Lash, who joined the School of Nursing faculty in 1990, said she often plays Mozart or other classical works in her classroom to help her students visualize the material. I teach with lots of visual input. Born and raised in Izmir, Turkey, Lash came to the United States on a scholarship to study at Wayne State University, where she earned her bachelor's and master's degrees in nursing. She taught nursing at the University of Illinois from 1971 to 1977 and was a staff nurse and oncology nurse at Loyola University while earning her doctorate from the University of Chicago. Her love of nursing improves her teaching, she said.
Students really know what they're looking for in a good teacher.
That love of the topic is what gets students excited about it. Nursing demands enthusiasm from its students because they must master the application of several different sciences, Lash said, including biology, physiology, psychology and sociology. Nursing is still the one field in health care that is very holistic. At the School of Nursing, we get very excellent students. They're very curious about the topic.