The pharmacology game.
This article gives instructions for designing a visually attractive, entertaining, faculty-led computer game for pharmacology review in a nursing education program. The game uses Microsoft PowerPoint, a presentation program that is inexpensive, easy to master, and widely available. Instructions for using Visual Basic for Applications to customize the game are included to allow tracking questions asked and the score of groups playing the game. The game can be easily adapted to material by specific nursing programs with access to PowerPoint.
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D003194:Computer-Assisted Instruction / Q000379:methods*; D004507:Education, Nursing, Associate / Q000379:methods*; D005717:Games, Experimental; D006801:Humans; D010600:Pharmacology / Q000193:education*; D013663:Teaching / Q000379:methods