Gestalt Principles in Learning a Skill: Blood Pressure
Trial-and-Error
What blood pressure reading would require nursing action?
Is there a problem if the cuff is too small or too big?
- Structure the skill into organized simple steps
- Encourage experimentation and multiple attempts
- The blood pressure reading is the effect of the "whole"event.
- Present information in the form of a question or present challenges
What blood pressure reading would require nursing action?
Is there a problem if the cuff is too small or too big?
- Encourage innovation and creativity in finding new solutions
- Discuss how to obtain a blood pressure with only the tools that are available at the time
- Use tables and algorithms to organize information
- Use case studies to arrange and rearrange the information to find solutions.
- Use case studies to transfer past learning to future scenarios