Nurse Educator Tips for Teaching: Recent Episodes
Nurse Educator
Whether you are a beginning or an experienced nurse educator, you will get new ideas for your teaching in this podcast. Experts share teaching strategies you can use with your nursing students.
Dr. Shira Birnbaum describes a full-semester writing course she developed and strategies for improving student writing. Students identify problems in early drafts of their work, which they subsequently learn to resolve. She emphasizes that writing, like clinical learning, requires an investment of time and labor far beyond what is typical in didactic approaches to classroom-based graduate education. Students reflect on their learning in the accompanying article.
High-quality video productions integrating 360° simulations of real-life nursing scenarios have shown promise in enriching learning experiences and refining students’ competencies, attitudes, and knowledge. Dr. Patrícia Freire de Vasconcelos describes the development of a 360° video simulation scenario for teaching medication safety in nursing. The methodological framework comprised 3 key stages: (1) crafting the script; (2) evaluating the script’s validity by expert judges in medication administration; and (3) developing the set, filming scenes, and refining the video using a 360° camera. The 360° video was tailored for utilization with virtual reality glasses, rendering it accessible for integration into nursing education curricula. The final version consisted of a continuous scene that ended with a question that prompted the identification of errors.
Learn more in their article.
Adjunct clinical faculty play a vital role in ensuring an adequate number of instructors for nursing students. Dr. Bryce Catarelli and Professor Karen Schofield describe a clinical bingo game they developed for first-semester nursing students and clinical faculty to serve as a guide for the hospital experience. Each space on the bingo card is a skill practiced in laboratory/simulation or an action that is appropriate for students' ability and level of education. Each skill is signed off on completion, creating a log of skills/actions performed by the student. Their article provides additional details about their bingo game.
In this podcast, Dr. Kaitlyn Kolcun and Dr. Kelly Sullivan explain their rationale and process for transforming traditional prebriefing and debriefing experiences for a virtual-reality simulation to an online asynchronous format. Learn more about how they developed and implemented asynchronous prebriefing and debriefing activities and assessed student learning outcomes. Drs. Kolcun and Sullivan also describe the interesting subjective feedback students provided about the asynchronous virtual simulation experience.
Read more about this in their teaching tip.
Nursing students’ perceived usability toward a technology application affects their learning experience. Few studies have investigated immersive virtual reality (IVR) simulation for learning fundamental nursing skills. Dr. Wong and her research team explored the usability of IVR simulations with first-year nursing students and their perspectives on this learning modality. In this podcast and article (which is Open Access), Dr. Wong describes their mixed-methods study using surveys and focus groups. The findings demonstrated students’ positive inclinations toward IVR simulation learning. Two areas emerged: using IVR simulation as a complementary modality for learning fundamental nursing skills and barriers affecting students’ usability of this technology. By addressing concerns about usability, IVR simulation can be an important complementary modality for skills learning.
Read the article and share with colleagues.
Although the numbers of nurses from historically underrepresented ethnic and racial populations are increasing in the workforce, the distribution of nurses in the US is still not representative of the population. In this podcast and article, Dr. Joanne Noone and Ms. Adriana Valenzuela Martinez present their program that improved the underrepresented nursing student population from 11% to 33%.
Dr. Erika Janssen and Dr. Lindsay Morgan explain the Dunning-Kruger effect and how it influences self-assessment of cultural competence in nursing students. Their research revealed that students with no direct care experience in LGBTQ+ communities were more confident in their communication skills and culturally congruent care than those who had been exposed to sexual minorities in clinical settings. In this podcast, learn more about how knowledge of the Dunning-Kruger effect can help nurse educators continuously improve curricula and guide students to develop greater self-awareness of gaps in competency in delivering culturally congruent care.
Learn more about this research in their article.
In this podcast, Dr. Karen Mihelich describes the impetus behind development and implementation of experiential education focused on food insecurity in her local community. She integrated community-engaged service, implicit bias education, teamwork and communication, budget management, and essential DNP competencies into a community-engaged practicum and service project. Listen to her story and learn how her students and community partners responded, and find out how she and her students and colleagues sustained this community project.
Dr. Mihelich provides more details in her article.
Exposure to workplace violence (WPV) is common in health care, and little is known about nurse practitioner (NP) students’ experiences during their graduate nursing clinical education. In this podcast, Drs. Kristin Gigli and John Gonzalez describe the findings from their study on WPV experienced by NP students. A total of 334 NPs responded. More than a quarter (27%) of these students experienced WPV during their graduate program: preceptors were the most reported perpetrators (44%). In this podcast, the authors describe relevant federal policies and share strategies that schools of nursing can use to reduce student exposure to WPV.
Read the full study in their article.
Faculty in a Family Nurse Practitioner program integrated entrustable professional activities (EPAs) that aligned with the American Association of Colleges of Nursing Essentials and National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties Core NP Competencies into their clinical assessment tool. Student performance expectations at different points in the program were outlined. Students documented each time they performed an EPA during clinical experiences. Drs. Angel Anthamatten and Courtney Pitts discuss this initiative and outcomes in the podcast.
Read the full article (it is open access).
The integration of generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools like ChatGPT into nursing education marks a transformative advance in personalized learning and interactive engagement. Variability in faculty’s experience with AI outputs highlights the need for well-crafted prompts that align with educational objectives, maximize learning outcomes, and ensure contextual relevance. Effective prompting is a key to eliciting accurate, relevant responses from AI, fostering a dynamic learning environment that bolsters student comprehension of complex topics. Learn more about prompt engineering in this podcast with an expert, Dr. Grace Sun. She explains this further with many other examples in her article.
Nursing students should learn how to communicate effectively in their written assignments. Good writing skills are an indication of how the student processes information. Poor writing skills may impact patient care. This podcast with Miriam Bowers-Abbott discusses ways nurse educators can improve interrater reliability in the evaluation of students’ written work. Learn more about using Minimum Standards in her article.
Metacognitive exam review tools, also called exam wrappers, are a promising intervention to address the problem of poor exam performance. Tools of this kind have been shown to positively impact student learning, confidence, and exam performance across multiple disciplines and levels of education, but little is known about the use of exam wrappers in nursing education. In this podcast, Jessica Gay presents the results of a research study about the efficacy of exam wrappers as a student success strategy. Be sure to read their article too.
Dr. Kateryna Metersky uses poetry as a teaching strategy in her courses. She describes the process she uses to teach through poetry, strategies for implementing poetry in a variety of nursing courses, and positive outcomes of this teaching approach. She also shares challenges she has encountered. A special part of this podcast is Dr. Metersky reading her own poetic expression for listeners.
Digital simulations, such as computer-based and virtual reality (VR)-based, have been increasingly supported as simulation modalities in nursing education. This podcast presents a VR experience for students to promote communication, critical thinking, and clinical reasoning in a prelicensure nursing program. Drs. Willett, Chung, Adelman-Mullally, and Ng, authors of the article, share lessons learned as they implemented VR in their program.
If you are interested in developing an interprofessional course to teach the concept of big data, this podcast and article are for you. Dr. Margaret Jeanne Calcote discusses the course they developed that introduces students from the schools of nursing, medicine, and pharmacy to the use of big data in health care. Students use the academic medical center’s Patient Cohort Explorer software application to access electronic health record data. Dr. Calcote explains how the competencies nursing students demonstrated in this course align with the new AACN Essentials.
Gamification is an approach that can be used to introduce interprofessional collaboration in nursing and health science. Dr. Valerie Wright developed an innovative card game, COLLABORATE, to introduce students to interprofessional practice. In this podcast she explains how they created and tested COLLABORATE.
Read their article (it is open access) and share with others. More information about the game COLLABORATE and where to obtain it can be found here.
In this podcast Dr. Rinaldi explains backward design and provides an example of using backward design for developing a neonatal nursing seminar course for baccalaureate students. She provides additional details about background design in her article.
In this podcast, Dr. Ginger Schroers describes the development and testing of a behavioral strategy (Stay SAFE) to manage interruptions in one’s daily workflow. She also provides practical strategies for dealing with interruptions to everyday professional tasks and ultimately decrease errors and increase patient safety.
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Students need to develop proficiency in psychomotor skills. Paired with deliberate practice, mastery learning strategies can build skill competence among learners and prepare them for clinical practice. Kaitlyn Burke discusses how a psychomotor and procedural skill framework, blended learning, a video evaluation platform, and an electronic tracking tool were implemented for skill development and retention throughout an undergraduate curriculum.
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Preceptors for prelicensure nursing students are essential in successfully transitioning students to competent practitioners. As students prepare to launch their professional careers, experiences with preceptors can significantly impact their learning. In this podcast and article, Dr. Mary Goering presents a preceptor-education toolkit that helps recruit, educate, and retain preceptors.
Dr. Goering has created a version of the toolkit that you can use and adapt for your school. The toolkit is available at this link: Prelicensure Nursing Student Preceptor Resource Toolkit—Template for Dissemination
Participant roles can vary with simulation. Some roles involve providing direct care during the simulation, whereas other roles involve observing the simulation either in the simulation environment or in another room with audiovisual capabilities. In this podcast, Dr. Barbara Hooper and Professor Nancy Carlson share the findings of their quasi-experimental study to determine whether knowledge acquisition was influenced by role assignment (primary or secondary nurse, family member, or observer) when participating in a high-fidelity simulation among 267 participants. There was a significant increase in the mean score for knowledge acquisition for all participants and no difference based on the role assignment in the simulation. Knowledge acquisition is possible regardless of the role played in a high-fidelity simulation.
Learn more about the study in their article.
An undergraduate leadership course should foster clinical judgment and communication while embracing diversity, equity, and inclusivity in nursing practice. Promoting student engagement through experimental and competency-based learning is also key. Students in an undergraduate leadership course were assigned completed a Hot Topic/Hot Take assignment to incorporate concepts found in the AACN Essentials and prepare them for leadership positions in nursing. Learn more about this creative strategy in this podcast with Dr. Nancy Jo Thompson and Dr. Rumay Alexander. Be sure to read their Teaching Tip.
Test-taking is a prominent cause of anxiety for nursing students. Test anxiety may interfere with academic performance, program completion, and successful transition to practice. Dr. Cristen Walker shares the results of her study that examined differences between test anxiety in nursing and nonnursing students. She discusses implications of the findings and supportive strategies nurse educators can use to help students.
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Many nursing students experience high levels of stress throughout their nursing program. When stress occurs, the student is prompted to seek a balance using available coping mechanisms. Dr. Rebecca Liljestrand describes a 10-week resiliency program with weekly 50- to 75-minute sessions. Each session has the same format: students share a response to a homework assignment and how they used a strength during the past week; participate in a guided mindfulness practice; engage in a resilience presentation; write a response to related research with prompts such as “what I am good at” and “a time when I was resilient;” and share their writings in small breakout groups. The session closes with the three As: an affirmation, appreciation, or appraisal.
Their article provides more detail on the resiliency program and its outcomes.
Incivility between and among nursing faculty is a national and global phenomenon. In this podcast, Dr. Cynthia Clark, the leading expert on civility, presents characteristics of faculty who demonstrate incivility and describes how to use cognitive rehearsal and other strategies to manage these behaviors when encountered in the academic setting.
Learn more about cognitive rehearsal and how to use it in Dr. Clark's article.
Nurse educators encourage students to bring knowledge forward and apply it to new situations continuously. However, nursing students are rarely asked to apply their liberal arts knowledge to patient care. In this podcast and teaching tip, Dr. Melissa Klamm presents a teaching approach that used a faculty-assigned reading of Plato's Allegory of the Cave along with faculty-developed parallels between the allegory and health promotion and patient education to review before class.
Innovative approaches are needed to deepen students’ understanding of nursing’s history. Drs. Coleen Toronto and Maureen Hillier explain how they use the Hello History AI app for nursing students to experience life-like conversations with Florence Nightingale and Clara Barton.
You can learn more about this creative teaching strategy in their article.
Dr. Rachel Cox Simms explains how she uses ChatGPT to generate NCLEX style questions for students to review during virtual office hours. With ChatGPT she is able to customize the questions to meet individual students' needs for review. She also discusses considerations for faculty when using ChatGPT-generated questions.
Read more about this in Dr. Simm's Teaching tip.
