Opportunities for Nurses as Educators
Today there are many educator roles that nurses are fulfilling. The paramount role is nurses being patient educators. Further, institutions have nurse education departments which provide continuing education for the staff. Consequently, all nurses have the foundation for moving into more advanced nurse educator roles. There are many opportunities for nurses in the teaching arena out there.
Addressing the nurse educator shortage.
Déjà You: Dealing with Familiar Faces in Nursing
You’re familiar with déjà vu, the vague but persistent feeling that you’ve experienced something before? Nurses have their own version of this condition, called déjà you. It’s the vague but persistent feeling that you know your patient, but you can’t remember exactly how you met them. Soon, you become acclimated to the idea that people you know, intimately or casually, may at some time need medical attention.
And you are that medical attention.