Faith & Learning

Volume 22, Number 4 Fall 2005

Editorial
What Failure Taught Me by Kathy Schoonover-Shoffner
In this editorial, Schoonover-Shoffner shares with readers her painful experience of failing a nursing class and what she learned as a result of the failure.

Florence Nightingale's Changing Image? Part 2: From Saint to Fiend to Modern Mystic by Sonya Grypma
Nightingale has been characterized as model Christian, self-serving fiend, and spiritual mystic. Are any of these appropriate? Writing as a nurse-historian, Grypma explores these notions in part 2 of a 2 part series. (See Summer 2005 for part 1.)

Cyber Classrooms: Building Christian Community by Kimberly R. Meyer and Joann P. Wessman
among learners is vital to education; Christian community is integral to spiritual growth. How is Christian community fashioned? What happens to community when face-to-face contact is lost? Meyer and Wessman relate their experience teaching online courses.

Is Faith-Based E-Learning Possible? by Sonia R. Strevy
Can faith be integrated with learning in online, distance education? Strevy, an online educator, shares insights on how to integrate faith and online education. Article includes thoughts from students regarding their distance educational experiences.

Hymns, Hard Rock and Handmade Rugs: Teaching Outside the Box by Barbara Taylor
Can nontraditional, artistic teaching strategies enhance learning or prepare new grads for the tough world of practice? See what one educator is doing to stimulate creativity!

When a Student Fails... by Barbara Pesut and Heather Meyerhoff
No one expects it, but it happens... clinical failure. Two seasoned educators offer compassionate, biblical counsel to instructors and students. Article includes helpful guidelines to guide the process.

Becoming a Compassionate Healer by Brenda Lohri-Posey
Explore why some students (and nurses) are preoccupied with nursing tasks and disease processes, while others become compassionate healers and readily create healing occasions.

Washing Dirty Feet Debra Drake
Drake shares how a former nursing students develops a class project working in the community among homeless men. The work is embraced by other students and becomes an opportunity for health care ministry.

What About My Spiritual Needs? Mary T. Sweat
Sweat provides twelve valuable tips to help nurses care for their own spiritual needs.

Christian Nursing Schools in North America
Looking for a Christian school of nursing that can meet your needs? Check this list of schools offering undergraduate, RN-BS and graduate degress, onsite and online!