CODE ORANGE: Flatlining the Lecture, Reviving the Nurse
For anybody that has gone through nursing school, let's be honest, nursing school often feels like it’s designed less to prepare future nurses for real world care and more to produce test takers who can pass the NCLEX and give them a great pass rate to brag about. The problem? Passing a test and saving a life could not be farther apart and two very different skill sets. Much of the current nursing education model is rooted in outdated teaching strategies. Lecture heavy, passive learning often on your own at home, rigid memorization, and minimal adaption to how people learn today. While the healthcare field evolves rapidly, nursing education has largely stay the same, lagging behind with a model that doesn’t match the complexity of modern patient care. It prioritizes theoretical knowledge over clinical judgment, and leaves students scrambling when they finally face a real patient, not a question on a screen with a test number. These programs are meant to be accessible, pract...
