Pharmacology Teaching

[ChristinaBananas]

Hi there,

I have been teaching pharmacology to future RNs for a few years, and it has gone quite well, but I have a difficult time coming up with assignment ideas that test fairly and can be different for each student (otherwise they all work together). I have in the past given each student a drug name and had them write a paper on it, but found that students were just copying info from a textbook... not terribly useful!

Any suggestions on assignment ideas that I could make different for each student, but would provide them with some benefit as well?

Thanks so much!

[nurse2033, MSN, RN]

One assignment I use is to have them write a teaching plan. Give them a case study for a patient with a new medication. I like to make them non-English speaking, or other barrier to increase the complexity.