[Design and Application of Board Game Learning: An Example for Medical-Surgical Nursing Course]

Board games are currently widely used in various courses, including in the teaching of cardiopulmonary cerebral resuscitation for neonatal and infants. They are generally deemed as useful in teaching concepts such as empathy and interpersonal communication skills that are relatively difficult to understand. However, board games have rarely been used in medical-surgical nursing courses. The main reason for this may be because of many different systems in medical-surgical nursing courses complicate the process of designing relevant / useful scheme of board games. In general, college students have a weak conception of diseases because they have not yet entered clinical practice and their knowledge construction is based on traditional teaching methods. Using different teaching methods to construct knowledge may increase students` understanding of a disease and help them better understand content. In this article, the author uses different teaching strategies to increase students` knowledge. Concept mapping, board games, and human figures were designed to construct the knowledge of students in each system and to assist students to reintegrate disease knowledge in order to reinforce learning efficacy. This learning method may help improve students` understanding of textbook-based knowledge and enhance students` self-learning and future clinical practice.