Nurse Educator Tips for Teaching

Nursing students are diverse in their levels of experience, preferred teaching styles, and levels of engagement. This poses a challenge for nurse educators to deliver meaningful classroom activities. This podcast presents the use of escape rooms, which is an engaging learning activity. The escape room experiences promote critical thinking, communication, and collaboration. Students have fun while they learn.

This is a difficult time with the COVID-19 Pandemic. Nurses in the practice setting and nurse educators are working hard under challenging circumstances. This podcast with Linda Laskowski-Jones, Editor-in-Chief of Nursing2021 Journal, discusses creative strategies that nurses may use to obtain continuing education offerings during this challenging time. The podcast also presents how current challenges in the practice and academic environments can turn into manuscripts for publication. The podcast presents a step-by-step process of writing for publication for first-time authors.

Dr. Sally Richter discusses the value of an EdD in Nursing Education program, the plan of study, and how the curriculum provides competency in the nurse educator role and advances the science of nursing education.

Dr. Anne White describes her fascinating study on using simulation to improve nursing students' situational awareness in acute patient deterioration. One of the outcomes measured was nursing students' time-to-task. The article is open access and is available at this link: read and share with colleagues.

Faculty self-efficacy involves persistence and motivation in overcoming a challenge. Dr. Debra Hampton discusses strategies that faculty can use to feel more self-confident and comfortable teaching in an online learning environment to promote student engagement and the achievement of student learning outcomes. Mentorship, instructional designers, and selecting diverse learning experiences are emphasized during the presentation.

Most nursing students are not prepared to care for patients at end of life. Dr. Maureen Hillier and Becca Lewis describe their virtual end-of-life simulation for nursing students. They use Zoom for the simulation and offer recommendations to increase authenticity (including a simulated call from a family member).

In this podcast, Dr. Rebecca Gary (Emory) and Dr. Lemlem Beza (doctoral student) describe their collaborative Emory - Addis Ababa University PhD in Nursing Program. This international educational model is adaptable for other low resource settings.

In this podcast Dr. Julie Elting shares her research on nursing students with physical disabilities. Nursing faculty completed a survey about the ability of a student who uses a wheelchair for mobility to meet required outcomes. Faculty believed students could meet the cognitive and affective domain outcomes, but there was less agreement that students could meet the psychomotor domain outcomes. Using the psychomotor requirements of bedside nursing as the technical standard for nursing education is a barrier for students with physical disabilities. Faculty should expand their perceptions of the essentials of nursing education to create an inclusive environment.

Simulation is a proven student success strategy to promote critical thinking and clinical reasoning skills. Dr. Sharon Decker discusses conducting face-to-face, virtual, and modified virtual telehealth simulations during the COVID-19 pandemic. She also discusses funding and other resources and emphasizes the need to establish a new paradigm for simulation as result of the pandemic.

If you want an innovative strategy for your NP students to learn how to call in a prescription, listen to this podcast with Dr. Mary Ann Dugan. She describes formats she has used for the prescription call simulation and how to gear it to your course objectives.