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Waging the War on Clinical Grade Inflation: The Ongoing Quest

Video Author: Lisa A. Seldomridge, PhD, RN and Catherine M. Walsh, PhD, RN
Published on: 08.07.2018
Associated with: Nurse Educator. 43(4):178-182, July/August 2018

Concerned about clinical grade inflation in your program? Then don’t miss watching this video and reading the article. This study examined the presence of grade inflation in clinical courses 9 years after implementing strategies to improve grading precision. A comparison of clinical grades for cohort I (1997-2002) with cohort II (2009-2016) showed statistically lower grades in 2 courses (Adult 1 and Maternity) for cohort II. The authors provide suggestions for changing the way clinical experiences are planned, executed, and evaluated.

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Waging the War on Clinical Grade Inflation: The Ongoing Quest

Creator: Lisa A. Seldomridge, PhD, RN and Catherine M. Walsh, PhD, RN

Duration: 03:44

Concerned about clinical grade inflation in your program? Then don’t miss watching this video and reading the article. This study examined the presence of grade inflation in clinical courses 9 years after implementing strategies to improve grading precision. A comparison of clinical grades for cohort I (1997-2002) with cohort II (2009-2016) showed statistically lower grades in 2 courses (Adult 1 and Maternity) for cohort II. The authors provide suggestions for changing the way clinical experiences are planned, executed, and evaluated.

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Educational Model to Increase the Number and Diversity of Registered Nurse to Bachelor of Science in Nursing Graduates from a Resource Limited Rural Community

Creator: Janice Hawkins, PhD, RN

Duration: 04:28

Increasing the number of BSN-prepared nurses at the bedside is directly linked to improved health care outcomes. However, employers are challenged to find enough BSN graduates to meet workforce demands. In this video (and article), Dr. Hawkins presents an educational model to increase enrollment, retention, and graduation rates of RN students in a BSN program (RN-BSN) in a resource limited rural community. This exemplar may equip nurse educators with strategies to adopt in their own communities.

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An Innovative Exchange Model for Global and Community Health Nursing Education

Creator: Janet Resop Reilly, DNP, APNP-BC, RN

Duration: 2:14

Understanding different cultures is important in educating nursing students who will become the health care workforce of our future interdependent and globalized societies. International practicum courses help students and nurses understand different cultures. This video and article describe an innovative approach to nursing education and understanding diverse cultures. The team of faculty developed a hybrid course (online course coupled with face-to-face practicum experiences), which enrolled nursing students from opposite hemispheres.

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Tips for a Successful Search for Nursing and Health Sciences Faculty

Creator: Cathlin B. Poronsky, PhD, APRN, FNP-BC

Duration: 4:23

Conducting a successful search for new faculty requires a well-honed search committee. Finding the right faculty in this era of nurse faculty shortages and projected faculty retirements may be difficult. In this video and article, the author shares considerations for forming a search committee and tips for running an effective and productive faculty search.

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Impact of Peer-Assisted Learning with Standardized Patients in a Prelicensure Nursing Course

Creator: Tracy P. George, DNP, RN, APRN-BC, CNE, Dorie Lynn Weaver, MSN, RN, APRN-BC, and Sarah H. Kershner, PhD, CHES

Duration: 1:52

In the authors’ prelicensure nursing program, junior students enrolled in the first adult health course were recruited to be standardized patients (SPs) and peer teachers for the first-semester junior students in health assessment. The students who were SPs were able to count the experience as clinical practice hours. The simulated experiences were implemented in examination rooms that resembled a realistic clinical environment. Students obtained a history and performed a focused physical assessment on the SP, who assessed their clinical competence. Learn more about this innovative teaching strategy in this video and the article.

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The Clinical Instructor Program: Improving Self-Efficacy for Nurse Educators

Creator: Jeannie B. Weston

Duration: 5:12

Clinicians need to be prepared to teach nursing students. The author describes her study to determine whether an online program, the Clinical Instructor Program (CIP), improved self efficacy for clinicians in the role of clinical instructor. In addition, understanding of the clinical instructor role, knowledge of instructional content, and understanding of instructional strategies were evaluated before and after CIP participation. A primary finding of the study was that overall self-efficacy significantly improved. Watch the video and also read the article: in the article the author describes the program she developed to prepare clinicians for clinical teaching.

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Enhancing Communication with the Deaf through Simulation

Creator: Michael S. Grady, BSN, RN, Alice Younce, DNP, RN, Joseph Farmer, MSN, RN, Alison Rudd, EdD, RN, and Ellen Buckner, PhD, RN, CNE

Duration: 4:03

Inability to communicate with a nonhearing patient can affect the patient’s quality of care and be frustrating to the patient and nurse. Faculty developed a simulation for nursing students to learn to communicate with the Deaf. Nursing students interacted directly with Deaf participants and learned techniques of communicating with them. The video demonstrates these techniques: every nursing student should watch this video. Read the article to learn more about this simulation and details for running it in your school of nursing.

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Over 1 Million Potential Second Victims: How Many Could Nursing Education Prevent?

Creator: Jackie H. Jones, EdD, RN and Linda A. Treiber, PhD, RN

Duration: 3:49

Any error made in health care can cause the health care provider to become a second victim. The role that nursing education can play in preventing nurses from becoming second victims has not been well explored. The authors conducted a study on the perceptions of recent BSN graduates about their preparation for medication administration, medication errors, and their personal experience with error making and second victimhood. Watch this video and read the article on this interesting study with implications for your curriculum.

