Nurse Educator Tips for Teaching

Social Media is an Internet platform that enables others to communicate thoughts and ideas from person to person or with communities of interest. Instagram is one type of social media allowing users to use videos and images to communicate with others. This podcast with Dr. Jasmine Bonder discusses how Instagram is being used to help students and community members learn from a global perspective. The following is an example of an Instagram to promote learning:

https://www.instagram.com/dr._jasmine_/

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

Individuals who identify as transgender and gender diverse require informed and compassionate health care, yet there is a lack of research about which educational strategies to use. Dr. Becky Mueller shares her study that evaluated a multimodal approach to educate NP students about care of transgender and gender diverse patients. The educational intervention included guided readings, a transgender patient panel, standardized patient simulation, and group discussion. The Sexual Orientation Counselor Competency Scale was administered pre- and postintervention. Results demonstrated increases in knowledge, skills, and attitudes and a high level of satisfaction for the overall program, but especially for the patient panel and standardized patient encounter.

This educational intervention also can be used in prelicensure nursing education.

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

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

Nursing graduates need to provide care to diverse patient populations while working within the interdisciplinary care team. The Care of Marginalized Patient Populations Panel presented nursing students with the opportunity to engage with health care professionals from across disciplines who specialize in the care of diverse and marginalized patient populations. This podcast with Dr. Christopher Martin provides an exemplar for nurse educators to engage their students through the experiences and expertise of health care professionals from across settings. 

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

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

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

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