The DeYoung (2015) text describes characteristics for effective teaching in nursing, which include professional competence, interpersonal relationships with learners, personal characteristics, teaching practices, evaluation practices, teacher clarity, and efficient use of time. Effective teaching is not an innate skill that teachers are born with; it is a learned process that is cultivated over time. Knowledge …

Teachers are not born, they are created; they are taught how to teach (DeYoung, 2015). However, learning to teach does not always produce an effective teacher. Learning to teach needs to develop in tandem with developing the characteristics of an effective teacher (Gardner, 2014). Effective teaching methods for fostering student engagement must be tailored to …

Information system technology has made patient care safer and more reliable than ever before. Health care professionals now record their patients’ detailed medical history and are accustomed to checking treatment plans, lab results, medications, and other patient data. While this electronic archiving gives patients and caregivers easy access to critical health information, it also ushers …

Discuss a new or innovative technology from your professional nursing experience that enhances patient safety within the context of interprofessional care. The technology you select may be simple (a messaging system or electronic health records), to complex (use of robotics or lasers in surgery).Identify and describe the technology.Identify the interprofessional team members that use and …

Focus: The purpose of this assignment is to analyze and evaluate a nursing conceptual model. Activity:  Write a scholarly paper analyzing a nursing conceptual model reflecting the criteria below. Support your analysis with scholarly references in addition to textbooks. The framework for model analysis and evaluation will be reviewed in lecture. Suggested length: 8-10 pages …

Discussion: Strategies for Academic Portfolios In the realm of marketing, a successful branding strategy is one of the most important contributors to organizational success. A solid branding strategy can help add visibility and credibility to a companys products. Similarly, nurse-scholars can build a personal brand to add visibility and credibility to their work. You can …

Discussion: Strategies for Academic PortfoliosIn the realm of marketing, a successful branding strategy is one of the most important contributors to organizational success. A solid branding strategy can help add visibility and credibility to a companys products. Similarly, nurse-scholars can build a personal brand to add visibility and credibility to their work. You can begin …

Wk 4 – Guiding Patient Education Assignment Content PART 1 Patient education sessions need to evolve with the health care industry. This assignment challenges you to rethink patient education by looking at adult education principles as you guide patients to reputable sources for further review. This tool is something you would give a patient. Remember, …

First, watch this Sperm Durex Commercial. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiPpyBP5EXw Compare a contraceptive’s perfect use with its typical use.  Identify some factors that prevent people from engaging in contraception use or use that is not perfect.  What solutions people can use to overcome these challenges. How can these solutions be conveyed?

For this week’s discussion, we talk about the resurgence of Whooping Cough. This week we will examine a case study that outlines the history of pertussis or whooping cough. In the 1930s  Pearl Kendrick and Grace Eldering developed a vaccine that by the 1960s reduced the rate of incidence to 5% of what it was …