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Curricular Interventions to Promote Self-Care in Prelicensure Nursing Students

Creator: Pamela F. Ashcraft, PhD

Duration: 4:05

Personal self-care should be an expectation of the professional nursing role. Dr. Ashcraft and faculty integrated curricular interventions to promote students’ self-care behaviors. She discusses her study in this video. Although few statistically significant changes were found, findings indicate that changes were beginning to occur and self-care behaviors were not declining: the curricular interventions are having a positive impact on self-care behaviors in nursing students. Read the full article too to learn more about the curriculum strategies used in this nursing program to promote students’ self care.

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Beyond the Front Door: A Complex Home Visit Simulation

Creator: Marianne Cockroft, PhD, RN and Sonda Oppewal, PhD, RN, APHN-BC

Duration: 3:38

As nurses provide more services in clients’ homes, nurse educators face challenges in preparing students for transitioning to the home setting. This video and article describe an innovative home visit simulation designed to prepare prelicensure nursing students for making home visits. Students apply nursing knowledge and critical thinking as they demonstrate skills related to assessment, communication, safety, and health education when caring for clients in their homes. Concepts from medical-surgical, pediatrics, maternity, psychiatric mental health, and public health nursing courses are integrated into the simulation.

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Process Matters: Reporting the Successes and Challenges of Recruiting and Retaining Participants for Nursing

Creator: Christy Raymond, BScN, MEd, PhD, RN

Duration: 4:13

Researchers who study nursing education often encounter difficulties when trying to recruit and retain nurse educator participants. In this video, Dr. Raymond-Seniuk discusses effective and ineffective sampling strategies and methods to increase the efficiency of the research process. Also read the article, which outlines the struggles and successes encountered with a mixed methods study that examined nurse educators’ critical thinking. The author shares insights and future recommendations for researchers in nursing education. This article is Open Access, so share it with other nurse educators.

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Junior Faculty Teaching Fellowship: A Model to Support Nursing Education Development

Creator: Karen Hande, DNP, Anna Richmond, DNP, and Cynthia Brame, PhD

Duration: 4:34

How should schools of nursing transition clinicians to nursing faculty? Learn how this school did it through a Junior Faculty Teaching Fellowship. In the video and article, the authors describe an innovative, collaborative program for supporting transition and development of critical skills for novice faculty. They share the format they used in the Fellowship for nursing faculty. Here is your chance to learn about the Junior Faculty Teaching Fellowship and the value of this experience to new nursing faculty.

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Effect of Increased Evaluation Objectivity on Grade Inflation: Precise Grading Rubrics and Rigorously Developed Tests

Creator: Krista A. White, PhD, RN, CCRN-K, CNE and Ella T. Heitzler, PhD, WHNP, FNP, RNC-OB

Duration: 5:46

Are you concerned about grade inflation in your nursing program? If you are, be sure to watch this video and read the article. The authors conducted a retrospective, comparative study on the effects of increasing objectivity of evaluation methods on grade inflation in a graduate nursing research course. Multiple-choice testing and increased precision in grading rubrics were added to the course. Outcome measures of student grade distributions for the course were measured pre/post course revision. Statistically significant reductions in grade distributions were observed after evaluation methods in the course were revised (U = 4575.0, P < .001).

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Right-sizing Projects for Non-Research Intensive Schools of Nursing Via Academic-Clinical Partnerships

Creator: Ann L. Eckhardt, PhD, RN, and Wendy C. Kooken, PhD, RN

Duration: 3:23

Most academic-clinical partnerships are formal agreements between schools of nursing at research-intensive universities and large teaching hospitals. In this video and article learn about a less formal version of an academic-clinical partnership between a school of nursing in a small, private liberal arts university and 2 regional clinical agencies. Students, faculty, and staff contributed to evidence-based practice projects. The authors explain how all schools of nursing can develop right-size academic-clinical partnerships that benefit everyone involved.

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Current State of Test Development, Administration, and Analysis: A Study of Faculty Practices

Creator: Timothy Bristol

Duration: 4:09

Developing valid and reliable test items is a critical skill for nursing faculty. This research analyzed the test item writing practices of 674 nursing faculty. Findings revealed variability in practices and a gap in implementation of evidence-based standards when developing and evaluating teacher-made examinations. Dr Bristol describes this important study in this video and accompanying article.

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A Pragmatic Approach to the Application of the Code of Ethics in Nursing Education

Creator: Elizabeth A. Tinnon, RN, CNE

Duration: 2:24

The code of ethics for nurses was written for nurses in all settings. However, the language focuses primarily on the nurse in context of the patient relationship, which may make it difficult for nurse educators to internalize the code to inform their teaching practice. In this video and accompanying article, Dr. Tinnon explores the code of ethics and explains how you can use it to guide your teaching.

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Defining Roles and Expectations for Faculty, Nurses, and Students in a Dedicated Education Unit

Creator: Lorraine Rusch, PhD
Cindy Slone, PhD

Duration: 3:28

Learn about the dedicated education unit (DEU) model of clinical nursing education from these experts. Although nursing programs have used the DEU model for years, the literature provides minimal direction to assist faculty in transitioning from traditional clinical teaching to the DEU model. The authors explain in the video and article how to teach in a DEU. They discuss resources faculty can develop to help all involved understand teaching roles and desired learning outcomes in the DEU model.

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Building DNP Essential Skills in Clinical Data Management and Analysis

Creator: Shea Polancich, Linda Moneyham, Glenda Smith, and David James

Duration: 6:10

Effectively teaching clinical data management and analysis in a doctor of nursing (DNP) program requires attention to developing skills that foster improvement at the bedside. The authors describe their new DNP course on clinical data management and analysis. View the video and then read the article, which also reports opportunities to improve translation and application of the content in the course to the scholarly practice project.

