Name
Capella University
NURS-FPX 6105: Teaching and Active Learning Strategies
Instructor’s name
October, 2024
Assessment Strategies and Complete Course Plan
This serves as an important reason for the assessment of strategies used in the “Stress Management for ADN Nursing Students” course to understand the effectiveness the course on teaching and learning. This course focuses on the understanding of stress perception and how cultural differences as well as learning diversity affect other nursing students (Morse et al., 2020). The main purpose of the assessment plan is to determine students’ performance concerning the learning outcomes of the course. Namely, it assesses their knowledge of stress-reduction strategies and their application as well as the consequences of such ideas in various workplace contexts. The course plan also consists of suggested teaching strategies to improve students learning and provide a favorable climate for future nurses.
Theory to Optimize Teaching Experience and Learning Outcomes
The Cognitive Behavioral Theory (CBT) acts as the core theoretical approach for the course “Stress Management for ADN Nursing Students.” It provides a pragmatic framework for identifying and working through stress-sourced negative cognitive processes because of the focus on the thought-behavior-emotion triangle (Jaarsma et al., 2020). In effect, concepts such as behavioral activation and cognitive restructuring prepare the student with useful methods of handling stress which is crucial when handling patients (Gerchow et al., 2021). CBT implementation in the nursing curriculum enhances students ‘ mental health and enables them to know how to manage workplace stress.
The course also uses elements of the Transactional Model of Stress and Coping besides the CBT. This model also describes how stressors effort and coping resources, as well as perceived stress outcomes, relate to each other (Gerchow et al., 2021). This course wants to change the alarmist view students may have regarding stressors and encourage adaptive stressors and resources that include problem-solving and social support. Thus, the present approach adopted in the course lays down the foundation for the nurturing of the holistic health of the nursing students as well as equips them to cope with the complex challenges relating to the health care systems.
Rationale for Theory
The rationale for incorporating Cognitive Behavioral Theory (CBT) and the Transactional model of stress and coping into the structural analysis of the course cbt and the transactional model of stress are and coping falls well in step with the conceptual rationale for the course as it aims to help ADN nursing students deal with stress (King et al., 2021). CBT interventions involve behavioral change and cognitive re-organization which forms good support for Nursing Education since it focuses on the patients, and uses evidence-based interventions (Green, 2021). This makes CBT very appropriate for explaining to students how to cope with stress within clinical practice.
Likewise, the Transactional Model gives a sound foundation for the measurement and regulation of stress with a focus on the appraisal of the stressors present and available resources for handling stress (Green, 2021). If these models are incorporated into the course, students enable them to master practical and flexible stress management strategies that may improve their learning experience as well as their future jobs. All these theoretical approaches enhance related stress management hence enhancing students’ coping strategies when confronted with tough conditions in health sectors.
Thinking, Learning, and Communicating Methods for Specific Learning Situations
While creating a stress management course for ADN nursing students, it is crucial to analyze the types of learners and subjects they have preferences towards. Of all the models used to classify learning styles, Flemings VARK shows great promise as it categorizes students into visual, auditory, reading writing, or kinesthetic (Tang & Huson, 2019). This enables the instructors to make necessary adjustments to teaching techniques to meet students’ preferences. For instance, visually impaired students may learn well if charts, graphs, or video clips are used as learning tools while the students who can easily follow instructions orally will do well if the teacher uses techniques such as lectures and discussions.
Kinesthetic learners learn more when they are actively involved physically through the use of Proctor-Model Strategies such as simulations or practical exercises (Tang & Huson, 2019). Stress-reducing exercises like, muscle relaxation exercises and role-playing sessions improve their learning process. when it comes to reading/writing style learners the concept of stress management is enhanced by exercising using case studies, journal articles, and reflective writing.
A unique emphasis should also be placed on the diversity of the learning styles. For visual learners, competence can be shown through the method of making concept maps or presenting infographics since the information is presented in the form of pictures, charts, or images, while for the auditory learners, one can be tested through oral presentation or group discussions (Antón et al., 2021). Practical assessments could be preoccupation management student demonstrations or patient relations actualizations. Stress as a concept is nonexistent in human experience without having the viewers comprehend the VARK model intended by Fleming, classroom instruction fosters student ability to learn stress management in nursing practice.
