Nurse Educator Tips for Teaching

Improving Nursing Student Diversity Oct 30, 2024

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%.

Understanding the Gap Between Perceived and Actual Competence in LGBTQ+ Health Care Oct 30, 2024

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.

Experiential Learning about Food Insecurity in Population Health Course Oct 16, 2024

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.

Experiences of Workplace Violence among Nurse Practitioner Students Oct 16, 2024

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.

Integrating Entrustable Professional Activities in a Competency-Based Clinical Assessment Tool Oct 16, 2024

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).

Prompt Engineering for Nurse Educators Oct 05, 2024

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.

Minimum Standards to Support Writing Skills Oct 02, 2024

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.

Exam Wrappers: A Metacognitive Tool to Improve Performance Oct 02, 2024

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.

Poetry in Nursing Education Oct 02, 2024

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.

Virtual Reality Simulation Integration in a Prelicensure Nursing Program: Lessons Learned Oct 02, 2024

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.

An Interprofessional Course on Big Data in Health Care Sep 18, 2024

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.

A Card Game to Introduce Students to Interprofessional Collaboration Sep 18, 2024

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.

Using Backward Design to Develop a Nursing Course Sep 18, 2024

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.

An Interruption Management Education Bundle Sep 04, 2024

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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Psychomotor Framework for Students to Master High-Impact Skills Sep 04, 2024

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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Toolkit to Standardize Preceptorship of Prelicensure Nursing Students Aug 26, 2024

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 or Observer in a Simulation: Does it Matter in Terms of Learning? Aug 21, 2024

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.

Hot Topic/Hot Take: Realtime Solutions for Future Nurses Aug 21, 2024

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 Anxiety among Prelicensure Nursing Students Aug 14, 2024

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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Building Resilience Among Nursing Students Aug 14, 2024

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.

Using Cognitive Rehearsal to Address Faculty Incivility Aug 14, 2024

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.

Classic Philosophical Allegory for Teaching Health Promotion in Undergraduate Nursing Education Aug 07, 2024

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.

Bringing Historical Nurses to Life Using AI Aug 07, 2024

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.

ChatGPT for NCLEX Review during Virtual Office Hours Aug 07, 2024

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.

Teaching Response to Bias Using a Virtual Escape Room Jul 24, 2024

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.

Student Created Disaster Simulation Jul 24, 2024

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.

Climate Change Content in Nursing Education Jul 24, 2024

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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Elevating SBARs to Enhance Clinical Judgment Jul 10, 2024

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

Innovation Studio for Teaching Evidence-Based Practice Jul 10, 2024

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.

Screen-Based Patient Simulation: An Exemplar for Assessing Competency Jul 10, 2024

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.

Make-Up Examinations: Comparison of On-Time and Late Examination Student Scores Jun 26, 2024

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 Nursing Electives Jun 26, 2024

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.

Student Mental Health Wellness and Faculty Support Jun 26, 2024

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.

Linking Simulation, Class, and Clinical Practice to Competencies Jun 12, 2024

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.

Shared Reflective Practice to Develop Nursing Student Clinical Judgment Jun 12, 2024

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.

Writing Community of Practice for Faculty: Support to Foster Publication Jun 12, 2024

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.

Teaching Methods for Transgender Health and Evidence to Support May 29, 2024

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.

Meeting AACN Essentials and Subcompetencies Through the DNP Project May 29, 2024

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

Learning Activities using Generative AI May 15, 2024

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.

Data Visualization Techniques for Course Evaluation Data May 15, 2024

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.

Economic Impact of Nursing Students Repeating Courses May 01, 2024

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.

Strategies to Address Gaslighting in the Academic Setting May 01, 2024

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.

Resource Repository for Nurse Educators May 01, 2024

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.

Integrating Social Determinants of Health in Nursing Programs with Curriculum Mapping May 01, 2024

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.

Live, Masked Role Play Apr 17, 2024

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.

Activity to Promote Students' Ability to Prioritize Apr 17, 2024

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.

Nurse Educator Competencies: A Scoping Review Apr 17, 2024

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.

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https://journals.lww.com/nurseeducatoronline/pages/articleviewer.aspx?year=2023&issue=09000&article=00002&type=Fulltext

Interactive 3D Visualization Tutorial for Pathophysiology in Graduate Nursing Education Apr 03, 2024

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 a rticle has multiple supplemental files that show the 3D AR visualization tool.