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Peer Incivility among Prelicensure Nursing Students: A Call to Action for Nursing Faculty

Creator: Penny Sauer

Duration: 2:38

This video and the accompanying article report findings from a study on peer incivility among nursing students and the impact of incivility on students’ physical and mental health and their stress. Students who experienced high levels of peer incivility had lower mental health scores, lower physical health scores, and higher stress levels. Dr. Sauer describes the study in this video and provides more details about it in the article including strategies for nursing faculty.

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Mock IRB: Promoting Analytical and Reasoning Skills in Research Ethics

Creator: Jean Dowling Dols, Mary M. Hoke, and Maureen L. Rauschhuber

Duration: 2:27

Drs. Dols, Hoke, and Rauschhuber share their research study on the outcomes of an educational innovation in which students completed online human subjects training followed by a mock institutional review board (IRB) simulation. The study demonstrated that knowledge acquisition is not enough to acquire the ethical reasoning skills needed to implement health care research. Situational context is also needed to envision the application of ethical principles. Learn more about the study in this video and the accompanying article.

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Waging the War on Clinical Grade Inflation: The Ongoing Quest

Creator: Lisa A. Seldomridge, PhD, RN and Catherine M. Walsh, PhD, RN

Duration: 03:44

Concerned about clinical grade inflation in your program? Then don’t miss watching this video and reading the article. This study examined the presence of grade inflation in clinical courses 9 years after implementing strategies to improve grading precision. A comparison of clinical grades for cohort I (1997-2002) with cohort II (2009-2016) showed statistically lower grades in 2 courses (Adult 1 and Maternity) for cohort II. The authors provide suggestions for changing the way clinical experiences are planned, executed, and evaluated.

Play Video | + Favorites

Educational Model to Increase the Number and Diversity of Registered Nurse to Bachelor of Science in Nursing Graduates from a Resource Limited Rural Community

Creator: Janice Hawkins, PhD, RN

Duration: 04:28

Increasing the number of BSN-prepared nurses at the bedside is directly linked to improved health care outcomes. However, employers are challenged to find enough BSN graduates to meet workforce demands. In this video (and article), Dr. Hawkins presents an educational model to increase enrollment, retention, and graduation rates of RN students in a BSN program (RN-BSN) in a resource limited rural community. This exemplar may equip nurse educators with strategies to adopt in their own communities.

Play Video | + Favorites

An Innovative Exchange Model for Global and Community Health Nursing Education

Creator: Janet Resop Reilly, DNP, APNP-BC, RN

Duration: 2:14

Understanding different cultures is important in educating nursing students who will become the health care workforce of our future interdependent and globalized societies. International practicum courses help students and nurses understand different cultures. This video and article describe an innovative approach to nursing education and understanding diverse cultures. The team of faculty developed a hybrid course (online course coupled with face-to-face practicum experiences), which enrolled nursing students from opposite hemispheres.

Play Video | + Favorites

Tips for a Successful Search for Nursing and Health Sciences Faculty

Creator: Cathlin B. Poronsky, PhD, APRN, FNP-BC

Duration: 4:23

Conducting a successful search for new faculty requires a well-honed search committee. Finding the right faculty in this era of nurse faculty shortages and projected faculty retirements may be difficult. In this video and article, the author shares considerations for forming a search committee and tips for running an effective and productive faculty search.

Play Video | + Favorites

Impact of Peer-Assisted Learning with Standardized Patients in a Prelicensure Nursing Course

Creator: Tracy P. George, DNP, RN, APRN-BC, CNE, Dorie Lynn Weaver, MSN, RN, APRN-BC, and Sarah H. Kershner, PhD, CHES

Duration: 1:52

In the authors’ prelicensure nursing program, junior students enrolled in the first adult health course were recruited to be standardized patients (SPs) and peer teachers for the first-semester junior students in health assessment. The students who were SPs were able to count the experience as clinical practice hours. The simulated experiences were implemented in examination rooms that resembled a realistic clinical environment. Students obtained a history and performed a focused physical assessment on the SP, who assessed their clinical competence. Learn more about this innovative teaching strategy in this video and the article.

Play Video | + Favorites

The Clinical Instructor Program: Improving Self-Efficacy for Nurse Educators

Creator: Jeannie B. Weston

Duration: 5:12

Clinicians need to be prepared to teach nursing students. The author describes her study to determine whether an online program, the Clinical Instructor Program (CIP), improved self efficacy for clinicians in the role of clinical instructor. In addition, understanding of the clinical instructor role, knowledge of instructional content, and understanding of instructional strategies were evaluated before and after CIP participation. A primary finding of the study was that overall self-efficacy significantly improved. Watch the video and also read the article: in the article the author describes the program she developed to prepare clinicians for clinical teaching.

Play Video | + Favorites

Beyond the Front Door: A Complex Home Visit Simulation

Creator: Marianne Cockroft, PhD, RN and Sonda Oppewal, PhD, RN, APHN-BC

Duration: 3:38

As nurses provide more services in clients’ homes, nurse educators face challenges in preparing students for transitioning to the home setting. This video and article describe an innovative home visit simulation designed to prepare prelicensure nursing students for making home visits. Students apply nursing knowledge and critical thinking as they demonstrate skills related to assessment, communication, safety, and health education when caring for clients in their homes. Concepts from medical-surgical, pediatrics, maternity, psychiatric mental health, and public health nursing courses are integrated into the simulation.

