Cordelia Obizoba & Denise Jarboe,
Bowie State University , USA
Title: Active learning: Integrating clinical into didactic instructions
Biography
Biography: Cordelia Obizoba & Denise Jarboe,
Abstract
Active teaching and learning strategies that integrate clinical experiences into didactic instructions is a trending teaching strategy in nursing with positive impact on NCLEX and nursing practice. NCLEX is all about clinical and students need quality clinical experiences for successful NCLEX outcome. Competition for and lack of enough/adequate clinical sites result in students not obtaining the required amount and quality clinical experiences. Even the ones that go to clinical do not all have the same quality patient care experiences due to the varied opportunities and regulations in different healthcare settings. In addition, there are variations in the teaching philosophy and orientation of the individual clinical instructor. Integrating clinical into didactic instructions augment both classroom and clinical learning by providing unified evidence-based patient-centered instructions for optimal student outcomes.
The proposed trending active teaching and learning model, involves technology-based, true-to-life, clinical and simulation experiences as well as in and out-of-class activities for an active, self-directed, student centered teaching and learning. In a 3-hour credit clinical course, trending active learning strategies planned to be integrated into our curriculum include the following: recording lecture to enable students prepare prior to coming to class, pre-class quiz to motivate accountability, one-hour participatory lecture discussion with case studies for active participation, and dividing students into small groups for small activities based on real life clinical experience disease process that aligns with class discussion. These activities completed within the next one-hour with 30 minutes debriefing makes the teaching/learning significantly more active and student-centered. In this way, students will be learning nursing by doing nursing activities.