My teaching philosophy came from my strong beliefs in the important role of nurses to improve the health of the community in general. Their role continues outside secondary and tertiary care institutions and extends to primary care settings to prevent various health related problems and diseases at a national level.

To generate knowledgeable, skillful and competent nurses; I believe in advancing the knowledge and practice in the nursing field through research and evidence-based practice (EBP). For that my goal toward fostering the knowledge of research and EBP in the nursing curriculum. This goal will be achieved through various actions. For instance, in the classroom to review some of the relevant research and EBP to enlighten the students’ vision of the learned problem from a researcher point of view. 

I agree with Vygotsky’s (1962) educational principle of taking students safely through the known, towards the unknown. Students who will enter the nursing program will start with the known knowledge including the foundations of science, biology, anatomy, and physiology toward the unknown nursing courses. In the classroom, I follow the same principle to help the students to achieve the learning outcomes starting with the known knowledge to reach new information I need to deliver.

Nursing students are adult learners and active participants in the learning process. I believe that my role will be as a facilitator for them. I am very passionate about encouraging the students to be active in the classroom, by guiding them to find resources, present evidence-based practices or research articles to their classmates. In addition use different strategies to deliver the topic in the classroom, for instance, group discussion, case scenarios, role play, audiovisual aids, and animated power point presentation.

The second component of teaching nursing is the clinical practice. I teach the students how to practice different skills in a simulated environment which is known to the students to be able to face the real situation in the hospital settings, the unknown for them. I am dedicated to developing case scenarios similar to the real situation, using low, medium or high fidelity simulator to help them practice the needed skills. In the clinical setting, I encourage the students to achieve their goal by searching, discovering, and practicing the needed information and skills with the real patient.

Students nowadays belong to the iPad generation, and I believe in using the technology in the learning process. For instance, I deliver all the course materials using the Moodle system (similar to the blackboard) including PPT, Tutorials, lab case scenarios, checklists, announcements, also non-graded quizzes.