Does August’s Nurse Assisting: The Complete Guide have any accompanying resources? What are they? And how do I use them?

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Does August’s Nurse Assisting: The Complete Guide have any accompanying resources? What are they? And how do I use them?

All our textbooks have unique instructor and student resources that are free to all our adopters. Instructor resources are found on the instructor portal while student resources are available via QR codes placed throughout the text. For a full review of these resources, reach out to our team to schedule a demo by clicking the demo button.

Throughout this textbook your students will find QR codes. When scanned with the camera on a device, students can access all types of content to further their comprehension of key topics. Students can also access additional information, skills videos, and self-assessment quizzes. A directory of all student resources available for this textbook can be found by scanning the QR code in the visual walkthrough.

Let’s briefly review instructor resources for this textbook and some ways you can incorporate them into your course.

When you adopt this textbook you, as an instructor, get access to:

Classroom resources. These documents provide overviews of the content of each chapter, student exercises like Get Up and Think! And Reflect on This!, skill prioritization exercises, and classroom activities.

These resources are meant to add real-world learning opportunities to your classroom. Use the exercises as activities for students in class, role-play scenarios, and have your students react and learn in real-time.

PowerPoint Presentations. These lecture tools provide overviews of each chapter with key topics highlighted and follow the organization of the chapter itself.

These resources are meant to ease the burden of instructors during theory courses and give you a great starting point for lecture outlines.

Test banks and final exams. These files contain multiple choice questions that will test your students on their knowledge of the content within each chapter.

Use these resources as quizzes and tests in your course. You can download Word files to print and hand out as paper exams. Or, download the QTI files for upload into your LMS for easy, auto-grading exams.

Skills videos. Access our skills videos for the 21-tested skills on the instructor portal or copy and paste the links into your LMS so your students can view them in tandem with the content.

Electronic Health Recording Exercises. Let your students practice their documentation skills with these online exercises that simulate real-world documentation scenarios.

Each exercise presents a case study then asks students to document as they would on the job. Receive real-time feedback and use these as teaching tools in your course.

Case studies. These documents contain case studies for common scenarios your students will see on the job along with prompts for your students to interact with that scenario.

Utilize these resources in class to promote discussion and real-world problem solving.

Activities and worksheets. These resources offer you even more in-class material and helpful student handouts and worksheets. Topics include critical thinking activities, note-taking exercises, and other worksheets that can double as quizzes.

Additional resources. You will also find additional teaching resources covering topics like COVID-19, medications, and expanded skills.

Workbook answers. If you are utilizing the workbook in your course, all the answers to the workbook questions are available to make grading a breeze. These files are also available as QTI files for upload into your LMS. Not using an LMS but want your students to electronically submit workbook answers? Utilize the interactive workbook answer sheets.

For more information on these resources and how to use them, schedule a demo with our team by clicking the demo button.

Have more questions? Check out our other FAQ videos or reach out to our team! We can’t wait to work with you.