Review the section on commercially prepared teaching materials. Take a stand on the issue of using free patient education materials provided by drug or formula manufacturers. Defend your position.   Conduct a literature search on one method of traditional teaching strategies. Summarize the findings of two different (opposing) scholarly articles.   Why is it that […]

Explain the difference between goals and objectives.   Rate one of the required textbooks for this course using the Texas Textbook Evaluation Tool: Texas Textbook Evaluation   Using the sample teaching plan (Bastable, Appendix C. p. 661-665), develop a complete teaching plan based on a topic for instruction of your choosing.   Develop a learning […]

Provide an example of how humor can be used to enhance learning in nursing education (either to patients, staff, or students).   Consider Chickering and Gamson’s (1987) principle of “emphasizing time on task (found in DeYoung, p. 9). Does this principle apply to both classroom and clinical learning? If so, how may it differ in […]

How can the learning theories be used in combination to change behavior and enhance learning?   You are a staff nurse preceptor, and you find that the nurse orientee you are working with has difficulty understanding the idea of titrating drug dosages on the basis of physiologic data. A weakness in which type(s) of learning […]

Identify a behavior in the healthcare setting that you would like to change that involves extinguishing an undesirable behavior and replacing it with a healthier behavior (e.g., getting cardiac patients to reduce their high-fat diet and eat healthier foods; getting patients with low back pain to minimize their pain and become more independent in their […]

Describe a teaching method you have observed or used that was effective in encouraging active participation by the learner.

You are assigned as a clinical instructor to a group of eight undergraduate nursing students in a clinical course of your choice. Describe how you would conduct both pre-conference and post-conference, OR, if you have alternate strategies for group learning experiences, describe them.

Student assessment and evaluation are key responsibilities of the nurse educator. These processes provide students information for the student to improve and enhance performance. Evaluation of the student is often conducted at the end of a course, as an afterthought, and some consider this to be a less than ideal time for this to occur. […]

Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Defend your position.   “…the teacher is no longer the person who holds all of the answers or the individual who is solely responsible for imparting knowledge. Educators in the Information Age are becoming facilitators of learning rather than providers of information…”

Select a particular chronic illness of your choice based on your population of interest or study. Research the costs involved with family caregiving associated with the chronic illness and discuss the economic impact of family caregiving on family resources over time.