Dr. Shira Birnbaum describes a full-semester writing course she developed and strategies for improving student writing. Students identify problems in early drafts of their work, which they subsequently learn to resolve. She emphasizes that writing, like clinical learning, requires an investment of time and labor far beyond what is typical in didact…

High-quality video productions integrating 360° simulations of real-life nursing scenarios have shown promise in enriching learning experiences and refining students’ competencies, attitudes, and knowledge. Dr. Patrícia Freire de Vasconcelos describes the development of a 360° video simulation scenario for teaching medication safety in nursing. The…

Adjunct clinical faculty play a vital role in ensuring an adequate number of instructors for nursing students. Dr. Bryce Catarelli and Professor Karen Schofield describe a clinical bingo game they developed for first-semester nursing students and clinical faculty to serve as a guide for the hospital experience. Each space on the bingo card is a ski…

In this podcast, Dr. Kaitlyn Kolcun and Dr. Kelly Sullivan explain their rationale and process for transforming traditional prebriefing and debriefing experiences for a virtual-reality simulation to an online asynchronous format. Learn more about how they developed and implemented asynchronous prebriefing and debriefing activities and assessed stud…

Nursing students’ perceived usability toward a technology application affects their learning experience. Few studies have investigated immersive virtual reality (IVR) simulation for learning fundamental nursing skills. Dr. Wong and her research team explored the usability of IVR simulations with first-year nursing students and their perspectives on…

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 underrepresente…

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 bee…

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 practic…

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 th…

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 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, …

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…

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 i…

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 readi…

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, a…

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 …

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) …

In this podcast Dr. Rinaldi explains backward design and provides an example of using backward design for developing a neonatal nursing seminar course for baccalaureate students. She provides additional details about background design in her article.

In this podcast, Dr. Ginger Schroers describes the development and testing of a behavioral strategy (Stay SAFE) to manage interruptions in one’s daily workflow. She also provides practical strategies for dealing with interruptions to everyday professional tasks and ultimately decrease errors and increase patient safety. Article…

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…

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…

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-expe…

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 assignme…

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 fin…

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…

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. Lea…

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 …

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 articl…

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. …

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 depict…

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…

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 nu…

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 heal…

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 c…

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…

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-Go…

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 work…

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 p…

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 graduat…

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…

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 c…

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 facilitato…

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. Lear…

Dr. Rachel Cox Simms describes learning activities she developed for her prelicensure courses using generative AI technology. Learn more about 3 of these stratgies in her article.

Faculty and administrators often struggle to process and understand student course evaluation data. Drs. Stephen McGhee and Dianne Morrison-Beedy explain how data visualization techniques can be used to analyze course evaluation data, identify patterns, and highlight potential areas for course revision. Learn more about this in their article.…

In this podcast, Dr. Lisa Lewis describes her study that examined the economic impact of nursing student course repetition. She used a multicase study methodology to calculate the costs for students and the nursing program. Students who repeated courses had a loss of income and also incurred other expenses.…

Gaslighting is a painful and damaging form of psychological abuse and fosters self-doubt, rumination, hypervigilance, and withdrawal from personal and social situations. Gaslighting can lead to post traumatic stress disorder. In this podcast Dr. Cynthia Clark discusses behaviors associated with gaslighting as a form of bullying and strategies to ma…

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 …

Dr. Autherine Abiri explains the process of curriculum mapping of social determinants of health (SDoH) and why this is important in nursing education. She also provides examples of successful curriculum mapping initiatives of SDoH.

Inspired by Mask-Ed character role-play, a novel interactive neurological case study was introduced in a didactic undergraduate health assessment course. The role-play integrated real-time decision-making by students using the Kahoot! participant response system within a live, unfolding case study presentation. Dr. Sotos Djiovnais describes this in…