-: 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.