Using GoReact for Nursing Skills Checks: Medication Administration

Hi. My name is Dara Murray, and I’m an assistant professor at the University of West Alabama. Today I would like to share with you how I use GoReact to evaluate students’ medication administration skills.

When I’m evaluating medication administration skills for my students, there are three features that I find very valuable within GoReact.

The first feature is the rubric, and these rubrics can be customized to your program. We took an existing rubric that we were already using for face-to-face and just adapted it to the video environment. And so as you watch your video, you simply click through the rubric as the student progresses through the skill.

And so it’s very seamless. It’s a quick and easy way to view the video, grade at the same time, and provide your students with a very objective grading rubric.

Another feature that I like because it’s very quick and easy and it saves typing are markers. These markers are also customizable. So they are things that you’re frequently correcting students on or saying to students throughout their video.

You can create a marker. So it’s just one click.

Identify a patient to remind your students that that moment is when they should have identified their patient. So that saves time for the instructors as well.

Another very important feature that will improve accuracy and just–

and help your instructors know that they are, indeed, giving good quality evaluations–

there is a pause button, a rewind button, and a feature where you can slow down or speed up the video.

So if there’s ever a question about whether or not you missed an error or you missed some certain component of this field because it was–

in real time, maybe it happens very quickly, you can pause the video, back it up, slow down, replay that section, and make sure that you absolutely graded that student correctly.

So those are all together very important features that not only save you time, but also work to give the student really good feedback and then maybe even improve the accuracy of your grading.