Nurse Educator Tips for Teaching

Graduate students in Dr. Lisa Diamond's courses write poems to promote their learning about course content. In this podcast she discusses using poetry in nursing courses and the importance of arts and humanities in nursing education.

In 2023, the NCSBN will launch the updated licensure examination, Next-Generation (NGN) NCLEX, which will use new test item formats to evaluate new graduate nurses' clinical decision-making processes at a more advanced level. In this podcast Dr. Wands presents a gaming strategy to help faculty embrace and develop confidence writing NGN test items at a high cognitive level to promote critical thinking and clinical reasoning using the National Council of State Boards of Nursing Detailed Test Plan and nursing process as frameworks.

Safe patient care is closely linked to clinical judgment. Concerns about inadequate practice readiness and the impending inclusion of clinical judgment items on the NextGen NCLEX have resulted in increasing interest in and publications about teaching clinical judgment. However, little is known about actual current practices for teaching this skill. This podcast with Drs. Ann Nielson, Kathie Lasater, Lisa Gonzalez, and Janet Monagle presents a discussion on the need for programs to have a clinical judgment model as a curricular framework and selected teaching strategies to promote critical thinking, clinical reasoning, and clinical judgment. They share results from their national survey.

Medication reconciliation is a formal process of creating a complete and accurate listing of a patient’s prescription and non-prescription medications. Drs. Stansell, Paris, and Clark discuss the use of simulation in the medication reconciliation process in novice nursing students. Critical thinking, communication, safety, and interprofessional collaboration are frameworks for this high impact and engaging learning experience.

An understanding of health promotion in nursing programs is often evaluated through formative assessments such as quizzes and examinations. There is a need for more contemporary methods of teaching and active learning. This podcast with Dr. Crystal Walker presents a teaching tip using social media platforms to help students achieve the knowledge, skills, and attitudes to promote healthy behaviors in patients.

Dr. Amy Manderscheid describes her innovative Call Light Challenge teaching strategy to engage beginning students in clinical practice. She explains how students accrue points, how the point system is designed, outcomes  of this strategy, and adapting it for your own courses. 

The American Association of Colleges of Nursing adopted the new Essentials and competency-based education (CBE) to ensure that nursing programs are addressing domains, competencies, and sub-competencies and have clearly defined CBE learning statements and assessment tools. This podcast with Mary Stachowiak, DNP, RN, CNL, presents a framework and tools that nursing programs can use as they engage in curriculum assessment and evaluation.

Drs. Eda Ozkara San, Gina Robertiello, Jennifer Nahum, and Beth Latimer discuss their integration of disability content in nursing simulation. They developed an innovative tabletop simulation as part of their pediatric nursing course. They also share strategies for integrating disability content throughout the curriculum with a focus on outcomes and competencies.

An innovative remote learning intervention, PICO Pal, was developed for prelicensure nursing students to promote interactive learning, collaboration, and information literacy. PICO Pal used Apple Numbers to facilitate remote group work on a PICOT poster. Daria Waszak, Kady Martini, and Missi Stec describe PICO Pal.

Prelicensure nursing students experience a great deal of stress and anxiety while in school. in this podcast, Drs. Bussard and Mohoney present the value of a relaxation room to help students with their anxiety and promote success in their studies.