Get to Know Osmosis Nursing

So at osmosis, we really have some guiding principles that truly do guide the decisions we make every day. First of all, our vision is that everyone who cares for someone will learn by osmosis, be that nursing learners, um medical students and even caretakers.

And our mission is to empower clinicians and caregivers with the best one learning experience possible, especially considering that health care knowledge is just so vast dynamic.

It's constantly changing and it truly, as we all know is certainly high stakes um what we learn and understand and are able to apply uh so much so impacts the people we take care of.

And finally, we have our values and those you can see are based upon the human body. So sort of starting at the top there, our values are to imagine more to open our arms, to have each other's backs and that's our own teammates as well as our learners and our faculty members to reach further, to spread joy.

Hopefully, you see some of that joy come through in our videos and to start with the heart. So what is osmosis and what is osmosis?

Nursing? Um Let's start with a quick overview then of what we have.

So um osmosis is a series of engaging videos built on evidence based principles. It started out specifically for medical learners.

But in the past several years, we've expanded to other areas which most certainly includes nursing. We have illustrated videos that are created to amplify and clarify what students learn in a nutshell for nursing.

What we have is over 600 nursing specific videos on topics that I will um tell you a little bit more about. And in addition to the that we have another over 500 what we call essential science videos.

So those are not specific to nursing but is a truly curated list um curated by nurse educators on things that nursing students uh will need to know and also great supplemental information.

So let's start with the fundamentals. We have a little bit more than 55 fundamentals videos.

These will be on topics on things like nursing basics, clinical skills. So how to actually do a skill such as place a catheter and nursing assessment.

So we've broken down the nursing assessment by body area and told you the most essential components and demonstrated how to complete that assessment.

Next, we have more than 75 nursing process videos. These were designed to help promote clinical judgment, to help enhance the critical thinking, to help bring that student along the journey to help them think like a nurse.

Um And there's also social determinants of health concepts built in. So patients who maybe have food insecurity or are unable to access their medications.

Um and we take um really a case of a patient and kind of bring the student through the journey of how you would take care of a patient presenting with a particular problem.

We also have more than 100 and 40 nursing pharmacology videos. Um These all come with their own medication tables which are printable and um we've covered all of the top medication classifications um and teach the learners administration uh as well as nursing considerations and even patient education associated with that drug.

We have over 100 and 90 close to 200 clinical nursing care videos. These are really great for the medical surgical love nursing students and teach the students to learn to care for patients with a variety of conditions.

There's a focus on the whole patient, but we also include pathology as well as patient education. And we also have a subsection of lab interpretation videos which are just hugely valuable when it comes to the importance of interpreting your patient's lab results.

We do have more than 25 leadership and research videos. These help to prepare students for their roles as nurse leaders, both at the bedside and at other settings.

They placed the nurse at the driver's seat, the ones leading the change and also help to prepare students to both use and conduct research.

Um The example on the screen, there is one of my personal favorites because it's just a really interesting video. Our illustrators are always do such a fabulous job, but this one in particular is on how what to do during a disaster.

And in this case, it's an earthquake. As you can see on the screen, it's just an incredibly dynamic video.

We have 15 mental health videos. These help prepare students to care for patients with just an array of mental health disorders.

Students learn how to manage the care of the patient and the patient and family teaching is also included in these. And then we have over 100 nursing across the lifespan videos.

So on topics dealing with maternal newborn nursing, obstetrical nursing, pediatric, nursing, growth and development as well as care of the older adult.

And then lastly, there's those 500 essential science videos which are the curated list of videos that all nursing learners have access to and include topics like anatomy, behavioral sciences, biostatistics and epidemiology, cellular and molecular biology, genetics, micro patho and physiology.

Uh Plus, we really have a lot of practice and feedback to help support active student directive learning. We have over 3300 linked exam style nursing questions and what they're linked to is the learning objectives to the videos.

So as soon as a learner watches the video, they're they're then able to directly jump into the questions and test themselves.

