There is a shortage of males holding faculty positions in schools of nursing. Minimal research has been conducted to address this shortage. In this podcast, Dr. Mark Hand presents the results of a study that identified factors associated with the recruitment and retention of male faculty members into nursing academia. The study also identified factors that motivates men to consider nursing academic. The podcast provides strategies for nursing programs to implement to recruit more men into academia.

Distance and hybrid learning require innovative teaching methods to help educators deliver simulation-based learning strategies and promote students’ critical thinking, clinical reasoning, and decision-making. One strategy is telepresence. This strategy allows for physically present and telepresent participation and facilitates innovative delivery of simulations, overcoming barriers of distance, isolation, illness, and scheduling. Dr. David Want presents how one nursing program integrated telepresence in simulation to promote student learning.

Faculty in the classroom and clinical setting need innovative pedagogies to help novice students learn the nursing process. This podcast with Dr. Deborah Byrne presents an innovative strategy using a television documentary to help students learn the steps of the nursing process, assessment of the patient, and application and analysis of patient-centered data in the scenario, and to communicate effectively and compassionately with the patient who suffers from obesity.

Phillip Nelan describes his dosage calculations teaching strategy and how he uses this in his pharmacology course. If your nursing students need help with calculating medication dosages, don't miss this podcast.

Dr. Zainab Osakwe shares the results of a systematic review on barriers that minority nursing students face in their studies and facilitators to their success in a nursing program.

Learn about trauma informed care from experts (Dr. Elizabeth Kuzma and Ms. Lindsay Cannon), why this content is important to include in a nursing curriculum, and how to teach this to students.