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Implementing an Escape Room: A Puzzling Process
No full textEducators are continually challenged to engage students in the learning process and implement active learning strategies. One method is to utilize a game-based activity. Game-based learning strategies are an active learning method which motivates students, promotes collaboration, and provides immediate feedback. Objectives from various cognitive domain levels are met through games. One game-based strategy that promotes the application of learner knowledge is an escape room. Escape room participants solve sets of challenges as a team to complete an over-all goal. Teamwork and communication are needed, in addition to critical thinking skills. The purpose of this presentation is to discuss development, implementation, and evaluation of an escape room student learning activity. An escape room begins with a narrative and clues which initiate the first challenge. Each challenge feeds sequentially to the next. The solution of one challenge may provide a clue such as a numeric key unlocking a padlock or a code to open a computer file. The challenges may be within the same room, or the clues may lead the players to a new location. Final task completion results in finishing the challenges and achieving the established objectives. A well-designed escape room activity promotes teamwork and attainment of student learning outcomes. First-time implementation of an escape room can be a daunting task for an educator though. Through presentation, discussion, and small group work, educators will be guided through the planning process to promote successful implementation and evaluation of an escape room in their nursing curriculum
Empowering Caregivers of Children With Disabilities in Zambia: A Photovoice Study
No full textImportance: Families with a child or children with a disability (CWD) living in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) are a marginalized population experiencing multiple contextual factors within a social model of disability that contribute to decreased occupational participation. Objective: To understand the advocacy messages that caregivers of CWD, living in an LMIC, wanted their community to learn about CWD. Design: Photovoice methodology was used with 10 parents of a CWD. Photographs, accompanying narratives, and focus group session transcripts were analyzed using Wang and Burris’s (1997) original Photovoice technique. Setting: Urban subdistrict of Lusaka, Zambia. A community venue was used for the focus group, and the community photograph exhibition occurred in the subdistrict. Participants: Ten parents of a CWD living in an urban subdistrict of Zambia who were currently participating in a community-based program, Kusamala+, which addressed stigma in the community and supported parents of children with disabilities through training. Results: Three themes were revealed: (1) “our children with disabilities should be shown love,” (2) “our children with disabilities should be well taken care of,” and (3) “our children with disabilities need help because they have different needs.” Conclusions and Relevance: The findings indicate that a social disability model lens and participatory action research can be used to reveal occupational injustices that hinder parents’ engagement in caregiving for their CWD in a marginalized community. Use of visual methodologies can be a powerful advocacy tool for marginalized populations. What This Article Adds: Our findings suggest that occupational therapists can better understand, and provide services to, families living in marginalized communities by using a social model of disability as a framework for evaluation and service provision. By highlighting issues of occupational injustice, occupational therapists can advocate for and empower communities of people with disabilities who face stigma and discrimination
Planning and Piloting the Recovery Hub for American Women Writers
No full textThe Recovery Hub for American Women Writers is an NEH-funded initiative in collaboration with the Society for the Study of American Women Writers that “supports projects recovering the work of women writers by providing digital access to forgotten or neglected texts and/or extending them with network mapping, spatial analysis, multimedia storytelling, innovative contextualization, and the distant reading of massive datasets.” The Hub has recently taken on its first pilot projects. Members of the planning team and pilot participants will discuss the Hub’s launch and underlying methods and practices
Mathison, Ymitri, ed. Growing Up Asian American in Young Adult Fiction. University Press of Mississippi, 2019. 248 pages. ISBN: 9781496825520.
Get PDFIndependent Study: Understanding the Pharmaceutical Industry
Get PDFAn undergraduate Healthcare Sales student wanted to understand the pharmaceutical (pharma) industry better to determine if the industry was a good fit. She approached her professor to gain support for an independent study to understand better the history and challenges of selling in the pharma industry. Once completed, the pair recognized this information\u27s value and collaborated in editing the document to share these findings to provide this entry-level salesperson\u27s guide to understanding the pharma industry. Six semi-structured interviews of pharma professionals showed three primary areas of knowledge and ethics required of the entry-level pharma industry salesperson. These suggestions are for the salesperson to 1) focus on patient safety, 2) establish trust-based relationships, and 3) comply with industry guidelines. The study concludes with an overview of three prominent industry guidelines: the PhRMA Code, the Sunshine Act, and the Fair Balance practices
