"Let's Roll"

Too tired to do much more work on this academic quarter's project on Home Health Care tonight.  My college has an excellent AAS program in Respiratory Care (contact me personally for details).  But this particular class in my senior year doesn't quite meet my standards.  The college is understaffed (surprise!).  Our dedicated department chief is teaching nearly every class for us seniors.  His solution is to assign pathology and health care industry topics to small groups of students, which we are to research and present to the rest of our class according to a standard rubric.  That works pretty well, and it's certainly all I could expect at $86 a credit hour at a state college.  But I sure would prefer to have a professor with expertise in cardiopulmonary pathology teaching our Path class -- instead of us teaching each other.  Still, I've researched these curricula within an inch of their lives, and this is honestly the best curriculum available in my state.  You can pay more, and spend more time, at some of our state's newly minted 4 year programs.  But this Associate's Degree Program is jammed to the gills with practical and academic content, and the new 4 year BS programs are basically our two year program plus a lot of entry level college core material.  I already have both a bachelors and post graduate degrees, so the last thing I want is academic fluff.

All the same, I sure wish we weren't teaching Pathology and Current Health Care Work Environments to ourselves.  On the other hand, since we are supervised while we do it, we are giving ourselves a lot of quality content.

Hauling off to bed now.  Have to leave at 0515 to catch a 12 hour shift at the teaching hospital where I work on a Limited Permit, an hour's drive from home.

Namaste,

Maize