post conference

[suni]

I am new to clinical instructing and am looking for advice on post conferences. I am not teaching in the classroom but do have the syllabus and thought I would try to do a topic related to what they are being taught in class for the week. Some ideas also are to have one of the students present their patient each week as a case study. Practice reporting off to each other shift report and patient handoff. Any ideas would be helpful, i really want to be able to make these interesting and fun for the students.

[SGroRN87]

Hi Suni,

I have 2 years of clinical teaching experience under my belt. First of all, I highly recommend purchasing the book Creative Teaching Strategies for Nurse Educators from F. A. Davis. It's a great resource!

QSEN has some excellent faculty resources for teaching safety and quality. Here is the website link: Teaching Strategies | QSEN. Typically, I make a schedule based on the students' level and course content at the beginning of the semester for post-conferences. I use a variety of teaching modalities, but I really enjoy case studies. If something "interesting" happens during the clinical day, then I bring it up and we talk about it. For example, a post-op orthoedic patient on PCA receiving additional PO opioids with respiratory depression requiring Narcan - something that it fundamental nursing knowledge! Sometimes, depending on the circumstance, we have conversations about professionalism in healthcare - but usually a staff member ignites that one. If someone has an interesting patient, then yes, we talk about that, too.

[Nch298-rn]

Hi I was reading through this list looking for ideas for post conference. This will be the first year my friend and I are teaching a clinical group and are really hoping for some ideas that have been successful.

If you can I would love if you could inbox me a few ideas. Thank you