Active learning strategies for responding to bias often involve students role-playing potentially triggering scenes. A virtual escape room was developed to encourage the same level of active learning, while removing students from the need to playact distressing explicit and implicit bias. The escape room includes several virtual environments depicting different varieties of bias and prompting student responses. In this podcast and article, Juliann Stanis discusses the virtual escape room and why she developed it.
The increasing trend of human and natural disasters in the world has given rise to the importance of disaster preparedness in nursing education. Dr. Jessica Gregg describes an innovative strategy she developed in which students create their own disaster simulations. Students were assigned to the roles of patient, narrator, or triaging nurse who was faced with limited resources and supplies. Learn more in this podcast and teaching tip.
Dr. Beth Tremblay and Dr. Janice Hawkins describe their approach to integrating climate and health topics in prelicensure education with their “energy efficiency treasure hunt” and Climate for Health Ambassador Training. In this podcast, they share specific topics, tools, and teaching strategies you can use to thread climate education throughout nursing education curricula.
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In this podcast, Dr. Lesley Bonfe and Dr. Emily Carroll share their teaching strategy to build communication competencies based on the SBAR format. Learn more about how they use a consistent rubric over two years of a nursing program to assess progressive levels of competency development in prioritizing and communicating patient information to healthcare colleagues and family members.
Article: https://journals.lww.com/nurseeducatoronline/citation/9900/raising_the_sbar.300.aspx
Drs. Catarelli and Booker describe the Innovation Studio they developed for teaching prelicensure students about evidence-based practice. Students self-selected a team and worked collaboratively through the steps of EBP to develop an innovative solution to clinical problem. This was followed by a Shark Tank, where the selected teams pitched their clinical product or prototype to local nursing leaders and alumni. Learn more about this engaging and interactive strategy in the podcast and the authors’ Teaching Tip.
Nursing education is moving toward competency-based education (CBE) and assessment. In this podcast, Dr. Gerry Altmiller discusses CBE and explains how to develop strategies for measuring competence. She shares a study that used screen-based virtual patient simulation as a strategy for assisting learners in developing competencies and for assessing outcomes.
Learn more about CBE and assessment in their article.
Examinations have long been used in nursing education. Of concern is the fairness to students in the class when a student takes an examination after the originally scheduled date. Students who take examinations late may benefit from additional time to study resulting in an improvement in their score. In this podcast, Briauna Cole and Kelly Lovan-Gold discuss the findings to a study comparing scores between students who took examinations on time and those taking make-up examinations.
Find out if it makes a difference in scores in the podcast and by reading the article.
Clinical elective courses provide additional specialty knowledge for prelicensure nursing students; however, it is unknown how these courses impact nurses' clinical practice after graduation. Drs. Lisa Lewis and Michelle Hartman describe their study on the impact of these electives on new graduates' clinical practice. Half of the new graduates worked in clinical areas that were the same, or related to, the elective they took. Graduates felt that taking the elective improved their confidence in the clinical setting and provided increased knowledge that put them at an advantage over their peers. Practice partners also reported benefits for their agency.
Learn more about these clinical elective courses in their article.
Faculty awareness of and responses to nursing students’ psychological distress may decrease their experience of negative mental health well-being. Drs. Stubin and Ruth-Sahd describe their exploratory mixed-methods study with 989 undergraduate nursing students from across the U.S. Students’ resilience strategies and supportive faculty actions were predictors of lower depression, anxiety, and stress in students. In this podcast, you also will learn about supportive strategies you can use with students.
Read their article for more specifics about the study.
In this podcast and article, Drs. Karen Weeks, Elizabeth Herron, and Holly Buchanan explain how they link simulation, class, and clinical practice to competencies in their new model of simulation-based educational experience. Not only did they evaluate the outcomes among prelicensure students, but they followed students into practice as new graduates to examine the impact of this model.
Self-reflection is a valuable method that nurse educators can use to develop clinical judgment skills among prelicensure nursing students. Little research exists on improving clinical judgment in second-degree nursing students in the clinical setting. In this podcast and article, Dr. Jennifer Maffucci presents how shared reflective practices in the clinical setting show promise for increasing clinical judgment and supporting a competency-based curriculum.
Dr. Valerie Eschiti shares her strategy and framework for fostering success in writing and publication for faculty through a writing community of practice. Hear how she started the community of practice and how she sustains it by providing faculty with knowledge, skills, and community support necessary for scholarly productivity. Find out how you can start your own writing community of practice and encourage nurse experts who are new to writing for publication.
Read her article to learn more.
Dr. Fidel Lim and Dr. Eda Ozkara San discuss their narrative review on methods in which transgender health is taught in undergraduate nursing programs. Didactic lecture is used most widely, followed by role-play simulation, use of film and video, guest presentation, and high-fidelity and standardized patient simulation. They also discuss facilitators and barriers in integration transgender health into nurse education with practical suggestions for faculty interested in incorporating transgender health into the nursing curriculum.
They review key findings in their article.
If you teach in a DNP program, this podcast is for you! Dr. Mary Stachowiak connected 5 phases of the DNP project to the AACN Essentials based on her analysis of the sub-competencies. She also discusses barriers to DNP students completing a robust project and strategies for educators to promote experiential learning during the project journey.
Learn more in her Article
Dr. Rachel Cox Simms describes learning activities she developed for her prelicensure courses using generative AI technology. Learn more about 3 of these stratgies in her article.
Faculty and administrators often struggle to process and understand student course evaluation data. Drs. Stephen McGhee and Dianne Morrison-Beedy explain how data visualization techniques can be used to analyze course evaluation data, identify patterns, and highlight potential areas for course revision. Learn more about this in their article.
In this podcast, Dr. Lisa Lewis describes her study that examined the economic impact of nursing student course repetition. She used a multicase study methodology to calculate the costs for students and the nursing program. Students who repeated courses had a loss of income and also incurred other expenses.
Gaslighting is a painful and damaging form of psychological abuse and fosters self-doubt, rumination, hypervigilance, and withdrawal from personal and social situations. Gaslighting can lead to post traumatic stress disorder. In this podcast Dr. Cynthia Clark discusses behaviors associated with gaslighting as a form of bullying and strategies to manage gaslighting in the academic setting to promote a healthy work environment.
Without highly qualified nurse anesthesia educators and administrators, the health care system will be threatened by an inadequate supply of certified registered nurse anesthetists (CRNAs). A Task Force of the American Association of Nurse Anesthesiologists analyzed reasons for high faculty turnover and developed 2 recommendations to support nurse anesthesia faculty and administrators: create a robust faculty development program and a repository of resources for educators. In this podcast, Drs. Cormac O'Sullivan and Laura Bonanno describe the findings of their survey and the resource repository developed by the Task Force. The content of the repository and types of resources in it are described in the accompanying article, which is open access – share the article widely. Although this project was geared to CRNA faculty, it is applicable to any school of nursing committed to preparing new educators.
Dr. Autherine Abiri explains the process of curriculum mapping of social determinants of health (SDoH) and why this is important in nursing education. She also provides examples of successful curriculum mapping initiatives of SDoH.
Inspired by Mask-Ed character role-play, a novel interactive neurological case study was introduced in a didactic undergraduate health assessment course. The role-play integrated real-time decision-making by students using the Kahoot! participant response system within a live, unfolding case study presentation. Dr. Sotos Djiovnais describes this innovative strategy using Live, Masked Role Play in this podcast and article.
Nursing students struggle with prioritizing multiple-response or select-all-that-apply questions. In a newly designed course for students to synthesize nursing content, an activity was created to help them in answering these types of questions. The activity required students to read the question and then write the answer choices instead of choosing from answers already provided. Learn more about this activity from the author Dr. Susan Kelly in this podcast and article.
Scholars have been advocating for a revolutionary change in nursing education to meet the increasingly complex demands in health care for many years. This podcast with Dr. Elizabeth Wells-Beede presents a scoping review of nurse educator competencies relative to the preparation for nurses for the academic role. Mentorship is a significant theme in this review.
Article at:
https://journals.lww.com/nurseeducatoronline/pages/articleviewer.aspx?year=2023&issue=09000&article=00002&type=Fulltext
Dr. Julia Rogers and Mr. Abel Reyes discuss their collaborative partnership between the College of Nursing and the College of Engineering, computer science department, to develop this tutorial. Through this collaboration, the authors developed, evaluated, and refined a 3D AR visualization tool for advanced pathophysiology. An iterative design was used, which is a methodology that is based on a cyclic process of analyzing and refining an activity or process and typically applied in software development to identify the optimum programming solution.
Their article has multiple supplemental files that show the 3D AR visualization tool.
Acute care nurse practitioners need to be prepared to care for critically ill obstetric patients, but advanced practice nursing programs often have gaps in maternal-fetal health content. Dr. Jennifer Brower and Dr. Caitlin Luebcke explain how they enhanced their NP curriculum at Indiana University School of Nursing to incorporate obstetric concepts and simulations that prepare acute care NPs to manage care of critically ill obstetric patients. Their curriculum aims to provide new NPs with background knowledge necessary to choose appropriate diagnostic testing and develop a treatment plan in collaboration with the healthcare team.
Article: https://journals.lww.com/nurseeducatoronline/citation/9900/incorporating_considerations_for_the_obstetric.250.aspx
Nurse educators were called to innovate during the COVID-19 pandemic. There were restrictions on clinical group size and ongoing student absences due to exposures and infections. Providing relevant clinical makeup activities remains a continual challenge. An innovative model was created and used with nursing students who were well enough to engage in the clinical day but could not be on-site. This podcast with Drs. Horan and Foley describes how the Model can still be used in nursing programs post the Pandemic era as a makeup clinical day while maintaining the rigor of the curriculum.
Article: https://journals.lww.com/nurseeducatoronline/fulltext/2023/09000/an_innovative_hybrid_clinical_model__useful_for_a.21.aspx
Dr. Rhonda Lanning incorporated birth doulas into the prelicensure reproductive health care course that she teaches. What do the doulas do? How are they integrated in the nursing course? What do students and doulas think about this innovation? Learn more from Dr. Lanning in this podcast and article.
Article: https://journals.lww.com/nurseeducatoronline/fulltext/2021/05000/utilizing_doulas_to_improve_nursing_student.4.aspx
Dr. Sue Bookey-Bassett shares a teaching strategy developed to promote students’ professionalism and their understanding of professional nursing organizations. Learn more in the podcast and by reading her article.
Three faculty members who teach in the nurse practitioner program at The Ohio State University College of Nursing describe an innovative approach to teaching diagnostic reasoning using virtual reality (VR). Learn how they create realistic simulations that allow nursing students to practice the process of diagnostic reasoning, delegate tasks, make clinical decisions, and learn from mistakes. Courtney Kresge, Stephanie Justice, and Carolyn McClerking explain how they use VR to assess competency and support classroom and clinical educational experiences. Article: https://journals.lww.com/nurseeducatoronline/fulltext/2024/01000/the_use_of_virtual_reality_in_teaching_diagnostic.16.aspx
The effects of climate change are anticipated to pose a significant threat to public and environmental health. The Lancet Report of the Countdown on Health and Climate Change stated that climate change is the biggest health threat of the 21st century. Because of climate change, weather variability is increasing and causing more injuries, illnesses, and deaths from a wide range of climate-sensitive health outcomes. This podcast with Dr. Adelita Cantu discusses a teaching strategy to promote learners’ understanding of the impact of climate change on health.
Article: https://journals.lww.com/nurseeducatoronline/fulltext/9900/_i_thought_it_was_just_about_heat___using_the.334.aspx
The current master's and doctoral nursing programs in the United States are not meeting the supply and demand for the nursing education workforce. Preparing a greater number of highly qualified evidence-based nurse educators would help mitigate the crisis of turning away nursing applicants due to the lack of faculty. This podcast with Dr. Tara King presents an innovative approach to preparing nurse educators in a Doctor of Nursing Education Program.
Article: https://journals.lww.com/nurseeducatoronline/fulltext/9900/meeting_supply_and_demand_for_nurse_educators__a.363.aspx
National data suggest that only 9.4% of nurses currently practicing in the United States are male. To put this into context, US Census data from 1900 indicate that men comprised 9% of the total population of nurses during the turn of the 20th century. While the number of men entering the field of nursing has steadily increased, the proportion of men in the profession has grown by less than 1% over the last 120 years. This podcast with Drs. Mott and MacWilliams presents strategies to increase the number of men in the nursing profession.
