Chapter 1
Identify yourself as a traditional or nontraditional adult learner
Traditional learner
Identify personal resources that will facilitate your success in a vn nursing program
Academic Resources
Social support services
Using your birthdate, identify tour generation and characteristics of this generation viewed as a resource for success in a vn program.
Generation Z
Characteristics
Digital natives
Desire creative, collaboration & want to impact the world
Highly influenced using technology & always being highly connected
Prefer using smart phones & would rather text than talk
Identify factors and issues that could interfere with your use of resources in the vn program and strategies to address these factors and issues.
Difficulty of schoolwork and the amount of time it takes to complete assignments.
Personal issues- extremely busy with school and family affairs
Discuss personal responsibility for learning and active participation in the learning process.
receive and participate in evaluation
responsibility to learn
Instructors are not responsible for successful learning or for failure to learn. In fact, Instructors help students learn how to learn.
Discuss your rights as an adult learner.
First Amendment- freedom of expression
Fourteenth Amendment- due process
It states that if I were charged with a violation of policies or rules, I will be presented with evidence of my misconduct and will be entitled to state my position.
Right to have an organized curriculum and a responsible instructor who is prepared to teach it.
Identify various types of evaluation used in a practical/vn program
Theory tests- look at my tests with the goal of understanding why the correct answers are correct and why the wrong answers you gave are wrong
Clinical performance evaluations- comments directed toward my behavior and not me as a person
Create a personal plan, inclusive of your unique resources, aimed at successfully completing a vn program within the designated time frame.
Be aware of the rules and policies of my school and the practical/vn program
Keep a record of my grades as a course proceeds
Seek out my instructor when I am having difficulties in class or the clinical area
Prepare my own assignments
Be prepared in advance for classes and clinical experiences
When problems do develop, follow the recognized channels of communication both at school and in the clinical area
