Tuesday 1 May 2012

Activity 5 – Design and describe flexible learning strategies for your context.


Had a little bit of trouble getting this link to work - so shout out if it doesn't function! Here's the trick - they don't link when it's viewed as a preview - you got to PUBLISH and then try it out!
Learn something everyday, don't we??

Found some of the readings and idea in the powerpoint very interesting - but it is a TERRIBLE powerpoint presentaiton, I would have to say! There's some useful information in there (concept of media-intructional-learning environment and how these things dictate the balance of what we actually choose to use), but it's a nightmare to engage with, IMHO.

Anyhoo... here's my strategy

Strategy Document

 
Loved Cat's post on flexible learning... have a look!

Cheers, HB





5 comments:

  1. Congrats on managing to use the link and it worked for me!
    You have a great strategy and activities. How often do you re-assess if the student is still able to use the skill correctly? I was certified to dispense meds in the U.S. (yes, shock-horror for nurses- I had to give out medication in group homes as an OT!) and we had to re-tested every 2 years to maintain the cert. with theory and practice in front of a Red cross nurse. Or, it is assumed that once the person has the skill, they use it enough to maintain it? Prof. development may come into play?
    Jayne

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  2. Hi Jayne... cheers for the comments. Certainly once in practise, VNs will be dispensing many times a day, and in fact there is no legal requirement to have a VN qualification before being able to dispense meds anyway. SO the upshot is, once they are in a job, they can do what they like - it becomes practise specific as far as any CE goes. (and I'm NOT saying i agree with this!).
    For us - we are monitoring our students every time they dispense - even if they have passed the assessment, all scripts are checked by a staff member. Again in practise, there is no requirement for a cross check (cf pharmacy technician for whom EVERY single script must be signed off by the pharmacist). Veterinary medicine is not is cohesion with the medical world about some of these things - I can only assume this is because its Fluffie's meds, not Grandma's that we are working with...
    However, I beleive we should be in line with medical practise, as many of our meds are the same, and they certainly go in to the same homes with the same small people, senile elders and other family members that leave them lying around for easy access to the wrong peolpe/animals...
    I mention this as we are NOT legally required, for example, to dispense in child proof containers, and there is no auditing process for vets once qualified to ensure that these practises (nor any others) are safe...
    BAD, huh??? My profession has a ways to go, on some of this stuff... yet in other areas, (voluntary euthanasia???), we are on the ball... (that last comment could be kicking the hornet's nest!!!).

    Have a great Sunday - off for brunch on this glorious Sunday, a run up a big hill to the sun at the top, and quality time with other half this pm. Quite a day!!!

    Cheers Helen.

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  3. Helen your strategy has touches of both realism and creativity. How do you embed literacy and numeracy activities, particularly around calculating doses of medicine?

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  4. I have a number of different angles to tackle N&L, put together by the N&L team. Lots of practise and tutorials for pracs and theory of these tasks. But yes... some just do struggle.

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