Assignment task:
Assume that you are a nursing faculty member who is teaching an evening class. You are the only faculty in the room getting the classroom ready for the class which will start in about 30 minutes. You hear a group of students in the hall coming back from dinner and being quite loud. You don't think much of it and continue to get your class ready. This class is a complex medical-surgical class and the topic for tonight's class is the nursing care of clients with heart failure. You have created a learning exercise to help the students better understand the physiologic differences between right and left sided failure and how this impacts the nursing interventions. When the students all arrive, the group that was in the hall earlier all sit together in the back row of this theater style classroom and continue to be quite loud. They have their laptops open and seem to be involved in some other activity rather than listening and engaged in class. You ask several times in a general way for the entire class to come together to focus on the exercise at hand, but you can't seem to engage this small group in the back, they grow increasingly loud. You decide to draw them in by questioning them in terms of the case study, and one of the students in the group becomes very rude to you. You attempt to ignore the behavior at first and focus on the case study, asking a second follow up question and her friend sitting next to her is equally rude. What is your best approach in this situation when this incivility is escalating in this manner? What are your legal and ethical obligations to the class as a whole, and how should you manage this difficult classroom situation. Need Assignment Help?