Nurse Educator Tips for Teaching

Course alignment promotes quality in an online course and incorporates Quality Matters Standards. It is essential to thread learning objectives throughout instructional materials and assessments so learners can attain learning outcomes. This podcast with Dr. Arlene Pericak presents helpful hints for faculty when aligning teaching and learning experiences in an online course.

The prevalence of chronic illness has increased worldwide requiring an interprofessional team approach in the primary care setting. This podcast showcases how a school of nursing and health care system partnered to help students in a second-degree MSN program to achieve clinical learning outcomes that complement didactic instruction in primary care. Dr. Hooper-Arana and Dr. Li describe this clinical practicum for nursing students.

Does your nursing program prepare students to safely practice infection prevention and control? What are lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic? Dr. Manning discusses infection-related content that should be in every prelicensure nursing program.

Undergraduate and graduate students may not always see the value of informatics in their everyday practice. In this podcast Dr. Lisa Anne Bove discusses some strategies that faculty can use to teach informatics using numerous sources of electronic data, sometimes referred to as “Big Data.” Effective communication among the nurse, interprofessional team, and the patient is critical to achieve desired outcomes.

Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, current healthcare trends including technological advances, patients with higher acuity, and shorter orientation periods have impacted the practice environment of new graduates. Current theoretical models for nursing education need to be updated to meet the educational needs of students and promote a higher level of critical thinking and decision-making. In this podcast Dr. Loretta Aller introduces listeners to a new model for undergraduate nursing students based on her grounded theory study.

Learn about an innovative online teaching activity you can use in your courses: students produce commercials on medications. Drs. Wright and Stuckey describe this teaching strategy. You will want to use this activity in your courses!

Nurse educators worldwide strive to help students develop their clinical reasoning and judgment skills. Dr. Noeman Mirza explains abductive reasoning, how it differs from other forms of reasoning, and why nurse educators should consider this form of reasoning when teaching students.

Are you looking for a new assessment strategy for use in your course? Listen to this podcast to learn how to create a SMART  alternative assessment. Dr. Teresa Stephens describes this method and gives examples of innovative assessment strategies she uses in her RN-BSN program.

Dr. Louise Fleming describes a new senior capstone course in which students care for patients across the continuum of care. Learn about the benefits of this transition course for students and preceptors and how you can implement this type of synthesis course in your own nursing program.

A 2-minute assessment and debriefing educate nursing students about the importance of visually assessing a patient’s environment. Guided debriefing promotes higher-order thinking using Socratic questioning. This learning experience complements actual patient-centered clinical experiences. Learn more about this strategy from Drs. Veesart and Johnson.