The class was a total mess. Her lectures were unorganized, her tests were insane, and the readings were all over the place. TERRIBLE. Her test had some very obvious errors in it, she tried so hard to make it seem like they were there on purpose instead of owning up to the mistake. What she says in class contradicts the textbook.

Good luck. Her teaching style is pretty much non-existent, and her tests are just plain confusing. She's excels in the NSC, but in lecture she's absolutely wretched. She was never clear the whole term what we were supposed to learn. Most of us relied on the textbook to guide our learning because she proved to be useless at it. Avoid if possible.

Horrible. Avoid York University school of nursing until she's out of the department!!! biggest best advice you will ever receive. 28 people failed her final exam! gets off on making students' life a living nightmare.

I'm pretty sure Laura was the one who wrote all of the positive reviews on here. For health assessment she doesn't provide us with comprehensive notes/slides and expects us to do 100 pages of readings weekly. Also, seems as if she spouts random info off the top of her head in lecture + prepares for her lectures maybe a few hours in advance.

Laura covers maybe 1% of what we are required to learn in lecture. Her lectures also contradict what the textbook says and also contradicts everything that was taught in previous/concurrent nursing courses and everything that I learned from physiology courses I took in my previous undergrad.

Never seen a teacher make so many mistakes (grammatical, spelling, info, etc.) in her slides and notes. Absolutely ridiculous and unprofessional. Should learn how to edit.

She was a lot worse for health assessment than she was for NURS 2533 (pathophysiology part 1)

The worst professor at York. She is truly terrible. Does not know how to teach properly, and her tests are ridiculous. The class average was a pass, AFTER she adjusted it.

Our class had to beg for a cheat sheet for the final exam. Even with a cheat sheet, a quarter of the class failed the course. She is a terrible professor and I would avoid the York nursing program as long as she is teaching.

test averages for her class are below a passing grade. She has to adjust grades for the averages to be above a fail. And she only adjusts to that; meaning a lot of students are still at failing grades after the adjustment. She does not teach properly, and then claims that the class averages are low because students are not studying.

I dont understand why she was allowed to teach. She was unfair, and students failed her class. She made the final exam so hard that even with a cheat sheet, students failed.

Her lectures are horrible, and students need to teach themselves the material. Her exams are challenging and unfair. The class average is low, with a considerable amount of people failing, even after she bell curves.

I have not heard a single positive comment about this professor. Students have been complaining about her all semester, and she has lived up to all that is said about her. People are failing her class, and she does not believe that she is the problem. She does not teach properly, and makes the exams extremely difficult.

With a course that is so dense material-wise such as pathophysiology, you need the professor to guide you about what to focus on while studying. Instead, Laura expects you to memorize 50-90 pages per week and to know everything in detail for the exam, which is impossible. Her midterm review was completely useless, and her exam did not reflect it.

She is extremely unfair in how she tests. Avoid York nursing program as long as she is in the department. She thrives off of making students' lives difficult.

Doesnt care about her students and makes exams that are unrelated to what she teaches. How are we supposed to succeed if we cant even prepare for exams properly?

extremly difficult and unfair proffesor! You just dont know what she wants. as a 2nd entry student i found it so unfair on how she is not understanding or helpful. If you can take with different prof, save urself the tears and stress. I didnt think i could be a RN after a class with her, but just got my license lol

The most horrible professor in the department of nursing at York university. Her tests have nothing to do with the content she teaches. She assigns 60-100 pages of reading every week, which do not show up on the exams

She assigns hundreds of pages of textbook readings from all over the place (Jarvis; Potter & Perry; and Lewis). Textbook readings also don't always match up with weekly lectures which is confusing. She should really only assign readings that are relevant to the course content.

Absolutely THRIVES on belittling students. I've seen her be so unnecessarily harsh to CCDs as well. York SoN talks big game re: awareness/ending horizontal violence but what they really need to do is start with this professor. Her PPT have no info, exam questions/answers make ZERO sense. My advice is to just shoot for the C+ and never look back.

