Female Speaker:
Yeah, these students do not want to talk to me until I have had my coffee. Alright, good morning! Everybody ready?
Theresa Kyzar:
I am responsible for coordinating and teaching the first-level students. So they are brand-new to the nursing program, they have completed their core courses, their pre-nursing prerequisites.
Female Speaker:
Alright, let us go.
Theresa Kyzar:
And about the third week into this semester, they will begin their hospital orientation which is what occurred today.
Female Speaker:
If your paper work is not ready, if you go home, I am giving you a failing grade.
Theresa Kyzar:
There is a little bit of toughness with how I work with the students, not with the intention necessarily of giving scare tactics, but to let them know that they are now in an environment that is serious and it can get even more serious, much more quickly if they are not on their toes.
Female Speaker:
I want the term, I already told you.
Theresa Kyzar:
Teaching, in and of itself, brings great joy to my heart.
I have certainly been blessed with many opportunities to do a lot of different things in my career, but probably at the very top is teaching.
I am a doctoral learner at Capella University, I am pursuing a PhD in Healthcare Administration. In some ways, I kind of feel like Capella chose me. I have attended another online university and I can say hands down that the Capella experience is such an incredible experience. The faculty are top quality, they are very caring, they will work with you, they want to help you.
Female Speaker:
The reason I write stuff on blackboard is so that I do not have to repeat it 10 times in person.
Theresa Kyzar:
When I was a BSN student, there were a lot of things that I wish would have been covered in the curriculum that I did not know.
Female Speaker:
You are going to be really, really nervous next week, so that is completely understandable.
Theresa Kyzar:
When I think of public service, I think of community. So, it is so much bigger than one discipline in healthcare. It is bigger than nursing, it is bigger than medicine, it is not just about the firemen and paramedics because we could not do what we do without their support and the police services. It all has to combine and come together. So it is important that those services to be well coordinated.
Female Speaker:
Let us start to put on this end, so we can do temperature.
Theresa Kyzar:
When I think about leadership, I think that a leader can be trained. I do not think one is necessary to be born a leader. My experience has demonstrated to me that, that is not the case. I think that there are individuals who have unique talents that with the right training and the right development and the right education that they can then take those leadership skills and contribute in the public service forum.
Female Speaker:
If you auscultate and you hear boom, boom, boom--.
Theresa Kyzar:
I say, I am a leader. But, I am always aware that as a leader, I have a responsibility to empower others that may report to me, that work with me, to help them have a transformative experience, so that they too can develop their own leadership skills. You need to remember that the degree is not about you. It is not about you. It is about all the people in this world who are not going to get to where they need to get to in this life, if there is not a Dr. Theresa Kyzar.
Female Speaker:
Press my finger here and they use one or two and I will just take -- and he can tell you I am pressing pretty firm.
Theresa Kyzar:
What I hope to do with the degree is two-fold; one, it has to do with global health policy and addressing health care disparities, I have a really strong interest in that area. But the second one is to work with foreign educated nurses that are expected to increase and arrive in the United States and to help them and study the transition that many of them go through while working in the United States.
I do believe that I will be able to shape what is to come. What I know for sure is that I will be involved and I believe that I will be involved at a national or an international level and that I will have a significant impact in the changes that are coming.
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