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Fellow:Miranda Gajda

2017-10-20T02:53:11Z

Miranda Gajda:

Hi!

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My name is Miranda Gajda and I am a nursing student at York College of Pennsylvania. I am also a member of the Graham Innovation Scholars on campus.Through this program, we learn how to use design thinking and apply it to our everyday life. This is how I got involved on the University Innovation Fellow program to further my knowledge and ability to work with innovation and entrepreneurship. 

On campus, I am also a First Year Experience Fellow. In this role, I act as a student mentor to the freshman on campus, bridging the gap from high school to college. I present mini-lessons to the class educating them on topics such as time management, fun activities on campus, and housing registration. I also am in charge of planning events for freshman to attend to socialize and meet new people while becoming more comfortable with campus. I am also an Anatomy and Physiology laboratory assistant. Here I help students to understand concepts and teach them study methods for the class. 

I am currently employed at Evangelical Community Hospital as a Nursing Assistant. There I am able to interact with patients and care for them while I attend nursing school. This is a great experience to get more interaction with the field I will eventually work in. I am also employed at Ideal Pediatric and Adolescent Care. This is a pediatric office where I have similar duties as a nursing assistant to triage patients and take their vitals. There I am able to work with pediatric patients and their families. In the future, I hope to work in the pediatric field of medicine. 

In my free time, I am a very active person. I am an avid runner and swimmer competing in community races I also enjoy CrossFit and competing in Crossfit competitions. In the summer I love to participate in the Tough Mudder races for the wounded warrior project. 

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2017-10-20T02:51:08Z

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2017-10-20T02:50:56Z

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2017-10-20T02:41:13Z

Miranda Gajda:

Hi!   

My name is Miranda Gajda and I am a nursing student at York College of Pennsylvania. I am also a member of the Graham Innovation Scholars on Through this program, we learn how to use design thinking and apply it to our everyday life. This is how I got involved on the University Innovation Fellow program to further my knowledge and ability to work with innovation and entrepreneurship. 

On campus, I am also a First Year Experience Fellow. In this role, I act as a student mentor to the freshman on campus, bridging the gap from high school to college. I present mini-lessons to the class educating them on topics such as time management, fun activities on campus, and housing registration. I also am in charge of planning events for freshman to attend to socialize and meet new people while becoming more comfortable with campus. I am also an Anatomy and Physiology laboratory assistant. Here I help students to understand concepts and teach them study methods for the class. 

I am currently employed at Evangelical Community Hospital as a Nursing Assistant. There I am able to interact with patients and care for them while I attend nursing school. This is a great experience to get more interaction with the field I will eventually work in. I am also employed at Ideal Pediatric and Adolescent Care. This is a pediatric office where I have similar duties as a nursing assistant to triage patients and take their vitals. There I am able to work with pediatric patients and their families. In the future, I hope to work in the pediatric field of medicine. 

In my free time, I am a very active person. I am an avid runner and swimmer competing in community races I also enjoy CrossFit and competing in Crossfit competitions. In the summer I love to participate in the Tough Mudder races for the wounded warrior project. 

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User:Miranda Gajda

2017-10-20T02:36:50Z

Miranda Gajda:

Hi!

My name is Miranda Gajda and I am a nursing student at York College of Pennsylvania. I am also a member of the Graham Innovation Scholars on http://universityinnovation.org/extensions/WYSIWYG/ckeditor/skins/kama/images/noimage.png?t=B49E5BQcampus.Through this program, we learn how to use design thinking and apply it to our everyday life. This is how I got involved on the University Innovation Fellow program to further my knowledge and ability to work with innovation and entrepreneurship. 

On campus, I am also a First Year Experience Fellow. In this role, I act as a student mentor to the freshman on campus, bridging the gap from high school to college. I present mini-lessons to the class educating them on topics such as time management, fun activities on campus, and housing registration. I also am in charge of planning events for freshman to attend to socialize and meet new people while becoming more comfortable with campus. I am also an Anatomy and Physiology laboratory assistant. Here I help students to understand concepts and teach them study methods for the class. 