Play Video | + Favorites

Process Matters: Reporting the Successes and Challenges of Recruiting and Retaining Participants for Nursing

Creator: Christy Raymond, BScN, MEd, PhD, RN

Duration: 4:13

Researchers who study nursing education often encounter difficulties when trying to recruit and retain nurse educator participants. In this video, Dr. Raymond-Seniuk discusses effective and ineffective sampling strategies and methods to increase the efficiency of the research process. Also read the article, which outlines the struggles and successes encountered with a mixed methods study that examined nurse educators’ critical thinking. The author shares insights and future recommendations for researchers in nursing education. This article is Open Access, so share it with other nurse educators.

Play Video | + Favorites

Junior Faculty Teaching Fellowship: A Model to Support Nursing Education Development

Creator: Karen Hande, DNP, Anna Richmond, DNP, and Cynthia Brame, PhD

Duration: 4:34

How should schools of nursing transition clinicians to nursing faculty? Learn how this school did it through a Junior Faculty Teaching Fellowship. In the video and article, the authors describe an innovative, collaborative program for supporting transition and development of critical skills for novice faculty. They share the format they used in the Fellowship for nursing faculty. Here is your chance to learn about the Junior Faculty Teaching Fellowship and the value of this experience to new nursing faculty.

Play Video | + Favorites

Effect of Increased Evaluation Objectivity on Grade Inflation: Precise Grading Rubrics and Rigorously Developed Tests

Creator: Krista A. White, PhD, RN, CCRN-K, CNE and Ella T. Heitzler, PhD, WHNP, FNP, RNC-OB

Duration: 5:46

Are you concerned about grade inflation in your nursing program? If you are, be sure to watch this video and read the article. The authors conducted a retrospective, comparative study on the effects of increasing objectivity of evaluation methods on grade inflation in a graduate nursing research course. Multiple-choice testing and increased precision in grading rubrics were added to the course. Outcome measures of student grade distributions for the course were measured pre/post course revision. Statistically significant reductions in grade distributions were observed after evaluation methods in the course were revised (U = 4575.0, P < .001).

Play Video | + Favorites

Right-sizing Projects for Non-Research Intensive Schools of Nursing Via Academic-Clinical Partnerships

Creator: Ann L. Eckhardt, PhD, RN, and Wendy C. Kooken, PhD, RN

Duration: 3:23

Most academic-clinical partnerships are formal agreements between schools of nursing at research-intensive universities and large teaching hospitals. In this video and article learn about a less formal version of an academic-clinical partnership between a school of nursing in a small, private liberal arts university and 2 regional clinical agencies. Students, faculty, and staff contributed to evidence-based practice projects. The authors explain how all schools of nursing can develop right-size academic-clinical partnerships that benefit everyone involved.

Play Video | + Favorites

Defining Roles and Expectations for Faculty, Nurses, and Students in a Dedicated Education Unit

Creator: Lorraine Rusch, PhD
Cindy Slone, PhD

Duration: 3:28

Learn about the dedicated education unit (DEU) model of clinical nursing education from these experts. Although nursing programs have used the DEU model for years, the literature provides minimal direction to assist faculty in transitioning from traditional clinical teaching to the DEU model. The authors explain in the video and article how to teach in a DEU. They discuss resources faculty can develop to help all involved understand teaching roles and desired learning outcomes in the DEU model.

Play Video | + Favorites

Building DNP Essential Skills in Clinical Data Management and Analysis

Creator: Shea Polancich, Linda Moneyham, Glenda Smith, and David James

Duration: 6:10

Effectively teaching clinical data management and analysis in a doctor of nursing (DNP) program requires attention to developing skills that foster improvement at the bedside. The authors describe their new DNP course on clinical data management and analysis. View the video and then read the article, which also reports opportunities to improve translation and application of the content in the course to the scholarly practice project.

Play Video | + Favorites

Peer Incivility among Prelicensure Nursing Students: A Call to Action for Nursing Faculty

Creator: Penny Sauer

Duration: 2:38

This video and the accompanying article report findings from a study on peer incivility among nursing students and the impact of incivility on students’ physical and mental health and their stress. Students who experienced high levels of peer incivility had lower mental health scores, lower physical health scores, and higher stress levels. Dr. Sauer describes the study in this video and provides more details about it in the article including strategies for nursing faculty.

Play Video | + Favorites

Mock IRB: Promoting Analytical and Reasoning Skills in Research Ethics

Creator: Jean Dowling Dols, Mary M. Hoke, and Maureen L. Rauschhuber

Duration: 2:27

Drs. Dols, Hoke, and Rauschhuber share their research study on the outcomes of an educational innovation in which students completed online human subjects training followed by a mock institutional review board (IRB) simulation. The study demonstrated that knowledge acquisition is not enough to acquire the ethical reasoning skills needed to implement health care research. Situational context is also needed to envision the application of ethical principles. Learn more about the study in this video and the accompanying article.

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Debriefing in Laboratory Experiences: A Quality Improvement Project

Creator: Jill Ellen Vihos, Loreen Pollard, Moira Bazin, Denaine Lozza, Penny MacDonald, Nadine Moniz, and Dorothy Spies

Duration: 3:37

If you use debriefing with simulation, learn how these authors used debriefing at the end of a laboratory skills class. The authors examined the cognitive, affective, and social learning outcomes of debriefing sessions. Survey questionnaires were administered to 378 prelicensure nursing students after their nursing skills laboratory class that included a debriefing session. Most students either agreed or strongly agreed that debriefing facilitated the discussion about their lab experience and reflection on learning.

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Motivated Strategies for Learning in Accelerated Second Degree Nursing Students

Creator: Majeda M. El-Banna, PhD, RN

Duration: 4:57

Students in a second-degree accelerated BSN program experience a rigorous curriculum and fast-paced introduction to nursing. In this video and article, Dr El-Banna described her study that examined the relationships among students’ self-esteem, motivation, learning strategies, demographic characteristics, and academic achievement. Among other findings, some demographic characteristics influenced the type of motivation and learning strategies students preferred but did not influence their current academic performance.

