Highlighting Simulation Practices in the Neonatal Environment

2020 ◽  
Vol 39 (5) ◽  
pp. 257-262
Author(s):  
Tedra S. Smith ◽  
Katherine Dudding ◽  
Candace Knight ◽  
Allyson Sanders ◽  
Erin Currie ◽  
...  

Simulation is an effective teaching methodology to enhance clinical thinking and reasoning skills among nursing students and practicing nurses. The opportunity to practice in a safe environment maintains a structure that promotes learning at all levels. There are various levels of fidelity as well as cost to facilitate simulation in the neonatal setting. This at times hinders the ability to incorporate simulation into educational practices. The purpose of this article is to provide a discussion on simulation practices in the neonatal setting, an overview of low-cost neonatal simulation exemplars, and implications for practice.

Author(s):  
Fancy Paul K

Evidence-based educational practices always pave a way for better reasoning, judgment and decision making in clinical setting. Clinical Reasoning Web is a method of critical patient analysis in which relationships among nursing diagnoses supports the development of clinical reasoning skills. This method helps students to learn thinking like a nurse. Effective clinical reasoning ability promotes skills to collect data, solve problems, make decisions, provide quality care and survive in the workplace. Explaining relationships among nursing diagnoses supports the development of clinical reasoning skills. Explanations also encourage nurses and nursing students to reason forward from a problem to an outcome and also backwards from the outcome or effect to the current state of the patient. In this paper, the author has described the nursing care of a client, who was alleged with a road traffic accident and diagnosed to have right fronto-temporal-parietal contusion, brainstem contusion, acute extradural hematoma left temporal region. Cranio-cerebral trauma and traumatic brain injury are general designations to denote injury to the skull, brain, or both that is of sufficient magnitude to interfere with normal function and require treatment. The patient was unconscious, GCS- E 1VT M1 -2T/15 (verbal response cannot be assessed because of ET tube). Here the author illustrates how effectively a clinical reasoning web can be formulated by identifying keystone issue and related problems.


Author(s):  
Aruldoss L. ◽  
Sujitra A. G. ◽  
Vijayalakshmi R.

This chapter aims at analyzing the effective teaching methodology for the iGeneration students who learn English as a second language. iGeneration students are the students who are born in between 1995 to 2012. As the iGeneration students are not interested in reading books, there has to be another method which can be used to teach them. This generation of students are using the technology effectively. The teachers who teach English for the students have to adopt a new method. To find out the best method for English language teaching, 150 students were taken for the research. They were divided into three sections namely A, B, and C sections. Each section was taught with different methods. At last, a test was conducted for all the students and marks were awarded for the test. Based on the marks scored by the students, it is found that audio-visual method was effective for learning English language.


Author(s):  
Velmarie King Swing

Critical Thinking (CT) in the nurse graduate continues to be a topic of concern in the academic and acute care settings. Few studies focus on early evaluation of Critical Thinking Skills (CTS). The purpose of this chapter is to show how the non-experimental, explanatory, quantitative study, the Kaplan CTIT, was employed to determine if a transformation in the level of CTS occurs within the first semester of associate degree nursing students. Participants completed the pretest in the first three weeks of classes. Posttests were given after course finals. A significant transformation in the level of CT occurred. The estimated change in CT test scores was 2.04, with 95% confidence. Implications for early measurement of CTS in nursing programs reveals if teaching methodology is providing the necessary input for developing CTS or if evaluation and changes are needed.


2017 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-23
Author(s):  
Manoj Sharma ◽  
Kumud Kumar Kafle

Introduction: Pharmacology is one of the basic science subjects included in graduate nursing programs (B. Sc Nursing and Bachelor of Science in Nursing) under Tribhuvan University. Both these programs are being run at our institute. This article describes the evaluation of pharmacology course and teaching methodology at our institute by B. Sc Nursing (B. Sc) and Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BNS) students and also compares students’ views between these two nursing programs to facilitate pedagogical learning. Methods: At the end of the course of 2071-2072 BS academic year of first year nursing students of B. Sc and BNS programs, a structured teaching evaluation questionnaire was designed to obtain students’ view on pharmacology curriculum and lectures. Yates corrected Chi square test was applied whenever necessary and p value considered significant at less than or equal to 0.05.Results: Only 37% B. Sc and 60% BNS students responded that the lecture content was in accordance with the curriculum. Only 52% BNS and 97% B. Sc students found the course content to be relevant and useful. 68% BNS students responded that they have felt a lot improvement in their understanding of pharmacology subject as compared to just 23% of B. Sc students. Majority of the students preferred the LCD mode of presentation.Conclusion: There were minor differences found between opinions of two sets of students. Major need for improvement areas suggested in curriculum were course content not being clear and the objectives being ill defined. Similarly, in relation to facilitator, they have recommended to improve voice clarity.


2020 ◽  
Vol 36 (5) ◽  
pp. 424-431
Author(s):  
Carmit Satran ◽  
Revital Tsamri ◽  
Osnat Peled ◽  
Heden Zuker ◽  
Layalleh Massalha ◽  
...  

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 311-318
Author(s):  
Derya Uzelli Yilmaz ◽  
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Esra Akin ◽  
Duygu Yildirim ◽  
Sinem Caliskan ◽  
...  