Article: https://journals.lww.com/nurseeducatoronline/fulltext/9900/experiences_of_undergraduate_male_students_in.318.aspx
Cocreation is a collaborative process that uses problem-based learning to construct new initiatives. Thirty second-year prelicensure nursing students cocreated simulations and associated lesson plans for a simulated practice placement. In this podcast, Joelle Salje describes this initiative and the process students used to develop their simulated clinical placement. Learn more in her article.
If you are teaching DNP students or guiding their projects, this podcast is for you. Dr. Curry Bordelon describes his school’s use of OVID Synthesis as a project management tool for DNP projects. Ovid Synthesis reduces project variation and ensures learners use best practice models for implementation across all DNP project courses. He also explains how Ovid Synthesis has facilitated communication and coordination between faculty and students.
Ovid Synthesis for Academic Programs | Ovid | Wolters Kluwer
How do you address bias in your curriculum? Curricular approaches that prepare future nurses to address implicit bias in clinical settings remain an urgent need. Responding to these calls for educational action is especially challenging because competencies to counter bias and racism in healthcare settings are not clearly defined. In this podcast, Dr. Rebecca O’Connor and Dr. Kenya Beard describe equityXdesign and how they used it to develop the Implicit Bias Clinical Education Program to prepare students to interrupt bias in clinical settings. You also will learn how equityXdesign can be used to design or reenvision your nursing curricula. Their article is open access.
To prepare family nurse practitioner (FNP) students to assume roles in a complex, technologically driven healthcare system, educators are increasing the use of simulation. Dr. Mary Ann Dugan, Chelsea Lebo, and Ashley Stallworth describe the face-to-face and virtual simulations they developed to help students navigate both in-person and telehealth patient visits.
Article: https://journals.lww.com/nurseeducatoronline/fulltext/9900/nurse_practitioner_student_simulations_to_navigate.359.aspx
Nurse practitioners (NPs) need to acquire prescribing competencies during their nursing program so they are prepared to provide safe care to patients. Many NP students have anxiety about prescribing, even after they have completed a course in advanced pharmacology. Drs. Phillips, George, and Munn describe the structure, topics, and outcomes of a prescribing workshop they offer for NP students.
Article: https://journals.lww.com/nurseeducatoronline/fulltext/2024/01000/effectiveness_of_interactive_group_activities_on.34.aspx
Electronic medical records enhance the delivery of safe patient care. The American Association of Colleges of Nursing highlight that graduates must be versed in data management, retrieval, analysis, and evaluation to guide practice decisions. Dr. Jenny Allert and Mallory Brunel collaborated with clinical sites and developed an innovative teaching strategy that helps prelicensure students to manage data from a QI perspective
Two leaders in nursing and healthcare education at Metropolia University of Applied Sciences in Helsinki, Finland, describe initiatives to develop solutions to complex healthcare problems in their local community. Metropolia combines expertise from business, culture, technology, healthcare, and social services to build sustainable innovations through their Innovation Hubs. Solutions are created through bold thinking about wellbeing, environmental responsibility, person-centered social and healthcare services, and corporate training needs. Anita Ahlstrand and Nea Lehtimäki share how development and collaboration in real-world healthcare settings facilitate student development of essential competencies for the workforce. Read more their work at Metropolia: https://www.metropolia.fi/en/rdi/innovation-hubs
Laurie Robinson, MSN, developed case studies that integrated the Clinical Judgment Measurement Model. She describes the cases, which were used by beginning nursing students prior to their initial clinical practice, and the outcomes of her study.
Shannon Vandenberg, RN, PhD(c), a nursing instructor at the University of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada, is an expert in planetary health and nursing. She discusses why planetary health is important for the nursing profession and how educators can incorporate planetary health into the curriculum.
Nursing students are diverse in culture, abilities, and challenges. Universal Design for Learning is a logical and social model to support diverse learning methods. Accessibility tools help measure the efficacy of faculty efforts to make nursing courses accessible to all. This podcast with experts from the University of Nebraska, Dr. Suhasini Kotcherlakota, Patrick Rejda, Dr. Kevin Kupzyk, and Dr. Lynnette Stamler, presents the development of an accessibility tool for a Learning Management System in nursing education. Be sure to read the article, which is open access.
Nurse educators play a significant role in setting an example for students early in their careers. Educators can make mistakes, and it is critical to role model moral courage by acknowledging these mistakes. Rachael Salguero and Karen Hunt, who teach at MGH Institute of Health Professions, developed this innovative teaching strategy to foster students' development of moral courage by openly encouraging students to “call in” the educator if they identify an error or have a concern based on words or behavior.
Dr. Joanne Noone and Dr. Teri Murray describe the current state of academic review of faculty activities related to diversity, equity, and inclusivity (DEI) and explain how faculty can describe their DEI contributions in their annual review, promotion, and tenure documents. They make recommendations to schools of nursing to introduce and gradually expand recognition of DEI contributions and support faculty as they expand their efforts to integrate DEI into their daily teaching, research, service, and practice.
Dr. Karen Schwab, Director of Pediatric Services at Wellness 360 Pediatrics and Associate Clinical Professor at University of Texas (UT) Health, San Antonio, describes an innovative model for a faculty-practice pediatric clinic and how nursing students learn through service in the clinic’s telehealth and mobile units. Students participate in the care of vulnerable patient populations, manage the day-to-day function of the clinics, acquire work experience, and fulfill clinical and immersion hours. Learn more about this faculty practice and its significant impact on students, faculty, and patients at https://wellness360.uthealthsa.org/
Psychological Capital (PsyCap) consists of a set of internal resources an individual can access to navigate challenges and enhance job performance, satisfaction, and overall success. External factors within the academic environment may influence PsyCap. This podcast with Dr. Ashley Singh presents how PsyCap can be used in nursing academia to promote relationship-building, hope, resiliency, efficacy, and self-reflection in the faculty role.
Join this podcast with Dr. Rhonda Lanning to learn how she incorporated artificial intelligence (AI) into a course assignment that assesses therapeutic communication. Students used Yoodli, a free AI speech coach to create an audio recording of an interview, provide transcripts, and share time-stamped feedback about communication including use of filler words and inclusive language, rephrasing suggestions, and pacing.
Social Media is an Internet platform that enables others to communicate thoughts and ideas from person to person or with communities of interest. Instagram is one type of social media allowing users to use videos and images to communicate with others. This podcast with Dr. Jasmine Bonder discusses how Instagram is being used to help students and community members learn from a global perspective. The following is an example of an Instagram to promote learning:
https://www.instagram.com/dr._jasmine_/
Dr. Colleen Paramesh describes a peer mentoring strategy she developed for DNP students and how she used it to guide the DNP project. Learn about the outcomes of this strategy for both mentor and mentee.
Individuals who identify as transgender and gender diverse require informed and compassionate health care, yet there is a lack of research about which educational strategies to use. Dr. Becky Mueller shares her study that evaluated a multimodal approach to educate NP students about care of transgender and gender diverse patients. The educational intervention included guided readings, a transgender patient panel, standardized patient simulation, and group discussion. The Sexual Orientation Counselor Competency Scale was administered pre- and postintervention. Results demonstrated increases in knowledge, skills, and attitudes and a high level of satisfaction for the overall program, but especially for the patient panel and standardized patient encounter.
This educational intervention also can be used in prelicensure nursing education.
Karen Hunt and Amanda Cornine share how they use word clouds to promote students' sense of belonging and academic persistence. This is a low cost, active learning strategy that you can use in all of your courses.
Drs. Betty Napoleon and Christine Kuchenrither explain how they use debates to teach ethics in nursing. These debates also prepare students for navigating issues they may encounter in nursing.
Nursing graduates need to provide care to diverse patient populations while working within the interdisciplinary care team. The Care of Marginalized Patient Populations Panel presented nursing students with the opportunity to engage with health care professionals from across disciplines who specialize in the care of diverse and marginalized patient populations. This podcast with Dr. Christopher Martin provides an exemplar for nurse educators to engage their students through the experiences and expertise of health care professionals from across settings.
Dr. Michele Roberts has designed innovative simulations for teaching empathy to nursing students. She tested an intervention to foster empathy that uses storytelling. Learn more about this use of simulation and her fascinating nursing education study.
If you are guiding DNP projects, or if you conduct evidence-based practice, quality improvement, and other team-based projects, this podcast is for you! Dr. Bethany Robertson describes how schools and health systems are using Ovid Synthesis https://synthesis.ovid.com/cem/ for conducting, storing, and disseminating these projects. She also explains how Ovid Synthesis can be used for mapping competencies based on the AACN Essentials.
Dr. Sarah Urban describes their national initiative for faculty to develop the skills for integrating Next Generation NCLEX preparation into their courses. Her school developed a collaborative approach across the curriculum with online modules and multiple hands-on activities. Learn more details about this in the podcast.
Are you looking for new teaching tools for your skills and other labs? Do you want to standardize the teaching done by multiple instructors in your labs? Dr. Susan Seibert describes the Review Do Document structure she developed for labs and how it has improved the instruction of skills across multiple lab sections.
Active learning develops students' critical thinking and communication skills, ensuring a safe learning environment. Incorporating principles of practice testing in active learning promotes student learning. This podcast with Drs. Genevieve Elrod and Kellie Riley presents a teaching strategy to promote student-centered learning using gaming as a framework. The outcomes of this strategy is a reduction in stress prior to an exam and enhanced ownership of learning and application of content and concepts.
Dr. Valerie Seney discusses a teaching strategy she developed to enhance the empathy of nursing students when caring for patients with substance use disorder (SUD). Learn about this strategy, what inspired Dr. Seney to develop it, and how you can use it in your own courses not only for teaching about SUD but also for other patient conditions.
Dismantling racism in health care and education is predicated on our ability to increase diversity in the health care workforce, particularly in nursing. Yet, the lack of nurses from historically and systemically excluded groups persists. Stress and trauma can be impediments to academic success for students historically excluded from nursing. In this podcast Drs. Najjar and Noone discuss the implementation of a trauma-informed approach to help students learn within a culture of mutual trust, respect, and collaboration, and one that embraces diversity.
Dr. Mary Ann Dugan and Ms. Chelsea Lebo describe an innovative teaching strategy they developed for nurse practitioner (NP) students. Each student manages care of a patient for 3 consecutive episodic visits in a telehealth simulation using Zoom and standardized patients. Each visit is 20 minutes in length. After students complete a visit, they write a subjective, objective, assessment, and plan (SOAP) note and make a call to a pharmacist for a prescription (audio submission). They describe the strategy in their article.
DNP-prepared faculty entering an academic role are expected to maintain a clinical practice, teach/advise students, and fulfill service obligations, often leaving minimal time to build a program of scholarship. Dr. Jayne Dunlap, Dr. Tracy Brewer, and Dean Rosalie Mainous describe a new model they developed to provide external mentorship for DNP-prepared faculty to facilitate their scholarship. This model builds on the archetype of external mentors for PhD researchers.
Read their article in Nurse Educator: it is Open Access.
In this podcast Dr. Beth Phillips, Nikita Khalid, and Nicole Zapparrata describe ATI's Engage Fundamentals. This is an online interactive educational program that can be used in place of textbooks for nursing students. Be sure to also read their article in Nirse Educator: "Benefits of an online interactive educational program over traditional textbooks." The article is open access so you can read it for free.
Effective communication is essential to foster relationship-centered nursing care. Students should learn to adapt communication techniques within context and address sensitive topics. This includes competency with therapeutic communication techniques such as empathy, paraphrasing, and asking clarifying questions. This podcast with Dr. Seibert, Ms. Davis, and Dr. Carter presents a teaching strategy that actively engages students in a role-play scenario to promote effective communication in a foundation nursing course.
Free riding, characterized by a lack of equal contributions to a group assignment, poses a significant challenge to the equitable distribution of credit and recognition in assigning a grade for a group project. Such behavior may generate frustration and resentment among diligent students. This podcast with Dr. Margaret Jeanne Calcote and Dr. Candon Garbo presents 3 teaching tips to prevent free-riding when students are engaging in group work.