I am currently employed at Evangelical Community Hospital as a Nursing Assistant. There I am able to interact with patients and care for them while I attend nursing school. This is a great experience to get more interaction with the field I will eventually work in. I am also employed at Ideal Pediatric and Adolescent Care. This is a pediatric office where I have similar duties as a nursing assistant to triage patients and take their vitals. There I am able to work with pediatric patients and their families. In the future, I hope to work in the pediatric field of medicine. 

In my free time, I am a very active person. I am an avid runner and swimmer competing in community races I also enjoy CrossFit and competing in Crossfit competitions. In the summer I love to participate in the Tough Mudder races for the wounded warrior project. 

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[[York College of Pennsylvania|York College of Pennsylvania]]

[[York College of Pennsylvania Student Priorities|York College of Pennsylvania Student Priorities]]

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[[User:Victoriacox|Victoria Cox]]

[[User:Benhinkel|Ben Hinkel]]

[[User:Rvandemark|Nick Vandemark]]

[[User:Jkershner|John Kershner]]

[[User:Vferrisycp|Vivian Ferris]]

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User:Miranda Gajda

2017-10-19T02:45:16Z

Miranda Gajda:

Hi!

My name is Miranda Gajda and I am a nursing student at York College of Pennsylvania. I am also a member of the Graham Innovation Scholars on campus.Through this program, we learn how to use design thinking and apply it to our everyday life. This is how I got involved on the University Innovation Fellow program to further my knowledge and ability to work with innovation and entrepreneurship. 

On campus, I am also a First Year Experience Fellow. In this role, I act as a student mentor to the freshman on campus, bridging the gap from high school to college. I present mini-lessons to the class educating them on topics such as time management, fun activities on campus, and housing registration. I also am in charge of planning events for freshman to attend to socialize and meet new people while becoming more comfortable with campus. I am also an Anatomy and Physiology laboratory assistant. Here I help students to understand concepts and teach them study methods for the class. 

I am currently employed at Evangelical Community Hospital as a Nursing Assistant. There I am able to interact with patients and care for them while I attend nursing school. This is a great experience to get more interaction with the field I will eventually work in. I am also employed at Ideal Pediatric and Adolescent Care. This is a pediatric office where I have similar duties as a nursing assistant to triage patients and take their vitals. There I am able to work with pediatric patients and their families. In the future, I hope to work in the pediatric field of medicine. 

In my free time, I am a very active person. I am an avid runner and swimmer competing in community races I also enjoy CrossFit and competing in Crossfit competitions. In the summer I love to participate in the Tough Mudder races for the wounded warrior project. 

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2017-10-19T02:35:23Z

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2017-09-09T18:46:49Z

Miranda Gajda:

Hi!

My name is Miranda Gajda and I am a nursing student at York College of Pennsylvania. I am also a member of the Graham Innovation Scholars on camus.Through this program we learn how to use design thinking and apply it to our everyday life. This is how I got involved on the University Innovation Fellow program to further my knowledge and ability to work with innovation and entrepreneurship. 

On campus I am also a First Year Experience Fellow. In this role I act as a student mentor to the freshman on campus,brdging the gap from high school to college. I present mini lessons to the class educating them on topics such as time management, fun activities on campus, and housing registration. I also am incharge of planning events for freshman to attent to socializze and meet new peole while becoming more comfortbale with campus. I am also an Anatomy and Physiology laboratory assistant. Here I help stuendts to understand concepts and teach them study methods for the class. 

I am currently employed at Evangelical Community Hospital as a Nursing Assistant. There I am able to interact with patients and care for them while I attend nursing school. This is a great experience to get more interaction with the field I will eventually work in. I am also emplyed at Ideal Pediactric and Adolescent Care. This is a pediactric office where I have similar duties as a nursing assistant to triage patients and take thier vitals. There I am able to work with pediactric patients and their families. In the future, I hope to work in the pediactric feild of medicine. 

In me free time, I am a ery active person. I am an avid runner and swimmer competing in community races I also enjoy CrossFit and competinig in Crossfit competitions. In the summer I love to participate in the Tough Mudder races for the wounded warrior project. 

