Clinical relevance of anatomy and physiology: a senior/freshman mentoring experience.
Clinical relevance of anatomy and physiology: a senior/freshman mentoring experience.
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DOI:
10.1097/00006223-200309000-00001
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发表时间:
2003-09-01
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影响因子:
2.6
通讯作者:
Wegner, Wendy M
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作者:
Fredricks, Kim T;Wegner, Wendy M
(A&P) courses are integral to a student’s success in a nursing program; unfortunately, many freshman students fail to realize the importance. Some students who had an A&P class in high school most often learned to memorize content; they did not apply what they learned to a practical situation. Other students were never introduced to the subject in high school. Therefore, freshman nursing students enrolled in human A&P often lack the critical thinking skills necessary to apply theory to practice. Often they state being unable to understand how the subject will serve them in nursing and are more focused on the technical skills, or “real nursing” content. Seniors, conversely, often say they wish they had paid more attention in freshman A&P. With clinical practice, they quickly learn the importance of A&P. To help freshman nursing students understand the clinical relevance of A&P, the authors designed a project assigning senior nursing student mentors to freshmen. Initially, the A&P instructor, who lacked clinical experience, was concerned with teaching A&P content to nursing students without providing relevant clinical examples. This concern led to the A&P instructor shadowing the critical care nursing instructor and senior nursing students during clinical time in the intensive care unit (ICU) to see clinical application of A&P content to practice.Clinical examples were abundant. For example, the A&P instructor saw a patient with chronic Laennec’s cirrhosis suffering from severe ascites that was interfering with his respiratory status. Under the nursing instructor’s guidance, she inspected, auscultated, and palpated the patient’s fluid-filled abdomen and then observed as nine liters of fluid were removed through paracentesis with ultrasound. She still uses this case study when teaching fluid balance and liver function. Other experiences the A&P instructor correlates with her lecture content include a comatose patient (increased intracranial pressure), insertion of a feeding tube on an intubated patient (anatomy of trachea and esophagus), signs and symptoms exhibited by a patient experiencing septic shock, and hyperglycemia in a patient with uncontrolled diabetes. From these shadow experiences and interactions with senior nursing students, the A&P instructor developed case studies for the freshmen students based on senior nursing students’ experiences with actual patients.