Title of Course: Learning
Strategies for Nursing. NUR 1151
Course description:
This course will focus on assisting the
nursing student to develop study skills/techniques to enhance
academic success.
Required text:
Mollan-Masters, Renee. (1997) You are
smarter than you think! (2nd edition). Ashland,
OR: Reality Productions. ISBN# 0-9608622-4-2
Objectives for the course:
a.
Practice reading nursing text assignments, picking
out important details and then making outline notes on the text.
b.
Review study techniques for lecture and clinical/lab.
c.
Practice taking multiple choice exams.
d.
Review test-taking strategies for taking multiple choice
exams.
e.
Utilize critical thinking strategies while
completing activities for sample nursing lecture and clinical/lab
content.
f.
Examine ways to manage time more efficiently.
g.
Explore methods used to take effective notes.
h.
Identify learning style and list effective study
techniques for the learning style.
Teaching Methods:
Lecture, discussion, text reading and
assignments.
Evaluation Methods:
Journal entries in a notebook.
Discussion tests.