Incorporating geriatric content into an undergraduate parent-child nursing course--an innovative approach.
The purpose of this article is to describe the development of an innovative educational strategy for incorporating geriatric content into an undergraduate parent-child nursing course. Faculty supervised the development of an interactive media-based module that met content objectives for the parent-child course and included the functional assessment of the geriatric client living in a home setting. Students found this module to be a creative, user-friendly, and practical application of theory to a realistic clinical situation. This strategy successfully infused geriatric content into a pediatric course to enhance students' abilities to care for older adults.
Fowles
Eileen R
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Mennonite College of Nursing at Illinois State University, Campus Box 5810, Normal, IL 61790-5810, USA.
Kennell
Lynn
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D000368:Aged; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D001292:Attitude to Computers; D002648:Child; D003194:Computer-Assisted Instruction / Q000592:standards*; D003479:Curriculum / Q000592:standards*; D004508:Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate / Q000458:organization & administration*; D015577:Geriatric Assessment; D005851:Geriatric Nursing / Q000193:education*; D006801:Humans; D007087:Illinois; D016389:Maternal-Child Nursing / Q000193:education*; D019212:Multimedia / Q000592:standards; D009730:Nursing Assessment; D015402:Nursing Education Research; D015404:Nursing Methodology Research; D009742:Nursing Theory; D016730:Program Development; D015397:Program Evaluation; D013338:Students, Nursing / Q000523:psychology; D013727:Terminal Care; D014584:User-Computer Interface