TEACHING STRATEGIES PLAN

Put it all together: Developing a nursing care plan for

patients with global health diseases.
NAME OF LEARNING
ACTIVITY
Learning Activity
Summary

In this strategy groups of 4 students will be asked to create a

nursing care plan based on a specific global health disease
using a case study outlined by the facilitator. The case study
will also have additional criteria that must be addressed in the
care plan. The students will also use the care plan in clinical as
part of a post conference discussion.
Cognitive (identify level): Remembering, Understanding,
Apply, Analyze, Evaluate, Create

Domain of Learning
(Blooms Taxonomy
Affective: Receiving, Responding, Valuing
Revised)
Psychomotor:

Student-Centered
At the completion of this learning activity, the learner will:
Learning Objective(s)
Construct a health assessment on a patient with a global
health disease.
Create a nursing care plan based on the health assessment of
a patients with global health issues.
Preparation Required The facilitator will have to come up with a list of global health
by Teacher/Facilitator and diseases for the students and case studies to base their care
Materials Needed
plan off of. Some of the topics that will need to be addressed in
addition to a care plan include: Patient history, risk factors,
medications, potential complications, appropriate precautions,
laboratory diagnostics, and patient teaching.

Time Allotted
Learning Styles
Addressed by Activity

2 hours of classroom time.

Visual, Verbal, Reflective, Holistic

How is content connected Put it all together helps students to learn and improve their

to prior learning?

critical thinking and problem-solving skills. It also gives

students an opportunity to strategize and pick a nursing
diagnosis based on their global health disease.

Reflective Debriefing Completing a nursing care plan will be a useable tool in both
with Learners (post- the classroom and clinical settings. Students will be able to
learning activity) How will share their findings and look at other
it be accomplished?
Evaluation of Learning This type of strategy leads to interesting discussions by
(How will it be
incorporating the nursing process and specific global health
accomplished?)
diseases. Students are able to learn from each other.

Teacher Reflection

The nursing care plan has many components to it and this is a

good way for students to analyze and synthesize data extracted
(justify choice of learning from a case study. This helps the student to develop nursing
activity and good fit for diagnoses and treatments for patients with global health
the identified learning disease. The presentations of the students care plans helps to
objectives)
bring awareness to global health issues.