXTRA clinical day (extra work voluntarily!!) on the pediatric unit to gain experience with skills and working with children in [...]
creldridge | March 14, 2009
This might be the best story I’ve heard in the last few months about a student who demonstrated that "just a student" is a vital part of the health care team. It was sent to me by Leah, a clinical instructor in the college.
The student was accompanying her patient to a procedure, thinking they were [...]
creldridge | March 14, 2009
Jodi, a clinical instructor, emailed me that she wanted to share some good news, along with her fellow instructor, Susan. She wrote:
"Today the patient advocate on our hospital unit observed all of our students. He was looking specifically at how many were washing their hands. He made his observations without any of us knowing what [...]
creldridge | March 14, 2009
Paul, one of our clinical instructors, reported this story this week:
"I was approached by a team leader in the hospital last night who shared some compliments and observations. She expressed amazement at the positive atmosphere that the students and instructors in our college share. She reported that in the nursing program she [...]
creldridge | March 13, 2009
This is the first official post in the first official blog for St. John’s College of Nursing and Health Sciences at Southwest Baptist University-Springfield. We proudly say we have the academic world’s longest name! We don’t really know if that’s true or not, because we’ve never actually measured anyone else’s name, but it is a [...]
