Teaching and Using a Detailed Clinical Judgment Framework for NCLEX® Success - This session will provide insight into the importance of adopting a clinical judgment framework. Clinical judgment is essential for student success on the NGN; therefore, by adapting a clinical judgment framework faculty can easily scaffold knowledge throughout the clinical experience.
Every Nurse Educator uses some form of "technology" for education. At this workshop, you will identify which forms of "technology tools" are best suited to varieties of educational activities and settings. You will take home the ability to recognize the importance of choosing the right technology to completely engage your audience. This session presents, no tech, low tech and high tech teaching ideas.
Topics Include: Elements of negligence claim, various acts and omissions that constitute negligence, Negligent teaching, Hostile work environment, quid pro quo, and retaliation, Other discrimination claims, What constitutes a "reasonable accommodation" and what is the "interactive process?", Handling records, Handling issues of grades, discipline, and free-speech issues, strategies to protect yourself in the electronic age, First Amendment thoughts: James Madison never thought about social networking, e-mail in general: FOIA and litigation issues, social networking sites: policies (or not) to have in place and other things you never thought you’d have to deal with, and basic netiquette.
Join Barb for a 3-hour webinar on the 3 D’s. Barb will discuss each of these conditions separately, even though the three may co-exist in one patient. She will also describe the age-related presentation of depression using the SALSA signs for younger patients and the "P's and the D's" for the older patient. Barb will discuss common pharmacologic treatments for all three D’s in addition to “alternative and complementary” types of therapy including weight loss, melatonin, sunlight, acupuncture, B12, zinc, exercise, sleep, and more.Z
Do you at times feel lost at sea when evaluating students? Are you looking for ways to streamline your approach to assessment? Topics discussed in this session include common problems involved in assessment, objective evaluation of student performance, developing valid rubrics, and successful integration of rubrics.
Have you ever wondered how to make content memorable for your learners? Noticed that there are several different ways to reinforce important information for your learners? Let "Know What" introduce you to her learners. This session compares eight cartoon characters to the eight frames of mind according to Dr. David Lazear, et al., the recognized expert in multiple intelligences.
This presentation will discuss step-by-step processes that can be taken to move faculty colleagues toward a competency-based curriculum aligned with the 2021 Essentials. Approaches for conducting an effective and useful curriculum mapping will be demonstrated. Strategies to engage colleagues in the innovative work of developing and growing competency-based teaching activities and assessments will be discussed.
This session provides a "how–to” approach for developing a concept map as an active teaching/learning tool helping students "put the pieces of the puzzle together.” Development, grading, repetition and barriers will be discussed. Concept Maps will be provided as examples for use for study or examples with teaching. Understanding how concept mapping really works in developing clinical judgment is an eye-opener for many.
On Day 1, Barb will provide a systematic review of renal anatomy and physiology, starting with the embryologic development of 3 sets of kidneys (not a typo!), followed by an in-depth discussion of the 6 major functions of the kidney and finishing with "What can go wrong?" On Day 2, Barb will provide an update and overview on the pathophysiology of cancer, how it starts, how it spreads, the role of genetics, the role of the environment (viruses, hormones, chemicals, etc.) as well as many other facts about the growth and differentiation of cells.
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