Instructional Design Podcast

Hannah, a neonatal ICU OT, is using the ADDIE method to develop a skill validation course for NICU nurses. She analyzes knowledge gaps, designs learning objectives and delivery methods, develops materials, and plans to evaluate the course with a feedback survey. She hopes the ADDIE method will help her teach nurses to safely care for premature infants. Good afternoon. My name is Hannah, and I am a fairly new neonatal intensive care unit OT who has found herself in the midst of training, leading, and teaching about 18 months into this position. After learning about the various instructional design models, I found the ADDIE to be one of the more interesting and applicable models to the courses I am teaching in a hospital setting. I am currently preparing to teach a skill validation course to our NICU nurses. In this type of course, every nurse on the unit is required to pass an assessment of job-related tasks in order to maintain a magnet hospital status. As an OT, it is my role to host the feeding and neurodevelopmental portion of this skill validation so that our nurses can safely feed our premature infants and care best for our precious little ones. In looking at the ADDIE method, I found that I actually have taken a similar approach in developing my materials for this course. Beginning with analysis, I have taken into account the knowledge gaps that there is present in our nursing staff so that I can determine if there is a behavior that I am hoping to change or a new process I am hoping to initiate. Next, moving on to design, I am working on developing learning objectives and decide what informational strategies will be used in the delivering of my material. Is it a PowerPoint? Is this going to be an interactive course? And what is the core content, and what do I hope that my learners gain from my presentation? Once the core content, learning objectives, and delivery methods have been decided, we get into the developmental portion of the ADDIE method. This is when all materials that will be delivered and utilized during the learning process are finalized. Ultimately, the goal that one would think of primarily during this process is to step or re-implement the materials. For my example, I will be conducting this course over a series of multiple weeks to various groups of small nurses. Following the course, there is a handout regarding course feedback, which leads me to the last portion of the ADDIE method, which will be evaluation. Nurses will fill out this survey, and I am very excited to see how this pans out, what kind of feedback I receive. Stay tuned to hear how my first course goes and how the ADDIE method works for me in my hospital setting.