Twelve important minutes: introducing enhanced online materials about elder abuse to nursing assistants.
A pilot project introduced 12 minutes of text and video materials and a reflective online interaction about elder abuse into the online component of a hybrid course in nursing assistant training leading to certification. Didactic presentations on issues of ethics and standards had been given in two different units of the face-to-face component of the course using both the course textbook and an online module keyed to state certification standards. However, student responses suggested that their online writing to each other about the new materials brought issues of elder abuse to the forefront in ways that they could finally internalize.
Smith
Mary K
MK
Healthcare Continuing Education, Central Piedmont Community College, Charlotte, NC 28235, USA.
Davis
Boyd H
BH
Blowers
Anita
A
Shenk
Dena
D
Jackson
Kina
K
Kalaw
Karel
K
D000368:Aged; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D057218:Blogging; D002568:Certification; D003194:Computer-Assisted Instruction / Q000379:methods*; D003479:Curriculum; D004509:Education, Nursing, Continuing / Q000379:methods*; D004552:Elder Abuse / Q000517:prevention & control*; D006801:Humans; D009657:North Carolina; D009728:Nursing Assistants / Q000193:education* / Q000523:psychology; D015402:Nursing Education Research; D010865:Pilot Projects; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D015397:Program Evaluation; D014584:User-Computer Interface