The “Wellness Wheel” recognizes the multifaceted approach that is an effective way to work toward mental well-being. It is a visual tool that helps understand the factors (emotional, intellectual, physical, social, environmental, financial, and spiritual) that affect mental health. The Wellness Wheel prompts introspection, self-reflection, and should lead to goal setting. This podcast with Dr. Catherine Stubin discusses how the “Wellness Wheel” strategy helps prepare students for nursing practice
Over the last 5 years, evidence about the common practice of assigning learners to the observer role in simulation has proliferated. The majority of evidence supports that there is no significant difference in cognitive knowledge outcomes between participant and observer roles in simulation when observers have direction and clear objectives. This podcast with Dr. Brandon Kyle Johnson and Dr. Mary Fey presents a strategy in which observers take active and engaging roles in simulation. The podcast focuses on a “Fiction Contract” to prepare students for a real-life simulation scenario. Learn more by reading their article.
The American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) released a faculty practice tool kit drawing on recommendations from the National Academy of Medicine's The Future of Nursing 2020-2030 report, new AACN Essentials, and AACN Advancing Healthcare Transformation report, reaffirming their support that nurse educators engage in all forms of practice. This podcast with Dr. Kelly Gonzales presents the results of a study about the need to incorporate faculty practice experiences within an academic setting for nursing practitioner faculty. Concepts from the results of the study can be applied to other nursing faculty.
Dr. Colleen Moss created a simulation to prepare neonatal nurse practitioner students to care for infants with fragile skin. The simulation is low tech and can be adapted for other skills. Learn more about this creative simulation.
If you want to know more about ChatGPT and artificial intelligence, don't miss this podcast with Candise Branum (Foley Library) and Martin Schiavenato (School of Nursing), Gonzaga University. They used ChatGPT to answer a PICO question, and they share their results. They also discuss students' use of AI to generate essays, issues related to AI use in nursing education, and some solutions.
Dr. Janet Reed explains how she uses generative artificial intelligence (AI) in her courses, the challenges she has experienced with AI, and future uses of generative AI in nursing education.
The National Council of State Boards of Nursing published the 2021 NCLEX statistics noting a significant downward trend in the first-time pass rates for associate degree in nursing programs over the last 2 years. One program's 2020-2021 NCLEX-RN results for first-time testers fell below the state-required 80% at 68.09% (32 out of 47 students). In this podcast Dr. Kaitlin Cobourne presents curriculum strategies that resulted in dramatic improvement in first-time NCLEX pass rates in their ADN program.
Population health has been revived in this venue of health care involvement in the community and social determinants of health. Dr. Susan Harrington presents the findings of her study to define population health and identify topics to include in the undergraduate curriculum. She also shares teaching strategies and skills and competencies needed by new nurses for implementation of population health to improve health outcomes.
If you are looking for strategies for teaching clinical judgment, listen to this podcast with Dr. Laura Calcagni. She discusses an active learning strategy she developed for clinical teaching and shares the research findings on its outcomes. This strategy works.
In this podcast Dr. Beth Phillips, Nikita Khalid, and Nicole Zapparrata describe ATI's Engage Fundamentals. This is an online interactive educational program that can be used in place of textbooks for nursing students. Be sure to also read their article in Nirse Educator: "Benefits of an online interactive educational program over traditional textbooks." The article is open access so you can read it for free.
Benefits of delivering simulation and the processes that developers undertook to create simulations on diverse topics have been extensively published. What has not been largely examined is how to develop simulations regarding care provisions to Indigenous peoples, to teach students about care delivery with consideration of cultural practices of diverse groups that have and continue to experience inequities within the Canadian health care system. In this podcast. Dr. Kateryna Metersky presents a simulation strategy to help students embrace cultural humility. Embracing cultural humility helps the nurse and patient to have a collaborative relationship based on mutual respect.
Since the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been an increase in mental health disorders and the need for more accessible mental health services. The use of mobile mental health apps has potential to help support a growing population in need of mental health services. In this podcast, Jasmine Bratton-Robinson presents a teaching strategy using mobile apps to help students understand and apply mental health concepts to the practice setting. This learning experience promotes reflection and critical thinking about the mental health issues patients and the community experience.
Nursing students need preparation to care for families in the obstetric clinical setting where sensitive topics and experiences are routine. Concerns frequently cited by students include providing care during labor and birth, lack of confidence with newborn care, and feeling generally unprepared for the clinical experience. This podcast with Amy White and Lara Rivera presents a teaching strategy aimed at reducing student anxiety and enhancing their self-confidence prior to an obstetrics clinical rotation.
Lena Brokob explains how she uses ChatGPT to develop case studies for teaching clinical judgment and preparing students for NCLEX. She also describes using ChatGPT for developing PPT and other teaching materials. Learn about benefits of AI for teaching in nursing and challenges in its use.
Nursing would not be nursing without the work and vision of Florence Nightingale. Unfortunately, with an increasingly crowded curriculum, most nursing students are only exposed to the work of Nightingale peripherally and not given the impetus or opportunity to read her seminal work in depth. Dr. Monika Schuler discusses how Nightingale’s foundational work using the evidence promotes safe patient care and can be applied to any context, including creating a trusting educational environment for students.
Do you teach beginning students? Need a creative teaching strategy to actively engage students? Listen to this podcast with Dr. Lisa Shustack. She has developed an innovative strategy to teach vital signs and critical thinking in a flipped classroom. This strategy can be adapted to other content areas and skills, and can be used with other levels of students.
Dr. John Taylor describes a strategy he developed to prepare students for answering matrix items on the Next Generation NCLEX.
Dr. Adelita Cantu describes a teaching strategy she developed for beginning nursing students to learn about population health. The strategy involves a tour of the Holocaust Memorial and reflective writing assignment. Learn more about this strategy and how you can use it in your own courses.
The COVID-19 pandemic has been a defining event for the next generation of the nursing workforce. Complex pandemic practice environments have raised concerns for the preparation and support of novice nurses, even as a multitude of nurses leave the profession. This podcast with Dr. Normadeane Armstrong presents the results of a qualitative study focusing on students and new graduates’ experiences of the impact of the pandemic in their perception of nursing as a profession. The podcast also presents implications for future research and the need for students to learn coping and self-efficacy skills in nursing practice. The podcast emphasizes the need for student and nurses in practice to have a tool kit to help them cope with moral distress.
Navigating a faculty meeting can be challenging for new nurse educators. A faculty meeting typically includes words, phrases, and rules that are unfamiliar. This podcast with Dr. Will Brewer presents the detaildand outcomes of a simulated faculty meeting that was established to help train and build confidence in students enrolled in a master of science in nursing education program.
Little research exists on mentoring programs for nurse practitioner (NP) students. This podcast with Dr. Covelli presents the results of a pilot project aimed to develop, implement, and evaluate a distance program with NP alumni mentoring students across the United States. Most mentees wanted more job-hunting and resume-writing tips; mentors were interested in receiving strategies for mentoring and calendar reminders of important school events. Alumni were interested in helping prepare future NPs by serving as mentors but needed training.
Drs. Lindsay Iverson and Theresa Jizba describe their use of the ELNEC Graduate Curriculum to teach NP students about primary palliative care. Students gained important knowledge about palliative care and importantly developed essential competencies for patient care.
Nursing programs regularly conduct assessments to gather input from faculty, students, and staff about the effectiveness of the curriculum and the quality of education and academic climate. Process improvements based on these data are made. In the podcast Dr. Danette Cruthirds, Godsgrace Tettyefio, and Dr. Dina Kurzweil describe the creation of an animation to help students appreciate the importance of their feedback in the evaluation process.
In this podcast Dr. Myriam Jean Cadet presents a creative teaching strategy to promote student learning. PlayPosit is an interactive video tool that can be used for formative evaluation to guide the teaching process and support students' achievement of the course learning outcomes. Formative evaluation aids faculty in assessing students' learning, providing constructive feedback to students, and improving own teaching techniques. Faculty can adjust their instructional strategies to help students achieve the course learning outcomes.
Low numbers of new graduate nurses entering careers in primary care are insufficient to meet the demand of the current nursing shortage. Drs. Dolansky and Mitchell describe the Enhancing Nurse Roles in Community Health Fellowship. This Fellowship focuses on increasing undergraduate students' exposure to population health concepts by providing opportunities to practice in primary care settings.
In this podcast Thye Peng Ngo and J'Andra Antisdel report on their study with nearly 1,000 prelicensure nursing students about the students' sleep quality during the COVID-19 pandemic. Students who had hybrid courses (remote combined with in person) had the worst sleep quality. Learn about strategies we can use as faculty to improve students' sleep quality.
Are you satisfied with your faculty role? What about your work-life balance? Learn about an important study by Dr. Ryan Crawford that examined demographic differences in satisfaction and work-life balance of prelicensure nursing faculty.
Nursing programs are challenged with retaining nurse faculty due to many complex factors, one being the problem of suboptimal transition to the role. This podcast with Dr. Amber Brice Young discusses the results of a study about an innovative strategy to assess the impact of an onboarding and orientation program, the Teaching Excellence Program (TEP), on the transition of newly hired nurse faculty. TEP focuses on the Scholarship of Teaching to slowly orient and mentor newly hired faculty to the multiple roles they have in an academic setting.
If you are teaching online, don't miss this podcast with Dr. Beth Marquez. She describes their Let's Check in for Success strategy and its key initiatives for developing a collaborative learning environment for students and faculty.
Nursing schools need to provide students with the appropriate tools to develop competencies and resources to actualize moral courage to advance health equity and social mission. This podcast with Dr. Asefeh Faraz Covelli describes themes from a study involving 6 nursing programs that exemplify a variety of ways that social mission goals are pursued in different contexts. While each school approaches social mission differently, there are commonalities across cases including a number of necessary factors for schools to advance their social mission goals. Diversity, equity, inclusion, and social determinants of health were integral to the study.
To prepare students for Next-Generation NCLEX (NGN), you can effectively bring clinical practice to the classroom by using group and individual activities and classroom response systems (CRSs) such as Pear Deck, Kahoot, or Classtime. This podcast describes how these interactive and engaging technologies promote knowledge, application, and analysis of patient-centered scenarios in didactic settings. The scenarios and technologies help students to critically thinking using a Clinical Judgment Model.
Students in virtual classes need learning experiences that support critical thinking and involve appropriate case studies for knowledge application. Engaging remote learners can be challenging for nurse educators. With an increase in virtual learning, nurse educators are seeking activities that support engagement and improve critical thinking. This podcast with Caroline Littleton presents an active and engaging learning experience to promote critical thinking and clinical reasoning using Stop Action Videos in a virtual learning environment.
Drs. DiClemente and Ursuy describe an innovative and much needed clinical teaching strategy they developed for prelicensure students. They explain the impetus for developing the strategy and describe the strategy, how they integrated it within courses, and how they prepared clinical educators for using it.
Drs. Amalia Gedney-Lose and Dan Crawford describe an innovative learning activity they developed for FNP students. In this activity, students interact with children in a simulated environment. Learn about the benefits for students and key takeaways.
This podcast with Dr. Jane Dickinson presents the results of a study to determine whether 4 concepts representing the focus of the discipline—context, holism, health, and caring—were present in program and course descriptions in 300 four-year BSN programs in the US. Preliminary results indicated that discipline-specific concepts are missing from many programs. The study serves as a model for nursing programs to identify concepts to be included in course descriptions. Learn more about this study in a video at the Nurse Educator website and article.
Polypharmacy is frequently associated with geriatric patients who are at a higher risk of medication nonadherence and adverse drug events. Medication nonadherence is a common problem for clinicians who provide care for older adult patients. This podcast with Dr. Jennifer Kim discusses the structure of a high impact simulation experience for nurse practitioner students with a geriatric focus.
Dr. Lisa Diamond uses art as a teaching strategy in her NP courses. Learn more about this strategy in this podcast.
Whether you are teaching a large or small class, in person or online, don't miss this podcast with Dr. Amy Mackos. She explains how she used the muddiest points strategy in her online pathophysiology course.
