Nurses as Storytellers Instructor-Led Training

Facilitator Guide

Powerpoint Presentation

Learner’s Journal

Title: Nurses as Storytellers

Modalities: Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Powerpoint, Canva

Development: 30 hours total

Challenges: With COVID and the demands of the medical field, healthcare workers are burnt out.

Solutions: Nurses as Storytellers give healthcare workers the tools to write stories, a proven cathartic strategy to reduce stress and burnout, and help process difficult emotions.

Results: These are selections from a 22-page Facilitator Guide, a 15-slide presentation, and a 15-page Learner’s Journal. I facilitated and created this course for Rowan University’s Medical School. It can be adapted to teach nurses, doctors, and other healthcare workers. A comprehensive student survey given to participants showed the course decreased feelings of anxiety, stress, and burnout. This course was then adapted for yearly facilitation.

Ocean Outfitter Job Aids

Title: Ocean Outfitters’s Surf Instructor Camp Job Aids

Modalities: Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Vyond

Development: 2 hours per aid

Challenges: The job aids needed to include important safety and complicated surf step information for teenagers.

Solutions: These job aids supplemented Ocean Outfitters’s Surf Instructor Online Training and can be found in the Articulate Storyline Training. All icons are hand-drawn using Adobe Illustrator and are unique to the project.

Results: Students showed comprehension of complicated and important material with the completion of the course and reliance on job aids during in-person training.