Webinars – Health Science

Schools across the country are starting new dental assistant pathway programs to address increasing demand. During this webinar, Realityworks Product Manager and National Consortium for Health Science Education Executive Council Member Denise DuBois will walk participants through key concepts needed in these programs and show you how you can align tools and curriculum that Realityworks offers to help jumpstart your courses.

Attendees will:

• Review steps for building a dental assistant program from scratch
• Discover curriculum and hands-on resources that will save planning time
• Find out from the Dental Assisting National Board how to align program content with the NELDA certification
• Receive free assets you can use immediately

Presented by:
Denise DuBois, PMC, Realityworks Product Manager and National Consortium for Health Science Education Executive Council Member
Jen Hawley Price, MAS, MA, Chief Partnership and Engagement Officer, DANB and the DALE Foundation

Webinar (37:19)

Join Realityworks Health Science Product Manager Molly Kellgren for a free product demonstration of the award-winning RealCare™ Geriatric Simulator. You’ll see her demonstrate key features and learn how this experience helps students develop a unique sensitivity and understanding towards the elderly.

Presented by Molly Kellgren, PhD, RN, Health Science Product Manager

Webinar (18:47)

As our older population increases, demand for nurses and caregivers trained to work with geriatric patients will grow. Watch this on-demand presentation to get ideas for engaging today’s students and helping them develop empathy and sensitivity toward older patients, including tools for creating realistic simulations when patient interaction is not possible.

Presented by Emily Kurth, Communications Specialist

Webinar (30:50)

Do your health science students remember fractions, decimals, and percentages? Are you spending valuable class time reviewing basic math principles with your students before you even begin to teach your own course content? If you find yourself in the role of a remedial math instructor for the first week or two of each semester, then this presentation is for you. Watch it anytime to get tips for teaching basic math skills, ideas for integrating foundational math concepts into your CTE lessons, and free resources for teaching math review so you can teach the CTE skills you need. Presented by Molly Kellgren, PhD, RN, Health Science Product Manager

Presented by Molly Kellgren, PhD, RN, Health Science Product Manager

Webinar (22:17)

You’re invited to learn more about a one-of-a-kind training tooling that helps students teach and practice proper techniques for taking blood pressure prior to the actual clinical setting. Join Realityworks Health Science Product Manager Molly Kellgren for a free product demonstration of Realityworks’ Blood Pressure Simulator. You’ll learn key features of this wearable trainer and how to use this training tool to help students distinguish blood pressure sounds and Korotkoff phases.

Presented by Molly Kellgren, PhD, RN, Health Science Product Manager

Webinar (5:45)

Schools across the country are starting new sports medicine pathway programs to address increasing demand for professionals knowledgeable in safe and effective exercise. During this webinar, Realityworks Product Manager Denise DuBois will walk participants through key concepts needed in these programs and show you how you can align tools and curriculum that Realityworks offers to help jumpstart your courses.

Join us to:

• Review steps for building a sports medicine program from scratch
• Discover curriculum and hands-on resources that will save planning time
• Receive free assets you can use immediately

Presented by Denise DuBois, Product Manager

Webinar (21:24)

Students in healthcare and educational fields share an important commonality: all of these future workers will become mandated reporters. Unfortunately, researchers have generally found that most mandated reporters have inadequate training on identifying and reporting child abuse and elder abuse. Ensuring mandated reporters are adequately trained is essential in promoting positive outcomes for the people they serve. In this free presentation, you’ll get ideas for engaging today’s students in these sensitive topics, including tools for creating realistic simulations and role-play scenarios. 

Attendees will:

• Learn how to help students understand the fact that they will become future mandatory reporters
• Get tips and ideas for teaching students to recognize and report the four common types of child abuse
• Review Realityworks’ own interactive tools for teaching abuse topics
• Discover free resources you can use immediately

Presented by Denise DuBois, Product Manager

Webinar (41:24)

Join Realityworks Product Manager Molly Kellgren for a free product demonstration on the award-winning Auscultation Trainer. You’ll see how this trainer can provide students with repetitive skills practice doing rib palpation, stethoscope placement and accurately recognize heart, lung, and bowel sounds.

Presented by Molly Kellgren, PhD, RN, Health Science Product Manager

Webinar (5:26)

Wondering how to teach ECG/EKG lead placement in the classroom? Join Realityworks Health Science Product Manager Molly Kellgren for a free demonstration of Realityworks’ ECG Simulator. You’ll see her demonstrate key features of this award-winning tool. You’ll also learn how to use it to provide realistic skills practice opportunities and enhance your students’ learning.

Presented by Molly Kellgren, PhD, RN, Health Science Product Manager

Webinar (10:01)

Are your health science student engaged in learning? Do they struggle to find relevance in the wealth of information you have to give them? If you answered yes, scenario-based learning may be the answer for you! Join us for a free webinar to learn how scenario-based learning immerses students actively into situations that they will likely encounter in their professional career, all from the safety of their classroom. You’ll get ideas for helping students emerge from their textbooks — and you from your PowerPoint presentations — to make learning meaningful and memorable.

