Learning Styles
Health Care Careers
Listening, Taking Notes and Reading
Study Skills
All of It....
100

This learner prefer to read about things or watch demonstrations. They like charts, handouts, demonstrations)

Visual learner

100

A CNA stands for which type of healthcare professional

Certified Nursing Assistant

100

Identify one example of a poor listening strategy

letting distractions interrupt your train of thought

tuning out difficult material, allowing emotions to cloud your thinking

assuming material is boring, pretending to listen, listening only for facts and not ideas

listening to write down every word in your notes

100
What are you going to study??


Identify one material your instructor provide to you that can be the starting point on how and what to focus on before starting to study?

the syllabus

study guides and lecture outlines

practice exercises

assignment instructions

100

A CNA stands for which type of healthcare professional

Certified Nursing Assistant

200

This learner gains the most info though listening... (i.e. class lectures, reading aloud, Q&A lectures, videos)

Auditory Learner

200

Identify one healthcare profession that will need to use Medical Math in their career

Physician, Nurse, PT, SLP, OT

200

Identify one example of listening to signal words

On the other hand, 

Likewise

Therefore

To sum it up


200

Identify one way you can GET ORGANIZED TO STUDY?

organize by using label dividers, three wring binders, using good notes app

avoid the backpack hole

200
True or False:

Avoiding breaks during studying helps to maintain your concentration. 

False

300

This learner prefer to learn by doing. They like the hands-on approach to learning. (i.e. skill labs, group projects, volunteer/internships in their field)

Kinesthetic learners

300

True or False:

One can go to to the U.S. Department of Labor website to find information about careers in the Occupational Outlook Handbook?

True

300
True or False:

Actively texting a friend during a Lecture on how to take blood pressure readings is a form of ACTIVE Listening?

False

300

Identify one way you can find a distraction free study area. Identify one consideration when selecting our study area.

Lightening

Temperature 

Surroundings

Comfort


300

Identify one health and stress management strategy

Taking a walk, regular exercises, rest, eat a balance and nutritional diet, breathing and relaxation strategies, keep negative thoughts under control, visualize yourself achieving the goal, build a social support system

400

True or False:  

When a person learns new information, neurons increase.

True

400

True or False:  For some healthcare careers, professionals are required to take board exams. 

 Can you name one profession?

True

OT, PT, SLP, Medical Doctors, Nurses

400

Identify one way a person can learn material

memorizing, applying, interpreting info, note taking, reviewing material, rereading

400
Identify one strategy you can use to prepare your mind and body before studying

Take a walk for 5-10 min

Meditate for about 5 min,

Try to avoid caffeine

Sit quietly in a study area

400

Deep breathing and positive thinking are strategies to manage __________________ during exams

Anxiety

500

Name at least one of the three main areas of the brain, where learning takes place?

the brain stem

the cerebellum

the cerebrum

500

People who work in these careers such as medicine, nursing, physical therapist, occupational therapist, surgical technicians, home health aids  are part of which health career groupings. These individuals deliver health care directly to patients. 

Therapeutic services

500

A good place to look for a course textbook's outline of topics covered is in _______________________.

Table of Contents

500

Identify one study strategy

Pay Attention, Practice, Spaced Study, Make Associations, Use Acronyms and Acrostics, Put information in Context, Create lists, Reduce interference, Use Imagery, Use Color Coding, Think in Pictures

500

Identify one way healthcare professionals may need math skills in healthcare

Angles and Degrees

Measuring systems

Calculating dosages

Military time

Vital signs

Body Mass Index 

Billing and record keeping 

Calculating medical dosages

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