She's hilariously horrible. She seems to revel in being rude to students and CCDs. Her midterm and final seemed to be written for a PhD level. She will seriously make you question if nursing was ever right for you. Please just try as hard as possible not to fail and then never look back.

Her tests are brutal and will make you question if you ever studied at all. Tests are beyond the scope of what is learnt in lecture and what's in the textbook. Attend class and pay attention and do the textbook readings and hope to pass. Her teaching style is extremely unorganized, and she isn't very nice either :/

Her classes are just a nightmare. This was my second class with her and her tests and grading are not getting any better.

Compassion is not her strength. She has no issue failing students who are borderline. She refuses to record lectures in the middle of a pandemic and does not respond well to advice. Her passive aggressive tone will make you question your career choice. She tends to be rude and attitudy when you speak to her. No compassion in the slightest.

You don't know what she wants. She won't tell you what she wants. Everything is kept like a secret. The course is very disorganized. Her grading and explanations don't make sense . Very RUDE and not empathetic at all. Tries to belittle students in lectures/ labs. ALWAYS review your tests very careful you will find errors. Try your best to pass

She is not willing to display the same level of accountability, respect, transparency, and overall professionalism that is expected from students.

The worst professor I have ever had in my life. She is not competent and should not be a professor. She is known as the big bully who bullies both students and staffs. She is very angry and miserable. This professor definitely needs to get laid, having a man in her life may help but I guess her attitude contributed to her manlessness .. RUN

Had her for 1543 and she's the worst professor I've EVER had! She is extremely rude towards students AND faculty. Her slide decks were pointless bc they were always blank. Your best bet is to study the textbook because she's useless as a prof. Its as if she's trying to fail us all. IDK how shes a nurse outside of this bc she is so disrespectful :(

Genuinely one of the worst educators I've ever seen. It's very clear that student success isn't important to her. She thinks that being a useful educator and preparing students for the real world is dichotomous, but someone needs to let her know that she doesn't have to be an awful person for her future students to be competent nurses. Avoid.

I'm like 99% sure the positive reviews were written by her lol. Doesn't actually care about her students. Kinda mean

Slide decks will be blank so get ready to read the textbook to actually understand what is on her tests. Will never tell you what she wants for assignments unless you blatantly ask, then seems inconvenienced by the question. Lectures were full 3 hours with no breaks and rarely ended early.

Laura's lecture slides are blank and she rushes through the lectures. The only useful thing in her lectures are practice exam questions. She is also inconsistent with teaching. For our 2nd OSCE, key information was discussed on eClass only because a student asked a question. Additionally, exam breakdowns are vague. Avoid if possible.

The content of the course wasn't organized in a way to allow students to succeed. For example, putting together 3 different topics into a single 2-hour lecture. Slides were left empty which made it difficult to understand systems.

if u want to fail chose her

All slides are empty, and lectures are disorganized. You can barely hear the recorded lecture. The assignments don't make sense, and when you ask her to explain she repeats the rubric word for word. When you email her, she does not answer the question and if the email is about the assignment she will ask you to look at the rubric. CANNOT TEACH.

Laura is really unprofessional. never really teaches anything, the textbook is the real teacher here. it like not having a teacher at all and using only textbooks and the internet to actually understand the material.

She: does not take responsibility for student learning, teaching, preparing class note, guiding students to learn. does not cover exam questions. is disorganized, OSCE evaluation criteria are vague. said we will not be able to be competent as her give a mix of wrong and correct information. Ave grade of midterm & final for 130 students was 60/100.

Condescending, will not answer questions clearly. Expect to suffer from tests that contain content NEVER covered.

She makes ~145 grand per year - she should bloody act like it.

Does not care to teach. Reads monotone and straight from the textbooks, then expects us to answer test questions like nurses with years of experience. Does not answer questions with care, can be quite condescending and rude at odd times. Once someone got screamed at for calling her miss instead of professor.