Participates will:

• Understand what scenario-based learning is
• Learn 5 ways to incorporate scenario-based learning into your health science classroom

Presented by Molly Kellgren, PhD, RN, Health Science Product Manager

Webinar (35:20)

Is a budget-friendly health science simulation lab on your wish list this year? This webinar is for you! Join Realityworks Product Manager and National Consortium for Health Science Education Executive Council Member DuBois to learn how Realityworks’ low- and medium-fidelity medical manikins can provide a great training alternative to costly high-fidelity options. As recent research shows, “the use of high-fidelity simulation [can lead] to equal or even worse performance and growth in knowledge as compared to low-fidelity simulation, while also inducing undesirable effects such as overconfidence.” In this free presentation, you’ll learn how to build a basic simulation lab while being mindful of budget and desired fidelity levels. 

Join us to:

• Review a variety of medical manikins available that can provide the foundation for a basic simulation lab
• Get free resources you can use with medical manikins for scenario- based learning
• Get tips for determining when it to select medical manikins vs. task trainers for technical skills training

Presented by Denise DuBois, Realityworks Product Manager and National Consortium for Health Science Education Executive Council Member

Webinar (34:27)

Schools across the country are starting new medical assistant career pathway programs to address increasing demand for professionals knowledgeable in safe and effective exercise. During this webinar, Realityworks Product Manager and National Consortium for Health Science Education Executive Council Member Denise DuBois will walk participants through key concepts needed in these programs and show you how you can align tools and curriculum that Realityworks offers to help jumpstart your courses.

Attendees will:

• Review steps for building a medical assistant program from scratch
• Discover curriculum and hands-on resources that will save planning time
• Receive free assets you can use immediately

Presented by Denise DuBois, Realityworks Product Manager and National Consortium for Health Science Education Executive Council Member

Webinar (33:37)

Sports medicine is a growing health science pathway. More students are interested in pursuing occupations related to sports medicine, from exercise physiologists and athletic trainer to orthopedic nurses and more. More students = increased need for classroom resources! This webinar will explore Realityworks’ brand-new product line for incorporating realistic, hands-on learning in sports medicine.

Attendees will:

• Receive a sneak peek at brand-new resources recently launched for high school sports medicine programs
• Get soft skills scenarios you can use your sports medicine programs
• Learn how Realityworks’ sports medicine curricular resources will save you time

Presented by Denise DuBois, Product Manager

Webinar (35:31)

Competitive events offered by HOSA, the Health Occupations Students of America student organization, provide today’s health science students with valuable skills, knowledge and insights. Like any competitive event, dedicated preparation can really set competitors up for success. Realityworks’ health science products can help prepare your students for competition while providing hands-on opportunities to practice important health care skills.   

Attendees will:

• Discover 30 unique tools for preparing students for competitive HOSA events 
• Learn which competitive events in behavioral health, human growth and development, clinical nursing, home health aides and more align with specific products 
• Discover new ways to provide hands-on application using engaging experiential learning tools  

Presented by Denise DuBois, Product Manager & Shikha Goodwin, Product Manager

Webinar: (29:16)

Resources To Improve Your Health Science Classroom Management

Finding engaging health science lessons to prepare for classroom management can take educators in many directions. During this 45-minute webinar, Dr. Shikha Goodwin, Realityworks Product Manager, will share how to incorporate engaging lessons and activities in topics around health science. Join us for an in-depth discussion of skills, checklists, curriculum and various products that can help with classroom management for health science instructors.  

Attendees will:

Hear innovative strategies to engage today’s high schoolers on key health science issues  
Learn what activities have worked in a high school health science program  
Walk away with lessons to use online or in an in-person health science classroom   

Presented by Shikha Goodwin, Product Manager

Webinar (35:31)

We’ll kick off this free presentation by sharing recent research and benefits behind wearable simulation. You’ll leave with a dozen ideas for DIY simulators you can make yourself. Join us to get ideas for creating easy, low-cost ways to help students walk in the shoes of patients with a variety of conditions, plus a review of Realityworks’ own impactful wearable simulators.

Attendees will:

• Get information on best practices for using wearable simulators in the classroom
• Learn how to create a dozen DIY simulation experiences
• Review best practices for increasing critical thinking and student retention
• Briefly explore Realityworks’ own simulators and models

Presented by Denise DuBois, Product Manager

Webinar (28:51 min)

Are you looking for new resources to teach topics like technical skills like BVM ventilation, taping and wrapping, wound care and more?  If you answered yes, then this session is for you! If you have a pathway program for sports medicine careers or even a course on anatomy and physiology, join us to get a plethora of free resources that will give you more options with your students.

