Jean Rodgers, a nursing faculty member at Hesston College, helped revise two nursing textbooks published by Prentice Hall Nursing earlier this year. The two textbooks are part of a series of 12 designed to help nursing students prepare for their RN licensing examination.
The textbooks, on the topics of Maternal-Newborn Nursing and Mental Health Nursing, “are the two subjects I teach in Nursing II and Nursing III classes,” Rodgers explained. “I also lead clinical experience for Mental Health Nursing at Prairie View in Newton, Kan.”
Rodgers has taught nursing at Hesston College 1974-75, 1978-81, and since 1984.
Rodgers said the request for her expertise came during the summer of 2005 from an editor for Prentice Hall Health in Upper Saddle River, N.J. “I was asked to review two texts originally published in 2003, one on Maternal-Newborn Nursing and one on Mental Health Nursing,” she said. “I agreed and began working on the new editions in October 2005.
Rodgers was one of three consulting editors for the Maternal-Newborn Nursing textbook, and one of four consulting editors for the Mental Health Nursing textbook.
Her editing work was in addition to her regular job as a nursing professor.
Rodgers feels a sense of satisfaction. “It’s rewarding to see the end products,” she said. “I was pleased to contribute to books that will help nursing students build their knowledge base and become successful test-takers. After all,” she pointed out, “I’ve been teaching in the nursing field for more than 30 years.”
Hesston College Nursing Department