WesternU Alumni Connection - Graduate Nursing News - April 2012

Call for Preceptors

The College of Graduate Nursing is interested in connecting with alumni who would be willing and are able to precept Family Nurse Practitioner students in their clinical rotations. We are interested in rotations in: Peds, Adult, Geri, Gyn and Obstetrics. Students can come through for 6 weeks or longer in a rotation—depending upon the limitations of the site. (e.g. My primary care clinical site requires a 1 year commitment of weekly sessions so that they benefit from an experienced student after the initial impacted learning curve—but any length of time is fine.) Even urgent care or skilled nursing sites are good for shorter rotations to build student skills and management techniques. At the site, students have to be able to take a history, do an exam, come to a diagnosis and create the management plan (job shadowing is not acceptable—we learn by doing!).

We are a Distance Program college and while the majority of our students are in Southern California, we have many students all across the country. DOs, MDs, NPs and Nurse Midwives have all mentored our students in the past.

Please consider giving back to our health care profession by mentoring those who will follow in your footsteps in the future. Please contact Diana Lithgow at dlithgow@westernu.edu if you are able to take a student in your clinical setting for any length of time!

Faculty News

Faculty member Liz D. Cooke will receive a 2012 ONS Commendation for Outstanding Achievement for Oncology Nursing Education or Patient/Family Education Award from the Oncology Nursing Society at a reception on May 2 in New Orleans. The purpose of the award is to recognize and reward excellence in written description of a patient education development activity or an innovation in delivery of professional nursing education either in the context of an academic program or via continuing nursing education or staff development.

Student News

The National Student Nursing Association recently collected clothing donations for the Arrowhead Regional Medical Center Behavioral Health Unit.

Read the latest updates from the students themselves in the latest Student Government Association Newsletter.

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