Reviews of professor Kaia Koopmans

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Kaia is a fair instructor. Its unfortunate there are rumours going around about her, but I truly think she is an excellent instructor and genuinely cares about your success. Word of advice, participate in allll of the discussions, come to clinicals prepared ESPECIALLY with med research, and ask lots of questions no matter how dumb they sound.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Kaia was an awesome instructor! She fully prepares you for clinical and what she expects. She has high expectations but she just wants you to prepare yourself for the future. Very kind and personable & easily accessible outside of clinical.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Good prof overall! Med research was a huge part of this rotation for her and you have to really know your physiology! if you put in the work though, you will be rewarded with a good grade. Be on time and always be helpful on the unit - she likes that! Very structured in her teaching style but overall was an effective instructor

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Very bad teacher. She would go missing for hours daily and didn't sign anyone off on skills because her expectations were so high that not even charting was good enough, would reword to suit her liking for no reason. Midterm came and everyone, all 8 students, were failing and Kaia called a meeting to tell us as a group that "95%" of us were failing

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Unclear expectations and hard to please.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
I loved Kaia as my clinical instructor. She is so nice and supportive. She is always ready to help you. I really enjoyed my clinical rotation. I am grateful for having Kaia as my instructor. She taught me so much. I definitely recommend.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
not good,

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Kaia was an amazing lab instructor and was extremely encouraging and fun to learn from. She is knowledgeable and patient. Her teaching style prepares students for the real world and is thorough and effective in teaching hands on skills.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I learned so many things from Kaia. She was a great instructor! Her marking was fair and her expectations were very clear. You can tell that she truly cared about all of us and our success. Im very grateful to have had her!

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I just finished OR nursing labs with Kaia and she was great. Caring, inclusive and knowledgeable. She has high expectations (imo this is a good thing in Nursing) and she makes sure to correct mistakes early and set you up for success in the operating room. She was approachable and had fun with her class. 10/10 would take again.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Kaia is really clear on her expectations so listen close and take notes so that you know ahead of time how to fill out your NPET/research (be very specific). She gives such good feedback and you come out of doing a skill/assessment feeling like you actually know how to do it alone next time. Ask lots and lots of questions no matter what they are!