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Resource:How to engage nursing programs in I&E

2017-09-09T01:13:52Z

Miranda Gajda:

= The Event =

An event that really stood out and worked well to incorporate multiple disciplines of study like nursing, was an innovation and entrepreneurship RUSH event. This event took place over four days to help and build suspense to the final day of makeathon.

The first night consisted of a movie night. An inspirational entrepreneurial film was used that displayed the aspects of innovation and entrepreneurship. Although the event was not highly attended it was still exposure and advertising throughout the campus that was generating talk and attention.

The second night was a series of pop up events. Each pop up was a different station of ideas. One was based around design thinking, including activities that were applying the principles and techniques used when completing a task using design thinking. Another station broke down the design thinking model further and was strictly prototyping. This would allow the students to get a first hand experience at how amazing design thinking can be.

The third night consisted of a conference where there was a discussion based night to get people expressing their thoughts about design thinking, while also still spreading awareness.

The final night was the makeathon. This was the most attended and most successful night of the RUSH. There were 70 students in attendance from 21 different majors. The students were placed into groups and tasked with prototyping something that allowed them to either survive or escape a deserted island. All groups were full of students from different disciplines.

= Target Audience =

The audience of this event was all students of different disciplines. However it could easily be targeted to a defined discipline of students such as nursing while not excluding other areas of study. To be more appealing to nursing students you could center the makeathon prompt around a medical problem. Then also advertise this to other fields of study to help promote interdisciplinary group work and learning.

= The Message =

The main message of this event was to generate more interest and spread awareness of innovation and entrepreneurship. This was advertized through campus with posters as well as word of mouth.

= Lessons Learned =

The first and third night of this event was not well attended, however the real turnout came in the fourth night. The first three events were still important to increase awareness as well as generate word of mouth from those who attended. Something to keep in mind is your target audience and how best tailor the advertisements and event activities to their interests, while still pushing them outside their comfort zone.

= Further Events =

Another way that nursing students could be targeted is by getting design thinking and entrepreneurial innovation directly into their curriculum. With nurses their schedules are so packed that it can be difficult for them to justify taking extra time or credit space to learn this vital information.

An example of a class that could be implemented would be to have students go into the hospital and interview people such as doctors, patients, family members of patients, nurses, radiologists, dietary services, sanitation engineers, etc. These interviews would consist of discussions asking what can be done to improve patient care. Once they had conducted a vast collection of interviews then they would synthesize them and identify a common problem, or a problem that they find important to improve. Next, they would prototype a solution to improve this chosen problem. Students would implement their prototype into the clinical setting. This would help to make the design thinking process more concrete as well as demonstrate how in everyday situations this process can be used.

To begin implementing this one or more faculty mentors in the nursing program would have to be on board with the idea and process, as well as be educated in the design thinking process. Then a sponsor would need to be identified as well as a hospital or clinical medical setting to conduct the interviews in. The faculty mentors would have connections to the directors of the nursing program as well as to those that will need to be contacted to put this class into curriculum.

Ideally this class would eventually become required for nursing students. However this can be modified to other disciplines as well as opened up to others to join the class. However, as of all majors, nursing does not have a lot of wiggle room for the curriculum. Thus, it will be difficult for us to justify that this class should be taken by the students. Therefore, that is why we need to push to have the class become required in the curriculum rather than as an elective.  

Implementing this type of a class into any disciplines curriculum would allow those students to be exposed to the beautiful way of thinking, design thinking.
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Resource:How to engage nursing programs in I&E

2017-09-09T01:09:44Z

Miranda Gajda:

= The Event =

An event that really stood out and worked well to incorporate multiple disciplines of study like nursing, was an innovation and entrepreneurship RUSH event. This event took place over four days to help and build suspense to the final day of makeathon.

The first night consisted of a movie night. An inspirational entrepreneurial film was used that displayed the aspects of innovation and entrepreneurship. Although the event was not highly attended it was still exposure and advertising throughout the campus that was generating talk and attention.

The second night was a series of pop up events. Each pop up was a different station of ideas. One was based around design thinking, including activities that were applying the principles and techniques used when completing a task using design thinking. Another station broke down the design thinking model further and was strictly prototyping. This would allow the students to get a first hand experience at how amazing design thinking can be.