So did I understand um the content of the video? Am I able to take that information that I just learned and apply it to a patient scenario.

Then the students are able to gauge how they're performing and the faculty are also able to gauge how their students are performing through those analytics.

Um We also have 100 and 25 medication tables which are great. They can be um downloaded printed and taken with the learner on the go.

Let's talk about some ways that we support educational inno innovation using osmosis. So our videos, I've told you kind of what we have, but let me tell you a bit why we've created them that way.

They're built on learning science and evidence um and created to help students learn more effectively and efficiently. So, um we absolutely consider content chunking when we are designing our videos and are based upon established multimedia design principles that help to reduce the cognitive load for the student.

We also have a ton of formative assessment. So both the student and faculty, like I mentioned, can assess student understanding and the application of concepts as they're gearing up for potentially classroom and unit exams.

Um And we also do have actual videos on learning science. So we want the students not only to be successful as they're um learning with using osmosis, but also outside of osmosis too.

And these learning science videos can help the students to do that. And osmosis is really designed to fit your curriculum.

Um So all the way at the most active form, we have faculty using osmosis to completely flip their classroom. So to replace lecture totally and to prime students for that true active learning in the classroom, be that simulation or case studies or some sort of active learning where the student is engaged in the classroom and is prepped and ready for that using osmosis, we have faculty using it in more of a blended um style.

So curating playlists as supplementary resources to then accompany those face to face sessions. We also have faculty using um our videos as prescriptive uh support.

So if students are struggling in a particular area, the faculty can help um design a list of videos that can help support the student to be more successful in that area.

And then most certainly it's used very often for student directive learning. So the students can themselves go in and find the appropriate videos or use it to figure out the areas they're either struggling in or being really successful in through those low stakes assessments.

Um the faculty and the students are able to track their own progress for video assignment completion. So as the student, the student would only be able to see their own analytics how they're performing.

But as the faculty, the faculty members are able to see their higher class, how they're doing. So here on the screen, just as a representation, we have student numbers, but it would actually be uh student names here.

So the fact that you're able to see which students are watching the assigned videos and on even what date they've watched them.

In addition to that, we also have question analytics. And one of the unique features of the osmosis question is that every time a student answers a question, it asks the students to rate their own confidence level, which gives the faculty member some really unique uh data to help support the student.

So um as an example, you're able to see how the students are performing on an exam, both the first attempt and the latest attempt.

So as a faculty member, I would think to myself is the student performing better on a second attempt than on a first attempt.

But also, I'm gonna look at that confidence level and say is their confidence improving. You might even find that you have a mismatch.

So perhaps a student is performing really well on these assessments, but they actually have quite low confidence levels.

Um That would be an interesting and important conversation to have with the student. And the reverse can also be true.

So perhaps they're not performing so well on these formative assessments and yet their confidence is really high. That might be concerning especially if the student is about to enter the clinical space.

Um but they have such a high confidence level and yet their actual understanding of the material doesn't seem to match that.

So that would be an important conversation to have as well. Moving on.

Oh, there we go. Um Lastly, we have a mobile app.

So students and faculty are able to take learning on the go. Um You're able to access 100s of nursing videos for that visual learning and also review a ton of exam style practice questions.

The students are even able to um pre download videos. So if they know they are not gonna have access to wifi or internet or cell service um at a certain area or time of their day, they can plan ahead download some videos and then while they're out there and on the go, they have access to these.

So that was a lot of information. Um After our webinar today, please do watch your emails for an automated email asking you to authenticate your trial account.

Um We can also schedule a university introductory meeting so please reach out to Caleb. His information is here on the screen if you wanna jot that down now.

And since we do have some time, I'm going to then um jump over and actually give you somewhat of a tour of osmosis nursing.

So let me do that now while I'm switching over here. If there are any questions that have come up, as I'm speaking, please feel free to use that chat feature.

And um I'm sorry, the Q and A feature and give me one moment while I find the correct screen to go to. And OK, so here we are uh on the osmosis home screen.

