NURSING CAREER
To take care and serve!
GENERAL INFORMATION
Learners: Nursing students
Age: Young adults (20-25)
Level: A2- B1
OVERVIEW
This courseware is focused on nursing students in order to help them develop their English language skills in and out the classroom. Also, an Instructional design which explains the Language learning and teaching used in this planning.
COURSE CONTENTS
UNIT 1 – Nursing as a Career
UNIT 2 – Nursing in the past
UNIT 3 - Nurse Practitioner
OBJECTIVE OF THE COURSEWARE
To offer ESP materials designed to develop the communicative skills using topics related to nursing career.
TEACHING GOALS
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To get students use technical English every class.
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To get students practice the English language skills through medical texts.
LEARNING OUTCOMES
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Students will feel motivated in learning English related to their career.
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Students will use this technical English in the future.
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Students will research topics of their career in English.
INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGIES FOR STUDENTS' ENGAGEMENT
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To apply the collaborative and critical thinking skills and integrate the speaking skill with the others in every activity.
ASSESSMENT TOOLS
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Anecdotal records
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Interview
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Checklist
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Expositions
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Observation
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Portfolio
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Performance assessment
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Project demonstration
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Rubric
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Standardized test
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Final test
In The News
NEWS
Working to Solve the Nursing Shortage
June 30, 2002
Re "Nurse Shortage Hurts All" Letters, June 8. It is unfortunate that a longtime retired physician is judging the nursing shortage on his past experience. Dr. Michael T. Kennedy referred to a situation that happened more than 10 years ago when Mission Hospital was a for-profit hospital. And in fact, the incident he referred to did not result in a mass departure of nurses. There are many factors that play into the nation's nursing shortage. The average age of nurses is 44 and many are coming upon retirement.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
UCLA dean revitalized the School of Nursing
March 3, 2008 | Jocelyn Y. Stewart, Times Staff Writer
Marie J. Cowan, a UCLA dean and noted researcher who revitalized the university's School of Nursing by advocating for an expanded nursing program and encouraging faculty research, died of colon cancer Feb. 22 at UCLA Medical Center. She was 69. "Under her leadership, the School of Nursing returned to top-10 status nationally," Chancellor Gene D. Block wrote last week in a letter to the campus community.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
New Visa Process for Foreign Nurses May Affect Hospitals
March 9, 2005 | Ann M. Simmons, Times Staff Writer
A change in the way the U.S. government handles certain visa applications will likely discourage foreign nurses from coming to the United States, exacerbating a nursing shortage felt across the nation, particularly in California, hospital officials and immigration advocates say. The change means that a foreign nurse seeking work in the U.S. would have to wait more than three years to get a permanent residency card. That's at least a year longer than it took in the past.