Understanding the Fundamentals of Renal Dialysis
- Focus: Basics of dialysis treatment, underlying principles, and types of dialysis.
- Teaching Approach: Use constructivist learning theory to encourage learners to build on prior knowledge about kidney function and disease.
The purpose of this assignment is to create a teaching guide for a new educator in your organization. Submit an 8 to 10-page teaching guide (excluding title page, references, and appendices)
- For an example of a published teaching guide, see Nevers, S. & Melrose, S. (2016). Posing questions to support and challenge: A guide for mentoring staff . Internet Journal of Allied Health Sciences and Practice, 14(3), Article 2. https://nsuworks.nova.edu/ijahsp/vol14/iss3/2/
- Review Units 3, 4, and 5. This may help you get some ideas about your topic for the teaching guide and how you might want to go about developing it.
- In this final assignment in 623, you are meant to translate the learning that you have discovered, constructed, and most importantly, enjoyed in this course into a unique clinical teaching resource. If you are incorporating games or activities, be sure to articulate clear directions that enable readers to apply your ideas.
- Take another look at the example of a published teaching guide, “Posing questions to support and challenge: A guide for mentoring staff.”
- You will notice the topic is centered on a teaching strategy (e.g., posing questions) that could be applied regardless of the content being taught/facilitated.
- The actual teaching guide is Figure 1, Part 1 and Figure 1, Part 2. Including this as an appendix is a good strategy.
Format
- This assignment is an 8 to 10-page, 12-point Times Roman or 11-point font Calibri, double spaced, current APA format, referenced paper.
- Begin with a compelling opening paragraph introducing the teaching approach being explored in this paper.
- Ensure your topic/teaching approach could be applied across content areas.
- Do not limit your topic/teaching approach to specific content (e.g., teaching foot care to people with diabetes; teaching new parents how to bathe their newborns; teaching nursing students how to read an ECG).
- Think big; focus on the teaching approach (e.g., case studies, problem-based learning, the flipped classroom).
- The content in the body of this teaching guide will consist of sub-topics such as the underlying philosophy of the teaching approach, followed by a description, and application of the teaching approach.
- End with a succinct concluding paragraph summarizing the main idea(s) presented in this paper.
- Include an Appendix, showing a figure, table, graphic, model, or image of the teaching guide. Refer to the Nevers and Melrose (2016) article (Figure 1, Part 1 and Figure 1, Part 2.