Nursing and Healthcare Teaching Strategies, Techniques, and Outcomes
In nursing and healthcare education different instruction approaches are used to improve stress coping abilities. Methods like lectures, cases, analysis, role play, simulation, group discussion, reflective diary, and multimedia aids facilitate justified behavior, engaged participation, and a real understanding of the content (Sharifi et al., 2019). It opens students’ insights into stress-related concepts and aids the honing of their coping skills, increasing their awareness and communication skills when under pressure. This in turn results in less stress and burnout of students hence enhanced outcomes relating to the patients besides ensuring their general well-being.
Teaching Strategies and Techniques
In the education on stress management for ADN nursing students, several teaching methods are used to guarantee the achievement of all the intended learning outcomes. These include:
- Lectures, including the use of facts, illustrations, and actual scenarios to link the information with the realities of business.
- Case Studies and Problem-Solving Tasks to question and apply what has been learned in real-life patient scenarios.
- Stressful Scenario Simulations to enhance the interpersonal learners dealing with stress in health care institutions.
- Role Play is a forward-driven technique for enhancing practical actor-client-interactor training and interpersonal communication.
- The Group Discussions will enhance peer learning to facilitate collaborative problem-solving.
- Use of reflective journals for self-assessment on stress sources and stress coping measures.
- Stress facts, stress cartoons, stress videos, stress photos, stress graphics, and stress animations as part of thinking like a positive stress manager.
- Stress management techniques can be used to teach students useful techniques for managing stress.
Teaching Strategy Outcomes
The stress management course concerning ADN nursing students focuses on the achievement of certain learning outcomes that will improve the nursing students’ attitudes, knowledge, and skills regarding stress in healthcare facilities (Brown et al., 2021). Some of these goals include demonstrating the capacity in terms of recognizing stress sources, stress management, self-care, and teamwork, and the encouragement of resilience in addition to establishing of health-enhancing learning milieu for both physical and emotional health (Brown et al., 2021). Thus, the course incorporates different teaching approaches to allow the students to apply the concept of stress management in the nursing practice effectively as well as to develop mastery in the understanding of the course.
Some expected outcomes include:
- Increased understanding of the principles of stress management
- Better strategies for handling pressure
- These have been enhanced by raising individual stress awareness.
- Improved interpersonal communication for patient care
- Decreased levels of stress and the risk of such health issues as burnout.
- Proper utilization of stress-reducing measures in healthcare organizations
- The development of adaptability and resilience
Various instructional strategies used in the course, thus facilitating everyone’s learning style, make the learning process environment welcoming (Cai et al., 2022). It permits students to apply stress management strategies in their nursing practice and their success, in their course and subsequent health care organizations.
Underlying Assumptions
The teaching-learning strategies and methods implemented in the ADN nursing stress management course assume several things (Cai et al., 2022). Students are assumed to have an interest in learning stress management strategies, prior nursing knowledge, and an interest in using an experiential approach and reflection for self and professional development. They assist in building a favorable learning atmosphere to improve stress-magnifying classes and to promote favorable results.
Evidence-Based Best Practices to Enhance Learner Motivation
The integration of appropriate practice as found lately to predominate in practice and enhance learners’ engagement is critical when teaching courses like stress management for ADN students (Charania & Patel, 2022). According to the study, instructors should make learning as engaging and productive as possible, by putting in place goals for the course, activities, and real-life cases.
Key practices to boost student motivation include:
- According to them, Chan and DV propose to ‘clearly state learning objectives and align them with course content’.
- Such as brainstorming sessions, group discussions, case study analysis role play, and group projects.
- Providing chances for reflection on one’s performance and constant feedback concerning the progress
- The use of multimedia materials as tools for teaching and learning improvement
- Implementing incentives for students to work on projects in groups and/with peers
- To avoid causing more stress on the students here are some of the strategies that I would incorporate to create a positive learning environment.
Culturally relevant and motivating classroom practices protect the rights of the student by ensuring that they get to know their teachers’ expectations, these guard their motivation to accomplish their learning goals and engage them in the learning subject matter (Charania & Patel, 2022). The establishment of objectives, formative evaluation, and direction along with a flexible yet organized environment are the significant characteristics of the proposed concept. However, deliberately using and modifying such tactics leads to enhancing the learning environment and facilitating both success in learning processes and further education.
