Describe the learner.
The learner is a Registered Nurse who is a staff nurse in a hospital. The individual has completed at least 2 years of advanced schooling and passed a licensure exam. This individual has completed basic knowledge of pathophysiology which is adequate to understand acidosis and alkalosis.
Arterial blood gas (ABG) values provide valuable information about a patient’s acid-base status, the underlying cause of the imbalance, the body’s ability to regulate pH, and the patient’s overall oxygen status. Diagnosis of acid-base disturbances and identification of compensatory processes are done by reviewing and understanding the patient’s laboratory values.
Justification:
The presentations here are training tools that present information to the nurse on the fundamental concepts of interpreting an individual patient’s laboratory values. Both tools allow the nurse to determine the patient’s acid-base status. The first tool I found to be wordy and the instructions hard to follow. I revised the tool by using a pneumonic that I have found helpful. The second tool is designed based on CARP.
· Contrasted relevant information, with the use of Bold and color.
· Aligned information sequentially.
· Repeated color to emphasize the concept.
· Approximated the content with the boxes denoting like information and chunking the information.
I changed the type to Garamond which I had never used before. The book on page 217 says it is “very easy to read”. I did this because I found the type in the original tool hard to read. I right justified the content in the revised picture based on information from Unit 2.
The learner is a Registered Nurse who is a staff nurse in a hospital. The individual has completed at least 2 years of advanced schooling and passed a licensure exam. This individual has completed basic knowledge of pathophysiology which is adequate to understand acidosis and alkalosis.
Arterial blood gas (ABG) values provide valuable information about a patient’s acid-base status, the underlying cause of the imbalance, the body’s ability to regulate pH, and the patient’s overall oxygen status. Diagnosis of acid-base disturbances and identification of compensatory processes are done by reviewing and understanding the patient’s laboratory values.
Justification:
The presentations here are training tools that present information to the nurse on the fundamental concepts of interpreting an individual patient’s laboratory values. Both tools allow the nurse to determine the patient’s acid-base status. The first tool I found to be wordy and the instructions hard to follow. I revised the tool by using a pneumonic that I have found helpful. The second tool is designed based on CARP.
· Contrasted relevant information, with the use of Bold and color.
· Aligned information sequentially.
· Repeated color to emphasize the concept.
· Approximated the content with the boxes denoting like information and chunking the information.
I changed the type to Garamond which I had never used before. The book on page 217 says it is “very easy to read”. I did this because I found the type in the original tool hard to read. I right justified the content in the revised picture based on information from Unit 2.
Hi Ann: Your project is a bit technical so whatever feedback I give it is from a layman's point of view. Saying this, I would like to ask you where are/is one or more of the CARP applied? Again on line 4 and 5 I could see two values for Alkalotic. Which is correct? Overall it looks concise and for one who has the knowledge about it, it should be easy to understand.
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Hi Ann,
ReplyDeleteJust a few suggestions as I am sure this is a helpful tool.
The block of text at the beginning of the 'form' could be broken up. It needs more white space to make it look more readable/appealing.
If you are giving the nurses directions about how to use the form, (I wasn't clear on that) could you actually step those out instead of presenting them in a paragraph?
Also, what about bolding the headings here to add contract and emphasis?
One more thought ---tables are GREAT graphic organizer tools. You may want to take a look at some of the table templates offered in Word just to get some formatting ideas.
ReplyDeleteI am assuming the R =O & M = E part of ROME will make sense to nurses...right? Thanks - Kim
Kim & Tekleab, Thank you for your comments, I will Take under advisement and redo. The initial offering of the block paragraph and basically un-interesting content is the first learning tool and the ROME pneumonic and table is what I constructed using CARP to better organize the information. I did not really make that point too clear and will attempt to do that in the final rendition. Thanks, Ann
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