Janice Dunlap – Nursing Faculty Profile, University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences

Janice Dunlap – Nursing Faculty Profile, University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences

[00:00:00] Janice Dunlap (Nursing Faculty): I love most of all my interaction with the students. I love learning their successes, their challenges. Sometimes they are even kind enough to share bits of their personal life, which I just love to know because it helps me know the student better and help be able to guide them through this process of learning and developing themselves as our future nurse leaders.

[00:00:21] Janice Dunlap (Nursing Faculty): We make ourselves available, and we meet with you at odd times. I’ve met with students first thing in the morning, and first thing for them might be 5:00 my time or late in the day because we know that schedules vary and people have families, lives, and full-time jobs. So we try to accommodate that because I was once in the student’s place of having two newborn infants while I’m pursuing my doctorate degree and trying to work a full-time job.

[00:00:48] Janice Dunlap (Nursing Faculty): I think we’ve got a well-rounded education for our nurse practitioners that are choosing the family path. We have this awesome on-site intensive, and I hear nothing but positive feedback from the students that come to the intensive and go through it. They’re getting hands-on practice before they get in front of a preceptor so they can get rid of some of those butterflies for doing some of these things for the first time.

[00:01:12] Janice Dunlap (Nursing Faculty): I think that we have a structured program for the working adult. We offer support, and in return, we expect hard work, a lot of questions because you’re learning and growing, and we want to guide you in that process.