Nurse Educator Tips for Teaching

Audio-enhanced teaching strategies have emerged as effective tools for student-faculty and student-student engagement. VoiceThread (VT) is one modality to promote communication, collaboration, critical thinking, and clinical decision-making by humanizing education. Dr. Imelda Reyes discusses how to use VT in your online teaching.

You will enjoy this podcast with Dr. Stacen Keating. When she was faced with teaching her large class (222 students) using a remote format, she met the challenge with creativity and innovation. She transformed her public health course into a model others can use for large classes. Dr. Keating used the design thinking model of innovation to structure the class and activity engage students in learning about public health nursing.

In this podcast Dr. Lanette Stuckey, Dean, Lakeview College of Nursing, discusses the implications of the pandemic on academic nursing education from the perspective of a dean. She provides advice for faculty moving their courses online and suggests strategies for clinical practice for students who cannot go to the clinical site.

Infographics, or information graphics, are visual stories that help learners identify patterns, relationships, and/or conclusions. Infographics include many visual elements, such as charts, maps, or graphs, which are incorporated into a story. The presenters (Jennifer Chicca & Kristy Chunta) share ways to plan, implement, and evaluate infographics in an undergraduate and graduate nursing curriculum to promote the achievement of student learning outcomes

Embracing civility in the academic and practice environments is critical especially during this time of the COVID-19 pandemic. Having conversations about civility can help faculty and students cope with the stress they are experiencing. Civility Mentor is a virtual learning experience that faculty can use to promote civility among faculty and students and help prepare students to communicate, collaborate, and establish professional relationships in the practice environment when students graduate. Read Dr. Clark's article - it is open access.

Dr. Cindy Foronda discusses challenges of nurse educators due to our current COVID-19 crisis, how we can use virtual simulation for teaching students, and what INACSL is doing to support nurse educators worldwide. Be sure to check the INACSL COVID-19 Virtual Learning Resource website

How can we quickly prepare faculty for transition to online teaching? What about alternate clinical sites? How can we support students? Dr. Valerie Howard answers these questions and more. Learn FAST (Faculty, Alternate clinical sites, Students, Technology).

Dr. Desiree Hensel describes a cohesive plan for offering students virtual clinical practice. Faculty use 9 cases (NLN ACES) to which they added: prework, videos, prompts to teach the 6 steps in clinical judgment, and DASH evaluation. She also describes their faculty training emphasizing how to teach clinical judgment. Read Dr. Hensel's article on teaching clinical judgment.

Dr. Jennifer Mabry explains how faculty integrated virtual simulation into their curriculum and shares the outcomes of students completing vsims prior to their simulations in the medical-surgical nursing course.

In this podcast, Dr. Debrayh Gaylle discusses in-simulation debriefing and how it differs from post-simulation debriefing. She shares types of simulations best suited for in-simulation.