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Candace Waters to teach Nursing Fundamentals
August 23, 2004 | |||||
KOKOMO, Ind.—The Indiana University School of nursing has hired Candace Waters as a Visiting Lecturer in Nursing. Waters is eager to see “the light come on” for students in her Nursing Fundamentals class at IU Kokomo this fall. “I love it, when the students begin to understand the why and how of nursing,” she said. “The ‘how’ is easy to learn. It’s the ‘why’ to give certain treatment that is important. I want any nurses taking care of me to know the ‘why’.”
An intensive care nurse for Logansport Memorial Hospital since 2003, Waters served as a charge nurse of the medical/surgical unit of Dukes Memorial Hospital in Peru from 1992–2000. Between those two positions, Waters worked as a traveling nurse, accepting temporary assignments in critical and coronary care units of hospitals across the country. Working in several settings convinced her that “There are many ways to get from point A to point B,” she said. “I learned approaches to nursing that, if you stayed at the same hospital for 30 years, you would never know.” During her graduate studies, Waters began researching therapeutic uses of humor in nursing. She has worn a rubber clown nose on rounds to provoke patients’ smiles, or laughed with them over the “fashion statement” of skimpy hospital gowns. Sharing humor “gives the patient a feeling of more control, of dignity,” she said. According to Waters, laughing is a good alternative to the coughing often suggested for recovering surgical patients, to provoke deeper breathing and more oxygen intake. Waters received a Master of Science in Nursing at Ball State this spring. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Indiana Wesleyan University (1997). Waters has taught licensed practical nursing courses in north central Indiana. She is a mother of three, grandmother of five and a confirmed “Parrothead”—a fan of musician Jimmy Buffett. For more information on degrees offered through the IU Kokomo School of Nursing, visit www.iuk.edu/nursing or call (765) 455-9288.
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