Yep, whip those phones out nursing students!  Make sure you have the NANDA app downloaded to your smart phone.

NANDA, once known as North American Nursing Diagnosis Association, offers nurses and students standardization in assessing and treating their patients.  NANDA has a collection of nursing diagnoses and can be accessed through technology via application with a smart device.

In searching for my triggering question, Can nursing students use the NANDA 2017 app in the clinical setting to guide nursing care plans as well as gain new knowledge pertinent to the clinical details of their patient?  I used the third and fourth performance indicators in the ISTE Standard 4: Critical Thinking, Problem-Solving and Decision Making to guide my search for an answer!  Below is my coggle for this search!

I thought that the required reading for this module, A Creative Thinking Approach to Enhancing the Web-based Problem Solving Performance of University Students was very interesting.  It suggests that problem-solving is built on a scaffolding model of fact finding, problem finding, idea finding, and solution finding.  It also suggests that this type of learning method is more effective for the intuitive type student compared to the analytical type student.  A nursing student develops his or her intuition during nursing school and during the first years spent as a registered nurse.  I think that this method is an effective way for nursing students to gain new knowledge from web-based sources.

Introduce the NANDA app.  This app is invaluable for students in writing nursing care plans.  

Students can use the information provided in this app to acknowledge significant clinical detail about their patient and create actions to improve clinical status of their patients.  The accessibility of the application can encourage students to excel in their nursing plans.  I believe the answer to this question for Module 4 is a complete yes!  I am excited to use this application in my future opportunities as a nursing instructor.

References

A creative thinking approach to enhancing the web-based problem solving performance of university students. (2013). Computers and Education, 72, 220–230.

NANDA International Inc. (2017). Nursing diagnoses: definitions and classifications. Retrieved August 9, 2017, from http://www.nanda.org/nanda-international-nursing-diagnoses-definitions-and-classification.html

Student Resources: Nursing Diagnoses. (2016). Retrieved August 16, 2016, from http://allnurses.com/nursing-study-tips/student-resources-nursing-424826.html