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Self-Learning Modules and Competency Testing
Self-Learning Modules are activities in which a student is guided through skill development by various media including texts, literature, video, audio, and computer programs. The modules have been designed by the nursing faculty to coordinate with the curriculum, thus each class has specific objectives in which the student must demonstrate proficiency.
Competency Tests are performed skill exams after all modules are completed. No prompts or correction are allowed from the observer.What are students working on in the Nursing Interventions Lab in the month of February? Sophomores are learning how to give all types of medications, including intramuscular injections. They are also demonstrating that they know how to provide personal hygiene to patients on bedrest. Juniors in the next few weeks are working on the following: Inserting a Foley catheter into Sim Man, administering nutrition and medications via an enteral feeding tube to adults and children, and the sterile dressing change, plus management of a central venous catheter. Later in the month they will demonstrate chest physiotherapy on the pediatric aged patient. Seniors have now completed all their modules in the lab and are in the clinical settings of Leadership/Management and Community Health.