December 2006"I'm just going to try to get through it!" is what assistant professor Nan Chadwick hears often from her undergraduate nursing students at the University of West Georgia in Carrollton when they talk about the school's required 40-hour psych-mental health clinical rotation.
"Students are often frightened by psychiatric nursing, and I understand that," Chadwick said. "I'm passionate about this field, but I didn't like it at all in the beginning." Full Article
Growing up, Brencia Bienville's mother told her, "Never put all your eggs in one basket." It's advice that Bienville has taken to heart.
When she's not performing with the Atlanta Falcons cheerleading squad, Bienville is a nurse in the maternity center at Emory Crawford Long Hospital in Atlanta. She's also a Realtor. Full Article
Most people enter a nursing doctoral program with career goals in mind. Margi Williams, who will add a Ph.D. to her credentials this month, had a higher mission.
"For me, the degree is a wonderful byproduct for advancing my idea for the Infant Adaptive Crawler," she said. "Every paper I've written and the research I've done for this degree has been to help make this idea a reality. I believe I'm doing something that God wants me to do." Full Article