Need Game Ideas

all kinds of popular games can be adapted to the classroom. bingo, password and jeopardy are commonly used. when i was in nursing school years ago we played medication bingo. our bingo cards had drug classifications on them. the "caller" would say the names of various drugs and the players would cover the classification on their card until someone got a bingo. i used the same idea when i taught medical terminology. i made up cards that had prefixes, word roots and suffixes on them and then called out a prefix and asked the students to cover either it's meaning on the card or whether it was a prefix, word root or suffix. password works good for describing procedures or listing symptoms of a disease. jeopardy adapts to anything where you can create multiple choice type questions and can be played where you can put people into groups. for prizes i've seen everything from little bags of chips that can be bought at sam's club to bags of candy, movie tickets, donuts to old copies of pdrs the facility wanted to get rid of.

my nursing program was pretty progressive. we had a board game that was a nursing unit. the game was to organize our workday. we had emergency cards to draw if we landed on a space for them (and there were a lot of those!). there were also patient situations we had to assess and problem solve. i can't remember the name of it and i wonder if it is even being made today. it reminded me of an old game that was around called "park and shop" where you had a certain number of tasks you had to complete in the most succinct time as possible to win the game. planning was very important to winning as well as luck in what you got with throwing the dice. this is pretty much what organizing your nursing workday is all about.