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| Nursing Retention Specialist Carol Rodi tutors Reynolds nursing students. |
Carol Rodi sits amidst a pocket-size grouping of JSRCC nursing students at the College’s Academic Support Center. You tin tell past times the give-and-take that these students are nearing graduation. You tin feel their anxiety too. Rodi’s throwing out “what if” scenarios of a patient presenting cardiac symptoms. And she’s call for for quick answers.
“When do you lot defibrillate? And what most blood thinners? What do you lot demand to know?” she asks.
Many of these students are gearing upwards for finally nursing exams. Rodi, the College’s nursing retentiveness specialist, spends most of her fourth dimension tutoring nursing students as well as thus they are prepared. It’s clear she’s practiced at it, since as well as thus many graduates accept thanked her personally at their pinning ceremony.
“For roughly students, I gauge I do aid them report for as well as snuff it that finally exam,” she says. “But for most of them, I actually intend I plow over them a broader agreement of caring for their patients…I set what they’ve learned into existent situations. If their patient is inward problem as well as they’re having certainly symptoms, what do they [our nursing graduates] do?”
As 1 tutoring session ends, Rodi makes her agency downwards the hall from the Academic Support Center to a classroom, explaining that the side past times side session needs a larger room to adjust the group. Before she tin unlock the door, a educatee shouts, “Please country you’ll hold out tutoring us today.”
Rodi has a master’s marking inward Nursing. Before Reynolds, she worked equally a critical tending nurse inward a burn downwards middle for a large healthcare system. However, she believes the associate marking aeroplane of nursing teaching is the most important. For her, she says, it was the most difficult. She received her RN from a college inward a pocket-size town as well as says that Reynolds students are incredibly fortunate to consummate their clinical requirements at VCU Health System.
“This aeroplane is as well as thus of import because this is the aeroplane nosotros set it all together,” she said.
Rodi’s seat is grant funded through the College’s Academic Support Center. She was initially hired through a grant aimed at increasing nursing graduation rates.