I never met a professor who wishes on her students down fall like this lady. She finds joy in testing her students on concepts never covered in lecture. Her lectures are HORRID. All slides are empty since she claims she does not believe in complete and comprehensive slides. The most condescending person ever, does not deserve to teach future nurses

Reads off textbooks. Don't study for her class regardless you're gonna do bad because she quite frankly tests you on material outside of the lecture and textbook. You'll just be stressing for no reason lol, so save yourself the stress and just wing it. Class was 2 exams, an osce and 6 pop quizzes (which were also ridiculous) :)

Her slides were empty and she never explained well.

worst prof ive ever had. had her twice and she was just as bad the 2nd time. slides are blank. expects you to watch the recording after sitting in the 3 hour lecture to get lecture slide notes. she's been suspended once. not sure why york let her come back. doesnt care ab her students AT ALL. she is the reason for my stress acne. BOOO!!!

As a person, she's quite helpful. As a professor, she's very disorganized in her teaching. She has a lot of knowledge to share which is great, but she needs to focus on the task at hand, which is delivering the content. She once put exams questions that didn't come from the lecture, slides or textbook information.

Laura must have such a boring life for her to take time out of her day to write her own RMP reviews. If she put in the same amount of effort towards preparing her lectures as she has towards writing her own RMP reviews, maybe students would actually learn something from her?

She deliberately pulls several stunts to fail her students + lower the class average. For our lab exams, she awarded one mark for every task performed correctly, but then docked students 5 marks for every mistake they made. The lab exams were out of 20 marks. Several students got less than 50% on lab exams - the passing grade in nursing is 65%.

No. Just no. Her slides were empty and she kept talking in class about her slides without going through them. You can never stay focused. Hard marker. Her exams will make you cry and rethink nursing as a career.

Laura can post all of the positive reviews that she wants for herself - at the end of the day, the class averages for the courses she's taught speak for themselves. She needs to take accountability for her actions. She also needs to start taking herself and her job seriously. She's getting paid 150k - she should act like it.

She is a very hard professor. I have never seen such a thing in my entire life. She doesn't have a heart.

It's hard not to feel as though students are being set up to fail, and the lack of support only amplifies the frustration.

Will not tell you what to focus on for evaluation. Other nursing schools have move past this archaic teaching. No rubric for OSCE, have fun guessing what you are suppose to do. No page numbers to focus on, read whole textbook and study material you will not be tested on. Questions not designed to test knowledge or application of knowledge.

Empty slides, Exam were difficult and no clear direction what to study. The focused OSCE had zero direction on what to do.

Designs her course to set students up to fail. Is very unclear about OSCE criteria. Posts unfinished slides to force students to come to class, only for her to talk around the point for 3 hours. Despite numerous complaints across multiple semesters, she's still somehow able to remain a professor

The course is very lecture heavy and the exams are worded very weirdly so you really have to do alot of application based practise questions every day to even have the slightest chance of passing, my advice do you best in the osces and get your grade up in those so you are not fully dependent on exams to bring the grade up.

DONT CHOOSE HER

No clear outline for the osce and very unorganized. Slides are all pictures and her just talking. Don't take her class

Beware of Laura. She is completely disorganized and has deluded herself into believing she is a good professor. Keep an eye out for her self-written reviews on this site, they all share the same ideas and are written in the same tone. For the OSCE, she gives NO outline. By an act of God, I received a 14/15 on the OSCE, no thanks to Laura. Stay away

Methods of teaching aside, Laura is an incredibly rude individual. With each email response and question answered I've always felt as though students mean nothing to her. She looks down on everyone as though we are somehow less than her, and she is nearly impossible to reason with. The only way I've managed good grades is by reading the textbook.

A year later, she still traumatizing and she doesn't even teach this course anymore.

Made me rethink nursing

her lectures are as per any prof - nothing special. i would suggest reading the textbook to help with exam questions. her questions are fair, but only if you study and pay attention to clues she gives in class! i really liked her until i spoke to her one on one -she talks to you as if you are a child and has no respect for students as human beings.

one question. like genuinely. why is she still a professor?

One of the most hardest exams I've ever wrote was with prof Nicholson. It was one of those exams where you wished you just slept instead of studying. I am a student who has all A's on my transcript but could not pass this course.