Help! Final presentation!

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Okay, so my class will be presenting our case studies next week. My clinical instructor asked that we be creative with our presentations because she doesn't want to hear three hours of reading from notecards.:yawn:

My patient is 90 years old and her admitting diagnosis was Respiratory failure. She also suffered from CVA, Chronic Renal disease, Anemia, decubitus ulcer, ischemic Ulcers. I'm thinking to myself....How on earth can this be creative?

I was thinking that maybe I could discuss the reflective portion. For example, my patient's son had her on a FULL CODE!!! The patient wasn't doing well, she was on Contact Precautions, She had a feeding tube, she was contracted due to the CVA's, she suffered from serious skin breakdown and ulcers, she was non-verbal, she kept her eyes closed all day and she always cried.

The other nurses mentioned that this patient had come from the nursing home and her eligibility for medicaid was pending. So until that gets straightened out, she will be at the hospital. She had been there for 2months already.The nurses stated that the woman just wanted to go peacefully and that she was really suffering, but that her son said that she is not going to be a DNR and that they are to do everything to keep her alive. Basically, a part of me would like to introduce the topic of Advanced Directives. I'm no psychic, but no one would want to live this way. She was not living. She was in pain and she cried. No sounds. Just tears flowing and not a sound. I want to do a good job on the presentation and I don't see any "creative" about this. I don't want to make light of this. I'm about ready to just do a power point presentation!!

Anyone have any good ideas? Again, I don't want to or plan to make light of this, but I also don't want to bore my instructor out of her mind. Someone said that one semester someone dressed up like a kidney and someone else baked a cake that was in the shape of lungs. I don't think I'm going that route. Please Help!!

Any suggestions would be helpful, as I can probably do a number of things!

Thanks in advance! :-)

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Well, I haven't starting NS yet (next month), but at my old job, I used to give a lot of presentations. Can you include a powerpoint? I loved powerpoint as a presentation tool. You can add photos of the organs affected, the ulcers, the affected blood cells, etc. Photos always make presentations more interesting. I would stay away from "cutsy" or funny photos throughout the bulk of the presentation, just to remain professional, but a cute or funny pic at the end is okay.

One main reason why some presenters are boring is because they read from their cards. Don't read! Use your cards as reminders of what's next, not a word-for-word speech.

I'm not so sure about dressing up like a lung...not exactly professional.

Hope this helps a little. Good luck!

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Yes! I can use a powerpoint. So,that's one idea. :-) Thanks!

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Only use powerpoint when you have something that is visually stimulating. I like the angle of talking about advanced directives. Make your class think a little.

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Only use powerpoint when you have something that is visually stimulating. I like the angle of talking about advanced directives. Make your class think a little.

Thanks! :-)

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Only use powerpoint when you have something that is visually stimulating. I like the angle of talking about advanced directives. Make your class think a little.

The point I was making was to make the presentation visually stimulating with the use of powerpoint by adding a bunch of photos. I hate when powerpoints have nothing but text on them, those are just as bad as reading a speech...yawn. But adding a bunch of pictures, interesting theme, etc, can really make the presentation more interesting. I have a background in design, so maybe it's a little easier for me to take a creative spin on powerpoint.

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The point I was making was to make the presentation visually stimulating with the use of powerpoint by adding a bunch of photos. I hate when powerpoints have nothing but text on them, those are just as bad as reading a speech...yawn. But adding a bunch of pictures, interesting theme, etc, can really make the presentation more interesting. I have a background in design, so maybe it's a little easier for me to take a creative spin on powerpoint.

Thanks! I have a few ideas spinning around now. I should do really well. I'm going to mix it up a bit....;).

Thanks to everyone that responded!

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