Hello everyone,
Let me start out by saying that the past couple of days have definitely not been my best as I've been battling strep throat, a double ear infection (or is it bilateral? I'm not sure about that...) and an upper respiratory infection. Needless to say I've been pretty useless for the past couple of days. It's a good thing I can't spread germs online!
Tonight is the first night I've actually been able to hold my head up long enough to type something so I wanted to post an update to my teaching project plans. I hope I'm making sense...
The first thing that I am primarily responsible for teaching is the lecture on Nursing Care of the Stroke Patient. It will be an interesting and new experience for me since I will be lecturing in front of over 100 live students. (In all honesty I'm getting nervous just thinking about lecturing to such a big class, but I'm excited at the same time to be reaching so many eager minds :) )
The other part that will be new for me is that my lecture will be recorded and made available to the distance students in the nursing program. When I talked with my preceptor, she said that she already has the necessary information from last year's lecture, but it needs to be re-vamped with new information that was previously omitted. I told her that I would create a power point presentation that re-vamps the "old" info and create new slides that cover Guillan Barre and Myesthenia Crisis. It is essential that the information on these two disease processes be covered briefly but thoroughly as my preceptor mentioned that a large portion of her class last semester missed exam questions pertaining to each topic because the information was not covered in class.
My plan is to create a power point presentation that can be easily viewed by students in the class and those viewing the recorded version online. After creating this ppt, I will have Diane (my preceptor) review the ppt for appropriateness and content validity. If she approves it, I will teach the lecture on Monday March 23rd. It is my intent to involve students during the lecture by possibly incorporating a group activity or case study, and asking questions throughout the lecture. Once I have reviewed the content I will teach, I can decide on what kind of activity would be best to incorporate.
Other teaching opportunities that I intend to seek out include the lab days, where the instructors come together to set up a two day event in which students learn and review the skills and information they will need for their clinical experience in the hospital. The first day is a lecture day covering EKG interpretation, hemodynamics, and info regarding blood transfusions. The second day is more of a skills day, with a set-up similar to an ACLS training. There will be different stations where students learn and are then tested on their skills. I will be responsible for going around with a small group of students to the different stations and possibly responsible for teaching/testing at one of the stations. The responsibilities for the skills lab days will be determined as the date gets closer.
That's about all of the info I have for now, but I will update you as I know more and have a more concrete plan. I hope that gives you some better insight as to what my plans for my teaching project are. Take care everyone.
~cindy
Thursday, February 19, 2009
Sunday, February 15, 2009
Teaching Project Plans
This semester I am doing my teaching practicum with a Critical Care Course Instructor at the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA). The course is called Nursing of Adults with Complex needs, and is a course for the Senior I students in the BSN nursing program at UTA.
I have several different teaching opportunities this semester. My main teaching project involves giving a class lecture on Nursing Care of the Stroke Patient. I chose to give this lecture because my nursing background is in Critical Care, but I am currently working as a Nurse Liaison for a Rehabilitation Hospital that focuses on patients who have had strokes and other brain injuries. I feel that my experience in working with these patients both in the ICU and in the rehab setting will help me in teaching the BSN nursing students about this topic.
An interesting aspect of this teaching project is that it will involve the use of technology for the benefit of the UTA nursing students that are part of the “Learn Group”. The Learn Group is a group of UTA nursing students who will pursue their BSN via a distance learning program. Each of the lectures given to the nursing students that are part of the traditional BSN program are video-taped and uploaded for the distance learning students to view online.
UTA offers a unique clinical experience for their students because they are one of three institutions in the country that has a Smart Hospital™. “The Smart Hospital™ is a simulated hospital environment complete with state-of-the-science equipment and furnishings. In this facility, nursing students interact with and provide care to a full array of simulated patients who occupy the Emergency Room, ICU, Labor & Delivery (LDRP) suites, pediatric unit, Neo-Natal ICU, adult medical /surgical beds and the large team training resuscitation room. The students learn utilizing simulation technology including: full body interactive patient simulators (like SimMan® and SimBaby™), computerized scenario-based programs and individual trainers for specific skills like starting IV's.” (UTA School of Nursing, 2009)
“The "patients" who populate the Smart Hospital™ are life-sized computerized manikins that actually interact with the learners. Patients include infants, children, adults and even a mother in labor who goes through the labor process and delivers a newborn. Some manikins are static (not interactive) but others are interactive and responsive - they can speak and breathe, have heart sounds and lung sounds, and can progress through the various stages of numerous clinical states from birth through death. In addition, (UTA has) specially trained actors who can serve as patients or family members in clinical teaching scenes. In each clinical scenario, the students are exposed to situations and changes in patient conditions, both subtle and obvious, that they will experience in actual practice. With repeated exposure to these situations, students develop a deeper understanding of clinical conditions and become more adept at critical and clinical thinking. With this foundation, (UTA’s) students move more quickly from novice to expert and in so doing enhance the quality of patient care they provide”. (UTA School of Nursing, 2009)
Among the other teaching opportunities that I will participate in include assisting the course instructor in teaching and reviewing skills for the BSN nursing students in their Pre-Clinical Lab days. The Lab days consist of two eight-hour days at the school and in the Smart Hospital. I am looking forward to all of the teaching experience that I will gain this semester!