The third night consisted of a conference where there was a discussion based night to get people expressing their thoughts about design thinking, while also still spreading awareness.

The final night was the makeathon. This was the most attended and most successful night of the RUSH. There were 70 students in attendance from 21 different majors. The students were placed into groups and tasked with prototyping something that allowed them to either survive or escape a deserted island. All groups were full of students from different disciplines.

= Target Audience =

The audience of this event was all students of different disciplines. However it could easily be targeted to a defined discipline of students such as nursing while not excluding other areas of study. To be more appealing to nursing students you could center the makeathon prompt around a medical problem. Then also advertise this to other fields of study to help promote interdisciplinary group work and learning.

= The Message =

The main message of this event was to generate more interest and spread awareness of innovation and entrepreneurship. This was advertized through campus with posters as well as word of mouth.

= Lessons Learned =

The first and third night of this event was not well attended, however the real turnout came in the fourth night. The first three events were still important to increase awareness as well as generate word of mouth from those who attended. Something to keep in mind is your target audience and how best tailor the advertisements and event activities to their interests, while still pushing them outside their comfort zone.

= Further Events =

Another way that nursing students could be targeted is by getting design thinking and entrepreneurial innovation directly into their curriculum. With nurses their schedules are so packed that it can be difficult for them to justify taking extra time or credit space to learn this vital information.

An example of a class that could be implemented would be to have students go into the hospital and interview people such as doctors, patients, family members of patients, nurses, radiologists, dietary services, sanitation engineers, etc. These interviews would consist of discussions asking what can be done to improve patient care. Once they had conducted a vast collection of interviews then they would synthesize them and identify a common problem, or a problem that they find important to improve. Next, they would prototype a solution to improve this chosen problem. Students would implement their prototype into the clinical setting. This would help to make the design thinking process more concrete as well as demonstrate how in everyday situations this process can be used.

To begin implementing this one or more faculty mentors in the nursing program would have to be on board with the idea and process, as well as be educated in the design thinking process. Then a sponsor would need to be identified as well as a hospital or clinical medical setting to conduct the interviews in. The faculty mentors would have connections to the directors of the nursing program as well as to those that will need to be contacted to put this class into curriculum.

Ideally this class would eventually become required for nursing students. However this can be modified to other disciplines as well as opened up to others to join the class. However, as of all majors, nursing does not have a lot of wiggle room for the curriculum. Thus, it will be difficult for us to justify that this class should be taken by the students. Therefore, that is why we need to push to have the class become required in the curriculum rather than as an elective.  

Implementing this type of a class into any disciplines curriculum would allow those students to be exposed to the beautiful way of thinking, design thinking.
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2017-09-09T00:51:58Z

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2017-09-09T00:51:40Z

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My name is Miranda Gajda and I am a nursing student at York College of Pennsylvania. I am also a member of the Graham Innovation Scholars on camus.Through this program we learn how to use design thinking and apply it to our everyday life. This is how I got involved on the University Innovation Fellow program to further my knowledge and ability to work with innovation and entrepreneurship. 

On campus I am also a First Year Experience Fellow. In this role I act as a student mentor to the freshman on campus,brdging the gap from high school to college. I present mini lessons to the class educating them on topics such as time management, fun activities on campus, and housing registration. I also am incharge of planning events for freshman to attent to socializze and meet new peole while becoming more comfortbale with campus. I am also an Anatomy and Physiology laboratory assistant. Here I help stuendts to understand concepts and teach them study methods for the class. 

I am currently employed at Evangelical Community Hospital as a Nursing Assistant. There I am able to interact with patients and care for them while I attend nursing school. This is a great experience to get more interaction with the field I will eventually work in. I am also emplyed at Ideal Pediactric and Adolescent Care. This is a pediactric office where I have similar duties as a nursing assistant to triage patients and take thier vitals. There I am able to work with pediactric patients and their families. In the future, I hope to work in the pediactric feild of medicine. 

In me free time, I am a ery active person. I am an avid runner and swimmer competing in community races I also enjoy CrossFit and competinig in Crossfit competitions. In the summer I love to participate in the Tough Mudder races for the wounded warrior project.

