Mentoring

Students, friends, and colleagues - Hoping to hear from you and wondering how the year is going for each of you.  Please check in and say hello.  I would love to hear from you all!

Janine Kelley
Clinical Instructor

Mentoring in Nursing Education

Mentoring in Nursing Education and Instructional Design by Janine Kelley

 

Their are many resources for instructional design in nursing education and many ways teachers can reach out to mentor students or include students in mentoring other students.  D2L and other learning platforms also include Facebook and other social media sites that can be utilized to reach out to students.  The purpose of this blog is to share information and instructional designs that can be used to reach students as well as share information related to nursing education topics that students can use.

The instructional design behind this blog is related to the e-learning model of Read, Reflect, Display, and Do (R2D2) model which was specifically designed to address varied student learning preferences (Bonk & Zhang, 2008).  The model gives many examples of learning activities that can be developed specifically for on-line learning.  Constructivism is the learning theory that supports this type of learning and encourages multi-level learning for a variety of learners.  Constructivism stems from the cognitive learning theory and includes the use of many different learning theories and models to achieve learning including experiential learning and situated cognition.

A mentoring blog site can be designed to allow students to ask questions of teachers and receive needed mentoring along with students potentially mentoring other students in the process.

Examples of R2D2 could include:  (from Table 1.3. Learning Activities in each phase of R2D2, p. 11)

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Reading = Expert Lectures and Commentary

Reflecting = Online Role Play Reflections

Displaying = Animations

Doing = Digital Storytelling

Please feel free to comment and add any additional learning methods and ideas related to developing a mentoring blog site for students!  It would be wonderful if we could create something for students that could be accessed and shared by any nursing student and instructor that would like to participate and contribute!

Thank you for consideration and I look forward to your posts!  Let's create a mentoring site that will engage our students!

Janine Kelley, Clinical Nursing Instructor

PhD Student at Kramer School of Nursing at Oklahoma City University

I can be contacted at pjkelley15@gmail.com

Reference:  Bonk, C. J., & Zhang, K. (2008).  Empowering Online Learning: 100 + Activities for Reading, Reflecting, Displaying, & Doing.  San Francisco, CA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Hello Students!

August 26, 2015

I am hoping each of you is settling into the new academic year and are off to a wonderful start. The reason I have created this page is for you to have someplace to meet as a group of students who've been placed together to share in the nursing experience. As your mentor, I want to help you get the most out of your time here with us at the College of Nursing. As we navigate through the year, I am hoping you will make some connections that will last a lifetime and help you as you gain experience in nursing.

Seniors: Please say hello to our junior students as they get signed-up onto this site and share any words of wisdom you would like to help them get started on this journey!

Juniors: Please ask questions related to the student nurse experience and the Seniors and myself will do our best to answer!

Thank you for participating in this mentoring process. I look forward to reading all of your post!

Professor Kelley
Janine-Kelley@ouhsc.edu