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HAOP 2024 · No. 08
Raelene Brooks; Glenn Llopis
Dean, College of Nursing, University of Phoenix (at the time of recording)
We are teaching policy, procedures, safety, how to administer and how to treat and assess. But the caring and the compassion piece, we thought the students should come with that already.
Raelene Brooks
Raelene Brooks spent 17 and a half years as a trauma ICU nurse in San Diego before turning to teaching. She told me about Ernie, a regular in her trauma unit who kept falling off a tall bar stool, and the day she walked to the bar in her scrubs to ask them to seat him in a chair. Her point: nursing schools assume students arrive with compassion, and today they need to teach it.
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