Nurse Educator Tips for Teaching

Nursing students need preparation to care for families in the obstetric clinical setting where sensitive topics and experiences are routine. Concerns frequently cited by students include providing care during labor and birth, lack of confidence with newborn care, and feeling generally unprepared for the clinical experience. This podcast with Amy White and Lara Rivera presents a teaching strategy aimed at reducing student anxiety and enhancing their self-confidence prior to an obstetrics clinical rotation. 

Lena Brokob explains how she uses ChatGPT to develop case studies for teaching clinical judgment and preparing students for NCLEX. She also describes using ChatGPT for developing PPT and other teaching materials. Learn about benefits of AI for teaching in nursing and challenges in its use. 

Nursing would not be nursing without the work and vision of Florence Nightingale. Unfortunately, with an increasingly crowded curriculum, most nursing students are only exposed to the work of Nightingale peripherally and not given the impetus or opportunity to read her seminal work in depth. Dr. Monika Schuler discusses how Nightingale’s foundational work using the evidence promotes safe patient care and can be applied to any context, including creating a trusting educational environment for students.

Do you teach beginning students? Need a creative teaching strategy to actively engage students? Listen to this podcast with Dr. Lisa Shustack. She has developed an innovative strategy to teach vital signs and critical thinking in a flipped classroom. This strategy can be adapted to other content areas and skills, and can be used with other levels of students.

Dr. John Taylor describes a strategy he developed to prepare students for answering matrix items on the Next Generation NCLEX.

Dr. Adelita Cantu describes a teaching strategy she developed for beginning nursing students to learn about population health. The strategy involves a tour of the Holocaust Memorial and reflective writing assignment. Learn more about this strategy and how you can use it in your own courses.

The COVID-19 pandemic has been a defining event for the next generation of the nursing workforce. Complex pandemic practice environments have raised concerns for the preparation and support of novice nurses, even as a multitude of nurses leave the profession. This podcast with Dr. Normadeane Armstrong presents the results of a qualitative study focusing on students and new graduates’ experiences of the impact of the pandemic in their perception of nursing as a profession. The podcast also presents implications for future research and the need for students to learn coping and self-efficacy skills in nursing practice. The podcast emphasizes the need for student and nurses in practice to have a tool kit to help them cope with moral distress.

Navigating a faculty meeting can be challenging for new nurse educators. A faculty meeting typically includes words, phrases, and rules that are unfamiliar. This podcast with Dr. Will Brewer presents the detaildand outcomes of a simulated faculty meeting that was established to help train and build confidence in students enrolled in a master of science in nursing education program. 

Little research exists on mentoring programs for nurse practitioner (NP) students. This podcast with Dr. Covelli presents the results of a pilot project aimed to develop, implement, and evaluate a distance program with NP alumni mentoring students across the United States. Most mentees wanted more job-hunting and resume-writing tips; mentors were interested in receiving strategies for mentoring and calendar reminders of important school events. Alumni were interested in helping prepare future NPs by serving as mentors but needed training.

Drs. Lindsay Iverson and Theresa Jizba describe their use of the ELNEC Graduate Curriculum to teach NP students about primary palliative care. Students gained important knowledge about palliative care and importantly developed essential competencies for patient care.