Developing Empathy is a teaching strategy developed to illustrate the concepts of common sensory deficits related to tactile, visual, or auditory changes in all populations, including older adults. The strategyContinue reading
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A Virtual Encounter with Mental Illness
A Virtual Encounter with Mental Illness reflective assignment offers prelicensure students the opportunity to have a psychiatric clinical experience by imagining their responses to patient encounters as they hear realContinue reading
Policy Review
This teaching strategy is designed to teach students how to verify if policies utilized in healthcare facilities are congruent with current evidence-based practice. The policy is selected from a clinicalContinue reading
Draw your Day Room
The strategy for this activity is to give the students a chance to assume the role of a nurse in a safe and non-punitive environment. The students are given instructionContinue reading
Unfolding Case Study to Teach Assessment and Care of the High-Risk Newborn
Research shows that unfolding case studies can be used as formative assessment technique to aid with experiential learning (Kaylor & Strickland, 2015). The purpose of this assignment was to createContinue reading
Perioperative Unfolding Case Study
The Perioperative Unfolding Case Study can be used for classroom or lab experiences. It follows a patient through the preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative setting, allowing learners to gather information andContinue reading
Literature Review
This teaching strategy is designed to teach students how to develop research skills through the development of a problem statement and formal review of literature related to the problem statement.Continue reading
Using Gamification to Validate the Need for Evidence Based Practice: The Marshmallow Challenge
Purpose: To provide faculty and students with access to a low fidelity simulation that simultaneously engages auditory, visual and kinesthetic learners in order to promote use of evidence based practice.Continue reading
Pharmacokinetics; innovative teaching, active learning; safe medication administration
This interactive hands-on learning activity was developed as part of first semester fundamentals of nursing course to provide understanding of pharmacokinetics and safe medication administration. The purpose of the activityContinue reading
Utilizing movie watching to enhance student’s psychiatric nursing clinical knowledge, skills, and attitudes.
Students are often afraid or uncomfortable in their psychiatric nursing clinical rotation. Often, their clinical exposure is limited to one semester and a particular population group, either inpatient or outpatient.Continue reading