Week 8 discussion posts 6500 - Assignment Example

Hello Caulder, Thanks for such an encouraging post on this week’s discussion topic. I must admit that I share the same view; the experience becomes highly rewarding when one realizes that they are achieving their set objectives. As I read your post, I came across your biggest challenge, time, I believe you can easily overcome this constraint is if you create a team with the key members involved in the project. You can remain the leader, which will see you supervising all the activities at the same time while on the other hand you get to complete most of the remaining stages simultaneously.

You can introduce this idea to your preceptor and if it is viable you can implement it, I hope it will be a solution to one of your challenges. Hi Sanders, Your post on this week’s discussion topic is great and inspiring. It is encouraging to learn that your objectives were achieved as early as you started working on your project. I have great interest in reading your posts because I believe your project; “Reducing Acting-Out Behavior with Therapeutic Communication” is based on a very important subject in the medical world.

On your challenges, I believe that you already have a solution, you will be able to attract a willing audience once you utilize the knowledge you have which you have mentioned in your post. “It requires me to not only think about what I am teaching, but also how students are perceiving what I am teaching… no one group of learners is going to all learn… requires a variety of strategies in order to be effective (Billings & Halstead, 2012).” I believe if become more diverse such as changing the environment or using different activities such as games to educate the learners you will be able to finish the rest of the project.

ReferencesBillings, D. M., & Halstead, J. A. (2012). Teaching in nursing: A guide for faculty. St. Louis: Elsevier Saunders. Hello Dawson, I enjoyed reading your post and I believe your project is on the right track as you near the end. Reading your post, made me realize that you are really enjoying your practicum project. This is the first step towards success, as you get to do ‘your best at your best’. It is always important to plan about the project evaluation early as this is a very important step in realizing your objectives.

I understand that you have already come up with the “clinical evaluation tool” that you will use during evaluation; similar to my project, I have also adopted by creating my own evaluation tools. This gives you ample time to go through it with your preceptor and eliminate any errors. Simulation, is the next best thing to real practice, my advice would be to take it positively and see yourself in the real environment. This will help you get used to real life situations. My project is similar as it involves using simulators, but with time, I have come to get used to them, especially when I realized my students expect me to be their guide to achieving their individual objectives.

Hi David Falci, I must agree with your preceptor that once the objectives are established the rest of the work just falls in place. This is because the remaining task becomes to achieve those objectives. This is same with my project, since I established the project objectives the rest of the work has become easy to accomplish. I am also glad you have confirmed what we learned in class, “…that changing a curriculum occurs over several years.” I believe the curriculum to serve for a long time effectively, it needs to be worked on for some as this ensures, and any nearby changes are catered for to avoid the curriculum becoming obsolete.

I enjoyed reading about what you are doing and I believe bringing change and new styles towards educating students is a very important step. I believe you will be able to overcome your challenge once you provide the necessary evidence that your methods are working perfectly, besides there is always a chance of trial and error.