Drs. Stacy Huber and Tina Antill Keener describe their course on developing nursing students' caring behaviors and compassion. The Nurses' Role in the Patient Experience course includes innovative learning activities and assignments. As one of the assignments, students read excerpts from 2 books, and the book authors share their experiences as patients in an online discussion.
Dr. Michele Roberts describes the SAMR model and explains why it is a good framework for integrating technology in nursing education.
Despite recommendations to include disability content in nursing education, nursing students have little exposure to disability education. The authors developed a tabletop simulation for teaching disabilities to nursing students. A community advisory group was created to advise the development of this project and included individuals with disabilities, their family members, and people who work with individuals with disabilities in community settings. The authors also share strategies for integrating disability content into a nursing curricuum.
Dr. Mary Beth Maguire describes a benchmark study to measure the quality of care students deliver in simulation. The purpose was to compare national Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) survey data with data received from standardized patients (SPs). Findings suggest HCAHPS data can be used to model correlates of the quality of care SPs receive from students during simulation events.
Studies demonstrate considerable prejudice toward transgender individuals, creating barriers to health care. This podcast with Dr. Gerry Altmiller presents the results of a study aimed at helping students to identify their biases in a simulation experience to enhance the care of people who represent the transgender community.
ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence-driven, pretrained, deep learning language model, can generate natural language text in response to a given query. Its rapid growth has led to concerns about ethical use in academia. This podcast with Drs Sun and Hoelscher presents the benefits and limitations of using ChatGPT in academia and the clinical practice setting from a legal and ethical perspective. The authors emphasize the need for policies and procedures to guide faculty and nurses in clinical practice setting about the proper and efficient use of these technologies
The statistical methods portion of the DNP project can be challenging for students. A school of nursing, in collaboration with the University's Department of Research, created a statistical methods algorithm for students to use while developing their DNP project. Drs. Johnston, Astrella, and Grimm explain the algorithm and its use.
Dr. Rebecca Kronk describes their online genomics competency course developed for doctoral students and nurses. Course development was funded by NIH with the aim to prepare nurses with genomics knowledge and competencies. The course is online and asynchronous - and FREE. You will receive CE hours for completing the course. Learn more in this podcast!
An innovative remote learning intervention, PICO Pal, was developed to promote students' interactive learning, collaboration, and information literacy. PICO Pal used Apple Numbers to facilitate remote group work on a PICOT poster.
There is a growing interest in faculty practice. Dr. Kelly Gonzales describes the Faculty Practice Mentoring Program, its components, and outcomes.
Communication and trust-building are important in caring for patients who experience the multiple dimensions of suffering at the end of life. Communication, collaboration, and trust building in end-of-life care are facilitated when nurse educators expose their students to culturally sensitive scenarios in simulation and face-to-face interactions with patients and families. This podcast with Dr. Zainab Osakwe provides listeners with strategies to thread cultural education and sensitivity in the curriculum. Case studies are effective learning activities for students. An emphasis is placed on developing partnerships with community agencies to help students learn about culturally sensitive and equitable care. The concepts covered in this podcast focus on palliative care at the end of life for diverse patient populations, but can be generalized to all patients across the lifespan.
Many nurse educators find it challenging to incorporate inclusivity into the classroom in an effort to translate it to nursing practice. Rachael Salguero and Julika Wocial share an innovative strategy in this podcast. They add an inclusive language tip of the day at the start of every class to bring attention to this terminology.
Partnerships between health care systems and schools of nursing are being encouraged on multiple fronts. One creative and easy way to support nurses and build relationships between the school and health care facilities is to provide breakroom baskets. These baskets include small items to help nurses during their long shifts at the hospital. This podcast with Drs. Terri Clark and Jenny Pappas discusses the implementation of breakroom baskets to celebrate the nursing profession and market nursing as a chosen profession. This is a good way to say thank you to nurses for supporting students in the clinical setting.
Dr. Kateryna Metersky developed the CLLEAR framework to give structure to her online nursing classes. The framework, based on best practices in nursing education, stands for Connect, Look Back, Learn, Empower, Apply, and Reconnect. She describes each component of the framework and its use for teaching in nursing.
The Future of Nursing Report 2020-2030 calls for nursing education to integrate the social determinants of health in the curriculum to prepare future nurses to take an active role in identifying and addressing health inequities. This podcast with Dr. Emerson Ea presents ways that deep thinking helps students to plan care for patients from various populations.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, nurse educators had to adapt quickly to required changes in nursing education following isolation mandates. Educators worked diligently to provide a quality remote/online educational experience with limited resources. This podcast with Drs. Amy Mersiovsky and Dawn Reiss presents themes identified in a scoping review including teaching pedagogy, technology challenges, online teaching role, learning environment, leadership, clinical education, and well-being.
In this podcast, Dr. Ruth Woroch describes an innovative teaching strategy for nurse practitioner (NP) students. Students participate in longitudinal scenarios over multiple semesters where the patient (a standardized patient) is seen multiple times by the students. The scenarios are complex, and patients have multiple co-morbidities. Dr. Woroch explains why the faculty developed these scenarios and their implementation in the curriculum.
Kristin Petrovic explains the integration of nursing ethics with critical and open pedagogy in nursing education. She also shares key teaching strategies that faculty can adopt for their classrooms. Learn more about this new framework in the podcast.
Dr. Rebecca Fenton, in her pediatric course, prepares nursing students to do vision and hearing screenings for school-aged children. She follows the Texas screening guidelines, and manual. Following this training, students are able to get their certifications in visual and hearing screening. Learn more about this in the podcast.
Finding strategies to engage students in the application of nursing ethics is challenging. To provide a safe venue for students to wrestle with ethically wrought patient scenarios, faculty created vignettes based on personal clinical experiences that present numerous ethical dilemmas. These vignettes help students to use critical thinking and communication skills and to develop self-awareness of personal bias. Susan Siebert and Ashley Carter explain their teaching strategy in this podcast.
Julie Blazek and Dr. Toni Morris discuss the benefits of exposing prelicensure students to primary care nursing. They describe their academic minor in primary care, curriculum revision to include experiences in primary care, and collaboration with clinical partners.
Rana Najjar, Joanne Noone, and Karen Reifenstein discuss supporting an inclusive environment through correct name pronunciation. They share key times and strategies to pronounce names correctly.
Academic nursing has a long history of partnering with practice-based settings to provide clinical learning experiences for nursing students; however, these placements are not easily obtained, especially in pediatrics. The COVID-19 pandemic required a pediatric hospital and 3 academic nursing programs to rethink clinical instruction through an academic-practice partnership. This podcast with Drs. Simmy King, Bethany Cieslowski, Denise Pope, and Devora Winkfield presents the structure and outcomes of the partnership to help promote student learning in a BSN program.
Continued restrictions imposed on face-to-face learning related to the pandemic resulted in a decision to permanently transition a graduate nursing education advanced assessment course from a hybrid to an online learning modality. This podcast with Drs. Barnes and Vance presents the process of transitioning from a hybrid format to a totally online format in a physical assessment course for advanced practice nursing students. Student-centered learning, faculty presence, student and faculty engagement, student-to-student engagement, and critical thinking are emphasized.
Graduate students in Dr. Lisa Diamond's courses write poems to promote their learning about course content. In this podcast she discusses using poetry in nursing courses and the importance of arts and humanities in nursing education.
In 2023, the NCSBN will launch the updated licensure examination, Next-Generation (NGN) NCLEX, which will use new test item formats to evaluate new graduate nurses' clinical decision-making processes at a more advanced level. In this podcast Dr. Wands presents a gaming strategy to help faculty embrace and develop confidence writing NGN test items at a high cognitive level to promote critical thinking and clinical reasoning using the National Council of State Boards of Nursing Detailed Test Plan and nursing process as frameworks.
Safe patient care is closely linked to clinical judgment. Concerns about inadequate practice readiness and the impending inclusion of clinical judgment items on the NextGen NCLEX have resulted in increasing interest in and publications about teaching clinical judgment. However, little is known about actual current practices for teaching this skill. This podcast with Drs. Ann Nielson, Kathie Lasater, Lisa Gonzalez, and Janet Monagle presents a discussion on the need for programs to have a clinical judgment model as a curricular framework and selected teaching strategies to promote critical thinking, clinical reasoning, and clinical judgment. They share results from their national survey.
Medication reconciliation is a formal process of creating a complete and accurate listing of a patient’s prescription and non-prescription medications. Drs. Stansell, Paris, and Clark discuss the use of simulation in the medication reconciliation process in novice nursing students. Critical thinking, communication, safety, and interprofessional collaboration are frameworks for this high impact and engaging learning experience.
An understanding of health promotion in nursing programs is often evaluated through formative assessments such as quizzes and examinations. There is a need for more contemporary methods of teaching and active learning. This podcast with Dr. Crystal Walker presents a teaching tip using social media platforms to help students achieve the knowledge, skills, and attitudes to promote healthy behaviors in patients.
Dr. Amy Manderscheid describes her innovative Call Light Challenge teaching strategy to engage beginning students in clinical practice. She explains how students accrue points, how the point system is designed, outcomes of this strategy, and adapting it for your own courses.
The American Association of Colleges of Nursing adopted the new Essentials and competency-based education (CBE) to ensure that nursing programs are addressing domains, competencies, and sub-competencies and have clearly defined CBE learning statements and assessment tools. This podcast with Mary Stachowiak, DNP, RN, CNL, presents a framework and tools that nursing programs can use as they engage in curriculum assessment and evaluation.
Drs. Eda Ozkara San, Gina Robertiello, Jennifer Nahum, and Beth Latimer discuss their integration of disability content in nursing simulation. They developed an innovative tabletop simulation as part of their pediatric nursing course. They also share strategies for integrating disability content throughout the curriculum with a focus on outcomes and competencies.
An innovative remote learning intervention, PICO Pal, was developed for prelicensure nursing students to promote interactive learning, collaboration, and information literacy. PICO Pal used Apple Numbers to facilitate remote group work on a PICOT poster. Daria Waszak, Kady Martini, and Missi Stec describe PICO Pal.
Prelicensure nursing students experience a great deal of stress and anxiety while in school. in this podcast, Drs. Bussard and Mohoney present the value of a relaxation room to help students with their anxiety and promote success in their studies.
Dr. Sandra Davis discusses how she creates podcasts to help her students understand difficult or challenging concepts in an easier to understand manner. The podcast discusses the value of giving content and concepts to students in a conversational manner. The conversational approach is a form of Socratic learning, which is a high impact teaching strategy.
Tik Tok is a social media platform for sharing short videos. This podcast with Dr. Gapp explains how TiK Tok was used with novice nursing students to engage them in learning. The podcast presents selected short vignettes that faculty can use when using Tik Tok technology.
Dr. Angela MacDonald explains why we need effective and equitable academic policies in schools of nursing. She discusses the need for data to inform policies (and provides an example) and identifies types of data faculty might use when making decisions about academic policies.
Dr. Kristi Miller describes a video she developed with embedded medication and other errors for teaching nursing students about patient safety. She discusses how she uses this video in her course.
Dr. Melissa Harlan and Dr. Susan Miller describe their innovative evolving case studies. With these case studies, students progress through six phases, which simulate a clinical practice day. They used Excel to build the EMR for the case. There are multiple ways faculty can use these evolving case studies in their courses.
At Villanova University, Dr. Ruth McDermott-Levy has developed learning opportunties for nursing students with immigrant groups. In this podcast you will learn about the outcomes students achieve from these experiences and benefits for immigrants and the community. Dr. McDermott-Levy and her team studied nursing students' self-efficacy in working with immigrant clients - be sure to read the article in the July-August issue of Nurse Educator (pp. 225-229).
Prelicensure students struggle with developing clinical judgment skills. The National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN) Clinical Judgment Model can be used in a simulation to promote critical thinking, clinical judgment, and decision making. This podcast with Dr. David Want presents a clinical scenario using the Model, focusing on the debriefing that has the most learning impact. A secondary focus of this podcast is enhancing facilitator and faculty education about the use of the Model to promote interrater reliability in the teaching and learning experience.
This podcast with Dr. Katie Vanderzwan discusses 2 innovative curricular approaches implemented on the basis of Bloom's taxonomy to teach handoff education: experiential and virtual. The outcomes of the 2 curricular innovations were evaluated for handoff completion, accuracy, and quality, based on context. Communication, interprofessional collaboration, and critical thinking are integral to the learning experiences.
