- Email: [email protected]
What Was Your Great Lesson?
Column_AwesomeAssignments.qxd
7/26/05
9:37 AM
What Was
Page 43
Yo u r
Great Lesson? few years ago a former student sent me a
A
note reminding me of an activity we had during the final days before her graduation
from the adult nurse practitioner program she was attending. She reported: “I was pretty discouraged to find the note on my car window from a local physician advertising for new patients. He made it a point to emphasize in his ad that physicians saw all the patients and did not use nurse practitioners in this practice. This was a small community, and I had hoped to ask them for a job. “I remember when we discussed this in class that you suggested this was a good opportunity for us. You called it ‘creating our own demand.’ You assigned each of the 15 class members to get 3
ideas or words were especially resonant to you at a
other people to call the practice and ask for an
crucial time.
appointment with the nurse practitioner. We were
1555-4155/05/$ — see frontmatter © 2005 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
to insist that we only wanted to see a NP and
doi: 10.1016/j.nurpra.2005.07.001
would not make an appointment with anyone else. The calls started pouring in to that office. Then you told me to go and ask for a job. I did—and got my first position as an NP.”
Please address your submissions to [email protected]. We look forward to publishing your stories.
All of us have probably had memorable teaching/learning experiences that are worth sharing. We would like to use this column to solicit meaningful experiences that have influenced your role as a nurse practitioner. This is a way to recognize those outstanding faculty mem-
AWESOME ASSIGNMENTS
bers, the creative teacher or the clinician whose
Marilyn W. Edmunds
www.npjournal.org
43
7/26/05
9:37 AM
What Was
Page 43
Yo u r
Great Lesson? few years ago a former student sent me a
A
note reminding me of an activity we had during the final days before her graduation
from the adult nurse practitioner program she was attending. She reported: “I was pretty discouraged to find the note on my car window from a local physician advertising for new patients. He made it a point to emphasize in his ad that physicians saw all the patients and did not use nurse practitioners in this practice. This was a small community, and I had hoped to ask them for a job. “I remember when we discussed this in class that you suggested this was a good opportunity for us. You called it ‘creating our own demand.’ You assigned each of the 15 class members to get 3
ideas or words were especially resonant to you at a
other people to call the practice and ask for an
crucial time.
appointment with the nurse practitioner. We were
1555-4155/05/$ — see frontmatter © 2005 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
to insist that we only wanted to see a NP and
doi: 10.1016/j.nurpra.2005.07.001
would not make an appointment with anyone else. The calls started pouring in to that office. Then you told me to go and ask for a job. I did—and got my first position as an NP.”
Please address your submissions to [email protected]. We look forward to publishing your stories.
All of us have probably had memorable teaching/learning experiences that are worth sharing. We would like to use this column to solicit meaningful experiences that have influenced your role as a nurse practitioner. This is a way to recognize those outstanding faculty mem-
AWESOME ASSIGNMENTS
bers, the creative teacher or the clinician whose
Marilyn W. Edmunds
www.npjournal.org
43