TASK

As team members, each enacting a different role, you will explore and critically analyze journal articles, web resources, and other relevant materials about medication safety for confused older adults in the hospital and outpatient setting to prepare material to present to family members of confused older adults, as well as to your fellow gerontological hospital unit nurses.

Each learner will:

• collaborate with two other members of the team
• research relevant information which relates to your assumed role as a member of the team
• collect and interpret data from journal articles and web resources to answer specific questions posed to you in your assumed role
• contribute to the completion of the two team outcomes
• prepare material to meet the three individual outcomes

Specifically, the team outcomes of this webquest will be:

1. A creative, persuasive, evidence-based, culturally and linguistically appropriate one-page patient education brochure or handout about medication safety that your team would present to family members of confused older adults
2. A creative, evidence-based, and brief 5 minute Microsoft PowerPoint presentation that your team will present to fellow learners and that relates your findings about medication safety for confused older adults

Additional individual outcomes of this webquest will be preparation and submission of the following annotated references from the expert role that each team member will assume:

1. 2-3 relevant and high quality journal articles in APA format
2. 2-3 relevant and high quality web resources in APA format
3. 4-8 sentence answers to the 3 expert role questions