Can You Draw It
Included In This Lesson
Outline
Overview
- Can you draw it?
- Anytime you can visually illustrate a concept . . . DO IT!
Key Points
- Draw everything. Even the simple things should be drawn. Patient positioning, labs, anything . . . draw everything.
- You don’t have to be a great artist.
- Sometimes even just writing a word as you say it can help bring in the visual learner.
- Underline. Circle. Draw Arrows. Make it VISUAL.
- The goal is to guide their eyes as they watch the video.
- If you aren’t writing or drawing, they probably aren’t looking at the same things you’re teaching!
Transcript
The next way to apply the core Content Mastery method is to draw it.
Seriously, anytime you can visually illustrate a concept do it. You don’t have to be a great artist, this is not about showing off your Artistry skills. This is just about helping students to visualize what’s going on in a certain situation. I am not a great artist, in fact. here’s how I would draw skeletal traction. Here’s the bed, and here’s the foot. And…there’s a pin in the leg – goes to a pulley, and weights hang off of it. Yep – that’s it. Nothing crazy. Honestly – this is how we draw the heart and the heart chambers most of the time… Super simple, but it makes everything more visual.
So the whole goal here is to guide their eyes. You want lots of white space to give you room to draw or write things. If there aren’t pictures to draw, then circle important words as you say them. Underline main points, draw arrows to parts of an image or to key points! Even writing words as you say them can help bring it to life. The goal is that they would be looking at the same thing you’re teaching about. If nothing is moving on the screen, chances are they will not be looking at the same thing you’re talking about – ESPECIALLY if you have too much on the slide! We have worked super hard to pick out the most important information and plan the lesson – so we want them to follow us as we teach
So – if you can visually illustrate it – do it! Now, go out and be your best self today. And, as always, happy nursing!
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Concepts Covered:
- Test Taking Strategies
- Medication Administration
- Adult
- Emergency Care of the Cardiac Patient
- Intraoperative Nursing
- Microbiology
- Cardiac Disorders
- Anxiety Disorders
- Depressive Disorders
- Vascular Disorders
- Nervous System
- Upper GI Disorders
- Central Nervous System Disorders – Brain
- Gastrointestinal Disorders
- Immunological Disorders
- Fundamentals of Emergency Nursing
- Dosage Calculations
- Understanding Society
- Circulatory System
- Concepts of Pharmacology
- Studying
- Hematologic Disorders
- Newborn Care
- Adulthood Growth and Development
- Disorders of Pancreas
- Respiratory Disorders
- Postoperative Nursing
- Pregnancy Risks
- Neurological
- Postpartum Complications
- Substance Abuse Disorders
- Noninfectious Respiratory Disorder
- Bipolar Disorders
- Peripheral Nervous System Disorders
- Learning Pharmacology
- Psychotic Disorders
- Prenatal Concepts
- Tissues and Glands
- Prefixes
- Suffixes
- Fetal Development
- Terminology
- Proteins
- Statistics
- Med Term Basic
- Med Term Whole
- Note Taking
- Basics of NCLEX
- Behavior
- Urinary System
- Musculoskeletal Disorders
- Communication
- Respiratory System
- Concepts of Population Health
- Basics of Human Biology
- Respiratory Emergencies
- Perioperative Nursing Roles
- Factors Influencing Community Health
- Integumentary Disorders
- Health & Stress
- Labor and Delivery
- Neurological Emergencies
- Central Nervous System Disorders – Spinal Cord
- Postpartum Care
- Prioritization
- Shock
- Emergency Care of the Trauma Patient