POV: Nurses After a 12-Hour Shift… a Continuing Education Edition
Exhausted after a string of long shifts? See how nurses can still complete CE effectively with smart learning strategies that don’t bore you into an oblivion.
Nurse Gwenny is known for her wacky teaching style and love of queso.
In between shifts, sometimes it’s hard to make time for CNEs, let alone a healthy meal!
Sometimes when you sit down to work on your nursing license renewal, even simple CE tasks can feel overwhelming.
What’s the solution? Microlearning.
Microlearning is a technique that takes longer forms of content and breaks it down into lessons that are 2-5 minute segments. This allows nurses, EMTs, and paramedics to complete courses without burnout.
On-demand access to this form of nursing education content means lessons can fit into breaks or commutes. Even if that commute is a trip to the bathroom because your gut health has been a bit neglected!
(We all take phones with us when we go to the bathroom. Why not chip away at some CEs before your next flush???)
NurseDose Podcast - Cardiac Pharmacology 1 CNE Course from The Nurse Gwenny Library
Is it time to change up your CE source?
Okay, so maybe that’s a bit extreme, but it’s hard to find someone who isn’t on at least one social media platform. Culture has changed how most of us learn and we understand that learning content needs to meet people where they’re at. Critical care & pre-hospital education is no different.
NO MORE BORING He@lth $tre@m$!!!
The Nurse Gwenny Library provides access to flexible, bite-sized lessons we call BYTES. The NurseDose Podcast content featured in this article is packed with 36 small bytes. These nuggets come with practical examples that make continuing education manageable, even after a long shift. (I almost wrote $hit. It works then, too. Or even during a long $hit. Just remember to wipe, flush, and wash your hands.)
