Introductions

Hello fellow Cohort 3 members from the land of sabbatical.  Sabbatical, wonderful, now what was it I was going to do?  As I re-read my approved proposal I wonder how am I going to accomplish all that I set out to do?  My name is Sue Simpson and I am a faculty member in the Nursing and Allied Health Department.  During my tenure at MiraCosta this department has grown and spread like the H1N1 virus.  We now proudly offer a full nursing career ladder that begins with the Certified Nursing Assistant and climbs to the top rung; the Associate in Science Registered Nursing Degree.  This sabbatical is allowing me to step out of the role of nursing instructor (sort of) and back into the hospital as a bedside nurse as well as developing materials for the on-line components of two of our RN classes.  Yup, a lot of work ahead.  When Jim first sent me the information about TypePad I played with it, created my own blog, publicly vowed to update it and........well never did.  Rather that blogging about my spectacular summer I posted photos on Face Book instead.  I will have to re-commit myself to my blog as I don't want to disappoint my 5 fans.  But, I'll get to that later.  Today I found myself deep deep in the world where blogs and nursing meet.  Exciting stuff out there.  I did find a very interesting clearing house  where a number blogs by nursing educators are listed. As you all know one blog posting leads to another to another and so on.  Eventually I ended up at Nurse Story where Teri Schmidt, experienced nurse practitioner, educator, and is currently finishing her PhD, talks about pod casting in the nursing education arena.  I think this is a blog I need to sign up for a RSS feed. Now all I have to do is read it!