Nurse Educator Tips for Teaching

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.

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 in nursing education, and some solutions.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

Since the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been an increase in mental health disorders and the need for more accessible mental health services. The use of mobile mental health apps has potential to help support a growing population in need of mental health services. In this podcast, Jasmine Bratton-Robinson presents a teaching strategy using mobile apps to help students understand and apply mental health concepts to the practice setting. This learning experience promotes reflection and critical thinking about the mental health issues patients and the community experience.