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2017-09-09T00:51:30Z

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===  HI! ===

My name is Miranda Gajda and I am a nursing student at York College of Pennsylvania. I am also a member of the Graham Innovation Scholars on camus.Through this program we learn how to use design thinking and apply it to our everyday life. This is how I got involved on the University Innovation Fellow program to further my knowledge and ability to work with innovation and entrepreneurship. 

On campus I am also a First Year Experience Fellow. In this role I act as a student mentor to the freshman on campus,brdging the gap from high school to college. I present mini lessons to the class educating them on topics such as time management, fun activities on campus, and housing registration. I also am incharge of planning events for freshman to attent to socializze and meet new peole while becoming more comfortbale with campus. I am also an Anatomy and Physiology laboratory assistant. Here I help stuendts to understand concepts and teach them study methods for the class. 

I am currently employed at Evangelical Community Hospital as a Nursing Assistant. There I am able to interact with patients and care for them while I attend nursing school. This is a great experience to get more interaction with the field I will eventually work in. I am also emplyed at Ideal Pediactric and Adolescent Care. This is a pediactric office where I have similar duties as a nursing assistant to triage patients and take thier vitals. There I am able to work with pediactric patients and their families. In the future, I hope to work in the pediactric feild of medicine. 

In me free time, I am a ery active person. I am an avid runner and swimmer competing in community races I also enjoy CrossFit and competinig in Crossfit competitions. In the summer I love to participate in the Tough Mudder races for the wounded warrior project.

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2017-09-09T00:50:15Z

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HI!

My name is Miranda Gajda and I am a nursing student at York College of Pennsylvania. I am also a member of the Graham Innovation Scholars on camus.Through this program we learn how to use design thinking and apply it to our everyday life. This is how I got involved on the University Innovation Fellow program to further my knowledge and ability to work with innovation and entrepreneurship. 

On campus I am also a First Year Experience Fellow. In this role I act as a student mentor to the freshman on campus,brdging the gap from high school to college. I present mini lessons to the class educating them on topics such as time management, fun activities on campus, and housing registration. I also am incharge of planning events for freshman to attent to socializze and meet new peole while becoming more comfortbale with campus. I am also an Anatomy and Physiology laboratory assistant. Here I help stuendts to understand concepts and teach them study methods for the class. 

I am currently employed at Evangelical Community Hospital as a Nursing Assistant. There I am able to interact with patients and care for them while I attend nursing school. This is a great experience to get more interaction with the field I will eventually work in. I am also emplyed at Ideal Pediactric and Adolescent Care. This is a pediactric office where I have similar duties as a nursing assistant to triage patients and take thier vitals. There I am able to work with pediactric patients and their families. In the future, I hope to work in the pediactric feild of medicine. 

In me free time, I am a ery active person. I am an avid runner and swimmer competing in community races I also enjoy CrossFit and competinig in Crossfit competitions. In the summer I love to participate in the Tough Mudder races for the wounded warrior project.

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2017-09-09T00:40:34Z

Miranda Gajda:

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2017-09-09T00:39:47Z

Miranda Gajda:

HI!

My name is Miranda Gajda and I am a nursing student at York College of Pennsylvania. I am also a member of the Graham Innovation Scholars on camus.Through this program we learn how to use design thinking and apply it to our everyday life. This is how I got involved on the University Innovation Fellow program to further my knowledge and ability to work with innovation and entrepreneurship. 

On campus I am also a First Year Experience Fellow. In this role I act as a student mentor to the freshman on campus,brdging the gap from high school to college. I present mini lessons to the class educating them on topics such as time management, fun activities on campus, and housing registration. I also am incharge of planning events for freshman to attent to socializze and meet new peole while becoming more comfortbale with campus. I am also an Anatomy and Physiology laboratory assistant. Here I help stuendts to understand concepts and teach them study methods for the class. 

