Nurse Educator Tips for Teaching

This podcast in on universal design and its use in nursing education. Dr. Kelley Anderson explains how universal design differs from traditional instruction, the process of implementing universal design in a nursing curriculum, and challenges of using this framework for nursing courses. She also provides recommendations for incorporating universal design into a nursing curriculum or course.

Dr. Lisa Woodleyreports on her research with Hispanic/Latinx nursing students who share their experiences as students and as new graduates. Her study documented the acculturation process of these students into nursing. This study has important implications for nurse educators. Be sure to read Dr. Woodley's integrative review in Nurse Educator (September October 2019).

Nurse leaders may want to experience a new journey by changing their career course to academia at a time when nurse educators are desperately needed. Experienced nurse leaders with organizational longevity may be ready to retire from their leadership role or to make a career transition because of life changes. This podcast highlights the leadership skills that experienced nurse leaders bring to nursing education as they transition to a new role as a faculty member.

Are you trying to create a classroom environment where students are engaged in a community of learning? In this podcast you will learn about script concordance testing. Dr. Tedesco-Schneck explains how to use a script concordance model and think aloud approach to engage nursing students and promote their clinical reasoning.

Many nurse practitioner (NP) students are in rural clinical settings. Virtual site visits enable faculty to observe students in their clinical setting and interact with them, their patients, and their preceptor. A virtual site visit is a secure, synchronous, 2-way, audio-video telehealth software connection between faculty and NP students. Learn in this podcast how to use virtual site visits in your NP program. Read the accompanying article (Harris et al. in Nurse Educator. doi: 10.1097/NNE.0000000000000693). The article is open access

In this new and innovative NCLEX coaching model, senior students are paired with faculty for 6 weeks of NCLEX coaching. Students self-assess strengths, risk factors, and challenges related to NCLEX preparation, and coaches and students co-develop a preparation and success plan. Learn about this coaching model and the outcomes of using this model with students (confidence/readiness scores and pass rates improved). Drs. Rubenstein and Schlairet share lessons learned for successful implementation of NCLEX coaching in your school of nursing.

Texas Tech nursing faculty integrated general education competencies into their RN-BSN program, set benchmarks for student performance, and integrated teaching strategies in each nursing courses to help students achieve these general education benchmarks. Strategies included Faculty Conversations, Policy and Model Development, VoiceThread, Test Items, and PowToons.

Next Generation NCLEX items are different from the types of items on most of our nursing exams. Dr. Caputi discusses what faculty can do now to prepare for this change in NCLEX testing. Faculty should adopt an approach for teaching clinical judgment that is used throughout the prelicensure nursing program.

An expert explains Next Generation NCLEX items, why we need to assess students’ clinical judgment on the NCLEX, types of items, scoring, and how nursing faculty can prepare their students for these new question formats.

Are you a new nurse educator? Transitioning from clinician to educator? Or, are you responsible for faculty development in your school? In this podcast Dr. Schoening describes her Nurse Educator Transition Theory and how it relates to the process that new educators often experience. She also presents her New Faculty Orientation Program with strategies you can use in your own nursing program