Recall Rummy: learning can be fun

Nurse educators are continuously seeking creative methods to teach nursing skills. Continuing education programs have adapted and used television game show themes as effective teaching strategies. The traditional card game of rummy has been modified into a creative learning technique for entertainin...

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Published in:The Journal of continuing education in nursing 2000-07, Vol.31 (4), p.161-162
Main Authors: Youseffi, F, Caldwell, R, Hadnot, P, Blake, B J
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Card games
Clinical Competence - standards
Continuing Education
Creativity
Education, Nursing, Continuing - methods
Educational Strategies
Games, Experimental
Humans
Learning
Mental Recall
Nurses
Nursing
Nursing Staff - education
Nursing Staff - psychology
Psychomotor Performance
Reinforcement, Psychology
Skills
Teaching - methods
Teaching Skills
Television
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Summary:Nurse educators are continuously seeking creative methods to teach nursing skills. Continuing education programs have adapted and used television game show themes as effective teaching strategies. The traditional card game of rummy has been modified into a creative learning technique for entertaining and reinforcing skill techniques for nurses practicing in a clinical setting. Imagination and creativity are important assets for planning and teaching skills that relate to the practice of nursing. Recall Rummy presents one such approach to teaching nursing skills.
ISSN:0022-0124
1938-2472
DOI:10.3928/0022-0124-20000701-07