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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.