NET2019 - Developing reasoning skills through an interactive learning activity

This presentation showcases an interactive teaching activity that introduces learners to the complexity of problem-solving, decision-making and clinical reasoning. Using cost-effective teaching props (a set of boxes), participants follow a predetermined sequence of events, which challenge what they see, hear and experience. The deceptively simple six-stage learning design facilitates lively classroom discussion and the teaching approach is easily transferable to other healthcare situations requiring the development of complex reasoning skills. Whilst developed for Nursing students in New Zealand, the activity was recently published as a teaching resource for international tertiary educators.