Nurse Educator Tips for Teaching

Dr. Aaron Sebach presents a 2-pronged approach to help DNP students learn to write professionally. This approach combines the expertise of the English Department and DNP faculty. The English Department provides substantial writing experiences for students to prepare them for their professional roles.

Dr. Kristy Chunta discusses characteristics of Generation Z nursing students and teaching methods to keep these students engaged in the online learning environment.

Nursing faculty may need guidance in the development of their scholarship. Dr. Sara McPherson presents themes from a Delphi study. The podcast emphasizes the need for nursing programs to have a structured program to help faculty develop in all areas of scholarship.

Do you need some active learning strategies (that are fun for students to do) for your classes? In this podcast, Dr. Brenna Morse shares classroom activities that help students learn and are fun to do. She shares her framework for developing these activities, benefits and barriers to implementing them in a virtual environment, and what students find most helpful.

What can we do as nurse educators to address student stress? Dr. Kate Gawlik discusses the current state of student wellness and shares wellness initiatives you can use within your courses. These are short activities that are easy to do in a lecture or online. Dr. Gawlik's research documented the positive outcomes of these wellness activities on students' health.

Melanie Goodwin discusses cinemeducation (using movies, videos, film clips, and other visuals) for teaching in nursing. Learn about this method and how you can use it in your courses.

Planning on integrating telehealth in your nurse practitioner (NP) program? Dr. Carolyn Rutledge describes how to prepare NPs for telehealth, key content for telehealth education, methods to provide NP students with hands-on/experiential learning related to telehealth, and resources to assist NP educators in providing telehealth education. She also shares examples of how telehealth can be integrated into DNP projects for NPs. 

Dr. Margaret Emerson recommends integrated telehealth simulations for nurse practitioner students. Her advice to faculty: Create realistic scenarios, based on real life examples, that integrate multiple patient conditions. Learn more about integrated telehealth simulations in this podcast.

Dr. Marc Rosales explains how he used technology to teach students to do an effective clinical handoff and provide practice for students.

Dr. Meg Moorman describes visual thinking strategies (VTS) - what they are and how she uses them in her nursing courses.