Hello fellow educators!

I have something I've been working on this week that I am genuinely excited to share with you. A brand new unfolding case study deck is currently in testing! (This isn't the Ortho Deck, that one is still in progress ...)
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This deck pulls from a patient I cared for years ago in the ER. The scenario stuck with me because it asked me to do a skill that I did not know how to do. I had to pause, look something up, and let policy guide my practice instead of guessing.

🔑 Case Study: UTI with Confusion

Students start with a patient information card that gives them the basics of the patient's current hospitalization, what brought them to the unit. Just enough info to introduce students to the scenario.

The next card is a fall assessment, and this one has an online puzzle. Students scan the QR code to access a fall risk tool. Next, they will decide which fall risk interventions are best to implement.

👉 Go ahead and scan the QR code! It is already connected to the online puzzle.
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​The patient in this case has undergone female genital mutilation, and the students need to obtain a urine sample. I cared for a patient in this exact situation in the ER, and I needed to stop, find the policy, and let it guide what I did next.

That is a main teaching point of the deck. Students are asked to find the policy that guides their practice and work from there. That is clinical judgment in a low-stakes setting. That is also a skill we cannot assume students have until they practice it.

A few things I love about this part of the case study:

• It normalizes looking things up.
• It introduces a topic that students may never have seen in a textbook but will absolutely encounter in practice.
• It gives the educator a chance to model how to talk about sensitive care with clinical respect.

The deck is currently in testing, and if everything goes well, it should be available early in the next term. I will keep you posted as we get closer.

🧭 Active Learning Tool

-a teaching technique to engage students

A guide ... to putting on hats?​ Actually, it will help students to use a structured mental map to analyze complex dilemmas from six different angles.

💡 Inspiring Resource

-a link worth clicking

Not the usual information that I share, but my daughter and I have been a bit *obsessed* with this recipe.

🗂️ Research Snapshot

-an actionable research finding

Heard of a Dedicated Education Unit? This article includes a few ideas to help the process run smoothly.

See you next week, Martha

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