I am currently employed at Evangelical Community Hospital as a Nursing Assistant. There I am able to interact with patients and care for them while I attend nursing school. This is a great experience to get more interaction with the field I will eventually work in. I am also emplyed at Ideal Pediactric and Adolescent Care. This is a pediactric office where I have similar duties as a nursing assistant to triage patients and take thier vitals. There I am able to work with pediactric patients and their families. In the future, I hope to work in the pediactric feild of medicine. 

In me free time, I am a ery active person. I am an avid runner and swimmer competing in community races I also enjoy CrossFit and competinig in Crossfit competitions. In the summer I love to participate in the Tough Mudder races for the wounded warrior project. 

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2017-09-09T00:39:39Z

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2017-09-09T00:38:16Z

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Resource:How to engage nursing programs in I&E

2017-09-09T00:08:37Z

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Resource:How to engage nursing programs in I&E

2017-09-08T23:44:07Z

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= The Event =

An event that really stood out and worked well to incorporate multiple disciplines of study like nursing, was an innovation and entrepreneurship RUSH event. This event took place over four days to help and build suspense to the final day of makeathon.

The first night consisted of a movie night. An inspirational entrepreneurial film that displayed the aspects of innovation and entrepreneurship. Although the event was not highly attended it was swill exposure and advertising throughout the campus that was generating talk and attention.

The second night was a series of pop up events. Each pop up was a different station of ideas. One was based around design thinking, including activities that were applying the principles and techniques used when completing a task using design thinking. Another station broke down the design thinking model further and was strictly prototyping. This would allow the students to get a first hand experience at how amazing design thinking can be.

The third night consisted of a conference where there was a discussion based night to get people expressing their thoughts about design thinking, while also still spreading awareness.

The final night was the makeathon. This was the most attended and most successful night of the RUSH. There were 70 students in attendance from 21 different majors. The students were placed into groups and tasked with prototyping something that allowed them to either survive or escape a deserted island. All groups were full of students from different disciplines.

= Target Audience =

The audience of this event was all students of different disciplines. However it could easily be targeted to a defined discipline of students such as nursing while not excluding other areas of study. To be more appealing to nursing students you could center the makeathon prompt around a medical problem. Then also advertise this to other fields of study to help promote interdisciplinary group work and learning.

= The Message =

The main message of this event was to generate more interest and spread awareness of innovation and entrepreneurship. This was advertized through campus with posters as well as word of mouth.

 

= Lessons Learned =

The first and third night of this event was not well attended, however the real turnout came in the fourth night. The first three events were still important to increase awareness as well as generate word of mouth from those who attended. Something to keep in mind is your target audience and how best tailor the advertisements and event activities to their interests, while still pushing them outside their comfort zone.

= Further Events =

Another way that nursing students could be targeted is by getting design thinking and entrepreneurial innovation directly into their curriculum. With nurses their schedules are so packed that it can be difficult for them to justify taking extra time or credit space to learn this vital information.

An example of a class that could be implemented would be to have students go into the hospital and interview people such as doctors, patients, family members of patients, nurses, radiologists, dietary services, sanitation engineers, etc. These interviews would consist of discussions asking what can be done to improve patient care. Once they had conducted a vast collection of interviews then they would synthesize them and identify a common problem, or a problem that they find important to improve. Next, they would prototype a solution to improve this chosen problem. Students would implement their prototype into the clinical setting. This would help to make the design thinking process more concrete as well as demonstrate how in everyday situations this process can be used.

To begin implementing this one or more faculty mentors in the nursing program would have to be on board with the idea and process, as well as be educated in the design thinking process. Then a sponsor would need to be identified as well as a hospital or clinical medical setting to conduct the interviews in. The faculty mentors would have connections to the directors of the nursing program as well as to those that will need to be contacted to put this class into curriculum.

Ideally this class would eventually become required for nursing students. However this can be modified to other disciplines as well as opened up to others to join the class. However, as of amn majors, nursing does not have a lot of wiggle room for the curriculum. Thus, it will be difficult for us to justify that this class should be taken by the students. Therefore, that is why we need to push to have the class become required in the curriculum rather than as an elective.  

Implementing this type of a class into any disciplines curriculum would allow those students to be exposed to the beautiful way of thinking, design thinking.
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2017-09-08T19:05:30Z

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