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Workshop Time: 2:00 PM (PDT)
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Presenter
Cheryl A. Tucker, DNP, RN, CNE
Clinical Associate Professor, Louise Herrington School of Nursing, Baylor University
Moderator: Edgar Chabolla
Executive Director, Academic and Instructional Innovation, Samuel Merritt University
Summary
This presentation demonstrates how one faculty member utilized the iPad and Nearpod app to transform clinical case studies into a virtual clinical experience. Throughout the virtual clinical experience, students engaged with their instructor and peers via video conferences and interactive video vignettes by responding to predeveloped polls, posting to collaborative discussion boards, drawing concept maps, and responding to multiple choice, fill in the blank, or short answer questions utilizing the Nearpod app.
Abstract
Background: Nearpod, a cloud-based application, provides professors the opportunity to transform clinical case studies into engaging virtual clinical experiences. Throughout the virtual clinical experience, students engaged with their professor and peers via video conferences and interactive video vignettes by responding to predeveloped polls, posting to collaborative discussion boards, drawing concept maps, and responding to multiple choice, fill in the blank, or short answer questions. The students view the presentation with any device, interact with the professor during the lesson, and respond to professor created questions via the app (Sarginson & McPherson, 2021). Methods: Students join the Nearpod application via a Nearpod created lesson code, allowing for student engagement, instant feedback, and low stakes evaluation of student knowledge (Kelly, 2022). Results: The virtual clinical experience was low stakes with no grade assigned as the activity was designed for student learning, nursing concepts application, and student understanding evaluation. Midterm course surveys and final course evaluations indicated that students felt more engaged in the virtual session while using the Nearpod application. Implications for Practice: The Nearpod activities connect professors and students and create synergy in the virtual clinical environment. Employing Nearpod promotes student understanding of clinical concepts and increases student course content engagement. Q3..
Learning Outcomes
- The participant will be able to discuss the transformation of clinical case studies into a virtual clinical experience using the iPad and Nearpod app.
- The participant will be able to create a virtual clinical experience using the iPad and Nearpod application after attending the presentation.
Workshop Tags
iPad Basics, Specialty Apps, Clinical Applications
Required Participant Experience
Fundamental Awareness (basic knowledge)
Activities
Demonstration, Use Case, Interactive Exercise, Discussion, Collaboration, Q&A
Required Devices
iPad; Computer; iPhone; The Nearpod app which will be demonstrated in this presentation can be used on any device.
Required pre-installed apps
None
Presenter Biography
Dr. Cheryl A. Tucker is a Clinical Associate Professor at the Baylor University Louise Herrington School of Nursing (LHSON). She has instructed Traditional BSN, Accelerated BSN, and DNP students in the face-to-face, online, lab, and clinical environments. Dr. Tucker has presented regionally, nationally and globally at various Sigma Theta Tau international events, American Association of Colleges of Nursing conferences, and faculty development seminars. Dr. Tucker was one of 30 nationwide faculty selected by The American Association of Colleges of Nursing to participate in the inaugural AACN-Apple Digital Innovation Bootcamp: From Content to Action (2018). She has served on the University-wide Teaching, Learning and Technology Committee and chaired the SON Technology Committee. Dr. Tucker has received several prestigious awards and honors including: The 2021 Heart of the Mission of the American Heart Association Science and Research Lay Stakeholder Volunteer Recognition Award; Dallas Magazine 2020 Excellence in Nursing Award for Education and Research; Outstanding Non-Tenured Teaching Award Nominee at LHSON (2013); Dallas-Fort Worth Great 100 Nurse Honoree (2012); and Outstanding Faculty Award Nominee for Non-Tenured Teaching at LHSON (2008). Her publications and presentations focus on the use of technology in teaching-learning, clinical reasoning, generational learning, service-learning, and succession planning.