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Nice work on the Padlet site. I like the PP presentation on Bloom. Good things to think about when writing objectives for courses. CS

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Nice work on the Padlet site. I like the PP presentation on Bloom. Good things to think about when writing objectives for courses. CS

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I am finding that writing a good quiz, with a mix of true/false and multiple choice questions is a time consuming endeavor.  I have previously read that it takes approximately one hour to create a good multiple choice questions, and now i can see why.  Had anyone else had an experience this summer with creating a quiz or test?
Geoff

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How have your lectures gone Tom?
I have found the 2nd Degree students to be exceptionally motivated and engaged throughout the term.

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The students said you did a great job presenting!
F/U re: my presentation. My presentation went well, but I wasn't able to squeeze my classroom activity in. Time management in the classroom is important.

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Making Online Courses More Socially Interactive

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Making Online Courses More Socially Interactive

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Great article on how to make an online graduate course more cohesive.
If you look back at some of our courses over the past few years you will find several of the ideas were implemented by our instructors.  Moving forward we will have the opportunity as educators to make an impact on future students using information from this article.
Geoff

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Social Presence in Online Graduate Nursing Courses

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Kim, I would include the resource to be utilized and who is to perform the action when considering creation of an objective.
An example from your response could follow the following format:
After reviewing the Sleep and Rest lecture, students will describe the correlation between circadian rhythm and sleep.
Geoff

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The last objective related to physical findings could be reworked as follows:  Students using patient needs as a base of reference will modify the physical exam to address areas of concern more thoroughly.
Geoff

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I have been working on updating the Epidemiology Course for the Fall semester, and it is interesting work.  The experience however has shown me how much effort goes into the design of a class, and the time instructors must put in so students can have a meaningful learning experience.

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Here are the objectives for my Sleep and Rest Lecture:
·        Explain why rest and sleep are important.

·        Describe the functions and physiology of sleep.

·        Explain circadian rhythms and how they relate to sleep.

·        Identify factors that influence rest and sleep.

·        Discuss how sleep impacts physical, mental, and spiritual well-being.

·        Formulate nursing diagnoses that identify sleep problems that may be treated through specific nursing interventions.

·        Plan, implement, and evaluate nursing care related to specific nursing diagnoses addressing sleep problems.

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After lecturing once, I have been doing skill labs, mostly on physical assessment. The students are fairly overwhelmed. A few are uncomfortable performing the assessments on each other. I'm going in Monday for a few hours to do assessment practice with the students, helping Professor McKenna. Then Tuesday for a regular class day, where I'll be adding a Kahoot game as a review. I added about 20 questions to an existing game that Dr. Meehan made, and it should be fun.

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For the respiratory system lecture I gave:
1.      Apply the four techniques of physical assessment to the respiratory system.

2.      Relate normal findings versus abnormal findings.

3.      Modify the physical exam based on the needs of the patients

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Stephanie,
Glad you enjoyed the Powerpoint.  It is good to see that you had a chance to put some of our learning into practice.  As I look at your first objective, I see a way to formulate this objective differently.  This objective requires analysis of the situation related to increased noise.  Using the action verb correlate, I come up with the following:  After reviewing education on "Quiet Hour", students will correlate the effects of increased noise to the patient experience.
Geoff

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Hi Geoff.  Great Powerpoint on Bloom's Taxonomy and teaching objectives.  I like the way you broke down how to clearly write objectives. I recently began an education piece on "Quiet Hour" on the hospital unit.  Here are 3 ojectives I used:
1.  Students will list 3 adverse effects patients experince related to increased noise.
2.  Students will list 3 adverse effects experienced by staff related to increased hospital noise.
3.  Students will identify 3 ways in which both patients and staff benefit from the implementation of "Quiet Hour".
- Stephanie McAndrews

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Frank, that is an important course you are teaching, probably more than the students could ever know.  I have been deposed several times in my career and have been glad that thorough charting supported my actions in each event.  It can be intimidating when you are sworn in by a representative of the court then seemingly are caught in the crossfire of two opposing attorneys.  Since I just went through this last year the experience is fresh in my mind.  The only upside was I did get paid for a full days work despite only spending a few hours in a lawyers office.
Geoff

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Tom, the students are lucky to have a skilled nurse such as yourself working with them in the Simulation Lab.  I am sure your lecture on Respiratory Assessment is helping many of the students.  It is interesting about your comment relating to overconfidence.  In a course with a compressed timeline, even if one is confident in their assessment skills, simple mistakes can easily be made when assuming the content is mastered.  I would like to hear more about this aspect as your simulation experience progresses.

Geoff

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I had a rocky start to my practicum due to circumstances beyond my control.  Having said that, I am now working with Dr. Schlamb and will be assisting her in overhauling a course for the Fall semester.  In addition to this work, I am including here a PowerPoint that focuses on Bloom's Taxonomy and the  creation of Learning Objectives.  As part of my practicum, I would ask each of you to please view the PowerPoint and then respond to this Padlet with three learning objectives that are reflective of the work you are doing this summer.
Geoff

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Hi Tom! I am glad to hear your lecture went well! You are so lucky you are done! I am also writing test questions on my sleep and rest lecture that will hopefully be used in their exam. I will be working on them as soon as I finish with my lecture because that is my main focus right now.
How do you deal with the over confident students?