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Multidimensional Evaluation of Simulation Based Course to Enhance Prelicensure Nursing Students’ Clinical Skills

Creator: Michelle Aebersold, PhD

Duration: 2:10

Dr. Aebersold describes the development of a new simulation-based course designed to remediate the clinical skills of prelicensure nursing students and the multidimensional method used to evaluate this new course. Evaluation of the course was guided by Kirkpatrick’s levels of training. The Quint Leveled Clinical Competency Tool was used to evaluate students’ clinical competencies. Success of the course was found in 3 levels of evaluation. If you are using simulation in your nursing program, be sure to watch this video and read the article – then share them with your colleagues.

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Motivational Factors of Student Nurse Athletes Attributing to Academic Success

Creator: Kimberly A. Forst, DNP, RN

Duration: 3:50

Student nurse athletes may experience difficulties achieving academic success in their nursing program. Dr. Forst identified facilitators, barriers, and motivators of student nurse athletes that can affect to their academic success. Athletes ranked time management and prioritization as critical skills for success in the nursing program. Her study also reinforced the importance of academic support services for student nurse athletes. Learn more about this interesting study in the video and article.

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Evaluation of an Intervention to Improve Clinical Nurse Educators' Knowledge, Perceived Skills, and Confidence related to Diversity

Creator: Nicole E. Warren, PhD, MPH, CNM
Diana Baptiste, DNP, MSN, RN

Duration: 3:15

The authors describe the diversity-related video they developed and its impact on clinical nurse educators. Their evaluation found that educators' knowledge, perceived skills, and confidence in creating a diversity-friendly learning environment were positively affected. Instructors’ awareness of their own biases did not improve significantly, thus suggesting the need for continued emphasis on self-assessment. The video was considered relevant and was supported by most educators, suggesting that similar videos may be an acceptable strategy for engaging them in diversity-related issues. Watch the video and then be sure to read the article.

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Enhancing Cross-Curricular Connectedness and Collaboration from Associate Degree to Clinical Doctorate

Creator: Marianne R. Jeffreys, EdD, RN
June M. Como, EdD, RN
Danna L. Curcio, PhD, RNC, FNP
Marie S. Giordano, PhD, RN

Duration: 3:32

The desire to enhance cross-curriculum connectedness and collaboration across programs was prompted after the authors did a thorough self-examination of the programs offered in their School. They developed a new model for their School that included a new cross-curriculum coordinator role. The video and article introduce the model and framework, which are easily adapted for use across various nursing programs and settings. Don’t miss this video and reading this article.

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A Peer-Delivered Educational Intervention to Improve Nursing Student Cyber-professionalism

Creator: Suzanna Marnocha, PhD, RN, CCRN

Duration: 6:34

To prevent online unprofessionalism among nursing students, the authors developed a peer-facilitated social media education session. Dr. Marnocha explains the study in this video. Students’ uncertain or incorrect attitudes and knowledge showed significant improvements after the session conducted by other nursing students. Learn about the full study in the article.

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Effect of Sequence of Simulated and Clinical Practicum Learning Experiences on Clinical Competency of Nursing Students

Creator: Jamie Hansen, PhD, RN, CNE

Duration: 3:04

How should simulated and clinical experiences be sequenced? Does it make a difference in student performance? Dr. Hansen compared 2 different sequences of blocks of simulated and clinical practicum learning experiences on students’ clinical competency using a randomized crossover design. Competency was measured 3 times: after each block of simulated and clinical experiences and following a final simulated experience. There were no significant differences in students’ competency. This study provides important evidence for faculty when making decisions about simulation and clinical practice. Watch this video and be sure to read the article.

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Be the Change: An Interprofessional Team-based Health Advocacy Summit

Creator: Melody K. Eaton, PhD, MBA, RN

Duration: 5:23

In a complex health care environment, nurses and other health care professionals should be able to understand and collaboratively advocate for health policy benefitting patients, families, and communities. Dr. Eaton and colleagues used interprofessional team-based learning to improve the political astuteness of health professions students including nursing. In this video, Dr. Eaton talks about this instructional strategy and its effectiveness. Read the full article for free (it is open access): share the article with colleagues, students, and others.

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Examining the Relationships between Clinical Judgment, Simulation Performance, and Clinical Performance

Creator: Joyce Victor and Wanda Ruppert

Duration: 6:21

Simulation-based learning experiences are designed to prepare the student for clinical practice; however, there is little documentation of a relationship between simulation performance and performance in the clinical setting. When essential aspects of a clinical situation are replicated in simulation, students should readily understand and manage similar situations in clinical practice. The authors studied the relationships between development of clinical nursing judgment, simulation performance, and clinical performance. In this video and article, learn what they found.

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Learning Style as a Predictor of First Time NCLEX-RN Success: Implications for Nurse Educators

Creator: Drs. Susan Lown and Lee Ann Hawkings

Duration: 3:29

Improving NCLEX-RN pass rates remains a priority for nursing programs. Many programs collect learning style inventory data, yet few studies have looked at relationships between learning style and NCLEX-RN pass rates. In this video and article, Dr. Lown discusses learning style preferences (visual, auditory, tactile, individual, group) and relationships to NCLEX-RN pass/fail rates for 532 prelicensure students. She found a significant correlation between preference for group learning and failure on the NCLEX (χ = 5.99, p = .05).

