Ok, rephrase...

[mingus]

Hi again,

Thank you all for your responses. I think in my enthusiasm at finding a forum where nurses were open to supporting and sharing their opions with each other, I have miscommunicated the intent of my question. So, here's another go at it.

I am a 1st year student in nursing. I am involved in producing on-line learning modules for post secondary education. My current project involves pathphys for nursing. As I have yet to cover the subject area, I turned to the web and others in the profession for their opinion. So, here's my rephrase....

In your experience, what areas of pathphys have been the hardest to understand or could be improved upon in the way that it is taught? What I am trying to identify is the areas that could benefit from a multimedia approach. I agree that if there is a multimedia (or any other method of teaching) all subject areas are important. However in this intial stage of the project our goal is to tackle the areas that are hardest first and once a structure has been set up the rest will follow.

I hope this clarifies my query. Thus far, nurses (instructors and new grads) that I have spoken to have identified cardio (and reading leads), endocrine, and neuro as areas that they felt is not well taught or could benefit from an interactive multimedia approach.

Thanks again,

Mingus.

[indie]

Mingus:

I'm still not exactly sure what you are wanting to achieve and what you want from us, although appreciate the rephrase.

As I see your post, you are writing learning modules, to be put on line for student nurses to access (presumably for a fee).

Are you doing this on your own, or do you have a software company behind you? Also, are you a trained teacher (learning objectives, Bloom's taxonomy, psychology of learning etc) in a former life, or just doing this as a first year student nurse?

I'm concerned that you have underestimated the complexity of what you're trying to achieve and will compromise your success as a student nurse by spending time on something you do not fully understand.

Not the reply you had hoped for, I know, but I do mean this kindly.

(To declare myself: I have a small contract writing health care based learning modules, currently for the DHS in my state, so I do understand what I am talking about. At one point we had a small committee of 'content experts' to try and put a nursing curriculum together in conjunction with a major nursing publisher. It's all very, very complicated, and has legal implications.

But I have been doing this for many years, with teaching and nursing qualifications and the back up of a dedicated, professional company using learning theory and expert, expert software to deliver the programs; they also have a marketing expert and financial expert on board.)

However, if you are a bright student trying to help your peer group, that might be another issue. Let us know more and I'm sure you'll get more feedback. Also try posting this at "Nurse Entrepreneur" if that is what you are.