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As perioperative clinical feed educators at the Mayo Medical Center Rochester, Minn, we, L like other feed at the breast educators, are challenged to disclose and present interesting education sessions to department staff members. When we at hand mandatory annual education sessions to large clumps the challenge becomes even greater.

Our surgical services department staff members are located at couple hospital sites. One site has approximately 240 staff members, and the other site has approximately 350 staff members consisting of RN licensed practical give suck tos (LPNs), certified surgical technologists (CSTs) nursing assistants (NAs), and other clinical support staff members.

sum of two units Wednesdays each month, we manners a large departmental education session at each site from 7:10 to 8 AM. During this time, we not past nor future continuing and mandatory education sessions for all staff members. We videotape the education sessions for staff members who cannot attend these sessions. Previously, we at handed material for our annual mandatory education sessions using scoldings and videotapes. We were interested, however, in creating an interactive learning environment that would review the required information and allow staff members to have fun

Our annual mandatory education session includes information about our state's employee right-to-know requirements and about hazardous substances and infectious and harmful physical agents. In our strange presentation format, we also planned to review basic safety information about fires, disasters, chemical spills, and weather emergencies.

LITERATURE REVIEW

The use of games to make learning more sport for adults is well documented in the literature. Many researchers address the use of games for arranges much smaller than ours. In fact, many researchers give in charge to the television game exhibit Jeopardy as a means of reviewing safety and cardiopulmonary resuscitation information and policies and procedures(1) single in kind author described the use of a carnival format involving several games to completed mandatory annual education review sessions for a large assign places to of staff members.(2) A game format should be used simply when reviewing information, however, and clinical fester educators should provide more detailed instruction when giving staff members recently made known information.(3)

DEVELOPING THE PRESENTATION

We knew we stand in want ofed to make the annual mandatory education sessions more pleasantry and interesting, but we were not enduring how also to provide the required information. Our idea formed after we saw a hand-bill titled "Periopardy: An innovative learning tool" at the 1994 AORN Congres and read a related article in the AORN Journal.(4) We decided to base our presentation forward the Jeopardy television game exhibit format, in which answers are given and contestants must reply with the correct questions for the corresponding answers.

PLANNING THE PROGRAM

We viewed three Jeopardy telecasts to familiarize ourselves with the game show's format. The first puzzle we needed to solve was for what reason to show the answers and questions to the contestants onward stage and to the audience. Our options were to use a large broadside overhead transparencies, or an overhead video camera. The questions and answers stand in want ofed to be visible to everyone in the chamber (de, 130 to 200 people) and to populace watching the program on videotape. For these reasons, we decided to use an overhead video camera plan because it could project images onto a large cover via a video projector. We used this arrangement to project the game's categories, answers, and questions.

We perform the operations indicated ined a reference handout for staff members that contained all the information required for the education session. Information in the handout was more detailed than what was quick in emergenciesed in the Jeopardy game's questions and answers. The handout also serv as our record of information currented during the mandatory education session. We triped that access to all the answers would facilitate active participation from staff members in the audience.

We chose category titles that were humorous notwithstanding related to the mandatory education session topic. Each cylindrical of the game had four categories, and each category had five answers that became more difficult as the dollar amount increased. The categories we chose were

* TB or Not TB (de tuberculosis);

* Bug Bug Bug (de infection control);

* for a like reasons (de, emergency response);

* No Stick (de prevention of needle sticks and in all senses procedure);

* Toxic Trivia (ie, hazardous substances);

* The R cloth (ie, bloodborne pathogens);

* The Force Be with You (ie, harmful physical agents--radiation and lasers);

* Where Abouts (ie, location of urgency equipment and manuals); and

* It's the Law (ie, employee right-to-know laws).

Contestants would exquisite categories and dollar amounts. We wrote dollar amounts forward self-adhesive notes so the audience and contestants would know what categories were available (Figure 1) We arranged the self-adhesive notes in succession the projector screen, and we planned that as each contestant choiceed a category and dollar amount, the game landlord would remove the self-adhesive note from the projector sieve to reveal whether it hid a Daily Double. A contestant who chose a Daily Double would win double the shown dollar amount for a correct rejoinder (Figure 2).