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Facilitation of Context-Based Student-Centered Learning: Course Outline
Markisha Owens, BSN, RN
College of Health Professions, Western Governors University
C919: Facilitation of Context-Based Student-Centered Learning
Henrietta Hanna
August 16, 2021
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Facilitation of Context-Based Student-Centered Learning: Course Outline
Nursing education is unique in that the student has to learn the theoretical concepts and
apply that knowledge in a clinical setting. This is partnered with clinical skills that must be
learned and practiced to master. A nursing instructor then is faced with the task of teaching
students to critically think. To complete the task, instructors in nursing have to adopt the
context-based learning (CBL) method. This nontraditional method of teaching is used to engage
nursing students in self-directed work. When a student-centered learning environment is created,
the student becomes the teacher and learner at the same time. Students retain more information
when they can actively learn through scenarios, teaching to peers, and other activities. This
teaching style is also known as flipping the classroom where instructors use their clinical
expertise in the classroom.
Aspects of the Course
The learner will benefit from this course by engaging in scholarly inquiry to discover the
impact of nurses on community health. By studying the history of the American healthcare
system, students will gain the foundational knowledge to challenges in community health that
affect populations. Research is an integral part of community health. Students will research
social determinants of health to gain insight into reasons for variances in disease rates in
vulnerable populations. Some specific concepts of this course include social determinants of
health, change agents, and research. These concepts will allow the student to do proper and
specific research about the community they serve, specific problems that may be due to social
determinants of health, and how they can become an agent of change and bring awareness and
change to a community. These concepts are relevant to the nursing profession as nurses are
advocates for vulnerable populations and often find themselves working with leaders in
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collaboration to bring about change. Nurses work the "front lines" and know patient needs and
can identify some disconnect in the continuum of care happens. Therefore, nurses make great
change agents. A community health course can add to professional nursing by making nurses
more culturally competent and improving communities' overall health outlook. Activities within
this course include simulation exercises that stimulate learning and bring clinical to the
classroom. The QSEN Institute (QSEN) is an accreditation authoritative body that creates and
governs learning objective and competencies for nursing programs. QSEN competencies of
informatics use technology to communicate, manage knowledge, mitigate error, and support
decision making just as the student will by doing projects to create initiatives and using
technology to communicate their plan in week 6. (QSEN Institute, 2021). QSEN competencies
include patient-centered care, teamwork and collaboration, evidence-based practice, quality
improvement, safety, and informatics. (QSEN Institute, 2021). The course overview aligns with
these principles as it outlines that the course is focused on patient-centered care and providing
quality improvement through teamwork and collaboration using evidence-based practices for
community health improvement
Cultivation of Course
The eight-week module topics will cultivate the development of the course by breaking
down the various aspects of community health into induvial topics to help the learner build
weekly on their knowledge. The topics were placed in order from foundational information that
including the history of community health. The history of community health is the best
foundational start to this course as it gives the learner insight into the developments that have
been made and changes that took place to understand how community health is shaped today and
also to identify laws and ideas that may be outdated and need to be revisited. Laws that affect
Facilitation of Context-Based Student-Centered Learning: Course Outline
Markisha Owens, BSN, RN
College of Health Professions, Western Governors University
C919: Facilitation of Context-Based Student-Centered Learning
Henrietta Hanna
August 16, 2021
, 2
Facilitation of Context-Based Student-Centered Learning: Course Outline
Nursing education is unique in that the student has to learn the theoretical concepts and
apply that knowledge in a clinical setting. This is partnered with clinical skills that must be
learned and practiced to master. A nursing instructor then is faced with the task of teaching
students to critically think. To complete the task, instructors in nursing have to adopt the
context-based learning (CBL) method. This nontraditional method of teaching is used to engage
nursing students in self-directed work. When a student-centered learning environment is created,
the student becomes the teacher and learner at the same time. Students retain more information
when they can actively learn through scenarios, teaching to peers, and other activities. This
teaching style is also known as flipping the classroom where instructors use their clinical
expertise in the classroom.
Aspects of the Course
The learner will benefit from this course by engaging in scholarly inquiry to discover the
impact of nurses on community health. By studying the history of the American healthcare
system, students will gain the foundational knowledge to challenges in community health that
affect populations. Research is an integral part of community health. Students will research
social determinants of health to gain insight into reasons for variances in disease rates in
vulnerable populations. Some specific concepts of this course include social determinants of
health, change agents, and research. These concepts will allow the student to do proper and
specific research about the community they serve, specific problems that may be due to social
determinants of health, and how they can become an agent of change and bring awareness and
change to a community. These concepts are relevant to the nursing profession as nurses are
advocates for vulnerable populations and often find themselves working with leaders in
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collaboration to bring about change. Nurses work the "front lines" and know patient needs and
can identify some disconnect in the continuum of care happens. Therefore, nurses make great
change agents. A community health course can add to professional nursing by making nurses
more culturally competent and improving communities' overall health outlook. Activities within
this course include simulation exercises that stimulate learning and bring clinical to the
classroom. The QSEN Institute (QSEN) is an accreditation authoritative body that creates and
governs learning objective and competencies for nursing programs. QSEN competencies of
informatics use technology to communicate, manage knowledge, mitigate error, and support
decision making just as the student will by doing projects to create initiatives and using
technology to communicate their plan in week 6. (QSEN Institute, 2021). QSEN competencies
include patient-centered care, teamwork and collaboration, evidence-based practice, quality
improvement, safety, and informatics. (QSEN Institute, 2021). The course overview aligns with
these principles as it outlines that the course is focused on patient-centered care and providing
quality improvement through teamwork and collaboration using evidence-based practices for
community health improvement
Cultivation of Course
The eight-week module topics will cultivate the development of the course by breaking
down the various aspects of community health into induvial topics to help the learner build
weekly on their knowledge. The topics were placed in order from foundational information that
including the history of community health. The history of community health is the best
foundational start to this course as it gives the learner insight into the developments that have
been made and changes that took place to understand how community health is shaped today and
also to identify laws and ideas that may be outdated and need to be revisited. Laws that affect
