cmbennett

What are jigsaws?

I am also a new clinical instructor this semester. I have my MSN as a PMHNP, have 4 years of peds hem/onc and 1 year as psych RN for peds and adults. I was asked to teach clinical for a first year group on a cards unit as well. I love the index card idea with questions. Do you use this during post conference? Does it make the students feel you are quizzing them in post conference? Also, does anyone have ideas about other activities to do during downtime to get the students engaged? The first week, I had some patients leave early and some of the students spent time on the computer and helping each other. I was running back and forth between the students that were busy and I felt that maybe I could have come up with better activities for the students that were not as busy? I found some great articles for them but I am sure they do not want to spend clinical time just reading articles. This is their first clinical so they are doing things like vs, adls, assessments, etc. We start giving meds in a couple weeks.