So um Florence Nightingale is our faculty member or student here, this would actually be your name as you log in instead.

Um And so the student or faculty member is welcome to their home screen and they can see a couple things just straight away.

We do have um a leader board for some Gamification for um students and faculty who want to have that there. So the number of times they're accessing our content, puts them up on the leaderboard and earns them experience points.

It also will give you some recommended videos and show you where you've left off. So the latest place you were, if you've had to drop off and stop watching that video, you can pick right up there and keep going where you uh uh left off.

We have a search bar here in the center of the screen and this functions really similarly to any um search engine search bar.

So you can as you're preparing for your lecture or preparing um to come to class, you can type in what you're looking for.

Um hit the enter button to search for that topic and it will bring up everything related to that. So just as an example, if I'm getting ready um to learn more about asthma, I can click my asthma button.

And here I see that I do have some options here. Right from here, I can jump right onto the learn page.

So that's one way to see what we have available. The other way is to hit this button here to show um what we call is our navigation.

So I click down here and here's where I can see how um we've categorized the different videos. These first four columns here are all specific to nursing and it's just different ways.

we've categorized this information. So by common nursing school courses like fundamentals of nursing, pharmacology, maternal newborn, um nursing practice concepts, which is uh helpful for those concept based curriculums in particular.

Or if you're looking for videos related to something you just learned, that's a good place to look for that. Uh Osmosis Nursing Series is a way we've kind of internally categorized our uh videos, but it's really nice because it separates them singularly, meaning there's no repeats in here.

So this is all the content we have specific to nursing and then a really common way that students like to access our information is through body system.

So they perhaps just know, oh, I know I'm learning about the gastrointestinal system this week at school. Let me see everything osmosis has available under the gastrointestinal system.

So I'm gonna go ahead and click on this one cause this will show you how we've also subdivided our content. So not only is this everything we have for the gastrointestinal system specific to nursing um but it's also categorized a bit further.

So we have fundamentals topics, nursing across the lifespan topics, um and AD P which is our nursing process as well as pharmacology topics.

Having to deal with the gastrointestinal system. Clicking back up here, I'll show you another example of that.

So if we go to nursing school courses and let's say I'm in a pharmacology course. So I'm gonna go ahead and click nursing pharmacology along the left hand side here, it's subdivided in more categories.

And so again, I can go to my gastrointestinal medication section here and here's where I can see all of the videos we have related to the gastrointestinal pharmacology videos.

OK. With that being said, I'm gonna now click on a particular learn page and just kinda show you around a learn page.

So here's one on our Histamine H two antagonist in the center is our video. Um So here clearly you can play the video, but I will play just a second of it to um point out some important features.

So any time you see this yellow mark, um that's where we have what we call chaptered the video, which is a really quick and easy way for both the faculty member or the student to kind of skip to the section they find most relevant to them.

So perhaps they only wanna say, OK, let me skip right over to the side effects but clicking right there will do that for them.

Um You can go backwards and forwards from by 10 seconds, you can turn on the closed captioning to the videos. You can adjust your volume, you can make it full screen.

And then one of the more popular features um is the playback speed. So I know commonly learners m might, might play um at one X speed the first time through, but uh for subsequent times, they'll go ahead and speed up that playback speed to try to kind of um cram or get ready right before an exam.

All right. Some other things on our page then here and see um related videos will show first.

But if you click over, you can actually take Yeah. So I might write here.

This is important or something like that. It will take that note for you in time stamp it and then the next time you go back to the video, it will save that for you.

There. You can also skim or scan the transcript or just read along right with the video.

If that's something you prefer to do, when we scroll down a bit, we can see that we have our um medication table this, like I said can be downloaded and printed.

It's a nice thing for students to actually take with them to class to activate the classroom. So perhaps the faculty member has assigned this video as prep work for class and is instructed the students to either download or print the drug table and now you can take this information and use it.