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Designing a Virtual Simulation Case for Cultural Competence Using a Community Based Participatory

Creator: Lilly Mathew, Barbara Brewer, Janice Crist, and Robin Poedel

Duration: 2:06

Learn how this author used a community-based participatory research approach to develop content for a virtual simulation case. The virtual simulation case was designed to develop the cultural competence of prelicensure nursing students in caring for a Puerto Rican patient with diabetes. Watch the video and then read this article to learn how you can use this method with your own simulations.

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Scaffolding and Sequencing Core Concepts to Develop a Simulation-Integrated Nursing Curricula

Creator: Alaina Herrington and Tonya Schneidereith

Duration: 3:14

Integrating simulation in multiple levels of nursing programs remains a challenge for educators. Nurse educators from various degree granting programs were surveyed to identify placement of multiple nursing concepts. The results of the survey identified concepts that could be incorporated, that is, scaffolded, into various levels of nursing education via concept-based simulations. Categorizing concepts into multiple learner levels provides an efficient, systematic approach to incorporating concepts into simulation throughout any nursing curriculum. Learn more about this project by watching the video. Then be sure to read the article.

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Spiritual Immersion: Developing and Evaluating a Simulation Exercise to Teach Spiritual Care to Undergraduate Nursing Students

Creator: Sharon Galloway, DNP, RN, M.Ed.

Duration: 4:00

In this video and article, Dr. Galloway shares how she developed, implemented, and evaluated a simulation exercise designed to teach spiritual care to prelicensure nursing students. Participation in the spiritual care simulation resulted in improved knowledge and attitudes relating to spirituality and spiritual care. The results from her study demonstrated the value of using simulation and spiritual assessment to teach students how to recognize and respond therapeutically to spiritual needs.

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Impact of a Palliative Care Elective Course on Nursing Students' Knowledge and Attitudes Toward End-of-Life Care

Creator: Eveylyn Robinson, PhD, APRN, MSN, CNS

Duration: 6:03

Understanding end-of-life care can help nurses overcome barriers to managing chronicity in terminally ill patients. The author describes her study that examined the influence of a palliative care elective course on 74 senior nursing students’ knowledge and attitudes toward providing end-of-life care. The study compared the differences between 2 groups of nursing students: 1 of the groups had end-of-life care instruction based on the principles of the End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium. Watch this video and read the full article to guide your integration of end-of-life care in the curriculum.

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Using Simulation to Teach Responses to Lateral Violence: Guidelines for Nurse Educators

Creator: Ericka Sanner-Stiehr, PhD, RN

Duration: 3:06

Lateral violence among nurses is a continuing problem in health care, contributing to detrimental individual and organizational consequences. Nurse educators can prepare students to respond effectively to lateral violence before they graduate and enter the workplace, where it is likely to be encountered. Simulation provides an effective platform for delivering this type of student-centered education. The author presents guidelines for educators to integrate lateral violence response training into simulations in prelicensure nursing education. Watch the video and read the article to get details about how to develop a simulation for this purpose.

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Appreciative Advising: An Innovative Approach to Advising Doctor of Nursing Practice Students

Creator: Tom Christenbery, PhD, RN, CNE
Julia Phillippi, PhD, CNM, FACNM
Karen Hande, DNP, ANP-BC

Duration: 3:31

Appreciative advising is an alternative to traditional, more prescriptive advising and allows faculty and students to develop shared goals. Appreciative advising includes individual and group sessions to provide mentoring and develop a supportive community of peers. The authors explain appreciative advising and their use of the model for DNP students.

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Concept-Based Curriculum: Changing Attitudes and Overcoming Barriers

Creator: Susan Hendricks, EdD, MSN, RN, and Virginia Wangerin, PhD, RN, CNE

Duration: 3:11

Many nursing educators have considered the implementation of a concept-based curriculum, with active, conceptual teaching and learning strategies. This curriculum model offers a way to respond to the overwhelming content saturation in many nursing programs. However, barriers abound, including faculty concerns about loss of control, changing faculty role and identity, and fear of failure. Learn from these experts how to overcome these barriers and learn about some practical strategies for success in your curriculum change. Watch the video now and read the full article.

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Applications of VoiceThread Technology in Graduate Nursing Education

Creator: Mary Katherine Donnelly

Duration: 4:02

This video describes VoiceThread technology and how to implement it in your nursing course. The video explains the step-by-step approach you can use for effective implementation of this technology beginning with faculty orientation, then implementation (visual and verbal presentation), though evaluation with students. If you are interested in VoiceThread, look no further because this video is an excellent introduction to the technology and implementation.

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Mock Hospital Ethics Committee: An Innovative Simulation to Teach Prelicensure Nursing Students the Complexities of Ethics in Practice

Creator: Amy Hagedorn Wonder

Duration: 4:31

Limited opportunities exist for prelicensure nursing students to observe the interprofessional process required to resolve complex ethical cases in practice. The authors assembled a mock hospital ethics committee (MHEC) to teach the application of ethics in practice through simulation. The MHEC meeting is an example of how nursing education and practice can partner to create meaningful learning experiences. Watch this video and read the article to learn how you can teach ethics with this strategy.

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Student and Faculty Perceptions of iPad Integration in a Prelicensure Nursing Program

Creator: Cynthia D. Rubenstein & Carolyn F. Schubert

Duration: 5:31

In this video and article, the authors explain how the faculty integrated iPads into their prelicensure nursing program. They also conducted a study to evaluate the actual use of iPads in the classroom, skills and simulation laboratories, and clinical settings and examined the satisfaction of students and faculty with the iPad platform. The authors provide guidance for iPad implementation in a nursing program.

