Nr 536 week 1 - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

The clinical environment as part of experiential learning is of major importance to the educator. Select your type of learner (i.e., undergraduate nursing student, new graduate in a mentoring program, a family learning how to provide gastric feedings for a child) and discuss the clinical site. Topic: This discussion focuses on what makes a good clinical site for the selected learner. You will be working with as a nurse educator in the future. Please see the guidelines and grading rubric be...

Select the type of learner you will work with in the future (i.e., academic students, staff nurses, or patients/families); then debate the following question. Be sure to include pros and cons. Many individuals state that “practice is the best teacher.” For these individuals, the application of the same knowledge and the same skill must occur repeatedly and often. In contrast, there are educators who state that a learner does not need to complete 10 bed baths or write 15 care plans. In their ...

NR 536 Week 6 Discussion 1: Learning Activities in the Skills Laboratory (Replies Included)

NR 602 WEEK 4 MIDTERM EXAM POTENTIAL TOPICS WITH ANSWERS   NR 602 WEEK 4 MIDTERM EXAM POTENTIAL TOPICS WITH ANSWERS Chalazion Chalazion is a chronic sterile inflammation of the eyelid resulting from a lipogranuloma of the meibomian glands that line the posterior margins of the eyelids (see Fig. 29-7). It is deeper in the eyelid tissue than a hordeolum and may result from an internal hordeolum or retained lipid granular secretions. Clinical Findings Initially, mild erythema and slight s...

As a nurse educator, you are very concerned that learners understand the importance of working with individuals in a holistic manner. You are currently being challenged, however, by three learners (select if academic setting or professional staff development) who consistently overlook the psychosocial elements of nursing care. Identify a teaching method that would be useful in helping these learners to assimilate the importance of mood and/or cognitionwhile providing nursing care.

A novice nurse educator is assigned to develop and implement learning activities in the skills laboratory. She expresses her disappointment to her mentor because she was looking forward to presenting in the classroom. The novice educator comments, "What can happen in the skills lab except making beds?" As the mentor to this novice nurse educator, how would you respond? Can learning occur in the skills laboratory? What actions can an educator take to foster the transfer of learning from a la...

As a nurse educator, you are very concerned that learners understand the importance of working with individuals in a holistic manner. You are currently being …, however, by three learners (select if academic setting or professional staff development) who consistently overlook the psychosocial elements of nursing care. Identify a teaching method that would be useful in helping these learners to assimilate the importance of mood and/or cognitionwhile providing nursing care. Show Less

The following skills have been … as areas that a nurse educator should help learners develop so they can develop clinical decision-making skills. • Motivation to learn • Attention to details • Seeking aptitude to clarify information with questions • Awareness of knowledge gaps • Appraisal of the decision and its outcome Select ONE of the above areas and identify specific actions that a nurse educator can implement in order to assist a learner to acquire the selected skill.

This is the second day of an experiential learning event. While you have eight students, one of them has caught your attention. The learner seems to … non-verbally engaged by nodding in agreement to other learners’ statements/answers and has good eye contact, but yet does not answer any question. Yesterday, you asked this student a question, but after a few seconds of silence, another student answered the question. You could almost see the disappointment on the first student’s face. Today ...