Question

Select two essential psychomotor skills for a clinical course or courses in nursing. Discuss how you might collaborate with an LRC person to facilitate student performance with the skills you selected.

Answer 1

Pyschomotor skills are any skills which involve intentional movement. They are different from the interpersonal and cognitive skills. It is essential to understand that proper implementation of psychomotor skills requires both cognitive and interpersonal skills. For this we have to interact with patients

In nursing it is very essential to learn these skill for the patient care .

Following are essential psychomotor skills for a clinical course or nursing course .

1) starting iv

2) taking vital signs

3) operating hospital equipments

4) Drawing and administring medications

5) Routine care of patients

6) Hygiene

7) setting up a sterile field

8) Inserting an NG tube

These skills collaboratoe with the LC of a person to improve the students performance with the indulgence of skills as it requires

Opportunities for repatitive practice combined with compliment from experts.

1) Level one is the imitation where the students to watch instructors performings skills.

2) The nursing instructor can encourage psychomotor learning by assesing what level of learning each student's skill fall into and then challenging the students to progress up the learning levels.