Nurse Educator Tips for Teaching

Intentionally crafting partnerships between the academic setting and the community health setting can result in high-quality patient care and improved outcomes. In this podcast, Dr. Zainab Osakwe discusses the benefits of an academic-clinical partnership with community health settings.

Faculty reversed the conventional virtual reality (VR) approach to orient students to a new simulation platform in the School of Nursing. The technique necessitated 2 instructors to don headsets and play the role of nurses while students directed care for patients and family members. In this podcast, Bethany Cieslowski, DNP, RN, discusses the outcomes of this VR teaching strategy to promote student engagement, critical thinking, and decision-making within a safe, trusting learning environment.

:

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.