NUIP 2311

The 2022 review is still accurate! This is basically a history class. You write a few papers -- the main one being on a nurse in history that was forgotten about. Hurst doesn't believe in rubrics and will grade this first paper very harshly, but you will get better grades on the next ones. I finished with an A but I was not a fan of this class whatsoever. We spent maybe one class talking about ethics which was interesting, but the rest was useless, repetitive history information that I will never use in my nursing career. Hurst tells you that people don't usually do well on the first paper, but doesn't really do anything to fix this, give a curve, or help students succeed.

This is one of those classes where you get what you put into it. This class is once a week for two hours, and it's all discussion in class. You talk about nurses that have been lost in history, nursing stereotypes, and some ethics. There are reading assignments for every class but I rarely did them because I found a lot of them somewhat boring and I was still able to participate in class without having done the reading. It is more enjoyable if you participate, but I was never drawn to any of the topics we discussed. I have some friends who really enjoyed this class because they liked to discuss ethical dilemmas and such, but I personally am not very interested in those topics. The only grades you get are based on essays and participation. There are two short essays and two long essays, along with a final essay. None of the essays are more than 5 pages, though, which is nice. Hurst is a stickler about scholarly sources and APA formatting, so make sure all of the sources are scholarly (per-reviewed) otherwise you will get points off your essay grade. I finished with an A-, and just about everyone had an A- or A.