Nurse Educator Tips for Teaching

Simulation is an effective strategy to promote students' critical thinking and clinical reasoning skills. Dr. Aller describes an elective advanced medical-surgical nursing course in a prelicensure program that uses simulation as the sole teaching strategy. The course helps students achieve higher-order thinking and priority-setting skills within a safe environment, reduces anxiety, and builds self-confidence.

Spirituality is an integral part of how patients achieve harmony with mind, body, and spirit. There is a gap in addressing spirituality of patients in nursing and society itself. People are generally not comfortable talking about their spirituality, which is at the heart and soul of their identity. The FICA (Faith and belief, Importance, Community, and Addressing care) is a tool that can be used to assess the multiple dimensions of spirituality in patients. Dr. Margie Williams discusses this topic and provides strategies for clinical nursing education.

Dr. Beth Phillips discusses professional identity formation in nursing and shares a new initiative (under the leadership of Dr. Nelda Godfrey) to guide nurse educators in helping students develop their identity as a nurse. 

Dr. Brenda Kucirka discusses students' need for self care, explains what often gets in the way of practicing self care for both students and faculty, and shares specific strategies faculty can integrate in their courses to support self care. You will gain some takeaways for your own teaching.

We are living in unprecedented and uncertain times with the COVID-19 pandemic. Nursing programs are trying to figure out ways to celebrate their graduates’ rite of passage into the nursing profession, which would normally be in a formal in-person ceremony. This podcast with Dr. J. Raney Linck presents a creative strategy to help students celebrate their graduation in a virtual format.

Dr. Linck has provided an example to accompany this podcast: https://www.rnnext.com/communal-farewell.html

Debriefing for Meaningful Learning (DML) is a debriefing tool to assist students to develop clinical reasoning by reviewing and reflecting on their clinical experiences. Online simulations, case studies, worksheets, and small group activities help students to achieve deep learning. The COVID-19 pandemic was the impetus to switch to online learning. Students have expressed that by reviewing client cases in an online format, they are able to better correlate patient data and see “the big picture.” Learn more about using DML in an online format from Dr. Nadine Marchi.

In this podcast, Dr. Billy Mullins shares an innovative way to offer a psychiatric-mental health clinical course using an online format. Journaling, reflection papers, online videos, simulations, student-to-student engagement, faculty-to-student engagement, and robust library resources are among the activities and resources that promote higher-order thinking in students.

Join Dr. Renee Bauer to learn about strategies for teaching in psychiatric nursing. Students get SBIRT and Psychological First Aid Certificates and engage in other activities to build their knowledge and competencies for care for patients with mental health needs.

Dr. Marianne Jeffreys presents her Nursing Universal Retention and Success (NURS) model, the research findings that support this model, and how schools of nursing have applied this model. Don't miss this podcast!

Using alumni as standardized patients is a cost-effective strategy to capitalize on their experience. Join Carol Kelley, PhD, RN, CNP, for this podcast. Alumni help students with their critical thinking and communication skills using teleconferencing in an advanced health assessment course.  Learn how to engage alumni in student learning.