~cindy
References:
UTA School of Nursing, (2009). Simulation in nursing education: UT Arlington. Retrieved February 15, 2009, from UT Arlington School of Nursing Web site: http://www.uta.edu/nursing/simulation/smart_hospital.php
I have several different teaching opportunities this semester. My main teaching project involves giving a class lecture on Nursing Care of the Stroke Patient. I chose to give this lecture because my nursing background is in Critical Care, but I am currently working as a Nurse Liaison for a Rehabilitation Hospital that focuses on patients who have had strokes and other brain injuries. I feel that my experience in working with these patients both in the ICU and in the rehab setting will help me in teaching the BSN nursing students about this topic.
An interesting aspect of this teaching project is that it will involve the use of technology for the benefit of the UTA nursing students that are part of the “Learn Group”. The Learn Group is a group of UTA nursing students who will pursue their BSN via a distance learning program. Each of the lectures given to the nursing students that are part of the traditional BSN program are video-taped and uploaded for the distance learning students to view online.
UTA offers a unique clinical experience for their students because they are one of three institutions in the country that has a Smart Hospital™. “The Smart Hospital™ is a simulated hospital environment complete with state-of-the-science equipment and furnishings. In this facility, nursing students interact with and provide care to a full array of simulated patients who occupy the Emergency Room, ICU, Labor & Delivery (LDRP) suites, pediatric unit, Neo-Natal ICU, adult medical /surgical beds and the large team training resuscitation room. The students learn utilizing simulation technology including: full body interactive patient simulators (like SimMan® and SimBaby™), computerized scenario-based programs and individual trainers for specific skills like starting IV's.” (UTA School of Nursing, 2009)
“The "patients" who populate the Smart Hospital™ are life-sized computerized manikins that actually interact with the learners. Patients include infants, children, adults and even a mother in labor who goes through the labor process and delivers a newborn. Some manikins are static (not interactive) but others are interactive and responsive - they can speak and breathe, have heart sounds and lung sounds, and can progress through the various stages of numerous clinical states from birth through death. In addition, (UTA has) specially trained actors who can serve as patients or family members in clinical teaching scenes. In each clinical scenario, the students are exposed to situations and changes in patient conditions, both subtle and obvious, that they will experience in actual practice. With repeated exposure to these situations, students develop a deeper understanding of clinical conditions and become more adept at critical and clinical thinking. With this foundation, (UTA’s) students move more quickly from novice to expert and in so doing enhance the quality of patient care they provide”. (UTA School of Nursing, 2009)
Among the other teaching opportunities that I will participate in include assisting the course instructor in teaching and reviewing skills for the BSN nursing students in their Pre-Clinical Lab days. The Lab days consist of two eight-hour days at the school and in the Smart Hospital. I am looking forward to all of the teaching experience that I will gain this semester!
~cindy
References:
UTA School of Nursing, (2009). Simulation in nursing education: UT Arlington. Retrieved February 15, 2009, from UT Arlington School of Nursing Web site: http://www.uta.edu/nursing/simulation/smart_hospital.php
Chugging Along
It's been a bit of a slow start for me but I am chugging along and finally making some progress into a start for this teaching practicum (YAY!) I have chosen to work with Diane Michal, RN, MSN, a Critical Care Course Instructor at the University of Texas at Arlington and am in the process of an official approval to work with her this semester. Leave it to me to make a simple thing complicated, but I'm hoping that the steps I have taken this semester to create an agreement between TWU and UTA will help future Teaching Practicum Students!
"Meet the Preceptor Day" was Friday, February 6th. Working together this semester will be a new and exciting experience for both of us as Diane has never had an assistant or Grad Student Preceptee, and this is my first teaching practicum. I am so looking forward to getting my feet wet and gaining some insight into being an educator! Thus far, Diane has been great to work with and we keep in close contact via frequent telephone calls and emails.
Classroom days for the Critical Care course at UTA are Mondays from 9am-12pm, and clinical days at the hospital are Saturdays (12 hour shifts). Diane's clinical site is Harris Methodist in Fort Worth, and her students get clinical experience in each of their FIVE ICU's! This is exciting for me because one of the ICU's is a Trauma ICU, which I have always wanted to, but haven't yet worked in. Because her students do clinicals in 12 hour shifts, they only have clinicals for 6 weeks which begins on March 28th... I can't wait to get started!
That's about it for now... but there is definitely more to come! :)
~Cindy
"Meet the Preceptor Day" was Friday, February 6th. Working together this semester will be a new and exciting experience for both of us as Diane has never had an assistant or Grad Student Preceptee, and this is my first teaching practicum. I am so looking forward to getting my feet wet and gaining some insight into being an educator! Thus far, Diane has been great to work with and we keep in close contact via frequent telephone calls and emails.
Classroom days for the Critical Care course at UTA are Mondays from 9am-12pm, and clinical days at the hospital are Saturdays (12 hour shifts). Diane's clinical site is Harris Methodist in Fort Worth, and her students get clinical experience in each of their FIVE ICU's! This is exciting for me because one of the ICU's is a Trauma ICU, which I have always wanted to, but haven't yet worked in. Because her students do clinicals in 12 hour shifts, they only have clinicals for 6 weeks which begins on March 28th... I can't wait to get started!
That's about it for now... but there is definitely more to come! :)
~Cindy
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