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Faculty Showcases Educational Technology
Nan Ketchum (left) and Cheryl Tucker with their Technology Showcase poster.
Baylor’s annual Educational Technology Showcase highlights creative uses of information and communication technologies in the classroom. The 2011 showcase was held Thursday, March 31, in the Moody Memorial Library in Waco. LHSON faculty were present to share the many ways in which the nursing school campus is putting technology to work for our students. Cheryl Tucker, MSN, RN, CNE, and Nan Ketcham, MSN, RN, presented Learning in a Winter Wonderland, based on providing the FastBacc students with virtual classroom and clinical experiences in order to maintain their accelerated course schedule during the February ice storms that closed the school for five days. Course content and theory exams were provided to students through a combination of the Tegrity Classroom Capture and Blackboard Online systems. Students and faculty were able to move “full steam ahead” without having to risk the hazardous driving conditions that afflicted the entire DFW metroplex. Stephanie Allen, MSN, RN, and Cheryl Tucker presented Nursing Students’ Access to the Electronic Medical Record: A Paradigm Shift, based on providing students 6
with access to electronic health records along with training and experience as part of their clinical rotations. As a result, students have an increased understanding of the systems they will be introduced to when they enter the workforce, and communication between the student and staff nurse is streamlined for an improved learning experience. Marsha Dougherty, MSN, RN, and Lyn Pesta, MSN, RN, presented “Incorporating the Use of High-Fidelity Equipment into Nursing Didactic Classes,” based on the use of the simulation lab in first semester Human Needs courses to broaden these students’ knowledge of what the hospital environment looks like and the common roles of the professional nurse. Bruce Blair, senior academic consultant, presented Maintaining Test Integrity and Equipping Nursing Students for the NCLEX-RN Environment: Electronic Proctoring with Tegrity. Cheryl Tucker, Nan Ketcham and Bruce Blair were also invited to share their presentations at the Tegrity Users Conference held at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia, on Thursday, April 14. Sic ’em, LHSON faculty and staff!
spring/summer 2011