PERSONAL SOLUTIONS

• Stress Management
• Coping
• Proven Coping Strategies
• Creative Problem Solving
• Communication Skills
• Time Management
• Nutrition
• Physical Exercise
• Compassion Fatigue

Research indicates that various factors will play a part in obtaining your nursing certification. Some of the factors are academic, such as your reading ability and speed which are determined through such exams as the NET and/or HESI and identified through the survey. Besides academic factors, life events play a part in your stress level which impacts your ability to achieve academically.

Life events include such factors as having to work, caring for children, ailing parents, or other unexpected life events. We all know that life happens and goes on while you are in a nursing program. In order to help you, this website contains blog sites which will serve as a support network for you. The blog sites are monitored by faculty at the participating universities. In addition, there are modules which you may access that deal with stress, coping, compassion fatigue, and other emotional factors. There will be links which can direct you to a multitude of support strategies for dealing with stress. Please use them and learn from them. There are also links to course lifelines. These lifelines include such things as how to calculate medication dosages, medical terminology, links to Merck Dictionary, and other invaluable aids.

There are modules which will help you learn how to study for nursing courses. These modules will focus on how to read a nursing textbook, how to identify important information, and how to take application nursing tests. Again, there will be a blog support site for you to use that will provide helpful hints and guidelines for negotiating a nursing curriculum.

We want you to be successful, so please use all of the resources that we are placing in your hands and feel free to contact us if you have questions.

Survey For Nursing Students

Survey For Nursing Students TBA

Welcome Nursing Student Support

Welcome to the Nursing Student Support website. This website is being supported by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB) Nursing Innovation Grant Program. The website is part of an East Texas Nursing Consortium which consists of the following nursing programs: Richard and Lucille DeWitt School of Nursing at Stephen F. Austin State University, Angelina College, Kilgore College, Northeast Texas Community College, Panola College, Texarkana College, Trinity Valley Community College, The University of Texas at Tyler and Tyler Junior College, Navarro College.

The Deans/Directors, faculty and staff of the above nursing programs have joined together in an effort to make your educational experience in our nursing programs successful and rewarding. Nursing curriculums are difficult and, at times, stressful. In fact, data indicates that approximately 31% of students who enter nursing programs do not graduate. This consortium is dedicated to reducing that number in East Texas and helping you walk across the stage at graduation into a rewarding nursing career.

As a part of the grant, we are asking you to complete various surveys which will help us identify if you need additional support as you pursue your nursing degree.