Integrating YouTube into Nursing Curriculum

[rninformatics, DNP, RN]

From On-Line Journal in Nursing

Abstract:

Nurse educators need to be innovative, stimulating, and engaging as they teach future nursing professionals. The use of YouTube in nursing education classes provides an easy, innovative, and user-friendly way to engage today's nursing students. YouTube presentations can be easily adapted into nursing courses at any level, be it a fundamentals course for undergraduate students or a theoretical foundations course for graduate students. In this article I will provide information to help educators effectively integrate YouTube into their course offerings. I will start by reviewing the phenomenon of social networking. Next I will discuss challenges and strategies related to YouTube learning experiences, after which I will share some of the legal considerations in using YouTube. I will conclude by describing how to engage students via YouTube and current research related to YouTube.

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[Mijourney]

Any more, students have to be entertained to learn. So many of us are completely absorbed by today's gidgets and gadgets. I know things progress, but I guess I still am a bit old-fashioned and sentimental and feel the need to hold on to the past. Yes, I do online learning and have some of the new technology. Yes, I was a trekkie. But, I like to read an actual book or magazine on occasion, and social networking is not my cup of tea. Allnurses, is about as deep as I get. For me, it's important to know where you started to know where you want to be.