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
Tag: Patient-Centered Care
The Med Room: Learning expectations of safe medication preparation and administration
Intended audience: undergraduate nursing students who have not entered the clinical setting. Crucial conversations and preparation are key to student learning. Working directly with an instructor can produce anxiety andContinue reading
Patient Prioritization: A Neurology Simulation
The Simulation activity provides an opportunity for nursing faculty to further develop student’s clinical reasoning, critical thinking, and professional behaviors in determining priorities in safe nursing practice. This active learningContinue 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
“What Would You Do Walk-Through”
Prioritization/Delegation Scenarios Maternal-Newborn Care “What would you do Walk -Through” Process: Students will approach five client beds each client within the simulation lab. Each client’s name is clearly designated atContinue 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
SOAP Note Assignments to Demonstrate FNP Independent Practice Readiness
Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP) students need to be proficient in assessment of patients and identification and management of the most common primary care acute and chronic disease processes. Competency basedContinue 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