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Teaching Students To Become Active In Public Policy, Patricia Thomas, Carol Shelton
Teaching Students To Become Active In Public Policy, Patricia Thomas, Carol Shelton
Patricia Thomas
Nurses as professionals and as individual consumers are affected by health policy and bear a responsibility for participating in the health arena. Nursing's growing recognition of the importance of public policy issues is increasingly being translated into action by various groups within the profession. Persuading student nurses of the importance of health policy provides a special challenge to faculty. A clinical practicum was designed that requires senior baccalaureate students in various community settings to identify, analyze, and challenge health policy issues. The course design, integration into the curriculum, and evaluation can be models for faculty considering the challenge of stimulating …
Teaching Students To Use An Online Index, Patricia Thomas
Teaching Students To Use An Online Index, Patricia Thomas
Patricia Thomas
Technology has, and should, change the way we teach, and a wide variety of Internet teaching methods are used.� The purpose of this activity is to introduce RN-to-BS students to online nurising indexes.