What I Choose Apu As A Nurse For More Than 10 Years With A...

Nursing is an art and science, defined by its body of knowledge, scholarship, and practice. I’ve been a nurse for more than 15 years with a clinical and academic experience. I choose APU as my place of work for its clear declaration of God First in all that is being done. Since I started at APU in 2013 until now, I’ve designed my courses to include the-state-of-the-art knowledge, ethics, and practice in nursing. In all of my classes, I start the lecture with a devotion of the day from various books, such as the book â€Å"Jesus calling†. The words of this book speak to each and every student. I feel it gives encouragement on daily basis. I also show a lot of videos that are inspirational, and could have a message related to the topic we’re discussing in class that day. We usually take some time for prayers and reflection on the week since I last saw them. Beside all that, I do have specific individual assignments for every course. For one of my courses, students work in groups of four. Each group selects a clinical phenomenon of interest. They’ll be conducting literature review to get familiar with what is known and what’s missing about this phenomenon. Also students search the literature for suitable nursing theoret ical frameworks to guide their research project. By researching various theories of interest, students have to identify the four concepts of the nursing meta-paradigm: human, environment, health and nursing. Knowledge shaped about these concepts is revealed through