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Using Innovative Teaching Strategies to Improve Nursing Student Confidence and Competence in Providing Spiritual Care

Creator: Joan Connors and Palmira Good

Duration: 7:23

The authors describe their teaching methods to help nursing students gain competence and confidence in delivering care that addresses the spiritual dimension of nursing care. These methods include a spiritual simulation, interrupting the simulation at the midway point to introduce Key Phrases and Caring Behaviors©, then restarting the simulation as the students practice implementing the new information into the simulation. Learn from the authors by watch the video and reading the article.

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Appreciative Advising in Nursing Education

Creator: Aggie Read

Duration: 3:00

Academic advising is an important faculty responsibility in nursing education. Through advising, faculty provide academic guidance and emotional support, which enables nursing students to make a smooth transition through their educational and career experiences. Faculty at Vanderbilt University School of Nursing recently implemented an academic advising structure centered on the Appreciative Advising model. Appreciative Advising emphasizes building rapport through mindful listening, encouragement, and positivity. Learn more about this model in the video and be sure to read the article.

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Applying Integrative Learning Strategies and Complexity Theory to Design Simulations for Care of Complex Patients

Creator: Karen Dunn and Cheryl Riley-Doucet

Duration: 6:42

In this video the authors discuss how they used integrative learning strategies and complexity theory in designing complex simulations for students. The simulation scenarios were role played by the students, which enabled them to verbalize therapeutic communication skills, practice technical skills, and use their knowledge of physical and mental health symptoms to portray a patient with these comorbidities. The student-led simulation scenarios were evaluated to determine if the participants perceived them to be an effective and important simulation learning experience.

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Transforming Nursing Education with Apple Technology

Creator: Angela Clark

Duration: 3:51

The widespread adoption of technology has the potential to redefine nursing education. Currently, there is limited knowledge of how to implement technological advancements in nursing curricula. The iPad opens the classroom experience to resources and learning opportunities for students. Facilitating the culture change required to adopt the iPad as a teaching and learning tool requires a supportive vision, strong leadership, commitment to provide adequate technological support, early adopters, and planning. Learn how this faculty integrated Apple technology throughout their nursing program: watch the video and be sure to read the article.

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Virtually Nursing: Emerging Technologies in Nursing Education

Creator: Cynthia L. Foronda, PhD, RN, CNE, ANEF

Duration: 6:29

Augmented reality and virtual simulation technologies in nursing education are burgeoning. Technologies present opportunities to improve teaching efforts, better engage students, and transform nursing education. This video and article present newly emerged products and systems that nurse educators should know about.

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Content Validation of a QSEN Based Clinical Evaluation Instrument

Creator: Gerry Altmiller

Duration: 3:38

Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) has been prominent in nursing education for 10 years. Since its inception, faculty have used the QSEN competencies as a framework for developing teaching strategies and tools, but there are few findings available to support this practice. In this video and article, Dr. Altmiller describes the process of developing a QSEN-based clinical evaluation instrument for a prelicensure nursing program and establishing content validation for its items.

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Use of a Needs Assessment in the Development of an Interprofessional Faculty Development Program

Creator: Jeri L. Bigbee, PhD, RN

Duration: 3:12

A needs assessment was conducted regarding an interprofessional faculty development program. Nursing and medical faculty and administrators (N = 156) were surveyed. The results indicated strong support for the program, particularly related to teaching/learning strategies, leadership, and scholarship. Nursing faculty rated some topical areas significantly higher than did the medical faculty, including innovative classroom teaching, educational technology, interprofessional education, diversity/inclusion, and mentoring graduate students. After watching this video make sure you read the article to learn more about this interprofessonal faculty development program.

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Using Metacognitive Wrappers to Help Students Enhance Their Prioritization and Test Taking Skills

Creator: Dr. Melissa L. Mastorovich and Dr. Susan G. Poorman

Duration: 4:05

Metacognitive wrappers help students examine how they think. Wrappers are brief metacognitive activities that guide students’ learning from lectures, online classes, and readings. Students can use these wrappers to prepare for tests including the NCLEX. Watch this video from the experts in this teaching strategy and follow up by reading the article.

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Transforming the Classroom with Tablet Technology

Creator: Lana Sargent

Duration: 5:46

Identifying the most effective models for integrating new technology into the classroom and understanding its effects on learning outcomes are essential for nurse educators. In this video and article, the authors describe how they integrated iPads into the nursing program using an innovative case-based learning model. Students reported positive outcomes when using tablet technology for learning course content.

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Engaging Nursing Students in an Edible Pharmacological Concepts Lesson: Cookies in the Curriculum

Creator: Brenda Leda Quinn

Duration: 2:27

In this video abstract and article, the author describes an innovative, yet low-technology approach, to using edible curriculum aids to engage students in active learning during a lesson related to foundational pharmacological concepts. The specific concept taught through the use of food as a curriculum aid was drug half-life.

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Statewide RN to BSN Consortium's Use of the Electronic Portfolio to Demonstrate Student Competency: Part 1. Use of e-Portfolios

Creator: Marcia Laux

Duration: 3:18

In a large online RN to BSN program, faculty embraced the use of electronic portfolios (e-portfolios) for documenting student assignments and learning, overall program evaluation, and student professional development. Watch this video to learn about e-portfolios and how the faculty used them for program evaluation. Make sure you read the article and watch the second video about this article.

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Development and Implementation of a Capstone Objective Structured Clinical Examination in Nurse Practitioner and Nurse Midwifery Programs

Creator: Mary Benbenek

Duration: 3:01

Determining when advanced practice registered nurse students are safe and competent for beginning-level practice is challenging. In this video Dr. Benbenek describes the development and testing of a capstone objective structured clinical examination designed to evaluate the practice readiness of students enrolled in the family, adult-gerontology, women's health nurse practitioner, and nurse-midwifery tracks. This is a must-read article.