Attendees will:

• Get sources for videos that can be used for remote learning
• Receive classroom activities that relate to a variety of content areas in sports medicine
• Come away with ideas for adapting lessons from Realityworks’ health science curricula to online learning, hybrid, or in-person programs

Presented by Denise DuBois, Product Manager

Webinar (33:52 min)

Caring for Individuals with Intellectual Disability or Mental Illness-Soft Skills Strategy Instruction

Do your health care students struggle when working with individuals with mental illness, intellectual disability or PTSD?  This innovative new program will help equip your students with strategies for working with patients with these conditions. Product Manager Denise DuBois will provide an overview of this new program designed to prepare students with the soft skills and solutions needed for working with patients with ID, MI or PTSD.

Attendees will:

• Receive a thorough introduction to all parts of the program
• Get specific strategies for working with individuals with ID, MI or PTSD
• Come away with sample scenarios that can be used to help students problem-solve and communicate

Presented by Denise DuBois, Product Manager

Webinar (25:04 min)

Scenario-based learning has many benefits, including adaptability for various learning environments. Many CNA programs are struggling to get enough clinical hours in to help students meet requirements and get enough hands-on practice for skills mastery. In this free, 45-minute webinar, you’ll learn how to use scenarios to teach both clinical CNA skills and important soft skills.

Attendees will:

• Learn how to create scenarios to teach a variety of skills
• Learn where to find scenarios that are ready to use
• Walk through sample scenarios that instructors can use to teach clinical skills and soft skills in their CNA courses

Presented by: Denise DuBois, Product Manager & Kimberly Harper, RN and Nursing Instructor

Webinar (45:00 min)

An effective way to teach students basic anatomy and physiology is through the use of anatomical models. These types of resources allow for hands-on learning and exploration to help students understand difficult concepts. This session will give health science instructors ideas for quick “mini lessons” using anatomical models to teach content related to body structure and function.

Attendees will:

• Get new ideas for using anatomical models to teach A&P content
• Discover new sources for augmenting your anatomical toolkit
• Come away with ideas for using anatomical models for short, directed instruction on body systems structure and function

Presented by: Shikha Goodwin 

Webinar (32:50 min)

Are you looking for more ways to engage medical assistant students remotely or in person? Join us for a free webinar to get resources and teaching strategies for soft skill instruction and technical medical assistant skills. We’ll also review how to use medical manikins and anatomical models to engage your students. Through scenarios, videos, lesson plans and activities, you’ll be armed with many new resources to use in a variety of learning environments. Specific focus areas include scenario-based learning for soft skills, taking blood pressure, suturing, conducting an ECG, phlebotomy, administering intramuscular injections and bandaging and wound care.

Presented by: Denise DuBois, Product Manager 

Webinar (42:44 min) 

 

We know that we are living in very different times than a few months ago and many of us have been challenged to deliver content online to students. This webinar will feature ideas for taking health science concepts, content and curricula into this online delivery format. You’ll receive a list of free resources available for teaching 10 different topical areas in an online environment as well as 4 bonus soft skill ideas shared.

Attendees will:

• Discuss teaching in a digital environment
• Get 10 free online resources for delivering health science concepts to students
• Gain knowledge on how to incorporate soft skills into heath career lessons

Presented by:  Denise DuBois, Product Manager 

Webinar (33:07 min)

 

Simulation-Based teaching can play a huge role in our Health Science classrooms, giving student real-world experiences in a safe and neutral environment. During this 45-minute presentation our presenter, Kasey Carlson, RN, MSN, M.Ed, and curriculum technology manager at a post-secondary institution will discuss how simulation can benefit our student learning, create a meaningful environment and train our future healthcare workers.

Attendees will:

• Learn how to use simulation-based content in a post-COVID world
• Get best practices to integrating simulation into lesson content to engage students
• Discover what simulation can and should look like in a high school CTE program

Presented by:  Kasey Carlson, Registered Nurse & Denise DuBois, Product Manager 

Webinar (41:55 min)

Whether you are looking to start an EMS Program, refresh an existing one, or gain new teaching strategies, this webinar is for you. Join co-presenters Krista Wenz, licensed paramedic and adjunct instructor for EMT and Paramedic programs, and Denise DuBois, Product Manager from Realityworks for an engaging 45-minute presentation.  Attendees will walk away with activities and strategies to bring their program to a new level.

Attendees will:

• Get new ideas for teaching old concepts
• Come away with activities and strategies you can implement in your EMS program immediately
• Find new ways to improve student engagement in EMS coursework

Presented by: Krista Wenz, Licensed Paramedic and Adjunct Instructor for EMT and Paramedic programs & Denise DuBois, Product Manager 

Webinar (36:32 min)

Discover why experiential learning resonates with today’s learner and how EMS instructors can use hands-on strategies to grab students’ attention. Find out how to engage students with active learning methods and soft skills training, leaving them career-ready for success in a growing field. Best practices for selecting and implementing these tools will also be shared. With healthcare job opportunities project to grow by almost 20% by 2024, it’s critical to ensure that today’s EMS students are engaged and successful.

Webinar participants will learn:

• Why experiential learning methods work for Generation Z students
• How to use what resonates with today’s students and bring it into the classroom
• Best practices for using models, task trainers and simulation tools
• How to select the right learning aids for teaching lesson objectives

Presented by: Denise DuBois, Product Manager

Webinar (31:27 min)