Using clickers for clinical reasoning and problem solving.
This project explored how an audience response system (clickers), combined with case-based questions, resulted in increased student engagement, attention, and participation in an introductory clinical nursing course. Clicker questions and ensuing discussion were designed to enable students to practice reasoning through patient situations before entering the clinical setting. Findings suggest that nuanced discussion of all possible answers encouraged students to think more deeply about their initial answers and opened them up to new reasoning processes.
Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship, Georgetown University, Washington, District of Columbia 20057, USA.
Janet S
JS
Russell
Mindy
M
McWilliams
Laura
L
Chasen
Jean
J
Farley
D001288:Attention; D001290:Attitude; D001296:Audiovisual Aids; D004508:Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate / Q000379:methods*; D004521:Educational Measurement / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D018794:Problem-Based Learning / Q000379:methods*; D015397:Program Evaluation; D013338:Students, Nursing; D014481:United States