Using Clickers for Clinical Reasoning and Problem Solving
- 1 January 2011
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) in Nurse Educator
- Vol. 36 (1), 13-15
- https://doi.org/10.1097/nne.0b013e3182001e18
Abstract
This project explored how an audience response system (clickers), combined with case-based questions, resulted in increased student engagement, attention, and participation in an introductory clinical nursing course. Clicker questions and ensuing discussion were designed to enable students to practice reasoning through patient situations before entering the clinical setting. Findings suggest that nuanced discussion of all possible answers encouraged students to think more deeply about their initial answers and opened them up to new reasoning processes.Keywords
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