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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.
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May 31, 2023
Sleep Quality and Remote Learning during the Pandemic
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.
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May 31, 2023
Demographic Differences in Satisfaction and Work-Life Balance among Nursing Faculty
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.
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May 31, 2023
Comprehensive Onboarding and Orientation to Support Newly Hired 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.
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May 17, 2023
Building a Collaborative Online Learning Environment
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.
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May 17, 2023
A Culture Shift: Case Studies of Social Mission in Nursing Education
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.
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May 17, 2023
Using Classroom Response Systems to Create Clinical Judgment Scenarios
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.
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May 3, 2023
What Would You Do? Engaging Remote Learners Through Stop-Action Videos
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.
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May 3, 2023
TouchPoint: An Innovative Clinical Teaching Strategy
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.
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May 3, 2023
Interacting with Pediatric Patients: Learning Activity for NP Students
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.
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Apr 19, 2023
Use of Nursing Concepts in Program and Course Descriptions in Prelicensure Programs
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.
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Apr 19, 2023
Teaching Nurse Practitioner Students about Policy Through a Novel Simulation
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.
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Apr 19, 2023
Using Art in NP Courses
Dr. Lisa Diamond uses art as a teaching strategy in her NP courses. Learn more about this strategy in this podcast.
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Apr 5, 2023
Muddiest Point Assessment
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.
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Apr 5, 2023
Patient Experience Course: Developing Students' Caring Behaviors
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.
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Apr 5, 2023
Framework for Integrating Technology in Nursing Education
Dr. Michele Roberts describes the SAMR model and explains why it is a good framework for integrating technology in nursing education.
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Mar 22, 2023
Inclusion of Disability Content in Nursing Simulation
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.
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Mar 22, 2023
Measuring Quality of Care Delivered in Simulation: A Benchmark Study
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.
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Mar 22, 2023
Impact of a Virtual Patient Simulation on Nursing Students’ Attitudes of Transgender Care
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.
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Mar 17, 2023
ChatGPT and Nursing Education
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
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Mar 17, 2023
DNP Project Statistical Methods Algorithm
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.
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Mar 15, 2023
Genomics Competency Course for Doctoral Students and Nurses
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!
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Mar 8, 2023
PICO Pal for Teaching Evidence based Practice
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.
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Mar 8, 2023
Faculty Practice Mentoring Program
There is a growing interest in faculty practice. Dr. Kelly Gonzales describes the Faculty Practice Mentoring Program, its components, and outcomes.
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Mar 8, 2023
Cultural Considerations in Palliative and End of Life Care
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.
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Mar 6, 2023
The Power of Words: Inclusive Language Tip of the Day
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.
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Feb 24, 2023
Breakroom Baskets for Nurses
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.
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Feb 22, 2023
CLLEAR Framework for Student Learning
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.
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Feb 22, 2023
Using Design Thinking to Thread the Social Determinants of Health in a Prelicensure Curriculum
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.
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Feb 22, 2023
Nurse Educators’ Perceptions and Self-efficacy in Response to COVID-19
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.
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Feb 8, 2023
Longitudinal Simulation Scenarios for NP Students
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.
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Feb 8, 2023
Aligning Nursing Ethics With Critical and Open Pedagogy in Nursing Education
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.
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Feb 5, 2023
Certifying Prelicensure Students in Vision and Hearing Screeings
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.
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Jan 25, 2023
Application of Ethics: Discussion Prompts
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.
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Jan 25, 2023
Primary Care Nursing for Prelicensure Students: Nursing Minor and Curriculum Revision
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.
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Jan 25, 2023
Correct Name Pronunciation: Supporting an Inclusive Environment
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.
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Jan 11, 2023
Outcomes of an Innovative Best Practice Clinical Immersion Framework
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.
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Jan 11, 2023
Transitioning a Graduate Nursing Physical Examination Skills Course to Online Learning Modality
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.
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Jan 11, 2023
Using Poetry in Nursing Courses
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.
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Dec 28, 2022
Popcorn, Peanuts, and Next-Generation NCLEX: Having Fun with Faculty Development
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.
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Dec 28, 2022
Teaching Clinical Judgment: Current Practices
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.
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Dec 14, 2022
Medication Reconciliation: Translating Didactic to Clinical
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.
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Dec 14, 2022
Promoting Health and Active Learning with Social Media
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.
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Dec 14, 2022
Call Light Challenge: Innovative Clinical Teaching Strategy
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.
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Dec 14, 2022
Systematic Process to Align Course, Curriculum, and Programs to Essentials
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.
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Dec 9, 2022
Inclusion of Disability Content in Nursing Simulation
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.
