I need to take some notes on some of the stuff about instructional strategies that I have been reading as of late, and thought I would keep track of the ideas here.

So here is the first set of notes from an article sent to me by Louise Hintz, chair of the Nursing program at Kaplan.
Multimodal Teaching Strategies: A Student Friendly Approach.
*life history exercise - faculty and students share professional and personal life experiences that have gotten them to where each is today.

*Germ Game - purpose is to help students know when they are not following protocol (with regard to asepsis, in this case), how to trouble-shoot, and how to then remedy the problem. One student performs a procedure, and when a mistake is made, the other students in the group throw "germs" into the air. First student tried to identify where s/he made the mistake.

*Shadow experience - student follows nurse for several hours as she does her work. Students are instructed to "observe the types of activities the nurse engages in, knowledge and skills nexessary to do the job, and rewards and challenges of the nursing role. also involves reading from ANA Code for Nurses, Nursing: A Social Policy Statement, and Standards of Nursing Practice.

*Focused journal - "students select significant learning experience from one of 6 categories: 1)his or her interventions from a direct or indirect difference in client outcomes; 2) things went unusually well; 3)things did not go as planned; 4) captures what nursing is all about; 5) was particularly demanding; 6) his or her perception of the profession of nursing was changed or influenced.

*Case Studies