Reading and grading assignments for Unit 4 has been very time consuming! Wow! Who knew that grading papers would take so much time? I am wrapping things up and posting Unit 4 grades to Blackboard. The students did fairly well with the discussion board question for this unit. I think that the prompt-How do cultural difference and diversity affect healthcare? Pick a group of people and discuss how their cultural and social norms may affect healthcare. How can the nurse be culturally sensitive to this group of people? Consider: personal space, language, communication, time, touch, eye contact, family involvement, privacy, pain, etc.”- encouraged them to really think about the effects of different cultures on health care. The initial post and responses to one another were well written and well thought out. What has taken up a lot of my time these past two and a half weeks has been reading through and grading the written papers. Most of the students did a pretty good job. The majority of them struggled with APA style. I have encouraged them to learn it and have supplied them with a couple of links to helpful online APA tutorials. What’s more is that APA 6 will change all of that. I have been told that the students (and instructors) will have to learn and apply this new APA 6 in the coming spring semester! Proofing and reviewing these papers has taken up so much time. I learned how to use the reviewing/editing tool on Microsoft Word in order to provide the students with feedback and corrections to their papers. Whew!
Discussion Board: 12 hours
Grading/editing/reviewing Papers: 22 hours
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