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Dec 9, 2022
PICO Pal for Teaching Evidence based Practice
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.
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Nov 30, 2022
Relaxation Room for Students
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.
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Nov 30, 2022
Using Podcasting as a Teaching Strategy in Nursing
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.
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Nov 30, 2022
Using Tik Tok as an Active Learning 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.
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Nov 30, 2022
Equitable Academic Policies
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.
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Nov 16, 2022
Videos with Embedded Safety Errors for Teaching in Nursing
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.
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Nov 16, 2022
Developing Evolving Case Studies
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.
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Nov 2, 2022
Clinical Experiences with Immigrant Groups
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).
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Nov 2, 2022
Teaching Clinical Judgment through Simulation
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.
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Nov 2, 2022
Nursing Handoff Education Using Experiential and Virtual Innovations
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.
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Oct 19, 2022
Online Peer Review by Students: Feedback to Peers on Writing
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.
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Oct 19, 2022
Virtual Post-exam Review
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).
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Oct 5, 2022
Next Gen NCLEX Learning Activity
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.
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Oct 5, 2022
Item Analysis and Next Generation NCLEX
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.
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Oct 5, 2022
National HIV Curriculum for NPs
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.
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Sep 21, 2022
Let’s Talk: An Active Learning Strategy to Teach Therapeutic Communication
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.
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Sep 21, 2022
Video Feedback for Written Assignments
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.
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Sep 21, 2022
Pediatric Clinical Sites used in BSN Nursing Programs
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.
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Sep 7, 2022
Linking Environmental Issues to Vulnerable Populations through Ecological Mapping
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.
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Sep 7, 2022
Mentoring and Support for Underrepresented Nursing Faculty: Research Review
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.
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Sep 7, 2022
Online Mindfulness Program for Nursing Students
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.
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Aug 24, 2022
Nursing Students' Near-Miss Medication Incidents
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.
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Aug 24, 2022
E-Champion Role to Support Rapid Technology Integration
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.
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Aug 10, 2022
Peer-assisted Learning for NP Students
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.
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Jul 27, 2022
Building Nursing Students' Resiliency in Primary Care and Beyond
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.
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Jul 27, 2022
Engaging Students through Class Discussion: “Two Truths and a Lie”
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.
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Jul 13, 2022
Telehealth in Nursing Education: Navigating the New Normal
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.
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Jul 13, 2022
Learning to Give Difficult Feedback
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.
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Jul 13, 2022
Reflection in Simulation Debriefing
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.
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Jun 29, 2022
Using a Team Charter
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.
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Jun 29, 2022
Intergenerational Service Learning Experience
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.
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Jun 15, 2022
Academic-Clinical Partnerships in the Community
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.
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Jun 15, 2022
Pediatric Clinical Virtual Learning through Academic Practice Partnership
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.
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Jun 1, 2022
Telehealth Education
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!
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Jun 1, 2022
Peer Learning for Advanced Practice Nursing Students: Teach Us What You Know
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.
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May 18, 2022
Professional Identity Formation in Nursing
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.
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May 18, 2022
Some Practices of an Expert Nurse Educator
Dr. Judith Jarosinski shares the model she uses to guide her teaching practices and offers strategies for new educators to establish a research trajectory.
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May 4, 2022
Educational Activity for Interprofessional Practice
Dr. Erica Sciarra shares an educational activity she developed to foster interprofessional practice.
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May 4, 2022
Virtual Reality in the Classroom: Accelerating Learning
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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Apr 20, 2022
Men in Nursing Academia: Recruitment and Retention
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.
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Apr 20, 2022
Using Telepresence to Enhance Learner Engagement
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.
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Apr 20, 2022
Incorporating Palliative Care in Nursing Education
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.
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Apr 6, 2022
Using a Documentary to Teach the Nursing Process
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.
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Apr 6, 2022
Teaching Dosage Calculations
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.
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Mar 23, 2022
Barriers and Facilitators to Success of Minority Students
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.
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Mar 23, 2022
Integrating Social Determinants of Health in the Curriculum
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.
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Mar 9, 2022
Using Nearpod for Teaching Pathophysiology
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.
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Mar 9, 2022
Student-Generated Review Questions
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.
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Feb 23, 2022
Trauma Informed Care: Guidelines for Teaching
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.
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Feb 23, 2022
Difficult Conversations with 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.
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Feb 9, 2022
Nursing Faculty Workload
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.
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Feb 9, 2022
COVID-19 and Nursing Education: Reflecting a Year Later
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.
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Jan 26, 2022
Teaching Nursing Students about Safe Medication Administration
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.
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Jan 26, 2022
Evaluating the Impact of a School of Nursing Civility Team
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.
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