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…

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…

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 …

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 u…

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…

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 …

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/nurseeducatoron…

Dr. Sue Bookey-Bassett shares a teaching strategy developed to promote students’ professionalism and their understanding of professional nursing organizations. Learn more in the podcast and by reading her article.

Three faculty members who teach in the nurse practitioner program at The Ohio State University College of Nursing describe an innovative approach to teaching diagnostic reasoning using virtual reality (VR). Learn how they create realistic simulations that allow nursing students to practice the process of diagnostic reasoning, delegate tasks, make c…

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,…

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…

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 me…

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 c…

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 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, …

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 p…

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 pr…

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 throu…

Laurie Robinson, MSN, developed case studies that integrated the Clinical Judgment Measurement Model. She describes the cases, which were used by beginning nursing students prior to their initial clinical practice, and the outcomes of her study.

Shannon Vandenberg, RN, PhD(c), a nursing instructor at the University of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada, is an expert in planetary health and nursing. She discusses why planetary health is important for the nursing profession and how educators can incorporate planetary health into the curriculum.

Nursing students are diverse in culture, abilities, and challenges. Universal Design for Learning is a logical and social model to support diverse learning methods. Accessibility tools help measure the efficacy of faculty efforts to make nursing courses accessible to all. This podcast with experts from the University of Nebraska, Dr. Suhasini Kotch…

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 stude…

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 …

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 ca…

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 promot…

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 fi…

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 co…

Dr. Colleen Paramesh describes a peer mentoring strategy she developed for DNP students and how she used it to guide the DNP project. Learn about the outcomes of this strategy for both mentor and mentee.

Individuals who identify as transgender and gender diverse require informed and compassionate health care, yet there is a lack of research about which educational strategies to use. Dr. Becky Mueller shares her study that evaluated a multimodal approach to educate NP students about care of transgender and gender diverse patients. The educational in…

Karen Hunt and Amanda Cornine share how they use word clouds to promote students' sense of belonging and academic persistence. This is a low cost, active learning strategy that you can use in all of your courses.

Drs. Betty Napoleon and Christine Kuchenrither explain how they use debates to teach ethics in nursing. These debates also prepare students for navigating issues they may encounter in nursing.

Nursing graduates need to provide care to diverse patient populations while working within the interdisciplinary care team. The Care of Marginalized Patient Populations Panel presented nursing students with the opportunity to engage with health care professionals from across disciplines who specialize in the care of diverse and marginalized patient…

Dr. Michele Roberts has designed innovative simulations for teaching empathy to nursing students. She tested an intervention to foster empathy that uses storytelling. Learn more about this use of simulation and her fascinating nursing education study.

If you are guiding DNP projects, or if you conduct evidence-based practice, quality improvement, and other team-based projects, this podcast is for you! Dr. Bethany Robertson describes how schools and health systems are using Ovid Synthesis https://synthesis.ovid.com/cem/ for conducting, storing, and disseminating these projects. She also explains …

Dr. Sarah Urban describes their national initiative for faculty to develop the skills for integrating Next Generation NCLEX preparation into their courses. Her school developed a collaborative approach across the curriculum with online modules and multiple hands-on activities. Learn more details about this in the podcast.…

Are you looking for new teaching tools for your skills and other labs? Do you want to standardize the teaching done by multiple instructors in your labs? Dr. Susan Seibert describes the Review Do Document structure she developed for labs and how it has improved the instruction of skills across multiple lab sections.…

Active learning develops students' critical thinking and communication skills, ensuring a safe learning environment. Incorporating principles of practice testing in active learning promotes student learning. This podcast with Drs. Genevieve Elrod and Kellie Riley presents a teaching strategy to promote student-centered learning using gaming as a fr…

Dr. Valerie Seney discusses a teaching strategy she developed to enhance the empathy of nursing students when caring for patients with substance use disorder (SUD). Learn about this strategy, what inspired Dr. Seney to develop it, and how you can use it in your own courses not only for teaching about SUD but also for other patient conditions.…

Dismantling racism in health care and education is predicated on our ability to increase diversity in the health care workforce, particularly in nursing. Yet, the lack of nurses from historically and systemically excluded groups persists. Stress and trauma can be impediments to academic success for students historically excluded from nursing. In th…

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 writ…

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-pre…

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 textb…

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. …

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…

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 shou…

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 p…

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 practic…

Dr. Colleen Moss created a simulation to prepare neonatal nurse practitioner students to care for infants with fragile skin. The simulation is low tech and can be adapted for other skills. Learn more about this creative simulation.

If you want to know more about ChatGPT and artificial intelligence, don't miss this podcast with Candise Branum (Foley Library) and Martin Schiavenato (School of Nursing), Gonzaga University. They used ChatGPT to answer a PICO question, and they share their results. They also discuss students' use of AI to generate essays, issues related to AI use …

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.