Davis Advantage for Townsend’s Essentials of Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing by Karyn I. Morgan combines an easy-to-read textbook with an innovative online program to create an immersive learning experience for students and an integrated solution for instructors. Through nine editions, this text has provided a holistic approach to mental health nursing that explores nursing diagnoses for both physiological and psychological disorders, while highlighting the essential content students need to build a solid foundation. Using a unique and proven approach across a Learn-Apply-Assess continuum, Davis Advantage engages students to help them make the connections to key topics. It aligns seamlessly with the textbook and equips instructors with actionable analytics to track students’ progress, remediate where needed, and facilitate an active learning environment. Read on to see how three schools are using Davis Advantage for Townsend’s Essentials of Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing to achieve positive outcomes in their programs.
“Davis Advantage has helped my students learn how to answer questions on their mental health nursing exams.” Rebekah Bingham, MSN, RN, SANE Associate Professor Hazard Community and Technical College
Rebekah Bingham teaches Mental Health Nursing in the ADN and LPN programs at Hazard Community and Technical College where she has worked for 8 years. The school has been using Davis Advantage for Townsend’s Essentials of Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing as long as Rebekah has been teaching there. The F.A. Davis solution at work “One of the reasons we like Townsend’s Essentials is that it can be used for both the ADN and LPN students. Since I teach in both programs, it’s really helpful to be able to use the same book.” Rebekah notes that it works for both levels because “it’s written well and it’s not confusing for the student.” She also appreciates the way the units and chapters are structured. “I can use the book exactly as it’s presented because it follows the way we teach the course.” The course is 6 weeks, which Rebekah acknowledges is not a lot of time to get through the material. “The students have to listen to a lot of lectures on their own and come to class prepared or they will be left behind.” Rebekah uses the PowerPoints that are part of the Davis Advantage instructor resources for her pre-recorded lectures. She employs flipped classroom strategies such as assigning “teach the teacher” topics that require students to prepare a presentation to teach the class. The topic presentation is their weekly “ticket to class” and counts as 5% of their grade. “They have to listen to the lectures, read the book, and come to class prepared with their presentation to be successful in this course.” After class, Rebekah assigns activities from Davis Advantage which count as 10% of their grade. “The students basically have to complete all of the activities in Davis Advantage to get the 10%. They are assigned with the specific unit we are covering and all must be completed prior to their unit exam; this is their ‘ticket to exam.’” The benchmark pass rate for exams is 80%. If students don’t meet the benchmark, Rebekah will create a remediation quiz from Davis Advantage that focuses on the areas where they didn’t do well.
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