Nursing Instructor, Binghamton University

>> My name is Michele Steinhauser, and I am one of the nursing faculty at Binghamton University in New York. Being a faculty -- I have a dual role as a faculty member. My background is nursing, and I teach medical surgical nursing. So two days a week, I work in a hospital and have ten students and we take care of patients on an eight-hour shift basis. My other role is, I have an administrative background in nursing. I do all the credentialing of every student that enters our undergraduate program. So I make sure everybody has all their immunization records and background checks and fingerprints, and I clear them to go into the hospitals for clinical. For me, I arrive about an hour before the shift to make sure that my students' patients are there. We -- I have my students take report with the nursing staff, so report usually on our floor starts around 7:00 and we get report, and then prepare for morning medications, so around 7:30. We do a day shift, 7:30 in the morning, we check blood sugars, make sure people eat, give their medicines. And the one thing about nursing, it's unpredictable. So if you think you're going to get everything done at 7:30 or 8:00, you're not, because someone is going to hold you up or ask you a lot of questions. So you have to be very flexible for whatever happens when you go into a patient room. And sometimes our shifts don't end on time, either. So when we're supposed to be done at 2:30, it could be 3:30 or 4:00, because the shift ends, really when our work ends.