HLSC618 (2016) Getting to know you by Flora https://padlet.com/florawhj/15July2016 1) Share a bit about yourself - name, location, where you are up to in the course at ACU; 2) What’s your background working in clinical education in the curriculum area? 3) What are the top two - three things you’d like to get out of this unit? To get started, just double-click on the Padlet wall and remember you are not limited to text. en-us 2016-07-15 07:08:03 UTC 2024-04-13 11:58:32 UTC hello@padlet.com Introduction florawhj https://padlet.com/florawhj/15July2016/wish/116611374 My name is Flora. I am privileged to be your instructor for this unit. I am from China originally and have been living in Australia (Sydney and Darwin) for 20 years. I am a registered nurse, lecturer and mother of 3 children.I have a passion for teaching and have been teaching nursing students since 2005, from undergraduate to the HDR students. My teaching interest developed under the influence of my mother who devoted 40 years to primary school teaching in China. I enjoy seeing students master knowledge and skills over time. As a nursing lecturer in particular, I find teaching rewarding because I have opportunities not only  to demonstrate my clinical skills, knowledge, and expertise to students, but also to learn from the discussions and insights presented by students. I like reading, listening to music, travelling and cooking. I do yoga once a week and walk for 45-60 minutes a day. I am trying to keep myself fit in order to take care of my family and job. I hope you will work out a good balance between your work, home chores and study because your well-being is important.I hope you will enjoy this unit and I look forward to working with you. 
Kind regards, 
Flora

]]> 2016-07-19 07:48:38 UTC https://padlet.com/florawhj/15July2016/wish/116611374 Hello Flora and fellow students,I'm am happy and excited to have you as lecturer in charge again for this unit, Flora. My name is Juanita and I am a Clinical Nurse in the Cardiac Investigations Unit at the Prince Charles Hospital in Brisbane. I have always had a leaning toward teaching with a goal to merge my nursing career toward nurse education since completing my hospital training in 1992. I have invested a large portion of my clinical practice in cardiology and currently hold a teaching role in the unit. I enjoy the dynamics of people, their history, story and accomplishments. I enjoy facilitating student nurses and would like to work more specifically with student nurses in bridging the theory to practice gap in the clinical environment and skills development.  My family and I love touring around Australia having driven to the Red Centre, Perth and Broome and look forward to more trips in the near future.Warm regards,Juanita juanitaw https://padlet.com/florawhj/15July2016/wish/117064266 2016-07-27 11:13:46 UTC https://padlet.com/florawhj/15July2016/wish/117064266 Good afternoon - my name is Priscilla Barclay - this is my 5th subject of the Master of Clinical ed and I'm really enjoying adding to my knowledge. I'm a registered nurse with a background in paediatrics - I've been involved with tertiary education for about 5 years now and I love it. I work in a university and teach into the undergraduate nursing program. What I have learnt in the units of the Masters of clinical Ed has been immediately useful to me in my role. I have 4 children, 3 are mine and 1 is inherited from my husband. Their ages are 24, 17, 17 and 11. It's a very busy household. I have been a yoga teacher for over 25 years and have taught in hospitals, schools and my own private business Rainbow Yoga.  I do a little yoga just for myself these days or when people request private lessons from me. Its' gorgeous to be involved with. I have also taken up high intensity interval training and weights - I find I require more action now to stay fit now that I'm in my late 40s.  I find teaching so rewarding - it's a gift that changes peoples lives and brings quality and promotes evolving of people that may not have had that opportunity before. I believe in authentic teaching from the heart and that your intention plays a major role in the outcome of all of our interactions with people. I look forward to hopefully seeing some familiar names that have been on the DFs previously and to continue our electronic discourse. Thank you. Priscilla.  https://padlet.com/florawhj/15July2016/wish/117116440 2016-07-28 03:36:06 UTC https://padlet.com/florawhj/15July2016/wish/117116440 Hello Flora and all https://padlet.com/florawhj/15July2016/wish/117211423 2016-07-29 23:54:17 UTC https://padlet.com/florawhj/15July2016/wish/117211423 Hello Flora and all student comrades for course HLSC618. My name is Vivienne Whitehead. This is my 4th module to date . I have been a neonatal intensive care nurse for the vast majority of my career. Starting on a surgical unit in my home town of Liverpool UK at the Children;s Hospital where i did my student training to become a paediatric nurse. I have worked in the acute sector mostly both in UK and in Australia. Have also worked in the community taking babies with complex needs home. For the past 9 years i have been a clinical nurse educator on a very busy tertiary referral level 6 neonatal unit. I love the clinical side of my work but am passionate about the professional aspect of neonatal nursing. It is a privilege to care for babies and their families rather than a right. what would i like to get out of this unit?  Being part of a diverse group of adult learners and taking as much as i can from their experience, knowledge and opinions/ perspectives is important to me, i have valued the discussion board interactions in previous modules more than i thought possible, as i am used to traditional classroom learning. Secondly learning about curriculum development will, i hope, help me to bring together many aspects of neonatal care which are often taught in isolation. putting them together in a curriculum will provide a cohesive and comprehensive body of knowledge that can be utilised for staff commencing their journey as a novice neonatal nurse.  https://padlet.com/florawhj/15July2016/wish/117211424 me tryng to encourage one of my schnauzers to join in the photo shoot!!


