Various factors, including the fact that in fast-paced, acute care settings, students have little time to reflect on a client's situation and provide appropriate and thoughtful nursing interventions, led our faculty to develop real-life, real-time scenarios for a simulated clinical setting. Senior students studying Complex Illness and Disease Management are assigned to 15 weeks of eight-hour clinicals in an acute care setting. Now, three sessions with a high-fidelity simulation (HFS) manikin are spaced throughout the semester.
The eight-hour authentic clinical scenario mimics the entire hospitalization experience, from admission to discharge of a client. The scenario is designed to enhance students' critical thinking skills and promote confidence and comfort in the clinical arena.
While skills lab use of HFS focuses primarily on learning skills and tasks, the simulation clinical focuses on solving problems, teamwork, understanding complex disease processes, decision making, and critical thinking. A focus on tasks and skills is one component of the scenario, but only in relation to caring for the client.
This is a fantastic resource that directly relates to the mission of http://www.inet-nurse.org. I feel confident in following the lead of the NLN in preparing technology savvy nurses and nurse educators.
One idea was to establish a 'computer drivers license' - check on the site: http://www.icdlus.org/ Looking forward to implementing something like this.
This is a short video that adminstration should look at as it recommends that online courses be developed by a team of 3 and 2 should be content experts. I wonder how often this happens in distance education or for in class on campus courses. Truely a good recommendation to have a quality product. Many first taught online coures are meager at best and faculty should become content experts in an area and allowed to teach the same course over a number of years in order to develop an online course toward the rubric.
This is a great place to learn genetics, I tried numerous modules and they all work when you enter the web module, however there were no instructor instructions or student instructions on these tools,... only a screen stating it was under construction, so I would recommend that if you use this site you write clear instructions for your students. I plan to use the site with the nurse practitioners in the Spring. I will require the Genetic counseling one for this group. I hope that they will be intrigued and try some of the other modules, which they may have to do in order to correctly do the genetic counseling.
This is a good example of what we are trying to acheive with the IOM modules in the iNet Project. This Quiz show module teaches about misconception regarding minority health in the U.S. It is creative, simple, and fun to play. Check it out!
A way to make your online classes with interactive 'Games' and activities. Requires registration but there is a free account that includes ads on the activity pages.
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