Nursing Resources
Nurse Educators
Learning Modules
The USG’s Digital Instructional Resource Exchange contains instructional resources for nursing education that can be used by faculty and students to support teaching and learning. Available nursing education learning modules include:
- Nursing scope of practice issues, patient safety
- Using dimensional analysis for dosage calculations
- Conversions and abbreviations
- Using dimensional analysis for dosage calculations
- Basic fractions refresher
- Labels and syringes
- Metric practice and rounding
- Medical calculation review
To access the learning modules, go to http://usgshare.org. Log in as a guest by selecting the “log in as guest” option next to the “log in” button. You do not need to enter anything into the username or password fields. Search for “nursing” in the search field and the nursing learning modules will be listed.
Faculty Development Funding
Information about funding available to students interested in becoming nursing faculty is provided here. Funding is available from a variety of sources such as scholarships, fellowships, tuition assistance, and loan programs. Please click here for a listing of faculty development programs.
Nursing Faculty Conference
The USG Nursing Education Task Force (NETF) presented its 2nd annual Nursing Faculty Conference in September 2009. The conference was open to nursing faculty across the state and offered sessions providing tools and skills to enhance didactic teaching. Topics included: Improving Objective Test Writing, Group Participation and Interaction, Strategies for Teaching Diverse Nursing Students, and Millennial Students.
- Conference Podcast (requires iTunes)
- Conference Presentations