Teaching Philosophy
The following principles guide my teaching philosophy:
1. Climate
Cultivate an environment that fosters mutual respect for individuality and diversity, recognizes that the educator-learner interaction forms the foundation for collegial and professional relationships, fosters collaboration, and embraces diversity.
2. Strategy
Employ creative tactics to enrich learning experiences, nurture critical thinking skills, and foster the development of wise clinical reasoning and judgment where students actively engage in addressing real-world challenges.
3. Growth
Embrace the journey of ongoing improvement, learning from the shared pursuit of knowledge between educator and learner, cultivating innovation and excellence.
Course and Clinical Coordinator
- Current: Health and Illness in Adult Populations
- Previous: Nursing of Adults; Gerontologic Nursing; Wellness and Health Assessment
Courses Taught During Academic Career
- Capstone Theory (traditional undergraduate online)
- Health and Illness in Adult Populations (traditional undergraduate unperson and online)
- Foundations of Nursing Science (DNP hybrid and online courses)
- Nursing of Adults Theory (traditional undergraduate in person)
- Gerontological Nursing Theory (traditional undergraduate program in person)
- DNP Specialty Residency IV (graduate program in person)
- Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nursing I (graduate certificate program in person)
- Wellness and Health Assessment Theory (traditional undergraduate program in person)
- Wellness and Health Assessment Theory (RN-BSN program in person)
- Wellness and health Assessment Lab (traditional undergraduate program in person)
- Pharmacology (traditional undergraduate program in person and RN-BSN program online)
- Advanced Pharmacology (RN-BSN and graduate program online)
- Health and Healing in Guatemala (traditional undergraduate program in person)
- Basic Clinical Nursing Competencies (traditional undergraduate program in person)
- Research in Nursing (traditional undergraduate program in person)
- Nursing of Adults Clinical (traditional undergraduate program in person)
- Honors Seminar: Health Care in the Poplar Media: The good, the bad and the ugly (traditional undergraduate program in person)
- Issues in Nursing (traditional undergraduate program in person)
- Conceptual Foundations (traditional undergraduate program in person)
Example of Teaching Innovations
- Development of an educational model integrating clinical judgment case studies into class using the Next Generation NCLEX model. NGN Presentation
Course Evaluations (Most Recent 5 Years)