It is time consuming for nurse educators to provide feedback to students on drafts of their papers especially with large classes. Learn about a peer review activity in which students provide asynchronous online feedback to a peer on a written assignment. This strategy was developed and evaluated by Drs. Lynn Brown and Amy Cicchino, who share their technique and benefits for students in this podcast.
If you are not doing virtual post-exam reviews, you will after this podcast with Kaitlin Cobourne. You will learn about the process to use, considerations, how to prepare for a virtual post-exam review, amd strategies (e.g., student self reflection and exam wrappers).
Dr. Mindy Tait has developed a series of learning activities for her pharmacology course that prepare students for the Next Gen NCLEX. In this podcast she explains how she integrated highlighting tables into her pharmacology course.
Test item construction and analysis are always challenging for nursing faculty. Next generation NCLEX (NGN) requires graduates to think critically and use clinical judgment to identify safe, quality care. This podcast with Dr. Desiree Hensel presents strategies that nurse educators can use to create test items that prepare students for NGN.
In this podcast, Drs. Hays and Kruse describe how they integrated the standardized National HIV Curriculum (free for faculty and students) in their NP program. They also studied the effects of integrating the 6 core competencies from the HIV Curriculum on NP students' perceived knowledge about HIV care.
The average student has an attention span of approximately 10 to 15 minutes, requiring teachers to use active and engaging strategies to help learners think critically. This podcast with Dr. Jake Bush presents concepts that are critical to engage students in active learning. An emphasis is placed on the importance of using a flipped classroom to promote student accountability in their own learning with the teacher as a guide. There is an emphasis of using fun and humor in the learning experience.
Manisha Mittal, an instructional designer, explains how to use video feedback for written assignments. Video feedback is not only beneficial for students, it saves faculty time.
Clinical sites are increasingly difficult to secure due to shorter hospital stays, increased clinical site competition, and limited availability of practicum sites. Little is known about the use of schools for a pediatric clinical practicum. Using schools is thought to be a common practice, but findings of a national survey suggest otherwise. This podcast with Drs. Schultz and Krassa discusses school-based practicums that provide students with skills beyond acute care competencies.
Learn some new teaching strategies to link environmental issues to vulnerable populations. Jordan Ferris and Dr. Heidi Johnston present a number of innovative teaching methods to help students make these important connections. One of the strategies they use is ecological mapping. Learn more about this strategy in the podcast.
Contemporary health care environments require a diverse nursing workforce. This podcast with Drs. Mokel and Ro presents the results of an integrative research review about underrepresented faculty in schools of nursing. They discuss the importance of effective communication, role modeling, intentional presence, and mentoring. Nursing programs need to have policies, procedures, and programs that promote diversity of and mentoring for nursing faculty.
Nursing students often experience overwhelming stress and anxiety that stems from the rigor of their nursing program and work and personal responsibilities. This podcast with Dr. Hollis Franco presents strategies that reduce stress using mindfulness. Mindfulness is an intentional process of self-management and can be applied in any context. Mindfulness provides a holistic mechanism for nursing students to cope with stress and anxiety.
In this podcast with Dr. Michelle Freeman and Susan Dennison (University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada), you will learn about the school's medication incident reporting system. The authors explain why they focused on near misses, present the types and extent of near-miss medication errors made by students, and provide examples of these incidents. They also describe the learning outcomes for students as well as faculty.
If you need support for using technology in your courses, listen to this podcast with Katie Peterson and Kristina Fogelson. They pioneered a new role: E-Champion. E-Champions are unpaid student volunteers enrolled in the courses they support who (1) develop and share expertise of hardware and technology applications; (2) collaborate with faculty, students, and other E-Champions to provide technology support before, during, and after the class in the synchronous environment; and (3) provide feedback to optimize learning experiences for class participants.
Learn about this new role to support faculty.
In this podcast, Dr. Callie Tennyson explains microlearning and how she uses social media in her courses. She provides guidelines and recommendations for educators who want to use social media as a teaching tool.
Dr. Courtney Shihabuddin shares an innovative teaching strategy she developed using peer-assisted learing and near-peer learning with NP students. She also discusses the use of this strategy with other graduate nursing students.
Dean Maria Shirey and Drs. Whitney Pollio and Lynn Nichols describe their primary care nursing course for prelicensure students and the strategies they integrated in the course to build students' resiliency skills. Their goal is to prepare a resilient primary care RN workforce. Learn how they integrated resiliency training in their curriculum, provided a resiliency coach for students, and developed active learning strategies including a board game to engage students in primary care scenarios.
Nurse educators are called to engage students in learning activities in class, online, clinical, and simulation. This podcast with Dr. Kathleen Rhodes presents a high impact teaching strategy that requires students to use clinical reasoning and decision-making while correlating patient-centered data to verbalize a rationale why answers to a scenario are correct or incorrect. This learning experience also promotes the socialization of students as they learn.
Telehealth has moved to the global forefront as an effective solution to address health care needs during the pandemic and currently. This podcast with Ms. Nancy Ochs presents one school of nursing’s integration of a telehealth simulation with communication, critical thinking, clinical reasoning, interprofessional collaboration, and relationship-building to address the multiple dimensions of a patient’s problems.
Chelsea Lebo developed a simulation to prepare nursing education students to give difficult feedback. The simulation is valuable for faculty to gain experience and comfort in giving feedback to students. Learn more about this simulation in the podcast.
Amy Nagle presents a fascinating study she completed on student-centered reflection during simulation debriefing. She discusses the implications for facilitating debriefings to promote student reflection.
Michelle Cullen (Faculty of Nursing) and Patrick Kelly (instructional designer at the Taylor Institute for Teaching and Learning), University of Calgary, discuss using a team charter to promote students' development of leadership skills and team functioning. They describe how they incorporated a team charter into their course and the benefits for group projects.
Drs. Hilary Bowling and Lori Murray describe the intergenerational service-learning experience they developed for their beginning nursing students. The experience connects students with older adults in the community and is offered as a course.
Intentionally crafting partnerships between the academic setting and the community health setting can result in high-quality patient care and improved outcomes. In this podcast, Dr. Zainab Osakwe discusses the benefits of an academic-clinical partnership with community health settings.
Heather Walsh, from Children's National Hospital, describes their academic-practice partnerships that provide pediatric virtual learning opportunities for nursing students from affiliate schools. She also discusses how the hospital and hospital-based nurse educators bridge the transition to practice gap for new graduate nurses.
Dr. Kelli Garber describes the current state of telehealth as a method of care delivery, why telehealth education is important, and strategies for integrating telehealth in APRN programs. She also presents the outcomes of her study on the impact of different types of telehealth education on provider experience and adoption. Don't miss this podcast!
Advanced practice nursing students need high-impact learning activities that promote critical thinking and clinical reasoning. “Teach the Teacher” is a strategy that engages students in active learning with a strong focus on peer feedback. Students build upon each other’s creative project to enhance critical thinking while providing peers with meaningful and constructive feedback. “Teach the Teacher” can be utilized in all levels of nursing education. Learn more about this teaching strategy from Dr. Curry Bordelon in this podcast.
Dr. Tullamora Landis discusses professional identity in nursing, their study in which they developed and tested a scale for measuring professional identity, and how nurse educators can use this scale.
Dr. Judith Jarosinski shares the model she uses to guide her teaching practices and offers strategies for new educators to establish a research trajectory.
Dr. Erica Sciarra shares an educational activity she developed to foster interprofessional practice.
Faculty reversed the conventional virtual reality (VR) approach to orient students to a new simulation platform in the School of Nursing. The technique necessitated 2 instructors to don headsets and play the role of nurses while students directed care for patients and family members. In this podcast, Bethany Cieslowski, DNP, RN, discusses the outcomes of this VR teaching strategy to promote student engagement, critical thinking, and decision-making within a safe, trusting learning environment.
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There is a shortage of males holding faculty positions in schools of nursing. Minimal research has been conducted to address this shortage. In this podcast, Dr. Mark Hand presents the results of a study that identified factors associated with the recruitment and retention of male faculty members into nursing academia. The study also identified factors that motivates men to consider nursing academic. The podcast provides strategies for nursing programs to implement to recruit more men into academia.
Distance and hybrid learning require innovative teaching methods to help educators deliver simulation-based learning strategies and promote students’ critical thinking, clinical reasoning, and decision-making. One strategy is telepresence. This strategy allows for physically present and telepresent participation and facilitates innovative delivery of simulations, overcoming barriers of distance, isolation, illness, and scheduling. Dr. David Want presents how one nursing program integrated telepresence in simulation to promote student learning.
An important role of the nurse is to implement high-quality palliative care through the life span and at the end of life. The AACN New Essentials require BSN programs to integrate teaching and learning experiences on palliative, supportive, and hospice care. In this podcast, Dr. Zainab Osakwe presents key points that BSN curricula should include to promote student learning to address the multiple dimensions of care at the end of life.
Faculty in the classroom and clinical setting need innovative pedagogies to help novice students learn the nursing process. This podcast with Dr. Deborah Byrne presents an innovative strategy using a television documentary to help students learn the steps of the nursing process, assessment of the patient, and application and analysis of patient-centered data in the scenario, and to communicate effectively and compassionately with the patient who suffers from obesity.
Phillip Nelan describes his dosage calculations teaching strategy and how he uses this in his pharmacology course. If your nursing students need help with calculating medication dosages, don't miss this podcast.
Dr. Zainab Osakwe shares the results of a systematic review on barriers that minority nursing students face in their studies and facilitators to their success in a nursing program.
Dr. Bethany Robertson explains how faculty in her school of nursing systematically integrated social determinants of health in their prelicensure program. She discusses why this is important to do, successful approaches, and barriers to integration of these concepts in a nursing curriculum.
Technology has changed the way effective teachers reach, inspire, engage, and motivate students. Nearpod technology is a way for nurse educators to connect their presentations to students’ mobile devices in a face-to-face or online classroom. Dr. Susan Kelly explains how she uses Nearpod in her pathophysiology nursing course to help students learn and prepare for quizzes, exams, standardized tests, and the NCLEX.
Phillip Nelan has his nursing students develop test questions to prepare for upcoming tests in the course. Learn more about student-generated review questions, benefits, and using them in your courses.
Learn about trauma informed care from experts (Dr. Elizabeth Kuzma and Ms. Lindsay Cannon), why this content is important to include in a nursing curriculum, and how to teach this to students.
Dr. Jessica Ochs explains how to engage in difficult conversations with nursing students. She explains reframing a difficult one-to-one conversation with a student and provides an example.
Quantifying nursing faculty workload is essential to ensuring faculty satisfaction while balancing the fiscal aspects of a school of nursing. This podcast with Dr. Ludwig-Beymer presents a new nursing faculty workload model that resulted from the work of a task force collaborating with the faculty organization and having strong administrative support.
The COVID-19 pandemic created an unprecedented time for nurse educators. In this podcast Drs. Lewandowski and Prieta present strategies that their school implemented to rise to the challenges of the pandemic and strategies they have continued to use.
Embracing a culture of safety is critical in the practice setting. This podcast with Dr. Kristi Miller presents the results of a study that helps students embrace a culture of safety in the administration of medications. The results can be generalized to other nursing contexts to promote safety.
In this podcast, Dr. Bernard describes how his school of nursing initiated a civility team as a strategy to celebrate the achievements of faculty and prevent incivility. He explains why nursing programs should have civility policies. Learn how to start a civility team in your school.
Nursing students need to learn how to evaluate social determinants of health in the community, particularly vulnerable populations. This podcast with Dr. Kim Daly, University of Victoria, British Columbia, presents strategies for teaching nursing students how to take an active role in addressing social determinants of health. Students learn the importance of the nurse navigator as a patient advocate to influence policy in the practice setting.
Examination wrappers are student success tools that help students to study, test, remediate, think critically, and gain self-confidence in their learning. This podcast with Dr. Deana Furr presents one nursing program’s implementation and evaluation of examination wrappers to achieve student learning outcomes. An emphasis on helping students in metacognition is included.
Do you need an innovative teaching strategy for your course? This is it! Dr. Brenna Morse shares Made for TV. Students are in the writers' room and develop a scene (related to their course content) for a medical drama on TV.
