Students and Clinical Instructors/Professors

Well, for one thing, to be a good clinical instructor or a professor, you must have the right to be one. It's sad these days that a person who doesn't have the experience is allowed to teach. I know it's too harsh to judge someone because of age, but in the world of medicine and health, there's no room for error, most especially if you're teaching students who sooner or later would experience the dreadful task of being the person who either kills or saves the patient. I don't know maybe the disappointment comes from the long history of having very good health professionals in my family and seeing that the nursing students of today and their clinical instructors are far from the standards of yesterday. My challenge to you therefore is, don't limit yourself to your task or your know-how, transcend from the basic things your professors taught you and embrace the real world. The world of nursing isn't for those who are intelligent, nor cute, it's for those who knows how to care. It's not the number of hours you spend in the hospital that proves you're a nurse, not the number of students you handle that proves you're a teacher. It's how these students and patients become after you touched their lives. Make a mark on your profession. Don't be just the Nurse but be the Medical Professional. How? Research, Experience, and Live!