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My teaching presentation on Sleep and Rest is next Tuesday. I am doing a powerpoint going over the objectives, I have questions within the powerpoint and I am doing an activity with the students about different nursing diagnoses related to disturbed sleep pattern. I will have them break into groups and work together for 10-15 minutes if time allows. Hopefully they will be engaged and retain the information! Like I said in my previous post, I am really nervous about being in front of the class for a full hour!
I have a couple more sim labs left with Dr. Thomas - the students are doing great with them! The portion of sim lab I enjoy the most are the simulations when Dr. Thomas plays the patient and the students need to figure out the correct nursing care. We debrief with the students after the simulation and go over what they did correctly and incorrectly and I can tell they learn a lot from it.

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I am finding the students to be engaged, and for the amount of material they are responsible for, to be remarkably well adjusted.  There's been a few blips, but they are a good group.  One already has a PhD.

-Tom

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I gave a lecture on respiratory assessment and really enjoyed it. I've been doing a lot of lab time, especially on physical exam. It's really a lot for the students to learn in a short time, some are pretty stressed about learning the parts of an exam and then putting them all together. Some are overconfident. I'm writing test review questions that will be presented in a Kahoots game later in July. I expect it to be fun.

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The students in NSG 212 are great.  Many of them have expressed interest in APRN and critical care.  You will find an engaged audience.

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I am teaching a lecture for NSG 212 on legal aspects of nursing.  I figure I will have the students each bring in an interesting court case and have a discussion about a few.
I also am going to show a YouTube video of a deposition. I figure it will be a fun class.

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Anyone else getting spammed incessantly by Padlet?

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Kim, I'm doing just a standard lecture but plan to add a game to a later class, as a supplement to Dr. Meehan.

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I upgraded the PowerPoint slides and will present a lecture on Tuesday June, 20 on respiratory assessment.  In order to keep consistency with Dr. Meehan's style I'm just going to do the slides. They have good content, but were really dated in style and needed to be cleaned up. Several slides were so dense I broke them up into two for clarity. I added a few new slides to cover topics not included that need to be added. I'm planning to suggest a game to add to one of the remaining lectures that Dr. Meehan will give.

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Hi Tom - I like your idea of a game with the lecture you are doing. I am trying to brainstorm some activities for mine because I dont want to only lecture for an hour and bore the students to death! I think our class last semester has given us some good ideas and strategies to add into our lectures.

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I am working with Dr. Thomas in the Sim Lab this summer. I was able to get some work in with her this Spring also. I really enjoy it so far - it is fun educating the students. For my lecture, I will be teaching the portion of sleep and rest in Nancy Barkers class. This is something I am so nervous about because public speaking is something I need to get better at! I will be observing some of Nancy's classes so I can see her teaching style and how the class flows. I am seeing so much this summer and the various ways nurse educators teach their students. If I have time, I may also possibly go to a med surg clinical - I think that will be great to see as well.

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I'm doing grad assistant work in this class for NSL 212, the undergrad accelerated BSN program. The students are amazing, I had some reticence that undergrad students would be hard to motivate, but they are on top of everything. Although I have to spend 11 hours here every Tuesday each week, 7:30-6:30, I wanted to do a university level teaching experience and see behind the scenes what goes on to make a class work.  I'm really enjoying it and would have had to fluff up anything I did at work to make it presentable for a capstone course at the Masters level and I'm glad to be here.  I'll be presenting the lectures on cardiac/chest and abdomen assessment in 2 weeks and have a lot to do to get it ready so it's not a serious drop from the level of skill Dr. Meehan has at lecturing.  I'm most concerned that the lecture will fail due to a computer problem or something, I'm not too concerned about actually giving the lecture.  It's basic, intro stuff, but sometimes the students ask questions that really make you think about how to answer.   I'd like to vary the lecture method, maybe do a game?

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Since I am completing my hours on the unit in which I work, my goals are to address new procedures and policies with seasoned staff and to make sure new staff is comfortable in their knowledge of their duties. My main project will focus on interpretation of  CBC with diff lab results on newborns, as well as their care management based on the results.
I am most concerned with TIME, getting nurses' interest when they have time to learn. Some techniques I want to introduce in order to cut down on time constraints include the use of technology. I would like to create a learning tool nurses can access when it is convenient for them.

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Teaching goals: What are they? What are you most concerned about? Are there any techniques that can assist you with your concerns? If you find something helpful, please share with your peers. 

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Teaching goals: What are they? What are you most concerned about? Are there any techniques that can assist you with your concerns? If you find something helpful, please share with your peers. 

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Make sure that you note your name in your post. Dr. Cheryl Schlamb