Chugging Along

It's been a bit of a slow start for me but I am chugging along and finally making some progress into a start for this teaching practicum (YAY!) I have chosen to work with Diane Michal, RN, MSN, a Critical Care Course Instructor at the University of Texas at Arlington and am in the process of an official approval to work with her this semester. Leave it to me to make a simple thing complicated, but I'm hoping that the steps I have taken this semester to create an agreement between TWU and UTA will help future Teaching Practicum Students!

"Meet the Preceptor Day" was Friday, February 6th. Working together this semester will be a new and exciting experience for both of us as Diane has never had an assistant or Grad Student Preceptee, and this is my first teaching practicum. I am so looking forward to getting my feet wet and gaining some insight into being an educator! Thus far, Diane has been great to work with and we keep in close contact via frequent telephone calls and emails.

Classroom days for the Critical Care course at UTA are Mondays from 9am-12pm, and clinical days at the hospital are Saturdays (12 hour shifts). Diane's clinical site is Harris Methodist in Fort Worth, and her students get clinical experience in each of their FIVE ICU's! This is exciting for me because one of the ICU's is a Trauma ICU, which I have always wanted to, but haven't yet worked in. Because her students do clinicals in 12 hour shifts, they only have clinicals for 6 weeks which begins on March 28th... I can't wait to get started!

That's about it for now... but there is definitely more to come! :)

~Cindy