Holly is a Nursing Instructor at The University of Toledo in Ohio. A graduate of the university herself, Holly now educates first-year nursing students on the fundamentals of patient care. When not in a lab or classroom, Holly is developing new curriculum and research projects, such as measuring and increasing nurses’ empathy towards pregnant women.
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My name is Holly Myers, and I'm a nurse educator. I teach the Certified Nurse Leader class, so they are students that have graduated from another program with a bachelor's or a master's, and they've decided that they wanted to become a nurse. So they come into our program with another degree, but they're brand new into the nursing program. So I'm able to work with them and really help shape their nursing knowledge from the first semester. We are not just educators. We look at where the future of nursing education is going. We have to look at national trends. We have to look at local, what's happening in our local community with healthcare, so taking that forward, we are always revising, updating our curriculum. So we look at, you know, my job looks at providing this education and supporting the students and encouraging them, but then also making sure that we are meeting the needs of our community, we're meeting our state needs and our national needs with our nursing education that we're providing. I'm currently working on a research project that was implementing a new teaching strategy with my students. So looking at a self-guided simulation for my students, looking at developing empathy towards pregnant women. I'm not in my office very often because I'm running to between class and lab. Once clinical starts towards the end of this semester, then I'll be on the clinical floor just kind of coordinating and making sure everybody is where they should be. It's a lot of making sure all of the pieces, or everybody is where they should be, and they have what they need to be successful in my course.
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