Teaching Strategy Description: New hires are asked to think about what public health practice includes, how it differs from acute care and to think of the values they think are important in public health practice. They are then asked to read key documents (Ottawa Charter, Jakarta Declaration, Ontario Public Health Standards, the Toronto Public Health […]
Teaching Strategy Description: Students are divided into groups of eight. Within the group, students arrange themselves in pairs and select one of the four practice tools (see Resources). Students are given a narrative of a population health issue, (e.g. increasing non-intentional injuries among children in an urban community). The student pairs then prepare, based on […]
Teaching Strategy Description: Stations are set up around the classroom with various mini-activities related to factors that affect health and nursing interventions for optimal client care. For example, one station might be a jeopardy game that quizzes students on pre-class readings. Teaching Context: Public Health Nursing Theory courses References: N/A Submitted by: Cheyenne Mary, […]
Teaching Strategy Description: Students line up against the back wall of the classroom. The instructor reads out a variety of life circumstances, opportunities, and setbacks and students step forward for positive circumstances and back for negative ones, as they apply to their life or the life of a person they are representing. By the end, […]
Teaching Strategy Description: Students travel to different rural and remote northern Aboriginal communities, including one week of immersion in a remote community, giving students the opportunity to learn about the influence of culture and geography on health. There are in-class learning activities on cultural competence, cultural safety, health status indicators, etc., to prepare them for […]
Teaching Strategy Description: Students are responsible for facilitating group discussion by developing 5 – 6 questions that integrate the core concepts of the readings with community practice placements. The reflective reader strategy integrates weekly readings, media presentations, practice placements examples and critical thinking with specific weekly concepts. Teaching Context: Third year course: Community and Societal […]
Skills Online is a continuing education program developed by, and offered through the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC). It offers a collection of self-directed and facilitated modules that help build the skills and knowledge necessary to meet the Core Competencies for Public Health in Canada: Release 1.0 (PHAC, 2007). The Modules contain content specific […]