TEACHING STRATEGIES PLAN

NAME OF LEARNING
ACTIVITY

Charge Nurse Shadowing Experience

Learning Activity
Summary

The graduate nurse will have the opportunity to shadow a

charge nurse on their clinical medical-surgical unit for 6 hours.
The student will then provide a one page journal entry on what
they learned within the role of the charge nurse. After the
student has submitted their reflective journal article they will
share their individual experience with their peers and how they
learned from this opportunity.

Cognitive: Students will have the opportunity to appraise their

shadowing experience with a charge nurse and make
Domain of Learning judgements about the things they observed within the charge
(Blooms Taxonomy
nurse role. They are expected to reflect on how professionalism
Revised)
is demonstrated through this role. (Remembering, Evaluating
& Analyzing)
Affective: The student will reflect on this experience,
summarizing their experience to their classmates and how it
affects the overall care of the patient. (Understanding &
Applying)
Psychomotor: The visual, auditory, and physical shadowing
experience gives the student more information on the
environment outside of the direct bedside care they have
experiences. (Creating & Evaluating)
Student-Centered
At the completion of this learning activity, the learner will:
Learning Objective(s)
- Identify the role of the charge nurse and how it affects
the overall care of patients within the medical-surgical
unit.
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Define the role of the charge nurse and explain how

professionalism is developed through this role

Distinguish what positive and negative issue they

discovered in this role and discuss how they felt during
this experience with their group.

Preparation Required The student will be responsible to write a one page reflection
by Teacher/Facilitator and on their experience and then share their experience during
Materials Needed
post-conference on day 2 of clinical.
Time Allotted

Learning Styles
Addressed by Activity

The shadowing experience will take place during day one

clinical for 6 hours, and the written reflection will be due at the
end of day 2.
Experiential learning theory will be utilized.

How is content connected As students will be lectured on professionalism in nursing in

to prior learning?
the beginning of week one, the student will be responsible to
reflect on their experience and share how it ties into the
previous content they covered earlier in the week.
Reflective Debriefing The student has the opportunity to debrief within the class, and
with Learners (postask any questions during this time as the instructor facilitates
learning activity) How will
the debriefing session during post-conference.
it be accomplished?
Evaluation of Learning The reflective assignment and discussion with the clinical
(How will it be
group will be evaluated with a satisfactory/unsatisfactory score,
accomplished?)
and written feedback from the clinical instructor.
Teacher Reflection

Overall, the student will have the opportunity to participate in

clinical by managing total care of patients at the bedside.
(justify choice of learning Giving students the opportunity to shadow the charge nurse
activity and good fit for will help them to gain an understanding of the role of a charge
the identified learning
nurse and how it affects the bedside care they deliver. Charge
objectives)
nurses delegate the flow of patient care, and oversee the nurses
that cares for patients at the bedside. This opportunity will
show students the importance of interdisciplinary
communication and how to utilize the team members they
work with.