Nurse Educator Tips for Teaching

Dr. Sandra Davis discusses how she creates podcasts to help her students understand difficult or challenging concepts in an easier to understand manner. The podcast discusses the value of giving content and concepts to students in a conversational manner.  The conversational approach is a form of Socratic learning, which is a high impact teaching strategy.

Tik Tok is a social media platform for sharing short videos. This podcast with Dr. Gapp explains how TiK Tok was used with novice nursing students to engage them in learning. The podcast presents selected short vignettes that faculty can use when using Tik Tok technology.

Dr. Angela MacDonald explains why we need effective and equitable academic policies in schools of nursing. She discusses the need for data to inform policies (and provides an example) and identifies types of data faculty might use when making decisions about academic policies.

Dr. Kristi Miller describes a video she developed with embedded medication and other errors for teaching nursing students about patient safety. She discusses how she uses this video in her course.

Dr. Melissa Harlan and Dr. Susan Miller describe their innovative evolving case studies. With these case studies, students progress through six phases, which simulate a clinical practice day. They used Excel to build the EMR for the case. There are multiple ways faculty can use these evolving case studies in their courses.

At Villanova University, Dr. Ruth McDermott-Levy has developed learning opportunties for nursing students with immigrant groups. In this podcast you will learn about the outcomes students achieve from these experiences and benefits for immigrants and the community. Dr. McDermott-Levy and her team studied nursing students' self-efficacy in working with immigrant clients - be sure to read the article in the July-August issue of Nurse Educator (pp. 225-229).

Prelicensure students struggle with developing clinical judgment skills. The National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN) Clinical Judgment Model can be used in a simulation to promote critical thinking, clinical judgment, and decision making. This podcast with Dr. David Want presents a clinical scenario using the Model, focusing on the debriefing that has the most learning impact. A secondary focus of this podcast is enhancing facilitator and faculty education about the use of the Model to promote interrater reliability in the teaching and learning experience.

This podcast with Dr. Katie Vanderzwan discusses 2 innovative curricular approaches implemented on the basis of Bloom's taxonomy to teach handoff education: experiential and virtual. The outcomes of the 2 curricular innovations were evaluated for handoff completion, accuracy, and quality, based on context. Communication, interprofessional collaboration, and critical thinking are integral to the learning experiences.

It is time consuming for nurse educators to provide feedback to students on drafts of their papers especially with large classes. Learn about a peer review activity in which students provide asynchronous online feedback to a peer on a written assignment. This strategy was developed and evaluated by Drs. Lynn Brown and Amy Cicchino, who share their technique and benefits for students in this podcast.

If you are not doing virtual post-exam reviews, you will after this podcast with Kaitlin Cobourne. You will learn about the process to use, considerations, how to prepare for a virtual post-exam review, amd strategies (e.g., student self reflection and exam wrappers).