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PERSONAL SOLUTIONS

• Stress Management
• Coping
• Proven Coping Strategies
• Creative Problem Solving
• Communication Skills
• Time Management
• Nutrition
• Physical Exercise
• Compassion Fatigue

 

Besides academic factors, life events play a part in your stress level which impacts your ability to achieve academically.  Life events include such factors as having to work, caring for children, ailing parents, or other unexpected events.  We all know that life happens and continues while you are in the nursing program.  In order to help you, this website contains a variety of links, study tools and personal solutions.  Please take time to access them to help you in areas of study.  Some of these links can assist with such things as how to calculate medication dosages, medical terminology, links to the Merck Dictionary, and other invaluable aids.  There are also modules which will help you learn how to study for nursing courses.  These modules will focus on how to read a nursing textbook, how to identify important information, and how to take application nursing tests.  Located in the Essential Links section is a program called Professor Nightengale.  You can access this area by asking the director or faculty of your program for the user name and pass word.

The Deans/Directors, faculty and staff of the above nursing programs have joined together in an effort to make your educational experience in our nursing programs successful and rewarding.  Nursing curriculums are difficult and at times, stressful.  In fact, data indicates that approximately 31% of students who enter nursing programs do not graduate.  This consortium is dedicated to reducing this number in East Texas and helping you walk across the stage at graduation into a rewarding nursing career.

As a part of the grant, we are asking you to complete various surveys which will help us identify if you need additional assistance in the areas specified.  We want you to be successful, so please use all of the resources that we are placing in your hands and feel free to contact us if you have questions.

Tami Putnam, Network Project Coordinator   tputnam@pwahec.org

Debbie Glymph, Retention Specialist
glymphdebra@sfasu.edu

Survey For Nursing Students Survey For Nursing Students

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Welcome Nursing Student Support

Welcome to the Nursing Student Support website.  This website was developed due to a grant funded by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB), Nursing Innovation Grant.  Currently the program is being continued by the Texas Workforce Commission grant funded through Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center.

The website is part of a Team Texas East Texas Region consisting of fifteen nursing programs:  Richard and Lucille DeWitt School of Nursing at Stephen F. Austin State University, The University of Texas at Tyler, Tyler Junior College, Angelina College, Kilgore College, Northeast Texas Community College, Panola College, Texarkana College, Trinity Valley Community College, Lamar University at Beaumont, Lamar State College Port Arthur, Lamar State College Orange, Texas A&M University Texarkana, Paris Junior College, and East Texas Baptist University.

Research indicates that various factors will play a part in obtaining your nursing degree.  Some of these factors are academic, such as reading ability and speed which are determined through such exams as the NET, TEAS and/or HESI and are identified through the survey.