About Us
Our mission for freenursetutor.com is to:
1.) Maintain the largest and best collection of interactive educational activities for nursing students in existence.
2.) Maintain a website, for the benefit of both nursing instructors and nursing students, containing useful educational resources related to nursing education.
3.) Provide these services, now and forever, for free!!!
Creation of freenurstutor.com
The freely available freenursetutor.com was first launched in 2006. This website is a unique and powerful collection of online educational resources and activities constructed and maintained by Diane Yeager, R.N. This website is the result of the combination of Diane’s years of professional nursing experience, her passion for teaching, and her tremendous enthusiasm for using today’s computer technology to enhance the educational process. For a more detailed and personal account of the development of this website, click here.
Diane Yeager – nurse, teacher, Webmaster
After working professionally as a nurse in labor & delivery and intensive care for seven years, opportunity came knocking on Diane’s door. A patient that Diane was laboring told her of an opening at the nursing school where she was an instructor. When the following school year started, Diane was the new full time nursing instructor. From that time in 1992 for the next fifteen years, Diane continued to work as an adult nursing instructor in the Willoughby-Eastlake School System in Ohio. At various times during her career Diane has taught all areas of the nursing curriculum. Her impact as a teacher was recognized when, during her fifth year of teaching, she received the Ohio Organization of Practical Nurse Educators’ award for Distinguished Practical Nurse Educator of 1996. Diane holds a strong belief that the use of technology can help strengthen learning. Diane’s belief is supported by her success as a teacher while using computer technology as a part of her own teaching methods. Perhaps the best measure of Diane’s success is to consider the success of her students, more than a few of whom enter school with weak academic skills and came from difficult backgrounds. During Diane’s teaching career, the percentage of her graduating students who went on to pass the NCLEX each year was between 97% and 100%.
Source of educational material
The material presented on freenursetutor.com is obtained from many, many different sources. Some material is drawn from published information, some from knowledge shared by other instructors and nurses, and some is gathered from Internet sources. All educational material included in freenursetutor.com has been obtained from sources considered to be reputable and reliable. Diane Yeager is the final decision maker as to what material is included in freenursetutor.com.
A valuable quality control function is performed by the experienced and often highly credentialed educators who use this site. All are invited to critique freenursetutor.com content and suggest corrections or improvements.
About the activities
The various learning activities and resources found on freenursetutor.com come from multiple sources. Some are produced by others and brought to you unchanged through freenursetutor.com. Some are existing activities, to which nursing content has been added. Some are entirely new activities created by Diane to provide interesting and useful tools for nursing education.
The educational value of the activities offered by freenursetutor.com is well supported by feedback from nursing students and instructors who have personally used these educational resources. These computer based activities have helped to stimulate student interest, improve understanding, increase retention, and provide critical thinking opportunities.
For those who seek reconciliation with contemporary learning theory before conceding acceptance of freenursetutor.com as a worthwhile supplement to traditional educational methods, click here.
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