Wednesday, January 04, 2006
A fundamental primer on assisting the facilitation of tertiary education through radical alterations in dispersion of textbooks based on essentially unsound word and sentence selection on the part of authors of the aforemention textbooks, by Brian J. Underhill, EMT-IV, SNLCC
I started back in nursing theory today; Nursing 104, to be exact. I got myself psyched up, pumped to get finished with the LPN portion of the program, and was trying to convince myself I'd do all the reading, and not complain about the assinine assignments or pointless blah-blah-blah of most of the textbooks.
So tonight I hunkered down with my copy of Introduction to Community-Based Nursing by Roberta Hunt. And within - I kid you not - 3 minutes, I was rolling my eyes and shaking my head in disgust.
When I wasn't trying to keep from nodding off.
Can't any nursing author write in plain English? And what's with this obsession with words like "facilitate" - perhaps the single most overused word in nursing texts?
Lemme give you a couple excerpts - these, from a single page, chosen simply because it's what I was just reading:
"Community care differs from nursing care provided in tertiary care settings." Tertiary care settings?
"The assessment process is intended to assess the client." Well... duh!
"It is a continuous process that occurs in the context in which the response occurs." I don't even know what that means.
See, I don't mind reading a book that's poorly written, and I don't mind reading a book that contains information I already know, and I don't mind reading a book that is nothing but common-sense stuff anyone should already know - but when all these things occur in a single book it's really hard to plod through page after page after page.
I bought $250.00 worth of books for Nursing 103, and never cracked open a single one. Seriously. The two that came shrinkwrapped? Still in shrinkwrap.
C'mon you nursing experts out there. Let's get some good textbooks into the classes.
And stop saying "facilitate."
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