Nurse Educator Tips for Teaching

AI as a Mirror: Teaching Bias Recognition in Nursing Education

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a rapidly growing concept in today's world, and healthcare is no exception. Nurses who lack the ability to engage with AI risk exacerbatin

Building Metacognitive Skills Around Pre-Rounding for Nurse Practitioner Students

Pre-rounding, reviewing patient data from the electronic medical record to formulate preliminary management plans, is an essential professional behavior for nurse practit

Using Standardized Patient Simulation to Improve Nursing Students' Perceptions, Knowledge, Beliefs, and Attitudes About People Who Use Drugs and Opioid Overdose Prevention

Harm reduction approaches are well-established public health interventions that can reduce mortality associated with substance use. Concepts related to harm reduction and

Number of Clinical Hours, Percent of Simulation, and Work Experience and New Graduate Practice Readiness

Extensive clinical hours and prior health care experience are widely believed to enhance new graduate nurse practice readiness, yet supporting evidence is limited. Dr. Ry

Mock Calls: Simulated Nurse-Physician Communication to Improve Clinical Competence

Effective nurse-physician communication is essential for patient safety and care coordination. Communication failures are a leading contributor to sentinel events, highli

A Portal to Precept: Addressing Barriers and Engaging Clinical Preceptors

Advanced practice nursing programs face a critical shortage of preceptors to guide the translation of education to clinical practice. Preceptors face barriers to mentorin

Assessing Evidence-Based Practice Shifts Among Doctor of Nursing Education Students

Nurse educators are critical in advancing evidence-based practice (EBP) in academic and clinical settings. However, limited research exists on how doctoral education infl

AI with a Personal Touch: Crafting a Custom GPT Tutor for Stronger Scholarly Writing

Enhancing graduate students' scholarly writing skills remains a consistent challenge in nursing education. While generative artificial intelligence (AI) offers promising

Clinical Competence and Satisfaction with Virtual Reality versus Live Simulation

Nurse educators seek teaching methods and modalities that effectively prepare nursing students for practice in the cognitive, affective, and psychomotor domains of learni

Integrating Wellness Into an End-of-Life Nursing Course

New graduate nurses often lack the skills necessary to care for clients at the end of life. Essential to designing an end-of-life course is awareness of the potential psy

Nursing Graduates' Transition to Practice and Implications for Curriculum Development

Intensifying demands on nurses have led to burnout and workforce instability. Dr. Stubin describes her study that examined nursing alumni perceptions of how effectively t

Inclusive Education for Supporting Nursing Students

Inclusive education benefits all students, including neurodivergent and disabled learners, and reduces reliance on individually awarded accommodations. Dr. Megan Arbour p

Escaping the Stigma of Death and Dying

Death and dying within the broader scope of end-of-life care causes anxiety in most students. Escape rooms in an online learning environment enable engagement among parti

Using Ask Me 3® to Strengthen Nursing Student Learning

Ask Me 3® was designed to empower patients to better understand their health, prompting patients to ask: What is my main problem? What do I need to do? Why is it importan

Standardizing Clinical Placement Education Statewide

Although clinical compliance requirements are similar for each hospital, each institution requires students to complete their education materials, resulting in unnecessar

Enhancing Student Competence in Physical Assessments Through Video Self-Evaluation

How do students learn physical assessments most effectively and transfer these skills to clinical practice? Traditionally, students learn to conduct a complete assessment

Simulation-Based Integration of Transgender Patient Care and CPR Competency

Dr. Logan Camp-Spivey describes a simulation they developed that focuses on care of a transgender patient in an emergency situation. The simulation was created to address

Integration of Nurse Residency Program Credit into RN-BSN Curriculum

The school of nursing and affiliated medical center partnered to align the Nurse Residency Program with an undergraduate elective course in nursing leadership. This enabl

An Apprenticeship Practice Partnership Model

The need to better prepare nursing graduates with essential competencies for beginning practice led to the creation of a unique nursing program that uses an apprenticeshi

Student Experiences in the First Semester of their Graduate Nursing Program

Graduate education in nursing presents challenges and opportunities for growth. Dr. Gray shares her qualitative study on the experiences of nurses during their first seme