Background: Simulation-based education is a widely utilized tool for experiential learning in nursing education. The aim of this study was to determine nursing students’ performance and satisfaction in the classification of pressure injuries using simulation with moulage. Methods: It is an evaluation study with a quasi-experimental, single-group, post-test design that was conducted in the spring semester of the 2019-2020 academic year in the Nursing Department of the Faculty of Health Sciences of Izmir Katip Celebi University, Izmir, Turkey. In total, 66 final-year nursing students, voluntarily participated in the Assessment of Pressure Injury Course. A student characteristics form, a Pressure Injury Classification Form, and a Moulage Satisfaction and Evaluation Form were used as data collection tools. Data were entered into SPSS v. 21, and the results of the analysis were described using descriptive statistics. Results: It was found that 67.2% (n=45) of the students correctly assessed all the stages of pressure injury moulages on the standardized patients. Among the students, 62.1% (n=41) strongly agreed that their assessment skills of pressure injury improved after the simulation. The results related to students’ satisfaction indicated that 77.3% (n=51) of the students evaluated the moulages as realistic. The Mean±SD total score of students’ evaluation of moulage simulation sessions on standard patients was 4.56±0.59 (range=1-5). Conclusion: This moulage is a simple, easily accessible, low-cost, and effective tool for teaching pressure injury assessment to nursing students. It can be used in clinical skills training and clinical assessment in nursing education.


2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Yansyah Yansyah ◽  
Dina Rafidiyah ◽  
Hafizhatu Nadia

The present study aims to help nursing students to prepare the language skills required in the workplace. Need analysis was conducted to map the students’ need so suitable materials can be designed for effective teaching. There were fifteen students of D3 Nursing in the University of Muhammadiyah Banjarmasin invited to be the participants of this research. The data were gathered by conducting a depth interview with the English lecturer, BP3TKI South Kalimantan, alumni who worked abroad, and the head of D3 nursing department. It was intended to collect data related to important language skills the students need to master. Besides, a questionnaire was also employed to get data regarding the students’ need, want, and lack. The findings showed that D3 nursing students need to master at least three skills, such as basic English, work-related language skills, and academic-related language skills to enable them to go International.


2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 2288-2296
Author(s):  
Allison Lopes De Oliveira ◽  
Willian Antonio Gonçalves ◽  
Raphael Magalhães Hoed

RESUMO Este artigo apresenta uma proposta diferenciada de uma nova metodologia de ensino, apoiada por ferramentas computacionais que podem contribuir para a melhoria do aprendizado dos alunos do Curso Técnico em Informática do Instituto Federal do Norte de Minas Gerais (IFNMG), Campus Arinos. As dificuldades encontradas pelos alunos na elaboração de um raciocínio estruturado para a solução de um problema computacional, de compreensão de conceitos, e a complexidade dos ambientes de desenvolvimento são, frequentemente, obstáculos ao aprendizado. Tais problemas podem ser amenizados pelo uso didático de novas plataformas, construídas para facilitar à aprendizagem pela experimentação. Com o intuito de tornar as aulas atrativas, objetivas e com o foco no aluno, pretende-se aplicar a Plataforma Arduino que é uma excelente ferramenta para o ensino de conceitos de Lógica de Programação, além de ser um vasto repositório de recursos para experimentação prática, e um laboratório de baixo custo para testes de programas em C/C++. O Arduino une essas ferramentas, resultando num ambiente de aprendizado fácil, com recursos de interfaceamento para sensores e atuadores. A aplicação coordenada do Arduino, no contexto da disciplina Algoritmos, pode conduzir o aluno a um aprendizado facilitado, consistente e voltado a aplicações práticas.   ABSTRACT This article presents a differentiated proposal of a new teaching methodology, supported by computational tools that can contribute to the improvement of the learning process of students of the Technical Course in Computer Science of the Federal Institute of Northern Minas Gerais (IFNMG), Arinos Campus. The difficulties faced by students in developing a structured reasoning to solve a computational problem, understanding concepts, and the complexity of development environments are often obstacles to learning. These problems can be alleviated by the didactic use of new platforms, built to facilitate learning through experimentation. In order to make the classes attractive, objective and student focused, we intend to apply the Arduino platform, which is an excellent tool for teaching Logic Programming concepts, besides being a vast repository of resources for practical experimentation, and a low cost laboratory for testing C/C++ programs. Arduino brings these tools together, resulting in an easy learning environment with interfacing capabilities for sensors and actuators. The coordinated application of Arduino, in the context of the Algorithms course, can lead the student to a facilitated, consistent, and practical learning experience.  


Author(s):  
Farida Mahmoud Hassona

ABSTRACT This study aimed to assess the laboratory class engagement level among nursing students in a four dimensions (that is, engagement activities, cognitive skills, other educational practices, and class atmosphere) and its difference with the demographic profile of the students. This research employed a comparative-cross sectional study design. The research was conducted in the College of Nursing, University of Hail in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia during the academic year 2018-2019. There were 136 nursing students that participated in this study because of the convenience sampling. This study was conducted from January to February 2019. The participants have a high level of engagement activities (2.65), cognitive skills (3.07), other educational practices (2.92), and classroom atmosphere (2.72). There is no significant relation between laboratory class engagements with age (p>0.054), academic year (p>0.382), previous education (p>0.895), gender (p>0.297), and reason for enrolment (p>0.313). Nursing students who enrolled in the fundamental of nursing practical course were highly engaged. The age, academic year, previous education, gender and reason for enrolment were not significant to the students’ engagement. The nursing educator played a major role for the students to reach their highest achievement in the attainment of their goal to meet the expectation of every nursing school towards mission vision.


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