Teaching Plan For Nursing Students

Running Head: TEACHING PLAN
NURSING TEACHING PLAN
Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author’s Note

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Introduction
A teaching session will be conducted for nursing students who are in the second year. It
will be a training on Parkinson’s disease for 115 students and it will go on for 2 hours. The
teaching strategy used will be lecture as it has been an efficient form of teaching and educating
others. The name of the course, which the students are attending is known as BSc Nursing
general/children and intellectual disability. The teaching session will be done in a classroom and
this report will be analyzing the teaching strategy and its outcome. In this advanced healthcare
world, nurses should be well equipped with new techniques and skills. It is only possible with the
help of teaching plans and assessment techniques including lectures. The nurses need to inculcate
clinical reflection, clinical reasoning, patient safety and care, and strong knowledge about
concerned diseases, which will help in the management of treatment. The world of nursing keeps
changing according to the new advances being discovered every day (Bradshaw and Hultquist
2016). Nursing facilities should be well equipped with aids and materials that will help in
teaching them complicated syllabus and curriculum. The students should be well attentive to all
kinds of modules and chapters that will give them a positive outcome in the long term. The
nurses should be given theoretical as well as practical outlook to many topics, which will be
beneficial for them during their practice. The strategy will promote active student learning and
participation that will increase the efficiency of this teaching plan. The professionals have to be
specialized and accurate to understand the important pointers and topics so that they can teach
their students. Parkinson’s disease is a disorder in the nervous system that affects the
movements, symptoms start getting identified slowly as it is barely noticeable. The nurses should
be well aware about the health complications and treatment procedures in Parkinson’s disease,
which will be provided in this training program (Erikson et al. 2013).

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Discussion
Learning theory of the teaching session
The learning theory that guides the teaching session is learning social constructivism, in
which the knowledge constructed is within the social parameters it includes interactions between
people of the same knowledge in a community. Basically, this model is the integration of
students into a community of knowledge and it includes collaboration, accommodation, and
assimilation of new data. The students will get motivated with this model of theory because it
has intrinsic and extrinsic factors that affects the learning goals and motives. It is determined by
both extrinsic factors and the learners that get rewards from knowledge community. Lectures is
influenced by social constructivism because it is a collaborative learning and is determined by
the teacher and it encourages group work (Hsu, Pan and Hsieh 2016).
Effectiveness of teaching strategy
Lectures are probably the best teaching methods used for spreading awareness or giving
education to a group of people, it has been used since time immemorial in the educational
institutes. It improves learning and sharpness as it is a direct communication between the
preacher and the student, and it can be used in many circumstances. It promotes conceptual
knowledge and removes knowledge gap between the lecturer and the audience. It surpasses
written communication and electronic media because many researchers say that it explores the
area of spoken communication as it is the real time interaction. It has the presence of humans in
social events and not artificial intelligence, as it is more accurate with face to face interaction.
Literacy is a cultural necessity and it is evident from history that people have been using
speeches to exchange information in several civilizations (Charlton 2006). Reading books and
using technological communications are artificial and unnatural concepts, this is the reason why

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many people prefer lectures instead of other media. Sometimes using visual and graphical aids,
people can get distracted and the topic in hand will get diluted. The educational experience can
be unsatisfactory in other forms of teaching because the strategy of lecture is efficient and
satisfactory according to the various educational classes. Another reason for lectures to be
effective is that they are formally-structured, which helps in manipulating the human
psychology. A formal lecture mutually benefits the lecturer and the student because it improves
learning in a systematic and conceptual manner, it also helps in focusing attention and enhancing
authority, which makes the lecturer more communicable and the session more memorable
(Wieman 2014). The repeated interaction between the student and lecturer makes space for more
communication and making it educationally effective that makes it a form of communication
during courses and not only one-off interaction. Many professional educators, intellectuals,
reformers and scientists have been using lecture to communicate with their peers or students.
This proves that lectures have been effective for teaching students as it brings effective results.
Lectures are also called ‘spoon feeding’ for students as it is clear, comprehensible, and enjoyable
for students, the information is directly given to them and the students do not have to search for
materials (Jafari 2014).
Ineffectiveness of teaching strategy
The method of lecturing has several advantages but it has disadvantages too, which can
be used for its ineffectiveness. It is inferior to some techniques because it is not suited for high
intellectual attitudes and skills. It can be considered as factual learning or perceptual by some
experts and not conceptual because it does not allows the consideration of different people
during a lecture, it goes in the same flow of manner. Audiences have different skills, knowledge,
interests and abilities, which is not promoted in a lecture because it has a formal structure, which