The online learning experience has been amazing, starting in 2012 with my Master’s degree and finishing with a Ph.D. in August of 2018. I was equally terrified and ecstatic about beginning my first semester at Capella University. My counselor, John, was instrumental in helping me get situated in doing my first online course. John and […]
Taking Off the blinders through education: Part 2 of 4
For several years I was encouraged by peers to look into distance learning as an alternative to the traditional classroom education. I had not considered this possibility because face-to-face instruction was ingrained in my thinking. I told myself that I would not be focused or disciplined enough to do online learning. Being a passive learner […]
Taking Off the blinders through education: Part 1 of 4
The adage; it isn’t where you came from, it’s where you’re going that counts, finally resonates with me. Education has been a gateway that has taken me far beyond what I once could have imagined. Born and raised in a poor neighborhood of Kingston, Jamaica, a major life event gave me a reason to change […]
Mary Seacole: A beacon of inspiration
Mary Seacole was born in 1805 in Kingston, Jamaica to a mother who was a freed slave and father, an officer in the British Army. Seacole learned to nurse from her mother who maintained a boarding house to care for wounded soldiers. Seacole was skilled in herbal medicine and was an expert in caring for […]
Nursing Educational Highway — Part 2 of 2
The Institute of Medicine Goal: 80% Nurses with BSN in 2020 The Institute of Medicine’s (IOM) campaign for action; The future of nursing: Leading change, advancing health, published in 2010, made several recommendations for how to transform the nursing profession. One of the IOM recommendations was to increase the number of nurses holding baccalaureate degrees to […]