Title

Simulating Health Promotion in an Online Environment

Authors

Authors

E. M. Rash

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Abstract

Although Web-based courses have distinct advantages, one of the challenges of the medium is to assess students' abilities to apply knowledge, especially regarding interpersonal communication skills. The purpose of this article is to describe a motivational interviewing application exercise developed for a graduate-level online health promotion course. Small groups of students met online for synchronous role-play chatroom experiences in which students guided each other toward healthy lifestyle behavioral changes using motivational interviewing skills. Chatroom transcripts and students' reflections demonstrated a deeper understanding and appreciation for motivational interviewing and appeared to alter their perceptions of health promotion beyond the task of providing patient education.

Journal Title

Journal of Nursing Education

Volume

47

Issue/Number

11

Publication Date

1-1-2008

Document Type

Article

First Page

515

Last Page

517

WOS Identifier

WOS:000260475000006

ISSN

0148-4834

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