Conflicting Viewpoints
In educational programs, different types of conflicts related to either the material to be covered, how that content is delivered, or how learning is evaluated are normally experienced particularly where the curriculum is still under development (Leal et al., 2024). The differences may be attributed to worse decision-making, cultural, or educational disparities of the stakeholders in question. To manage the situation when different concepts are stated as opposed to each other, which is a broad idea of disseminating various perspectives is required. This includes consideration of all the other parties involved to listen to their opinion and reach a consensus (Plotzky et al., 2021). Introducing cooperation and positive communication to student interactions as a way to solve conflict restore order and work on a solution with all parties involved in the conflict.
Barriers to Learning While Designing and Developing Educational Programs
Various barriers to learning exist while designing educational programs, especially stress management for ADN nursing students. A key issue here is that these processes will take time. Many nursing students have a tight schedule which is why they take courses during their clinical practice and study; they barely have time for more classes (Plotzky et al., 2021). The other challenge is that stress management concepts are complex and therefore need to be taught in a simple and efficient technique that can caught by the students. Moreover, there are some constraints for instance limited access to learning resources including specialized equipment or simulation facilities (Stalter et al., 2022). Finally, fitting into the calendar the different learning tempo and approaches which different students have, can sometimes be a big issue but is an important aspect in the achievement of the best results among the students.
Time Constraints
Due to its timing, ADN nursing students may often find it difficult to manage their training schedules and thus they are limited in their spare time in other learning activities (Stalter et al., 2022). In this regard, educators are required to adopt functional and efficient models of dissemination that can easily be incorporated into the students’ tight timetables.
Complexity of Subject Matter
Common areas of difficulty include stress management theories when introduced in units where ADN nursing students may be unaware of psychological or mental health issues. Students who lack the basic information are likely to find it hard to decipher complex concepts and strategies of learning hence forming a challenge (Stalter et al., 2022). Towards the abovementioned problem, it is necessary to stress that such paradigms have to be explained in quite a simple manner, and along with the explanation the real examples should be given so that a student would be able to relate to and combine the paradigms used with the real world situation.
Limited Access to Resources
The equipment, simulators, and trained instructors are some of the institutional resources that are scarce in some of the education programs thereby hampering efforts to provide practical and practical, hands-on stress management training (Brown et al., 2021). To address this issue, teachers should evaluate different instructional strategies, guarantee the effective utilization of the resources at their disposal, and look for other teaching techniques in which students do not depend on other physical devices, for example, online/technology tools or simulations.
Diverse Learning Styles
The students who study at ADN are differentiated by certain learning styles – kinesthetic, auditory, and visual. For stress management to have the right impact, educators have to embrace a variety of teaching methods to meet all classes (Gerchow et al., 2021). It also has the advantage of improving learning outcomes by ensuring that students who have a different preference will understand it as per their style.
Knowledge Gap and Additional Information
Studying the necessity of stress management courses for ADN nursing students shows several gaps in the existing knowledge base, especially focusing on the students’ time management (Gerchow et al., 2021). Additional explorations of their program of work, academic assignments, and possible sources of stress in their professional practice may help to reveal how time management can be organized within the course. Thus, there is an increased need for the identification of best practices as the topics, the methods chosen for delivering the course, and the concept of delivering it to the appropriate learning-disabled individuals have to be researched. To fill these gaps, the following strategies should be used depending on the type of students taught in a class; Gerchow (2021) explained that use of evidence-based should be used to simplify concepts to enhance student understanding of the course materials.
Cultural Competence in Nursing and Healthcare Educational Offerings
Assimilation of culture in the training of nursing and health entails the promotion of significant culture and culture as a model for study and practice. As suggested, the composition of the cultural background of the ADN nursing students needs to be understood since the stress management course requires consideration of the students’ worldviews, beliefs, and perceptions (Morse et al., 2022). To do this, the content of the course has to be culturally embedded, employing instruments that are culturally compatible with communication, approach to learning, and methods of handling tasks.
