Nurse Mentor Experience

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The nurse educator project has been exciting and interesting, but has also brought some challenges. The first project I easily identified would be didactic, and I was grateful for the list of professors willing to be preceptors for this course. My background and experience led me to the leadership course with Dr. Jorgenson for the didactic project. She and I quickly scheduled a phone call to review the syllabus and time requirements for the project. When she and I spoke about the didactic project, she asked if I had planned my second project, and unfortunately at that point I had not been able to secure a preceptor. She at that time mentioned that the leadership also had a clinical component and this year they would be doing a Mock Hospital simulation. I quickly jumped at the opportunity to get involved with the simulation because I have very little experience with simulation. I participated in the morning and afternoon sessions for the Mock Hospital yesterday and plan to participate in a few others over the next few weeks. I am getting firsthand experience with senior level students practice what they have learned over the past few years. I have prepared and plan for the lecture at the end of the week. There is a morning and afternoon class, providing me the opportunity to present the same information twice and make improvements in my delivery if …show more content…

Initially, I had thought to do the didactic and staff development as my two projects. I quickly learned that the organization I work for has very few nurses with advanced nursing degrees. We have a few nurse practitioners, but none that teach or do staff development on a regular basis. This opened my eyes to the need for nurses to continue their education and get advanced nursing degrees. Some of the nurses in leadership roles have a masters degrees, but their degrees were in public health or healthcare

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