Nurse Educator Tips for Teaching

Victoria Keeton discusses concerns with the inclusion of race in clinical case scenarios in nursing education. She provides guidelines for when race or ethnicity is appropriate to include in cases used for teaching in nursing.

How important are grades to your students?  What meaning do grades have to nursing students? Learn about this critical study on the meaning of grades to nursing students at all educational levels. Dr. Poorman provides a summary of the literature on grades and being graded, describes the research method she used, and shares the main findings of her study. Most importantly, she explains how the study can help you as an educator address grading with your students.

Pet therapy has emerged as an effective strategy to promote health and well-being and reduce social isolation and loneliness. The human-animal bond has a powerful impact on how people cope with stressors. Debby Hall, MSN, RN, CMSRN, shares how a therapy dog was used to reduce nursing students’ stress and anxiety in the capstone course in her ADN program.

Dr. Gerry Altmiller describes the current state of integration of QSEN in nursing education, the need for faculty to have a framework for QSEN integration in their nursing program, and strategies for integrating QSEN in the curriculum. She explains how faculty integrated the IHI Open School modules in the curriculum.

In the sometimes turbulent world of health care, nurses face ethical dilemmas on an almost daily basis. Addressing these dilemmas is an important part of patient advocacy, and having the knowledge and background to do so assists nurses in providing optimal care. In this podcast, Mary Donnelly, JD, RN, discusses approaches to teaching ethics to prelicensure students, and the influence of having an educational background in ethics on the clinical realities that nurses face.

Most nursing programs use an academic advising model. In this podcast, Dr. Karen Hande describes a new model, appreciative advising. She discusses the benefits of this approach for students and faculty, its use with DNP students, and how to implement appreciative advising in your school. This advising model also can be used with master’s and prelicensure nursing students.

Learn about dedicated education units (DEUs) in nursing education and how to set up a DEU experience in your nursing program. Dr. Ellen Goslee and Dr. Sherry Chesak explain the DEU model, how they implemented DEUs in an associate degree program in collaboration with the Mayo Clinic, students' experiences, and outcomes of using this model. These experts share what you need to know about DEUs!

Incivility and other forms of workplace aggression can have detrimental effects on individuals, teams, organizations, and patient safety. Evidence-based strategies are needed to prepare nursing students and all members of the health care team to address acts of incivility that threaten patient safety. Cognitive rehearsal is an evidence-based, behavioral technique where learners practice addressing incivility in a non-threatening environment with a skilled facilitator. In this thought-provoking podcast, Dr. Cynthia Clark describes cognitive rehearsal, evidence-based scripting, deliberate practice, and debriefing to address uncivil encounters that threaten co-worker and patient safety. Dr. Cynthia Clark, is Founder of Civility Matters® and author of Creating and Sustaining Civility in Nursing Education.

In this podcast, experts discuss how social media can inform your online teaching, improving student engagement through your course design, building in "desirable difficulties", and more. Get some new ideas for your online courses.

Teaching nursing students in the 21st century is different than in previous generations. Technology has allowed students immediate access to information, which has opened the door to expand the faculty role as mentor. This podcast with Mark Livsey presents mentoring strategies in a clinical setting, which can be generalized to didactic and online instruction to promote positive student outcomes. The emphasis is developing trusting rapport between faculty and students.