Nursing students need to learn the value of relationship-building to develop leadership skills to prepare them for the practice setting. This podcast with Dr. Marcia Cooke presents a teaching strategy that helps students to focus on their strengths to address problems in the practice setting from a quality improvement perspective. Students learn that celebrating their unique talents helps them to embrace a spirit of collegiality with peers and staff.
Faculty integrated instruction about sensitive topics into their communication lab. They engage students in role play, discussions, and creative activities to develop students' ability to have conversations about highly charged and sensitive topics. Dr. Pat Freed, Erica Frost, and Krista Simmons describe their Crucial Conversations lab.
Dr. Betsy Herron and Dr. Karen Weeks describe a strategy they developed, using simulation, to improve the clinical competencies of prelicensure students to prepare them for transition into practice. In this podcast you will learn about this innovation, how they developed it, lessons learned, and outcomes.
Dr. Raquel Alvarado describes her new clinical teaching strategy that provides one-to-one feedback to beginning nursing students. The strategy includes multiple components, creating a positive learning experience for students.
Psychological safety is important in simulation and other learning environments. Dr. Amy Daniels explains how nurse educators can create a safe learning environment for students and its relationship to the work-team learning model.
If you are not familiar with Mask-Ed simulation, learn from our 3 experts: Drs. Crownover, Henrichs, and Oja. They describe this type of simulation and its essential elements, and share the outcomes of a qualitative study they did with nursing students.
Dr. Gerry Altmiller reviews the new AACN Essentials and provides a process for adopting them (and competency-based education) in your school of nursing. At the Nurse Educator home page, you can read her articles that will help with implementing the new Essentials Domain 5 - Quality and Safety https://journals.lww.com/nurseeducatoronline/pages/default.aspx .
Dr. Jean Giddens discusses the new AACN Essentials, competencies, sub-competencies, and concepts that are intertwined with competency based education (CBE). She also presents strategies that faculty can use to perform a curriculum assessment to ensure integration of the new Essentials and CBE in their programs.
Dr. Amalia Gedney-Lose shares innovative active learning strategies she developed for students in her FNP course. Learn how you can use these activities in your own courses.
In this podcast Dr. Christine Espina (nurse educator) and Emily Spracklin (librarian) explain infodemic, its impact on EBP, and the digital media literacy lessons they developed for nursing students. You will learn about lateral reading and the SIFT model for teaching.
Green Zone Training (GZT) is a program to help educators, administrators, and staff better understand the military student experience and learning more about their unique characteristics and academic needs. This podcast with Dr. Janice Hawkins discusses the implementation of GZT in a large university and school of nursing.
Microlearning is a pedagogy that focuses on learning a small amount of content at a time. Dr. Tennyson discusses the implementation of microlearning in a nurse practitioner program that is supported by principles of adult education and constructivist learning theory. Her model can be applied to any nursing education context. There is an emphasis of technology and social media as a tool to implement microlearning.
Samuel Byiringiro, MS, RN, shares his expereince in using Twitter in a PhD course and how educators can harness social media to promote learning.
The transition from student to the practice setting is stressful as a graduate nurse. Faculty should have conversations with students about having a healthy work environment after graduation to promote position satisfaction, patient safety, and the achievement of positive patient outcomes. Don’t miss this podcast with the experts: Cory Church, Texas Tech University, Sheri Cosme, Director, Practice PTAP and ANCC, and Meagan White, Senior Operations Manager, PTAP and ANCC.
Faculty are often required to publish their scholarship in peer-reviewed journals and need to be aware of predatory journals. This podcast with Dr. Yondell Masten will help authors to identify predatory journals, which do not follow sound ethical processes.
Benefits of Escape Rooms include development of trust among students, critical thinking, conflict resolution, and communication skills, all framed around safe, quality patient care. This podcast with Dr. Denise Dawkins explains how to create an Escape Room using Zoom in a large didactic nursing course.
Faculty created a simulation boot camp to orient novice nurse educators to simulation. Faculty complete a full-day of didactic class sessions, role play, stations for operation of the manikin, moulage and simulation activities. This podcast with Dr. Janice Palmer shares the simulation preparation model that could be replicated in other nursing education programs.
Telehealth has emerged as an effective way to communicate, collaborate, and manage patient-centered care. This podcast with Dr. Joyce Victor presents a creative simulation to help novice students, who have no clinical experience, care for a patient using telehealth in a simulated experience. The podcast presents benefits of the simulated learning experience that led to the achievement of course outcomes.
Drs. Elizabeth Riley and Fermin Renteria explain how to do two-stage collaborative testing in nursing courses. They also share the outcomes of their study using this type of testing in their course. Read more about this in their article: https://journals.lww.com/nurseeducatoronline/Fulltext/2021/07000/2_Stage_Collaborative_Testing_Results_in_Improved.27.aspx
Dr. Aaron Sebach presents a two-pronged approach to help DNP students to learn how to write in a formal manner that combines the expertise of the English Department and DNP faculty. The English Department provides substantial writing experiences for students to prepare them for their professional roles while the nursing faculty spend the majority of their time helping them to embrace these roles.
As a result of COVID-19, schools of nursing rapidly shifted to virtual clinical practice for students. What is the impact of these and other changes in students' education during the pandemic on their transition into practice. Susan Smith and Martha Buckner share the results of their study of 340 new graduate nurses at an academic medical center. You can read their article at the Nurse Educator website.
It’s been a difficult year for nursing students, faculty, and the profession, and the entire world as a result of COVID-19. Nursing students experienced grief and loss in different ways. This podcast with Dr. Alexis Hodges presents strategies that nursing faculty can use to help students cope with grief and loss in the promotion of self-care, especially in an online learning environment. The need for faculty to communicate caring and compassion is emphasized.
In this podcast Drs. George, Phillips, and Munn explain how to use debate as a teaching method in an online nursing course. They share topics their FNP students debated, how debates assisted in developing an online community, and student outcomes.
Nursing students experience high stress that can impact their academic success. An animal-assisted intervention such as petting a dog can help reduce that stress. Dr. Debby Hall presents her research on using a therapy dog to reduce nursing students' stress.
Dominique Rislund and Alexandra Hodson explain how they use video OSCEs (objective structured clinical examinations) in their prelicensure program at the University of Regina (Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada).
Open educational resources are teaching materials that are either in the public domain or have been released under a creative commons license, allowing them to be used. The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) offers a wealth of QI and patient safety resources for students, faculty, and healthcare organizations. Dr. Aaron Sebach discusses how the IHI open educational resources are usedto promote competency in DNP students from a QI perspective.
A diversity and inclusivity statement clearly articulates the nursing program’s position on the need for diversity and inclusion in the nursing workforce, among stakeholders, and for the entire community. Creating a culture of diversity and inclusivity translates into all people being valued and respected. This podcast with Dr. Courtney Pitts discusses the processes for developing a diversity and inclusivity statement in a nursing program through an intraprofessional and interprofessional approach using professional standards and being legally, ethically, and morally accountable in the academic setting.
Faculty who teach in accelerated nursing programs are likely to experience stress because of the intensity of the program. Dr. Laureen Donovan discusses the need for strong leadership support, equitable workload among all faculty, and time for professional development. Collegiality, mentorship, and team teaching are among the strategies that faculty can use to ease the intensity and stress of teaching in accelerated nursing programs.
Dr. Jennifer Chicca & Mr. Robert Keddell explain the hybrid flexible or HyFlex course model. This is a student-centered approach where students select their preferred course format on a daily, weekly, or topical basis. Formats can include face-to-face, synchronous online, or asynchronous online. In this podcast you will learn about the HyFlex course model and its potential use in nursing education courses.
Dr. Kara Groom discusses interprofessional socialization, why this is important to nurse educators, and strategies to increase nursing students' interprofessional socialization. She also shares techniques to engage students in interprofessional socialization in online courses.
How can faculty integrate mindfulness strategies in their online courses including asynchronous courses? Dr. Kathleen Spadaro describes mindfulness strategies for online learning and the instructor's role, and shares examples from her courses.
If you are facilitating simulations or doing research on simulaiton, don't miss this podcast with Dr. Mary Ann Shinnick. She explains Time to Task and why time is important to assess.
Dr. LeTizia Baxter Smith describes the Scholarship in Progress Peer Support Group in her school, which mentors faculty in a caring and inclusive enironment.
Traditional mentoring usually includes a dyad of an experienced and a novice faculty member. A new model, a Three Generation Mentoring Team, brings together a novice, junior, and senior faculty member as a team to help a new educator develop scholarship and for career development. Learn more about this new mentoring model for faculty from Dr. Elaine Webber in this podcast and read the full article in journal.
Dr. Aaron Sebach presents a 2-pronged approach to help DNP students learn to write professionally. This approach combines the expertise of the English Department and DNP faculty. The English Department provides substantial writing experiences for students to prepare them for their professional roles.
Dr. Kristy Chunta discusses characteristics of Generation Z nursing students and teaching methods to keep these students engaged in the online learning environment.
Nursing faculty may need guidance in the development of their scholarship. Dr. Sara McPherson presents themes from a Delphi study. The podcast emphasizes the need for nursing programs to have a structured program to help faculty develop in all areas of scholarship.
Do you need some active learning strategies (that are fun for students to do) for your classes? In this podcast, Dr. Brenna Morse shares classroom activities that help students learn and are fun to do. She shares her framework for developing these activities, benefits and barriers to implementing them in a virtual environment, and what students find most helpful.
What can we do as nurse educators to address student stress? Dr. Kate Gawlik discusses the current state of student wellness and shares wellness initiatives you can use within your courses. These are short activities that are easy to do in a lecture or online. Dr. Gawlik's research documented the positive outcomes of these wellness activities on students' health.
Melanie Goodwin discusses cinemeducation (using movies, videos, film clips, and other visuals) for teaching in nursing. Learn about this method and how you can use it in your courses.
Dr. Margaret Emerson recommends integrated telehealth simulations for nurse practitioner students. Her advice to faculty: Create realistic scenarios, based on real life examples, that integrate multiple patient conditions. Learn more about integrated telehealth simulations in this podcast.
Planning on integrating telehealth in your nurse practitioner (NP) program? Dr. Carolyn Rutledge describes how to prepare NPs for telehealth, key content for telehealth education, methods to provide NP students with hands-on/experiential learning related to telehealth, and resources to assist NP educators in providing telehealth education. She also shares examples of how telehealth can be integrated into DNP projects for NPs.
Dr. Meg Moorman describes visual thinking strategies (VTS) - what they are and how she uses them in her nursing courses.
Dr. Marc Rosales explains how he used technology to teach students to do an effective clinical handoff and provide practice for students.
Nurses and nursing students may care for transgender and gender non-binary patients. Dr. Amie Koch explains how to ask a person about pronouns to use and shares examples. She also provides strategies if you use the wrong pronouns with a transgender or non binary person or witness it.
Loneliness, hopelessness, depression, and suicidal ideology are mental health problems globally. Nursing students often juggle work, family, and school responsibilities that may predispose them to overwhelming anxiety and perhaps depression. Dr. Ronda Mintz-Binder presents strategies that nursing programs can use to assess students who are at risk for depression and suicide.
Faculty may be reluctant to fail a nursing student with a disability, or they may have difficulty in differentiating disability from inability or a knowledge deficit. Dr. Leslie Neal-Boylan discusses the concept of "failure to fail" with regard to nursing students with disabilities.
Gen Z students (born between 1995 and 2009) are now in nursing programs. Important key differences with Gen Z’s worldview include familiarity with technology, diversity, and economics. This generation has seen historic events such as legislation for same sex marriage, the Black Lives Matter movement, and the fight for transgender rights, which has led them to focus on a “We” view of the world as compared to “Me.” This podcast with Dr Melissa Owen presents strategies that nurse educators can use to promote learning in Gen Z students.
In this podcast you will learn about using affirmations for teaching in nursing and how faculty implemented affirmations in their online course. Drs. Lewandowski, Mathew Joseph, and Schaefer explain this strategy to listeners.
