Nurse Educator Tips for Teaching

Learn how to set up and use a Facebook group for communicating with nursing students about the lab and for connecting with them. Chelsea Lebo explains why she created the Facebook group and how she expanded it to become a valued communication strategy for students.

Dr. Beth Fiske describes the development and implementation of an interprofessional course on trauma informed care. She discusses why faculty developed the course, how it meets a community need, course content and learning activities, and challenges in creating and teaching the course.

To address the faculty shortage, many schools recruit experienced clinicians into nurse educator roles. This transition from clinical practice to academia can be difficult. In this podcast, Dr. Margaret Quinn discusses strategies that can be used to assemble and organize a powerful dossier that will celebrate the clinician's talents and prepare them for the academic role.

Dean Linda McCauley discusses why nurses need to be prepared in data science and implications for nursing education. Emory Nursing has made their big data available to other nursing schools. Their repository, Project NeLL, is a hands-on suite of apps for teaching, learning, and practicing nursing data science.

APRNs need primary palliative care education to care for the growing number of patients with serious illness and their families. The End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium (ELNEC) created an online curriculum for educating NP students in primary palliative care. Learn more in this podcast from Dr. Polly Mazanec, program director of ELNEC. Resources for teaching are at https://www.aacnnursing.org/ELNEC

The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the learning experiences for students in the clinical setting. Students at Saint David’s School of Nursing at Texas State University remerged in the clinical setting in summer 2020. Students developed a heightened sensitivity about how COVID-19 was impacting patients, families, and the hospital staff. This podcast with Mr. Mark Livsey presents how the power of the nurse's presence (students' presence) promoted learning in the clinical setting.

In many nursing programs, students' psychiatric mental health (PMH) clinical experiences are limited. Dr. Anne Schoening and Jacque Williams describe the Creighton PMH Dedicated Education Unit (DEU), which they created with their clinical partner. Learn about factors that led to the development of the PMH DEU, how the faculty prepare students and nursing staff for rotations in the DEU, the nursing faculty member's role (it's an innovative role), and students' and staff nurse outcomes. 

Interventions for scientific writing skill development are widely represented in the literature, but are poorly defined and measured. This podcast with Dr. Michelle DeCoux Hampton discusses the importance of having clear rubrics that help guide the students in their scholarly writing. If you teach in a DNP program, don't miss this podcast.

Nurse educators have been confronted with rethinking and restructuring the curriculum to enhance online learning, and because of this, virtual simulation-based education has become the most widely used approach to clinical practice. Julianne Walsh describes an innovative telehealth simulation that promotes active engagement, clinical reasoning, and deep learning to help prepare students for the practice setting. This virtual telehealth simulation is framed around Benner’s theoretical framework.

Motivational barriers and lack of knowledge about peer review inhibit creation of supportive peer feedback between students. In this podcast, Dr. Joni Tornwall discusses strategies that promote quality feedback about knowledge, skills, and attitudes among student peers. The podcast also presents strategies that faculty can use to promote high quality feedback to students and their faculty peers. The podcast emphasizes the need for students to value the knowledge, skills, and attitudes achieved so that they will transfer this process to the practice setting.,