You can make a valuable human connection with any of your patients, if you just put in the attempt. Their care will be so much more effective and your time at work will be all the more richer.
How do you build awareness of the personal attributes of your students (Clark, 2008)?
I try and see my students outside the classroom to get to know them. I need to be aware of their personal attributes and how those can benefit them as nurses to be. Thus, I try to arrange picnics, pizza parties and other outings with my students so that we can all relax and get to know each other better.
How do you make some of the more intricate educational theories more attainable for your students?
I try to bring everything back to a real-life example that they'd encounter in nursing. This way even the most intricate theories seem relevant if you can constantly apply them to something concrete and real.
Learning Experience
I would organize an ethical decision making scenario where I would hire actors to act out a scene where a patient had suffered a stroke and was on a ventilator and blood pressure stabilizer. The act-out would demonstrate how his condition was deteriorating as his family gathered around him. His will have a "do not put on life support" clause. The family considers withdrawing life support while the patient's youngest child says she felt him squeeze her hand. Students would then have to take turns engaging with the actors and role-playing with the actors as they help the family deal with this ethical decision. This activity would be designed to address the gap the students have in ethical decision-making. This activity taught me to think outside the box when it comes to engaging my students (Utley, 2011). This new knowledge would force me to continue to tweak teaching situations so that they better...
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