Nurse Educator Tips for Teaching

Dr. Crystal Shannon explains the roles, responsibilities, and basic competencies of all nurses in disaster response and the implications for nursing education programs. She shares teaching strategies, discusses challenges for faculty when designing disaster activities for students, and provides recommendations for integrating disaster content in a prelicensure nursing program. 

Learn how to create an online clinical experience for your students. Dr. Gerry Altmiller describes how to provide clinical education hours online for prelicensure nursing students and shares the resources she used for the students' online experience. Learn how she organized the medical-surgical nursing clinical practicum and worked with her adjunct clinical instructors.

Gaming is a proven strategy that promotes student success. Listeners will learn how a coach-led gaming model builds nursing students’ confidence and enhances their critical thinking in preparation for NCLEX-RN. The model intertwines critical thinking activities, fun, humor, and a spirit of collegiality to promote the achievement of student learning outcomes. Don't miss this podcast with Dr. Joyce Victor.

Kolb’s Experiential Learning Theory includes concrete experience, active experimentation, abstract conceptualization, and reflective observation to engage students in active learning. This podcast presents an innovative way that promotes active engagement of adult learners in the classroom using “Kolb-It” worksheets. Listeners will learn how encouraging students to touch, write, feel, listen to, read, watch or create something will help them to understand concepts. Dr. Kim Belcik explains how to implement this innovative strategy in your classroom.

Most schools struggle with how to mentor clinical nurse educators who may be teaching in sites far from the school of nursing. Nursing faculty at the University of Saskatchewan, Regina Campus, solved this problem by using robots. Course coordinators mentor clinical educators using a telepresence robot.

Debriefing is a critical component of simulation. This podcast presents strategies that nurse educators can use to help students deal with the death of their patient in a simulated learning experience. Debriefing allows students to share their feelings about the scenario to avoid being emotionally traumatized by the death experience. The faculty member’s caring presence guides the debriefing process to promote critical thinking with the learning experience.

What assessment skills should we teach in a prelicensure nursing program? Dr. Stacy Fusner surveyed 402 nursing faculty in schools of nursing across the US. In this podcast she reports on the findings and explains why this study is important to nurse educators. Faculty identified 37 critical skills all nursing students should learn (the list of skills is provided in her article in Nurse Educator).

Dr. Marianne Jeffreys discusses the transition of ADN students in BSN programs, their challenges, and key transition points. Students benefit from a proactive, holistic approach. Learn how to create and use this approach in your RN-BSN program. Dr. Jeffreys also describes her career path ticket and A-Z tips.

Kristine Rose discusses student-to-student civility and incivility, and the major findings from her integrative review of the literature. Learn about teaching strategies to educate nursing students about civility and how faculty are preparing students for professional practice.

Dr. Cheryl Williams explains growth mindset and how nurse educators can cultivate this type of mindset in their classrooms. She share her research findings and presents strategies we can use as nursing faculty to promote students' growth mindsets.