Orientation to the faculty role is a challenge to novice faculty members, especially nurses who are making a career transition from the clinical setting to academia with little to no experience teaching nursing students. This podcast with Dr. Julia Rogers presents effective orientation strategies that are based upon an integrative review of the literature in nurse orientation. The podcast focuses on topics such as academic culture, teaching strategies, scholarship, service, and mentorship.
A healthy work environment in an academic nursing setting is achieved when there is a culture that is positive, supportive, safe, collaborative, empowering, motivational, respectful, caring, and satisfying. This podcast presents strategies that nursing faculty and administrators can use to integrate these into the program mission, vision, and curriculum to promote optimal program outcomes. In this podcast, Dr. Jana Saunders emphasizes actively listening, effective or “true" communication, collaboration, and the importance of self-care.
Once the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic, mitigating measures to control the virus were quickly implemented. The measures created significant disruption to personal, professional, and academic lives. This podcast with Dr. Tina Antill Keener presents the results of research that addresses the impact of the unprecedented pandemic on the quality of life for faculty and students. There is a focus on strategies to promote resiliency among faculty and students.
Test item construction and analysis requires ownership of all school of nursing faculty to ensure test integrity and achievement of program outcomes. This podcast (Part 2) with Dr. Lisa Jones presents how one school of nursing implemented a stand-alone committee to help faculty develop and analyze blueprinted test items. The podcast addresses the process of reviewing item and test psychometrics and suggestions for nursing faculty exploring the creation of an exam-writing or testing committee.
Nursing students are diverse in their levels of experience, preferred teaching styles, and levels of engagement. This poses a challenge for nurse educators to deliver meaningful classroom activities. This podcast presents the use of escape rooms, which is an engaging learning activity. The escape room experiences promote critical thinking, communication, and collaboration. Students have fun while they learn.
Test item writing and analysis are always a challenge for nursing faculty. Having a committee devoted solely to this topic helps faculty to develop test items within a collaborative environment. Dr. Lisa Jones discusses the structure and function of her school’s exam writing committee, the importance of ongoing faculty development in test item writing, and tips to help ensure testing integrity to avoid student cheating. Tune in for Part 2 of this podcast on test and item analysis on 2-10-21.
This is a difficult time with the COVID-19 Pandemic. Nurses in the practice setting and nurse educators are working hard under challenging circumstances. This podcast with Linda Laskowski-Jones, Editor-in-Chief of Nursing2021 Journal, discusses creative strategies that nurses may use to obtain continuing education offerings during this challenging time. The podcast also presents how current challenges in the practice and academic environments can turn into manuscripts for publication. The podcast presents a step-by-step process of writing for publication for first-time authors.
Dr. Sally Richter discusses the value of an EdD in Nursing Education program, the plan of study, and how the curriculum provides competency in the nurse educator role and advances the science of nursing education.
Dr. Anne White describes her fascinating study on using simulation to improve nursing students' situational awareness in acute patient deterioration. One of the outcomes measured was nursing students' time-to-task. The article is open access and is available at this link: read and share with colleagues.
Faculty self-efficacy involves persistence and motivation in overcoming a challenge. Dr. Debra Hampton discusses strategies that faculty can use to feel more self-confident and comfortable teaching in an online learning environment to promote student engagement and the achievement of student learning outcomes. Mentorship, instructional designers, and selecting diverse learning experiences are emphasized during the presentation.
Most nursing students are not prepared to care for patients at end of life. Dr. Maureen Hillier and Becca Lewis describe their virtual end-of-life simulation for nursing students. They use Zoom for the simulation and offer recommendations to increase authenticity (including a simulated call from a family member).
In this podcast, Dr. Rebecca Gary (Emory) and Dr. Lemlem Beza (doctoral student) describe their collaborative Emory - Addis Ababa University PhD in Nursing Program. This international educational model is adaptable for other low resource settings.
In this podcast Dr. Julie Elting shares her research on nursing students with physical disabilities. Nursing faculty completed a survey about the ability of a student who uses a wheelchair for mobility to meet required outcomes. Faculty believed students could meet the cognitive and affective domain outcomes, but there was less agreement that students could meet the psychomotor domain outcomes. Using the psychomotor requirements of bedside nursing as the technical standard for nursing education is a barrier for students with physical disabilities. Faculty should expand their perceptions of the essentials of nursing education to create an inclusive environment.
Simulation is a proven student success strategy to promote critical thinking and clinical reasoning skills. Dr. Sharon Decker discusses conducting face-to-face, virtual, and modified virtual telehealth simulations during the COVID-19 pandemic. She also discusses funding and other resources and emphasizes the need to establish a new paradigm for simulation as result of the pandemic.
Dr. Beth Fiske describes the development and implementation of an interprofessional course on trauma informed care. She discusses why faculty developed the course, how it meets a community need, course content and learning activities, and challenges in creating and teaching the course.
Learn how to set up and use a Facebook group for communicating with nursing students about the lab and for connecting with them. Chelsea Lebo explains why she created the Facebook group and how she expanded it to become a valued communication strategy for students.
If you want an innovative strategy for your NP students to learn how to call in a prescription, listen to this podcast with Dr. Mary Ann Dugan. She describes formats she has used for the prescription call simulation and how to gear it to your course objectives.
To address the faculty shortage, many schools recruit experienced clinicians into nurse educator roles. This transition from clinical practice to academia can be difficult. In this podcast, Dr. Margaret Quinn discusses strategies that can be used to assemble and organize a powerful dossier that will celebrate the clinician's talents and prepare them for the academic role.
Dean Linda McCauley discusses why nurses need to be prepared in data science and implications for nursing education. Emory Nursing has made their big data available to other nursing schools. Their repository, Project NeLL, is a hands-on suite of apps for teaching, learning, and practicing nursing data science.
APRNs need primary palliative care education to care for the growing number of patients with serious illness and their families. The End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium (ELNEC) created an online curriculum for educating NP students in primary palliative care. Learn more in this podcast from Dr. Polly Mazanec, program director of ELNEC. Resources for teaching are at https://www.aacnnursing.org/ELNEC
In many nursing programs, students' psychiatric mental health (PMH) clinical experiences are limited. Dr. Anne Schoening and Jacque Williams describe the Creighton PMH Dedicated Education Unit (DEU), which they created with their clinical partner. Learn about factors that led to the development of the PMH DEU, how the faculty prepare students and nursing staff for rotations in the DEU, the nursing faculty member's role (it's an innovative role), and students' and staff nurse outcomes.
The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the learning experiences for students in the clinical setting. Students at Saint David’s School of Nursing at Texas State University remerged in the clinical setting in summer 2020. Students developed a heightened sensitivity about how COVID-19 was impacting patients, families, and the hospital staff. This podcast with Mr. Mark Livsey presents how the power of the nurse's presence (students' presence) promoted learning in the clinical setting.
Nurse educators have been confronted with rethinking and restructuring the curriculum to enhance online learning, and because of this, virtual simulation-based education has become the most widely used approach to clinical practice. Julianne Walsh describes an innovative telehealth simulation that promotes active engagement, clinical reasoning, and deep learning to help prepare students for the practice setting. This virtual telehealth simulation is framed around Benner’s theoretical framework.
Interventions for scientific writing skill development are widely represented in the literature, but are poorly defined and measured. This podcast with Dr. Michelle DeCoux Hampton discusses the importance of having clear rubrics that help guide the students in their scholarly writing. If you teach in a DNP program, don't miss this podcast.
Mindfulness is bringing an awareness to the present moment with intention and acceptance for whatever is occurring in the present moment without judgment. This podcast with Dr. Kathleen Spadaro presents some mindfulness tools that can help students cope with stress and anxiety in school and private life. The podcast emphasizes the need for faculty to be role models in the use of mindfulness in the academic setting,
Motivational barriers and lack of knowledge about peer review inhibit creation of supportive peer feedback between students. In this podcast, Dr. Joni Tornwall discusses strategies that promote quality feedback about knowledge, skills, and attitudes among student peers. The podcast also presents strategies that faculty can use to promote high quality feedback to students and their faculty peers. The podcast emphasizes the need for students to value the knowledge, skills, and attitudes achieved so that they will transfer this process to the practice setting.,
The current coronavirus disease pandemic offers educators an opportunity to provide students with real-time learning experiences evaluating the health literacy standards of current public health educational materials. In this podcast Dr. Karen Reed presents a recently developed lesson plan. In this strategy nursing students, familiar with the concepts of health literacy, divide into small groups and seek out and analyze public health educational informational materials related to health literacy. The course is interprofessional,joining nursing students and students in other health professions.
Everyone’s world was turned upside down in a matter of days leading to chaos with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Students experienced fear, anxiety, and uncertainty and looked to faculty to help them cope with this overwhelming stress. This podcast with Dr. Krista A. White demonstrates how one nursing program addressed the dimensions of student suffering using Kubler-Ross’ stages of grief as a framework for coping interventions.
RNs need to assume more leadership roles with the complexity of patient-centered scenarios in contemporary practice. In this podcast LaNeigh Harkness discusses creative strategies for online RN to BSN students to develop their leadership skills and learn how to analyze fiscal data and other resources to effectively manage processes and procedures.
Many clinical sites have restrictions on nursing students' experiences. Dr. Hansbrough shares the findings of an important study: clinical faculty (n=193) reported that nursing students are often restricted in accessing patient information they need for care, documenting care, and using the site's medication administration system. Students alternately use faculty or staff nurses' system security access.
Dr. Sherry Burrell and Dr. Jennifer Ross share the key findings of their study on nursing students’ attitudes toward nursing education research. The outcomes of their study are important for anyone planning research with students as participants. You'll learn a lot from this podcast and their article in Nurse Educator.
The COVID-19 pandemic has required nursing faculty to develop creative online strategies to promote higher-order learning with students in mental health courses. Faculty created an innovative approach to learning using videoconferencing, written and video case studies, film analysis, and role play. Students engage with each other by role playing patients with personality disorders at a “Dinner Party.” In this podcast, Janene Jeffery and Kimberly Rosenbaum describe this innovative teaching strategy.
Retention counselors (RCs) help students in-person or in a virtual format with learning content and concepts, test-taking strategies, time management, clinical skills, scholarly writing, and coping strategies. RCs facilitate student success because they are approachable, trustworthy, and empathetic as they establish a close connection with students. Join Adrian Stamps and Laura Opton as explain their RC program. Outcomes include high on-time graduation rates and first-time NCLEX-RN pass rates.
Many clinical nurse educators have had to shift their post conferences to an online format. Kristin Petrovic and Regan Hack have established best practices for offering postconferences in an online format. They share those practices, challenges, and helpful tips for both clinical educators and students.
Academic practice partnerships help prepare students for the practice setting. The Veterans Administration (VA) Academic Partnership was created at the national level by the VA Office of Academic Affiliation and pairs academic institutions with VAs across the country. In this podcast, Dr. Ashley Roach and Sherrill Hooke describe strategies and outcomes of a partnership in a university-VA setting.
The prevalence of chronic illness has increased worldwide requiring an interprofessional team approach in the primary care setting. This podcast showcases how a school of nursing and health care system partnered to help students in a second-degree MSN program to achieve clinical learning outcomes that complement didactic instruction in primary care. Dr. Hooper-Arana and Dr. Li describe this clinical practicum for nursing students.
Course alignment promotes quality in an online course and incorporates Quality Matters Standards. It is essential to thread learning objectives throughout instructional materials and assessments so learners can attain learning outcomes. This podcast with Dr. Arlene Pericak presents helpful hints for faculty when aligning teaching and learning experiences in an online course.
Does your nursing program prepare students to safely practice infection prevention and control? What are lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic? Dr. Manning discusses infection-related content that should be in every prelicensure nursing program.
Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, current healthcare trends including technological advances, patients with higher acuity, and shorter orientation periods have impacted the practice environment of new graduates. Current theoretical models for nursing education need to be updated to meet the educational needs of students and promote a higher level of critical thinking and decision-making. In this podcast Dr. Loretta Aller introduces listeners to a new model for undergraduate nursing students based on her grounded theory study.
Undergraduate and graduate students may not always see the value of informatics in their everyday practice. In this podcast Dr. Lisa Anne Bove discusses some strategies that faculty can use to teach informatics using numerous sources of electronic data, sometimes referred to as “Big Data.” Effective communication among the nurse, interprofessional team, and the patient is critical to achieve desired outcomes.