Learning for nursing students can be seen as mundane and old school with little opportunities for innovative learning strategies. Its time for nursing instructors to take the time to engage their students with some new strategies. Yes, these are still some of the same ideas that they teach in a 4 hour jam-packed lecture, but rather in a smaller setting with more opportunities for interaction.
Most nursing students work hard. Its a grueling 4 year degree program and typically the learning occurs not only in the classroom, but hands on in a teaching hospital providing direct patient care. The clinical time in the hospital can be exhausting with patient contact, observing, learning and applying theory to practice. Nursing instructors typically want the most learning opportunities for their students…how can we ensure they are gaining as much experience as possible.
Clinical time is spent doing as many “tasks” as we can. As there are more and more students with less clinical time, instructors need to maximize learning opportunities. Not only that, but depending on where a student is placed depends on what experiences they will gain. BUT…what if we developed nursing student tutorials that could help the students apply their classroom learning. before we get to the hospital? What if there was specific and standard learning tools that could be utilized by our program for the benefit of applying theory to practice?? Standard material that is used by clinical instructors during clinical time to ensure all students get the same educational experience.
The Flashback Pro is a downloadable educational tool that could be used for creating these “tutorials”. It appears easy to use for the beginner like me with many instructions as you go. Videos can be added in and special effects. The tutorials can even be downloaded to Youtube for other instructors to easily gain access!
Some ways that we can use Flashback would be with ECG interpretations, aseptic techniques, pathophysiology of a disease, ABG interpretation or even simple techniques like handwashing.
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