Culturally competent, hence, refers to practices that include: culturally competent assessment strategies (Morse et al., 2022). Teachers will need to find strategies for designing assessments that don’t undermine cultural differences in completing activities and perception of assessments. This involves modifying ways of operating and communicating since the assessments must be both relevant and equitable cross-culturally.
Evaluating Evidence
These additional studies imply that in nursing and healthcare education, evaluation of evidence is crucial for constructing compelling courses. Some of the activities within this process involve the evaluation of the quality, relevance, currency, and reliability of the research and best practices of Stress Management (Green, 2019). The research was considered as the method for specifying stress management interventions, coping strategies, or instructional methods, which educators should review and assess because of guidelines and professional recommendations to the context of ADN nursing students (Green, 2019). Therefore, by using data-driven evidence from research, educators can develop a course that will incorporate evidence-based practice whilst also providing for the heterogeneity of students and enhancing meaningful learning alongside stress management.
Teaching Plan
| Course Title | Stress Management |
| Learning Outcomes | Recognize the meaning of stress managementDetermine stressors and how they affect your healthUse stress-reduction strategies in your nursing profession |
| Introduction | An overview of stress reduction and its significanceStress management’s importance in nursing education |
| Perception of Stress Management | Factors affecting how each person perceives stressImpact of Stress Perception on Wellbeing and Health |
| Principles of Stress Management | Mechanisms of the stress response and how they are regulatedTechniques for preventing and reducing stress |
| Interdisciplinary Approach to Stress Management | Healthcare professionals working together to manage stresscombining several fields of study to manage stress |
| Evidence-based Interventions for Stress Management | Examining evidence-based stress management techniquesUsing successful interventions in healthcare environments |
| Planning Care in Stress Management | creating customized treatment programs for stress reductionobserving and assessing the results of stress reduction |
| Conclusion | Summary of important ideasConstant stress management is crucial for nurses |
Managing stress is the area of concentration used in the lesson plan created for ADN nursing students. This plan establishes the following learning objectives; knowledge, ability to identify stress-related concepts, nurse’s stressors and knowledge, skills, and attitude in the management of stress at the workplace (Antón et al., 2021). The first part underscores the relevance of stress management in health faculty learning with a special focus on the field of nursing. Another table identifies aspects of stress management and the resultant health effects pegged on perceptions.
It is centered on basic stress-combating endeavors and preventive methodologies such as stress responses and prevention as described by Tang et al. (2019). It draws attention to the importance of an interdisciplinary approach to stress intervention and management and calls for the incorporation of interdisciplinary goals for the effective management of patient outcomes. Other subjects including care planning and employing evidence-based therapies for managing stress also were incorporated and lectures demonstrated how evidence-based practice can be adopted in different settings (Tang et al., 2019). The above general learning outcome signifies the goal of this particular lesson plan to ensure that ADN nursing students are armed with appropriate stress management strategies needed in their progression to ramp up the ability to caress their clients’ needs comprehensively.
Assessment Design for Course
Based on the design principles of assessment discussed in this paper, the following factors have been identified as crucial to the development of assessments in the stress management course for ADN nursing students. First, the assessments have to relate to the course outcomes and the material covered, namely stress recognition, management techniques, and adaptations to nursing practice (Charania & Patel, 2022). They further should mimic authenticity by matching real-life contexts within which nurses practice and are faced with lots of stress such as in healthcare organizations then gauge the student’s ability to handle stress in as much as they ought to give good patient care.
Second, the rationale is that ADN nursing students bring to the learning environment multiple learning preferences and learning styles, which should also be considered when developing assessments (Sharifi et al., 2019). Minimizing test-taking through the use of case studies, role-playings, written reflections, and practical demonstrations, can effectively reach auditory and kinesthetic learning as well as visual sensibilities. This approach helps all students demonstrate their grasp of ideas about stress management efficiently.
NURS FPX 6105 Assessment 4 Conclusion
For the development of the interface of the teaching plan and the assessment scheme of stress management courses for ADN nursing students, several factors have to be taken into consideration. The purposeful integration of practices and strategies that are supported by research, the inclusive use of instructional modalities, and developmental, informative goals and measurements will support the achievement of compelling and relevant learning (Victor et al., 2024). Cultural competence in education helps nursing students address stress factors in an academic learning environment and turn healthcare organizations, and academics to recognize and value multiculturalism.
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