Create an audio/visual Voice Thread presentation that will describe a healthcare education tool for a specific health need of a specific population that is different than your own.

The presentation should:

• identify the population and how it is different than your own.
• discuss the importance of the health need.
• identify special learning challenges this population faces.
• include a description of the tool to teach the information and explain how it works.
• discuss how the literature supports the use of the technology you have chosen.
• explain how the tool contributes to critical thinking.
• explain how the tool contributes to nursing practice and patient outcomes.

Guidelines

1. Choose a population that is different than your own. For example: if you are a 25 year old woman, who is a U.S citizen and only speak English, choose an older male patient who is from another race, culture, or ethnicity and who speaks limited English).

• Identify the population and how it is different than your own.
• Discuss the importance of the health need. For this population. For example: there is an increased incidence of type 2 diabetes mellitus in the teen population so there a need for a tool to address this population’s special needs.
• Identify special learning challenges this population faces. For example: income, sensory impairment, or language.

2. Develop a teaching tool: Incorporate technology/multimedia into your tool. For example: texts, twitter, blogs, email, YouTube video, video-conferencing, Skype, computer or cell phone app, electronic brochures, and electronic booklets.

• Include a description of the tool to teach the information. Explain how the tool works but you do not have to actually create the tool. For example: your tool may be a web site but you do not have to actually create the site.

3. Discussion:

• Discuss how the literature supports the use of the technology you have chosen.
• Explain how the tool contributes to critical thinking – what skills does it develops.

Explain how the tool contributes to nursing practice and patient o