I survived!

My stint as an adjunct instructor at MegaCorp College is over. Hooray!

What did I learn?

1. Some people are just not motivated.

2. Some people don't really listen. I only told my students (orally and in writing) that all the written homework was due the day before the final.

I still had one goof say, "What? We can't turn in any homework tonight?"

Yes, Doofus, that's right. Working on your schedule at Taco Bell instead of finishing your uncompleted work was really not a good thing. Miraculously, he passed the course...with a whopping D.

3. Flunking students is not fun, but sometimes you have to do it. I had to flunk the one student in my course who would like to go on to the nursing program.

As Dahey says, if she can't hack it now, maybe she should be doing something else.

Hindsight

This would have been a handy thing to have had printed in the break rooms at the Hotel recently.

High blood pressure and heart attack

Sometimes, I think we overlook when folks normally "run high" as we like to call high blood pressure.  However, you have to get out your detective skills, as well as err on the side of caution.

As my nursing instructor used to say, "If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, good chance it's probably a duck."

Nursing judgment really is a good thing.

Great expectations

That's what I get for opening my mouth in class.

The instructor assigned me to quiz, query and otherwise get one of our guests to tell us everything we'd possibly want to know about a certain nursing terminology.

Oy! Off to my reading...stay tuned for more goodies!

Just another reason why...

You don't want to go to the hospital alone. I will definitely heed my nursing instructors' advice if I ever end up in this situation.