{"id":740,"date":"2014-07-15T08:35:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-15T13:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arcaregiving.org\/littlerock\/?p=740"},"modified":"2014-07-15T08:35:00","modified_gmt":"2014-07-15T13:35:00","slug":"need-stimulates-creativity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uamscaregiving.org\/littlerock\/2014\/07\/15\/need-stimulates-creativity\/","title":{"rendered":"Need Stimulates Creativity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>As nurses, who are in the role of caregiver instructors, we delight in the fact that there are people \u2018out there\u2019 who need and want to know some of the information that we have spent a lifetime gathering. Additionally, we (instructors) will do everything short of \u2018standing on our heads\u2019 to impart important pieces of caregiver information to our paraprofessional and family caregiver students. \u00a0The instructor\u2019s need to share evidence-based information intersects with the student\u2019s desire to know and understand; it is at this intersection that creativity can meet the needs of both parties.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>As an example, our training program needed edentulous mouths for mouth care practice because there were students who could not make the leap from tooth brushing practice to edentulous mouth care simulation practice \u2013 some of the students could not pretend that the teeth were not present. We were not able to locate a vendor that sold an edentulous practice device. Not wanting the student\u2019s training experience to suffer, two of the instructors collaborated to create an edentulous mouth that included a tongue, gums, lips, and cheeks (pictured below). Now we have six edentulous mouths for mouth care simulation practice during our In Home Assistant\/ Personal Care Assistant course.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/uamscaregiving.org\/littlerock\/2014\/07\/15\/need-stimulates-creativity\/dscf0526\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-741\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-741\" src=\"https:\/\/uamscaregiving.org\/littlerock\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2014\/07\/DSCF0526-300x223.jpg\" alt=\"DSCF0526\" width=\"196\" height=\"146\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Creative collaboration by Bobbie and Pat, Schmieding Home Caregiver Instructors<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As nurses, who are in the role of caregiver instructors, we delight in the fact that there are people \u2018out there\u2019 who need and want to know some of the information that we have spent a lifetime gathering. Additionally, we (instructors) will do everything short of \u2018standing on our heads\u2019 to impart important pieces of&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/uamscaregiving.org\/littlerock\/2014\/07\/15\/need-stimulates-creativity\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"author":364,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uamscaregiving.org\/littlerock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uamscaregiving.org\/littlerock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uamscaregiving.org\/littlerock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uamscaregiving.org\/littlerock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/364"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uamscaregiving.org\/littlerock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uamscaregiving.org\/littlerock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uamscaregiving.org\/littlerock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uamscaregiving.org\/littlerock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uamscaregiving.org\/littlerock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}