title: Scoring rewards in nursing education with games.
abstract: Create a spark in teaching and learning with an educational game. Try borrowing from a well-recognized game for use in class. The authors discuss advantages and disadvantages of games and questions to ask when selecting a game. A game laboratory that included 4 popular game show formats is described. Pretest to posttest scores and surveys show that students found the game laboratory educational, fun, and refreshing.
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing, Ohio University, Zanesville, Ohio, USA.
authors.forename: Pamela
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Sealover
authors.forename: Deborah
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Henderson
mesh_terms: D004506:Education, Nursing / Q000379:methods*; D005717:Games, Experimental; D006801:Humans; D013663:Teaching / Q000379:methods*