Well it's hard to believe that we have been working on this for over a year now. It seems like just yesterday when I took my first tenuous steps towards getting my MSN in Nursing Education at University of Texas-Brownsville. As I look back on the experience I see how far I've come and how much I've learned. For one thing I hadn't had to use a dictionary in years. I am an average person who I always thought was fairly articulate.
So much of the terminology in the beginning I had to look up to understand things like, constructionist or epistemology. That was somewhat humbling but rather cool to be learning new things again! Then there was the hurdle of the whole technology issue. Sometimes I feel like the world is hurling along faster and faster and there are not enough hours in the day nor neurotransmitters in the synapses to be able to understand it all. I'm not perfect yet but I have made a lot of progress. I purposely took a part time consulting job this summer to help a charter school put their CNA program into an online format. As it turns out it was all pretty cut and dried but I realize it was the challenge of doing it and facing my fear that had me. Now I feel more confident with it.
I guess some have fear or insecurity about being in the classroom or the clinical setting. I have been doing that long enough that I don't have a problem with any of that. I guess we all have our areas that are challenging to us. I can't wait to see how much I can learn and grow this year, it's going to be awesome!
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