As an educator, you have been approached by the manager to assist with the moving of the unit currently on Floor 6 to Floor 4. This move is going to occur during the day and time that you and your learners are scheduled. The manager would appreciate your participation because with you and your learners, there will be sufficient assistance without having to pay significant overtime. While the learners will be moving the patients in their beds, they also will be moving equipment, bedside tables, ...

• Describe a scenario involving an individual with complex health concerns. Include the physical, psychosocial, cultural, economic, educational, and environmental factors that influence the health status of the individual in the scenario. • Where is the individual on the health continuum, and why?

Within a physical classroom, different teaching methods can be used to foster interaction and learning: • Classroom lecture • Classroom discussion • Classroom debate • Small group activities and projects • Tests/exams For this week, consider this: How can these methods be used or modified for the eLearning environment?

PURPOSE This assignment provides a scenario that the students will use as the foundation for the design of an experiential learning activity that will emphasize interprofessional communication, ethics, and civility in the clinical setting. Focusing on their future practice setting of either academic or professional development, the student can select the level of student for this learning activity. Application of principles learned from previous weeks in this course is expected. COURSE OUT...

While studies have shown that simulation with high-fidelity mannequins can replace clinical experience, resistance to this is still present. Consider your future practice setting—staff development versus academic—how can you use simulation to foster clinical decision making in your learners? What type of scenario would you build?

A novice nurse educator is assigned to develop and implement learning activities in the skills laboratory. She expresses her disappointment to her mentor because she was looking forward to presenting in the classroom. The novice educator comments, "What can happen in the skills lab except making beds?" As the mentor to this novice nurse educator, how would you respond? Can learning occur in the skills laboratory? What actions can an educator take to foster the transfer of learning from a la...

With any topic in nursing education, it is important to understand both the pros and cons for any topic in nursing education. This week, our conversation focuses on the rebuttal of several commonly occurring cons of the use of serious gaming and virtual reality within any type of nursing educational setting (i.e., academic, professional development, or patient education). Select one of the following cons and provide a professional rebuttal. • Con 1: Gaming/virtual reality decreases the a...