I agree wholeheartedly. I use the same strategy in my clinical nursing settig and find it most effective. This approach allows the students to apply their didactic learning to the clinical setting.
Mariann U
Index card orders offer real world practice, thanks for sharing your ideas with us.
I use index cards with "drs orders" & have the students complete the task as they will do in an office setting.
This is a great practice technique and will be relevant to the learners. Good idea. Thanks for sharing it.
I have a blank documentations sheet used by the facility that I give to each student. Each student will need to pick one of the residents as their "own" and will complete the patient sheet according to their assessement and skills done on the patient.
Real world application is an important step in getting them to think critically. Keep up the good work!
Quickie cases these one-slide or overhead cases
provide real-world application of content without
taking up much time. Students are asked to consider
a case study with limited data. Quickie cases provide
a segue into new topics, reinforce complex
prototypes of conditions, and relate clinical cases to
didactic content
Heather, open discussion is a good strategy as it helps students critically think through what they have encountered in a work situation. Maybe this course can provide you with a new idea to try,
Only thing I have really done is have an open discussion with my externship students on the day they come in for their review class. I have them tell me about anything interesting or anything they had a problem with during that week. Then we discuss these issues as a class and talk about them.
