Authors

  1. Englund, Heather PhD, RN

Article Content

Teaching pathophysiology in an accelerated nursing course in a distance education program can be challenging for nurse educators because of the complexity of the content and short duration (2-3 weeks) of the course. As such, it is important for educators to use teaching modalities that stimulate a rapid understanding and synthesis of course content. For example, I use Sutori mashup technology to help students prepare for their cumulative final examination for the course. Mashup technologies such as Sutori are online presentation tools that allow users to integrate different types of media including photographs, videos, documents, and short quizzes into an an interactive timeline. Students are first placed into groups of 3 to 4 and provided an online collaborative space in our learning management system to complete the project. Each group is then assigned one of the disease processes from the course topical outline. For example, 1 group is assigned the topic of cerebrovascular accidents. The students are then tasked with creating a timeline or story of the disease using the Assessment, Diagnosis, Planning, Intervention, and Evaluation (ADPIE) nursing framework. One of the goals of the project is for students to prioritize the most important content to include for each step of the ADPIE process. Each group's completed project is then shared with the rest of the class to use as study guides for the final examination. Feedback from students indicated that they greatly enjoyed the process of creating the "story" of a disease through an interactive and multimodal timeline.