]]> 2016-07-29 23:54:17 UTC https://padlet.com/florawhj/15July2016/wish/117211424 Hi Everyone, my name is Antoinette Bates and this is unit 3 of a Graduate Diploma in Clinical Education. I currently work as a CNE in a large Melbourne metropolitan hospital covering Gen Med, Respiratory Med and Infectious Diseases. In my current role I work with registered and enrolled nurses with a variety of experience from graduate nurses to registered nurses with over 20 years of experience. I am married with 2 children aged 9 and 10. I am enjoying adding to my knowledge of education, and look forward to continuing this during this unit. I particularly enjoy reflection and reading about the experiences of others in education, and use this to improve my clinical practice. I had the goal early on in my career to be an educator and feel privileged to be in this role. I enjoy supporting staff, and influencing and improving nursing practice through education. I look forward to learning with you during this unit. Antoinette    https://padlet.com/florawhj/15July2016/wish/117248618 2016-07-31 20:14:58 UTC https://padlet.com/florawhj/15July2016/wish/117248618 https://padlet.com/florawhj/15July2016/wish/117502961 2016-08-04 01:34:38 UTC https://padlet.com/florawhj/15July2016/wish/117502961 Hi Everyone. My name is Lucy and I work full time as a Practice Development Nurse in a large metropolitan Melbourne Hospital. I am enrolled in the Graduate Certificate in Clinical Education and this is my first semester. This is my fifth year working in education. I initially worked with undergraduate students completing clinical placements at the hospital and I am currently part of the Graduate Support team.  My role involves providing clinical support and supervision to graduate nurses, presenting education on a number of topics, teaching skills, assessing clinical competencies, facilitating simulation training and providing feedback on clinical performance. I have not had a great deal of experience with curriculum design so in this Unit I look forward to gaining a better understanding of planning curriculum to best meet the needs of the learners. I hope that the knowledge I gain is useful and can be implemented into my workplace when planning education for graduate nurses. Looking forward to learning from everyone and sharing ideas. Lucy https://padlet.com/florawhj/15July2016/wish/117527072 2016-08-04 07:32:42 UTC https://padlet.com/florawhj/15July2016/wish/117527072 Hi all,                                                             I am currently working in the GEM Unit as a Clinical Nurse Specialist in one of Melbourne’s major tertiary hospitals as well as being a sessional Clinical Teacher for undergraduate nursing students. HLSC618 is my last subject (elective) for my Masters of Clinical Nursing and hopefully I will graduate this December. I choose this subject as an elective in order for me to know more about curriculum and how to design a unit. I wish you all good luck for this semester.   Cheers, Darrel darrel_serenio https://padlet.com/florawhj/15July2016/wish/117578185   ]]> 2016-08-05 01:26:02 UTC https://padlet.com/florawhj/15July2016/wish/117578185 Hi everyone https://padlet.com/florawhj/15July2016/wish/117632659 My name is Jay, and I am currently working as a Clinical Facilitator for BSN and EN students for some education providers here in Sydney. I have been a registered nurse for eight years now, and most of my work experiences are in nursing education, both in the academe and clinical setting - medical/surgical nursing & medical oncology. I am on my second semester taking Graduate Certificate in Clinical Education, and I am learning a lot and enjoying the course so far. If you remember me Flora, I was one of your students last semester for HLSC608, and I am very much delighted to be under you again this semester.

I have a bit of an idea on curriculum design when I worked in the academe as a clinical instructor. However, this unit will be my formal training and education to understand and learn in depth about curriculum. I am looking forward to this unit to learn more on the theoretical aspect of curriculum design, strategies and methodologies and in return, apply learned concepts in the actual setting. 

I am looking forward to learning this unit and to our engaging discussions in our discussion forums.
]]> 2016-08-06 04:26:00 UTC https://padlet.com/florawhj/15July2016/wish/117632659 Hello Flora and Colleagues, My name is Megan. I am currently working as Diabetes Nurse Educator at Princess Alexandra Hospital in Brisbane.  I have worked previously as a clinical facilitator and have had some experience teaching undergraduate nursing at university.  I discovered that I loved teaching in undergraduate nursing and supporting nursing students to become confident critical thinking practitioners and impart some of the skills that I have learned over the past 25 years.  Now to finish my Masters so I can return to teaching at university.  This is my third year working towards my Masters in Clinical Education AD (after dark).  Trying hard to balance work, life and study.  I have two beautiful 10 year old twins.. life is busy.  I look forward to working with you all this semester.      https://padlet.com/florawhj/15July2016/wish/117654862 Kind Regards,
Megan


]]> 2016-08-07 11:30:42 UTC https://padlet.com/florawhj/15July2016/wish/117654862 Hello Flora and fellow study gurus, My name is Amanda Prinsen and I am onto my 4th unit of my post graduate in clinical nursing. I am a registered nurse on a busy regional surgical ward and decided to further my education to better my career prospects. I often mentor students on placement and this is where I developed my passion for teaching and clinical education. As I am not in a clinical educator’s position, I feel I have a lot to learn and am excited to hear other peers opinions and experiences. I look forward to this unit HLSC618 as I don’t believe I have ever really thought about the importance of the curriculum design.   https://padlet.com/florawhj/15July2016/wish/117964967 2016-08-11 03:47:48 UTC https://padlet.com/florawhj/15July2016/wish/117964967 https://padlet.com/florawhj/15July2016/wish/118168117 Hello Everyone.  My name is Bronwyn and I am a CNS in an acute medical ward at a Melbourne Metropolitan hospital.  I am completing this subject as an elective for my Masters in Clinical Nursing.  I conduct inservices and work and would like to gain the skills to ensure that such inservices are informative and meet the learning audience being my colleagues.  I am a late starter to the unit as I only found out on Thursday that I needed to complete a further unit to complete the Masters. Enjoy the semester and I look forward to the discussion forums.
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