So use it in a simulation or use it in a case study. And then lastly are the associated quiz questions.

So immediately following watching the video, the student can start the quiz. This one happens to have eight questions.

We'll hit that start button and we do have questions in a variety of styles. This one happens to be select all that apply.

There are some unique features to our questions too, you can actually turn on an elimination tool. So as you're reading the question, your learner can say to themselves, oh, you know, I know it's not c let me just cross out that one.

Or um they can disable that as well. Um We, they have access to show lab values while they're taking their questions, they can change kind of the screen size over here.

Um And then once we answer a question, so without reading it, I'm just gonna say A and B look tempting to me. Um Since I didn't read the question, my confidence is in fact, pretty low and no, not a huge surprise.

I did get that question wrong. But what we focused on here with our questions is um more than just question, memorization is really a deeper level of understanding uh for the learner.

So I got this one wrong. But why did I get it wrong?

That's the important part. So a was the correct answer.

I can read why B was not correct and I can read why. And then lastly, there's kind of a uh a, we call it a major takeaway, but it's like a summary of overall uh the question that I can go next and continue my quiz.

So I'm gonna exit out of there so that I do have time to show you a few more features that are important. Um So we call this the hamburger menu.

It lives up here on the left side and that's kind of good place to navigate around the website here. You can find our videos.

A really important feature of osmosis is the power of our playlist. And so let me tell you a bit more about that.

Um I can add any video that I have access to, to a playlist. So let's say I'm preparing to take an exam on the gastrointestinal system, pharmacology and this one I know I want.

So I can add it either to an existing playlist or let's say I don't actually have the appropriate playlist named and labeled yet.

I can say this is a new gi playlist. I can add it then right to that playlist, new gi playlist or maybe one at the top.

Oh yeah, it's in there somewhere, but I'm probably scrolling past it. Um Then when I go over to my playlist, I have a couple options.

I have the playlist I've created here. I can access them at any time and I can play them all.

Um So meaning play one after another, which might be a little time consuming depending on how many you've put in there. And I can also quiz myself in all of them, which would be really helpful if you're preparing for a unit exam.

The other thing you can do with our playlist is actually share the playlist. So as a faculty member, if I'm saying this is the playlist, I want my students to watch before coming to class, I can hit the share button, I can copy the link and I can place that link in my learning management system and saying this is our week four playlists that I want you to watch.

Um then the students have access to it and they can um they can add that playlist and that will become one of their followed playlists.

So they'll have it and it will live here. They can access it anytime they want from their own osmosis account.

After that, that's also um a great way for faculty to look at the analytics. So jumping over here quickly to the analytic section, I can look at my analytics in a variety of ways I can look at them from a whole co cohort perspective.

So as a whole cohort of students are my students watching the assigned videos and are they um taking the quiz questions and how are they performing on those formative assessment questions.

I can also go to some specific student reports and I can do that by playlist or uh choosing a particular video. So let's say I wanna do this by playlist.

I'll choose this. Um Let's choose the mental health playlist and I can see how my students have done on this particular playlist.

Both the questions and watching the videos. There's definitely more to analytics, but I'm being conscious of time because I do also wanna show you the question section.

That's our last major section of osmosis. And this is where students can create those self directed quizzes.

So they can choose by different content areas and topics in a quiz that they wanna test themselves on and a quiz size that they prefer.

So let's say I'm in an adult health course and I'm learning about the integumentary system and nursing concepts. Um I don't as a student care about that right now, NCLEX test plan.

Um We're gonna skip that and cognitive level, let's say I'm brand new to this information. So I really wanna focus on questions that are about at the remember, maybe even the understand level.

And I don't have enough time to take all 60 of these questions available. So I'm gonna change my quiz size to just a quick little 10 minute question and then I can begin that quiz.

We have reached time. So if there was anything lingering, any other questions, feel free to reach out to us.

We'll be happy to answer any of your questions and thank you all so much and I hope you have a wonderful rest of your day.