The Learner and the Teacher in Common Nursing Schools

Education is known to be one of the souls of our survival. We are living in a world full of complexities that challenged us throughout our lives. In an educational process, we considered the presence of a teacher and a student. Without this two components learning will be much harder. A teacher can be anyone in this world that is capable of teaching us something. Our parents can be a good example of a teacher. As we all know they are the ones who taught us how to be good sons and daughter. They also taught us how to do house chores and brought us the view of how life looks like. Actually, a teacher can be anything whether it comes from a living or non-living things. An example of a lifeless teacher is our daily experiences and observations. These things can be a subject for us to learn new things.

As you read along this article we will be focusing more on the student nurses and their teachers. This is for us to know how a student and a teacher of a certain nursing school able to deal with the broad information of the profession. Let us start first with the leaner. When you enter  a nursing school you can probably feel that you are so empty. Learning about this health related field is not as easy as reading a book. Medical terminologies and functions are the common challenge that a student will face. As we can see most nursing students today are composed of young female individuals. Since these student nurses are still in their adolescent stage, they must do their best to achieve maturity and independence. The student must take the nursing course out from their own decision and interest.

She must equip with the potential ability that is capable of performing flexible tasks in rendering care to his or her patient. Aside from that the student must have a good level of spiritual, intellectual, emotional and physical growth. She or he is expected to have a good academic performance. A student that has broader life experiences may have an easy way studying the course. A good social and personal adjustment may also be needed for the student to survive in the institution or from an organization. He or she should expect that there will be plenty of challenges and problems that may occur on a nursing life. In this case, an emotional and educational support may be necessary. As what a normal person would usually do daily, time management is also important in a nursing student’s life.  This serves as the timeframe of task and priorities.

Now lets move on to the teacher’s role in a nursing school. Giving adequate knowledge to a nursing student may not be as easy as teaching a common college course. In a nursing school, they used to call their teachers as clinical instructors. These individuals must have the following qualities to give an effective educational service. First of all, they must have respect to the student. This is very true. Most students want to be respected as what they are. This is commonly neglected by several clinical instructors.

They must have a broad experience in a different clinical field. Information learned in nursing is widely based on evidenced-based practice. Details are much easier to retain if they are frequently applied.

A clinical instructor must be a good role model and an effective leader. This is also one of the things neglected by C.I. One must have a strong and firm personality so that student will not underestimate them.

To have a good and interesting discussion of a certain topic the clinical instructor must have a sense of humor. This will help shift a boring lecture to an interesting one. The clinical instructor must give clear and precise assignments since nursing field is too broad.

The C.I. must always prepare his or her topic to be discussed on the next day. Asking self questions may help in generating more ideas. They also need to be kind and patient. They must always control their temper inside the classroom. They must never threaten the students, since they can easily hate teachers for what they are. Clinical instructors will most probably have a hard time dealing with the students if this will be the situation.