Essays on Halstead

Psychomotor learning plays a major role in improving the relationship between physical movement and cognitive functions of nursing graduates. It is found that vital signs and care of unconscious patients are two most significant skills for nursing students. It is important to develop effective assessment strategies for evaluating the skills of students. Assessment is the process of measuring the current skills of students and improving their skills to meet the expected results. The most efficient strategies are reflection and concept mapping. Reflection is an important approach for assessing the student's learning outcomes and improves their learning. The students show ...

One of the challenges depicted by the video is the shortages of staff and heavy workload. As such, the preceptors have many patients on their hand. This limit the time preceptors can have with the students to teach and guide the learners on different clinical procedures or how to offer adequate care to patients. Additionally, as shown in the video, the nursing faculty has not designed a proper work schedule whereby a nurse instructor has a definite time to report for the shift and offer guidance to the students. In this video, the preceptor has just been called in ...

In the nursing profession change in curriculum change is a constant requirement. The changes in health care sector have overwhelmed the service providers,consumers and insurance companies due to their sheer pace,magnitude and intensity. Reforms in the health care sector has affected the nursing profession and nurse educators have to constantly revise and up-date the curriculum to prepare and equip the nurse practitioners with relevant skills and knowledge. This helps the nurses to manage the challenges encountered at the work place. Curriculum must broadly cover topics which include global trends related to nursing, advances in technology and science, ...

The results of the inventory test indicate that my learning style is visual. This means that I opt for visual and graphical representations such as the use of bars, charts, and graphs, compared to either reading or listening to materials. For this reason, I am able to relate to content that is visually presented as I am able to remember and understand such information relatively more easily, compared to other learning styles such as aural or auditory or verbal styles. For this reason, it is recommended that I should opt for the use of visual aids, flashcards, graphs, and ...

The learning style inventory reveals I am a visual learner. As the term denotes, I respond more to visual aids or illustrations that enhance my learning ability. In this case, I often prefer information that is presented in visual representations such as graphs, charts, and diagrams. Therefore, I am able to connect the subject matter more appropriately if presented visually, compared to when I have to either read it or write it down. My learning style can further be reinforced by the fact that I remember best when I picture the concepts I learn in my mind. Thus, I ...

Infective learning strategies and incivility/bullying in the classroom

In the video, the teacher has been observed to have ineffective and poor teaching skills. The teacher lacked control over the students due to her inability to address the class to settle down, keep aside all mobile phones and electronic items and introducing the topic of the learning module (Gaberson, Oermann, & Shellenbarger, 2015). The teacher was focused more on the presentation and reading every bit from the slides without engaging the students to participate by discussion or asking questions. Many students were observed to openly converse with each other, play games, use cell phones, listen to music, and even ...

The principles of teaching and learning dictate that nursing tutors should employ Bloom’s taxonomy to set objectives used for assessment and evaluation of the learners (Gaberson & Oermann, 2010). Bloom’s taxonomy in cognitive domain entails knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation (Billings & Halstead, 2015). The set objectives are as follows;

Knowledge

List scientific strategies and arithmetic research principles applied in practical healthcare services. Mention the possible interventions towards mitigating various diseases. Comprehension Explain precautions taken while treating viral diseases. Describe ethical principles required to ensure clinical excellence in nursing. Application Prepare a well-organized history of the patient to ...

Having completed my learning and teaching style inventory, I realized that there are comparisons between the two aspects. It is clear that the teaching style inventory is focused on the relationship between the tutor’s personalities, learning strategies, and cognitive styles (Billings & Halstead, 2015). Learning style inventory are usually geared towards modeling desirable behaviors among learners. This is because as a tutor, I will always tend to show learners how best they can observe and emulate different approaches to the nursing course or medicine-related courses. Indeed my teaching style inventory employs various strategies that will ensure that the learners ...

In the video, the teacher/professor has poor teaching and classroom management skills. The video starts off with the teacher discussing about the learning module without addressing the classroom issue or introducing to the topic. It is important for a teacher to address key issues in the classroom that not only affect the entire learning objective but also despairs students from attending or paying attention in class (Gaberson, Oermann, & Shellenbarger 2015). As a teacher, I would first inform my class students to keep away all cell phones, music players, and other electronic devices away. It is important to make aware ...

The student-faculty relationship is critical and essential to maintain in the nursing fraternity to produce highly skilled and knowledgeable nursing professionals. Both nurse faculty and students must mutually understand each one’s needs and problems to benefit from the entire teaching/training program. As a nurse faculty member, I need to ensure that the quality of training and teaching are at par ensuring global standards of quality care. Many students may find the curriculum challenging and complex which may either lead to them obtaining low scores or failing in the semester. It is empirical to interact with such students on ...

