1106 - Analyze, Create, Evaluate: ACE Assignments for Acing Nursing

As nursing educators, we have conditioned ourselves into test item writing specialists. We constantly attend educational offerings where we practice writing new questions, work in small groups, use writing prompts, and learn. Then we work diligently to flip the classroom, use groundbreaking technology to excite students into learning to evaluate them using exam questions. This cycle of assigning reading, taking attendance, active participation, lecture, discussion, and everything that we do produces nursing graduates who pass NCLEX, and that is impressive.

After the semester is finished, when we come back to do it all again, do you question if they have forgotten much of what we have tirelessly taught them. Do you experience frustration during the second faculty meeting of the following semester when you hear that the students (who just completed your course) have reported that they don't know specific lab values or medications? Maybe it is time to flip more than just the classroom; it is time to raise our eye from the middle of Bloom's Taxonomy and allow the students to ACE nursing. We will share why allowing students to Analyze, Create, and Evaluate is an effective method of educational preparation and why your students will be able to use ACE as a tool to be successful in nursing courses NCLEX.