Teaching Acute Care Nurse Practitioners to Care for Obstetric Patients Apr 03, 2024

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

Implementation of a Pilot Hybrid Clinical Model Mar 20, 2024

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

Incorporating Birth Doulas into Prelicensure Course Mar 20, 2024

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

Promoting Students' Professionalism Mar 20, 2024

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.

Use of Virtual Reality to Teach Diagnostic Reasoning Mar 06, 2024

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

Climate Change Education for Nursing Students: Teaching Strategy Mar 06, 2024

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

Doctor of Nursing Education: A Novel Terminal Degree Feb 21, 2024

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

Experiences of Undergraduate Male Students in Nursing: On the Outside Looking in Feb 21, 2024

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 With Nursing Students of a Simulated Practice Placement Feb 11, 2024

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.

DNP Projects: Connecting Competencies with OVID Synthesis Feb 11, 2024

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

EquityXdesign and the Implicit Bias Clinical Education Program Feb 07, 2024

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.

Nurse Practitioner Student Simulations to Navigate Both In-person and Telehealth Patient Visits Feb 07, 2024

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

Prescribing Workshop for NP Students Jan 24, 2024

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

Preparing New Graduate Nurses for Bedside Informatics and Quality Improvement Jan 24, 2024

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

Innovative Collaborations for Learning: Integration of Well-Being, Built Environment, and Multidisciplinary Practice Jan 19, 2024

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

Case Studies for Clinical Judgment Development: Perceptions of Beginning Nursing Students Jan 10, 2024

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.

Planetary Health and Nursing Education Jan 10, 2024

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.

Accessible Technology Course Design Practices for Inclusivity in Nursing Education Jan 10, 2024

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.

Modeling Equity-Minded Moral Courage: "Calling In" Teaching Strategy Dec 27, 2023

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.

Academic Review of Faculty Activities Related to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusivity Dec 27, 2023

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.

Innovative Faculty-Practice Pediatric Clinic Dec 13, 2023

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 Among Nursing Faculty: Implications for Practice Dec 13, 2023

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.

Integrating an AI Speech Coach Application Into an Assignment Assessing Therapeutic Communication Dec 10, 2023

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.

Using Social Media to Promote Student Success Nov 29, 2023

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_/

Peer Mentoring for DNP Students Nov 29, 2023

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.

Multimodal Curriculum to Educate Nursing Students about Gender-Affirming Care Nov 29, 2023

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.

Word Clouds to Promote Sense of Belonging and Persistence Nov 15, 2023

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.

Debates as Active Learning Strategy Nov 15, 2023

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.

Interdisciplinary Panel: Teaching Strategy for Content on Marginalized Patients Nov 01, 2023

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.

Simulation for Teaching Empathy Nov 01, 2023

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.

Ovid Synthesis for High Quality DNP Projects: From Idea to Dissemination Oct 24, 2023

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.

NGN Initiative: Collaborative Approach Oct 18, 2023

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.

Review Do Document Structure for Labs Oct 18, 2023

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.

Interactive Final Exam Review: Games for Stress Reduction Oct 04, 2023

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.

Enhancing Empathy of Nursing Students in Caring for Those with Substance Use Disorder: It Could Have Been Me Oct 04, 2023

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.

Trauma-Informed Education Lunch and Learns Oct 04, 2023

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.

Series of Consecutive Telehealth Simulations for NP Students Sep 20, 2023

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.

External Scholarship Mentors for DNP-Prepared Faculty Sep 20, 2023

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.

Textbook Replacement: Online and Interactive Sep 20, 2023

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.

Communication Role Play: Take Two! Sep 06, 2023

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.

Three Strategies to Combat Free-Riding in Group Work Sep 06, 2023

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.

Using the Wellness Wheel with Prelicensure and Graduate Nursing Students Sep 06, 2023

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

Setting Observers Up for Success in Simulation Aug 23, 2023

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.

Faculty Practice as an Educational Strategy: Student, Faculty, and Administrator Perspectives Aug 23, 2023

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.

Simulation on Fragile Skin Care Aug 23, 2023

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.

Chat GPT and AI: Challenges and Uses in Nursing Education Aug 20, 2023

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.

Generative AI: Use in Nursing Education Aug 20, 2023

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.

Strategies to Increase NCLEX Pass Rates from 68% to 92% in One Year Aug 09, 2023

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: A New Essential in Nursing Aug 09, 2023

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.

Clinical Judgment Development in Clinical Nursing Education Aug 09, 2023

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.

Textbook Replacement: Online and Interactive Aug 06, 2023

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.

Simulations for Care Provisions for Indigenous Peoples Jul 26, 2023

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.

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