Video conference: Nursing Essentials: Mastering the Fundamentals of Care

Professor Roll-White welcomes students to week two and introduces the learning activities and objectives. The focus is on the fundamentals of care framework and identifying patients' physical, psychosocial, and relational needs. Learning activities include case studies, group discussions, and reflective exercises. Students are encouraged to maintain a reflective journal or blog, research the care framework, and practice communication skills through role-play. The expectations for students include respect, participation, fostering connectiveness, and being flexible and supportive of each other. In week three, there will be another podcast with important information for success. Contact the professor with any questions. Hello, this is Professor Roll-White, and greetings. Welcome to week two. I hope that you are well and ready to begin this week. In this week's podcast, I hope that you will find it very exciting, interactive, and educational. I would like to introduce the learning activities and learning objectives that we will encounter, discuss the resources involved, and assessment methods you will be going through. I would also like to show you some differences from your traditional learning to a more concept-based learning related to the fundamentals of care framework. Of the objectives that we will cover in week two, you will be able to list patients' fundamental physical needs. In other words, you will be able to identify whether they have enough food, water, clothing, shelter. If they're able to feed themselves, if they're able to clothe themselves, if they're able to shelter themselves. Again, you will be able to list patients' fundamental psychosocial needs. Basically, do they have social support? Do they have, where are they in their social status? Do they have family? Are they lonely, are they depressed? You will also be able to list patients' fundamental relational needs. Basically, affection, appreciation, approval. Where are they in this relational need? You will be able to assess organizational or contextual factors that may affect your ability to meet patients' fundamental needs in an integrated manner. Learning activities will include case studies that will require you to apply your knowledge of fundamentals of care framework and critical thinking skills to realistic patient scenarios. Another activity, group discussions, where you will post your case study analysis and respond to different, to your peers. And your peers will respond back to you. And you will be able to see and understand their perspective on the discussion post and they will also be able to see yours. Another activity, reflective exercises. In this exercise, you will increase your self-awareness and enhance your awareness to apply new knowledge in practice. Unstructured activities that I envision include journaling, blogging, self-directed research, and role-playing. I encourage you to maintain a personal reflective journal or blog where you can reflect back on your learning experiences and maybe your thought pattern and reaction. So I encourage you, as students, to reflect on your daily patient interaction and analyze the application of the fundamentals of care framework, challenges faced, and areas that you feel need improvement. I also encourage students to be independent, research the fundamentals of care framework, and expand their knowledge of its component and the evidence base. And for those of you students that are going to be on campus, I plan to use role-play during in-class sessions to help you practice communication skills. Some of the expectations that I, as an instructor, expect from you as my student. I expect you to be respectful, to be courteous, to uphold a professional behavior. I expect you to participate in activities in classroom and online discussion forums. I expect you to foster connectiveness in the classroom and online. Lastly, I expect you to be flexible and supportive of each other. I thank you for listening to this podcast in week two, and I would like to let you know that as week three approaches, we will be conducting another podcast that will engulf everything that you need to know to be successful in week three because I want you to be successful in all of your weeks. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me. My number and my email is located on the syllabus. I want to encourage you to relax, take a deep breath, and open your mind to this new experience so that you too can be successful as you move on to your other courses. Thank you for joining this week's podcast.