Teaching a 10 Minute Assessment

[HeartNursing3]

I teach at a large University in the College of Nursing. As I only have my BSN, I am only allowed to be a teaching assistant, which means I work at the direction of the faculty member. I primarily coordinate and set up all the labs and I coordinate, program, and run all the simulations. However, one of the faculty members has asked me to teach tomorrow and Friday.

Students are graduate entry students in med/surg II. These are people with previous bachelor's who are in a 3 year track leading to a MSN and APRN certification. They are in the RN portion at this point.

They have previously learned how to do a full head to toe assessment. This is about teaching them to do a "10 minute assessment" which is the head to toe assessment that nurses actually do on a typical patient. They should have viewed a PowerPoint prior to coming to lab.

I will have 7-8 students per group and will have each one for 1 hour. We will be working with a high-fidelity simulator.

My thoughts:

Go over the 10 minute assessment with the students briefly. Have them as a group do a normal assessment. Break them into two groups and have each group do a head to toe assessment. I will modify the simulator to have abnormalities which will be different for each group. The other group will observe when the first group is doing the assessment then they will switch. At the end, they will "present" their assessment and I'll go over with them what they missed and what they did well.

Any thoughts, opinions, or feedback? The instructor left the door wide open for me but I have never been in charge of anything before so I'm nervous! Thank you!

[emtb2rn, BSN, RN, EMT-B]

If you can, film the assessments. Video feedback is fascinating and allows both the students and instructor to see everything that was (or wasn't) done.

[Natasha A., CNA, LVN]

Is the 3-5 minute assessment just as efficient? Also, what are some helpful ways to cluster data in clinicals?