My personal teaching philosophy is commitment to teaching and the welfare of the student. Teaching should be viewed as a responsibility and not a job. The purpose of teaching students in the clinic is to help them integrate theory into their practice. It may not be correct to spoon feed students on what they have to do. The best way is to involve them in the decision making process and then guide them on caring for the patient. Teaching is a two-way process, and students can bring innovation to the care process (Gaberson, Shellenbarger, & Oermann, 2015). The teaching staff ...

Two main challenges can be identified from the video. Firstly, the teaching faculty individual fails to provide comprehensible information to the nursing student. She is in a rush to provide instructions to the student, who is clearly anxious about her first clinical experience. The vague information leads to the student to wander around in the busy environment at the hospital. Secondly, the nurse preceptor is very busy and thus dismissive of the student’s situation. She fails to provide guidance to the student during her clinical experience. The above issues can be effectively dealt with from three perspectives; from ...

The major issues demonstrated in the video are the lack of respect and bad attitude towards the teacher and learning in general. This is evident in the video. The students are not keen on listening to the teacher since some have earphones and while others are busy talking while in class. Some of the students are also mimicking the teacher. As such, with this kind of behavior, it will be nearly impossible for students to obey instructions from the teacher or participate in class activities such as asking questions or engage in discussions. Additionally, the students are engaged in ...

Infective teaching strategies

The first ineffective teaching strategy depicted by the video is the lack of order in the class. The teacher did not allow the students to settle first on their desk and get their learning materials. She started teaching almost immediately as the students were busy settling in class. In this case, it is important for a teacher to give students adequate time to settle and get their stationary or notebooks ready to learn. There ought to be a policy where students arrive early in the class before the teacher arrives. Secondly, the teacher allowed students to use electronic devices ...

Nursing is both a theoretical and practical subject. Additionally, nursing students come from various working and cultural backgrounds which make them present with different abilities. Thus, it is imperative that a nurse educator embraces the various learning styles available as a way of capturing the different needs of the students. As a nurse educator, I can promote classroom learning environment by encouraging reciprocity, cooperation among the students, and active learning (Gaberson, Oermann, & Shellenbarger, 2015). Since the nursing students have a wealth of knowledge owing to their diverse backgrounds, whether cultural or working, they have the potential of transforming the ...

In most of the nursing classes, there are students from different diversities, therefore, as an educator there is the need to embrace various teaching as well as learning styles. As an educator, I must appreciate the diversity in the class, therefore, should incorporate the individual differences in the learning plan (Halstead & Billings 2012). The students have different perspective and views on certain thing based on their race or ethnic. For example, a student from America could have a different perspective from a student from Africa or Asia that need to be addressed for common understanding. In such cases, the ...

As a nurse educator, one should understand that students learn differently. Therefore, there is need to incorporate different learning and teaching styles in class to move students from their learning comfort zones. Applying different learning and teaching styles will help students learn well since one will be able to use the style they prefer and that makes them understand and grasp the concept well. For example in nursing class, flashcards and worksheets will work best for students who absorb the information visually (Gaberson, Oerman & Shellenbarger, 2015). Also, such students might be bored of listening a lecture or the educator ...

Nursing is an exciting career. It's teaching and learning is equally exciting. Majorly, it is exciting because it brings together learners from a diverse background, both working and living, into a classroom. Thus, a nursing teacher should devise strategies to capitalize on his or her student's diversity with the aim of better learning and understanding. To begin with, as a nursing educator, I will work towards developing reciprocity and cooperation between students (Billings & Halstead, 2012). Here, I will embrace the use of teamwork, class discussions, peer tutoring, and encouraging students to share their viewpoints concerning topics being discussed in ...

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Marriage is a tradition that is practiced and honored all over the world. It signifies the birth of a relationship that grants couples the privilege to build families and an enduring kinship ties. Studies show that people who are happily married have more desirable benefits and experiences than those who are unmarried, cohabiting, widowed, or separated (Shariff 557). Specifically, married individuals have better parenting styles, stronger support systems, greater economic security, greater financial resources, healthier psychological status, more desirable emotional wellbeing, greater physical health, and longer life. Marriage practices in Western countries are different from those of other societies. ...

Analysis of Diseases

Overview Chikungunya (CHIK) refers to a re-emerging arboviral disease transmitted by the mosquitos Aedes aegypty and Aedes albopictus (Pialoux 318). The virus belongs to the genus Alphavirus and family Togaviridae. The word chikungunya derives from Makonde language (spoken in Tanzania and northern Mozambique), where it means “to walk bent over” (Halstead 557). This name refers to the main feature of both chronic and acute phase of the disease a change in posture causes by the arthritis and arthralgia (Charrel, Lamballerie and Raoult 769).

History

The disease gained its name after the outbreak in Tanganyika, the modern Tanzania in 1952. However, ...