Clinical Setting Teaching Tools | Origin: ED311
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Creative Teaching Tools in Clinical and Didactic Courses --> Clinical Setting Teaching Tools
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I plan to use the Event cards when I take my students to clinical rotations. There is always some down time and this is a good time to reinforce critical thinking skills.
I will use Patient Bingo next year when we do orientation to the clinical sites. This will be useful during the tour of the building and then during observation.
While I do not perform clinicals myself, I have others that do and this provides very creative ways to engage students while they are doing their rotations. I will be working with my colleagues to see which ideas would be appropriate to consider for implementation.
it is my belief from working with students at clinical sites, The 3 dot system works best for students in the early part of the training, but as you reach into the upper modules the student is expected to reach out to the instructor ASAP if a change in condition occurs to any patients assigned to the student. The purpose is for early recognition of change in condition and early diagnosis and intervention . Like to hear your comments.
Comment on Jodi Coleman's post: I'm gonna have to do a bit more to use this in clinicals but what is your plan with the dots
I really like the red, blue and green dot as a clinical teaching tool. This idea will allow myself and the students to track progress in an organized way with ease.
I really like the ideas of the BINGO for vitals, nurse interventions, and disease processes. I also like the idea of giving them cue cards to answer through out the day. I am not sure non-verbal hand gestures are the best. In a world of transparency and patients knowing students are taking care of them. It could be reassuring that not only the facility, but the instructors are showing a culture of do no harm but reassure that the school is doing everything to teach proper techniques to our students.
The piece that caught my eye was the one on “to be successful in a health career, one must be able to use more than one sense at a time.” How true it is... this statement to students is one of those situations that will be remembered. The bingo sheet for skills that one needs to master is a great idea. I use bingo sheets as an activity to get to know each other at the beginning of the year.
Comment on Marie Wilborn's post: I believe the dot to the watch is a great idea to keep the students on track while training throughout the day on the sites. Its a good way to see if they are not coming along with the dots moving to check on them to assure additional issues have not taken place, or is there need for additional training.
I like the dot on the watch to keep up with students and their skills for the day.
I will implement hand gestures to communicate with my students.
Keeping students confident and engaged will take time to learn. Active listening through games can keep them learning while at clinicals. The dot reminder provides a visual aid to both instructor and student that a task may need to be done. Red are tasks that the instructor needs to be present at and green tasks can be completed on their own where blue tasks can be completed either way.
The Dots gave me a good idea and I will look at how I can incorporate. Possibly with training, when new students arrive and having students in class that have completed certain tasks. This could be very beneficial!
There are some good ideas for some things I can utilize in a clinical setting for dental hygiene. However, there seemed to be only activities for other medical health professionals that were inappropriate for my area of expertise. If you have other ideas for dental hygiene clinic instructions or any didactic applications, I would be very interested in that particular area.
I like all of these ideas. These situations have come up in clinical practice already, so it's nice to have some suggestions for how to handle them. For instance, the "Staff Surprises" is an almost daily discussion for us. The suggestion given here is how we handle it, and to have that corroborated is helpful.
I also love the "Dots on the watch" strategy for tracking clinical tasks.
I am going to implement the event cards with my clinical group. I think getting them to think quickly on their feet as they are in their last term and preparing to be new nurses. I also like the dot idea and hand gestures to signal to each other discreetly.
I learned that most learners are around patients and families there may be a need to correct or counsel them as they are working with these individuals.
I like the idea of increasing interaction.
Using gestures with your students is very important so you are not traumatizing the patient. The patient must be the first priority and not feel like they are being used for experimentation.
I like the idea of using dots to track the patients