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Student Engagement in Online Nursing Courses

Creator: Debbie Hampton, FACHE

Duration: 2:15

If you are teaching online, make sure you watch this video and read the full article. This study aimed to determine the level of engagement of registered nurse (RN) to Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN), Master of Science in Nursing (MSN), and Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) nursing students enrolled in online nursing degree programs and to understand whether there are generational differences in level of student engagement. Significant differences were noted for engagement level between generations of students, but no significant difference was noted in the engagement level of students from RN to BSN, MSN, or DNP programs.

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Writing Project: A Successful Academic-Community Partnership

Creator: Kimberly A. Noble, MBA, BSN, RN
Coleen E. Toronto, PhD, RN, CNE

Duration: 3:50

The author describes a community partnership that includes a writing-for-publication health promotion activity for RN-BS students enrolled in a population health nursing course. The faculty member for the course contacted the Youth Health Connection (YHC) program coordinator to inquire about the possibility for student-authored article submissions in the YHC e-newsletter. This outreach began a unique educational partnership that affords RN-BS nursing students the opportunity to author health promotion articles and has led to other initiatives between the health system and nursing department.

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Nursing and Theatre: Teaching Ethics through the Arts

Creator: Jennifer J. Coleman, PhD

Duration: 3:24

Are you struggling with how to prepare prelicensure nursing students with the ethical and moral decision-making skills they will need as nurses? This article describes the use of theater as one approach to teaching nursing ethics. Students perform as actors, directors, and discussion leaders in a series of simulated ethical scenarios designed to encourage individual accountability and responsibility for action.

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Linking Root Cause Analysis to Practice Using Problem Based Learning

Creator: Mikel W Hand, EdD, RN, OCN, NE-BC, NEA-BC

Duration: 9:47

Nurses and other health care professionals need to understand methods for analyzing medical errors to prevent them from recurring in the future. One widely used process to examine errors is root cause analysis (RCA). The authors describe their approach to engage nursing students in RCA using problem-based learning. Students conduct a mock RCA based on an actual medical error reported either in the media or literature. The cases used for the RCA are selected by the students based on their particular area of interest. Watch this video and make sure you read the article.

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ABCDs of Professional Introductions: Teaching Nursing Students the Most Fundamental of All Communication Skills

Creator: Mary Ellen Burke, MS, RN, CNM
Raeann G. Leblanc, DNP, CNP-BC, ANP-BC
Elizabeth A. Henneman, PhD, RN, CCNS, FAAN

Duration: 3:38

Communication skills are essential to providing quality care to patients and families and interacting with nurses and other health care professionals. Nurse educators are responsible for preparing students to appropriately engage in the communication process. The authors describe a simple approach for teaching nursing students the basics (ABCDs) of a professional introduction. You can use these guidelines in a simulation or clinical setting. Watch the video and learn more about the ABCDs of professional introductions by reading the article.

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The Empathy Enigma: Does It Still Exist? Comparison of Empathy Using Students and Standardized Actors

Creator: Julia Ward, PhD, RN

Duration: 3:12

Empathy is at the heart of all nurse-patient interactions. Yet empathy often declines during the student’s nursing program. Julia Ward reports on her mixed-methods study to assess whether an educational intervention using standardized actors could prevent the decline of students’ empathy. Watch this video and be sure to read the full article: her educational intervention holds much potential for improving empathy in nursing students.

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Twitter: An Application to Encourage Information Seeking

Creator: Julie Waldrop, DNP, FAANP
Diane Wink, EdD, FAANP

Duration: 5:43

Twitter is a social networking application that has seen limited evaluation in nursing education. In this project students used Twitter to receive tweets on clinical and professional topics from the instructor throughout the semester: 75% demonstrated willingness to follow the links in the tweets to seek more information, and 87% expressed a desire to receive the tweets even after the semester was over. Watch this video and read the article to learn how you can use Twitter in your courses and get ideas about evaluating its outcomes.

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Outcomes of a Bystander Intervention Community Health Service Learning Project

Creator: Kim Decker, PhD, RN, CNS
Desiree Hensel, PhD, RN, PCNS-BC, CNE
Leslie Fasone, EdS, MS

Duration: 3:52

Watch this video and read the article to learn how the faculty integrated a college bystander intervention service-learning project into an entry-level community clinical course. Two years of data showed that students helped improve campus safety. They also developed as professionals. Approximately one-third of the students described a specific incident in which they intervened in the situation.

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Strategies for Providing Constructive Feedback to Students

Creator: Gerry Altmiller, EdD, APRN, ACNS-BC

Duration: 3:16

Dr. Altmiller explains the importance of feedback in student learning. She shares best practices and strategies for giving constructive feedback to students. Whether you are a novice or an experienced teacher, you will learn from this video and her article.

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Authentic Engagement in High-Enrollment Graduate Courses: Pathophysiology Consumers Become Content Creators

Creator: Jodi McDaniel, PhD, RN
Joni Tornwall, Med, RN

Duration: 5:37

The challenge to educate increasing numbers of nursing students at all levels in both online and in-class environments calls for innovative instructional strategies that may include technology-based assignments. These authors describe a case study assignment developed for a graduate-level pathophysiology course that required students to create digitally enhanced patient stories. Nursing students enrolled in the online and in-class sections of the course worked together using commonly available learning technology tools to create content that bridged pathophysiology concepts and clinical practice.

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Empathy Development through Case Study and Simulation

Creator: Heidi Mennenga, PhD, RN
Susan Bassett, MS, RN, CNE

Duration: 3:42

In an effort to create an interactive cultural opportunity for nursing students, Dr. Mennenga created a unique clinical experience by “matching” nursing with international students located on the same college campus. Watch this video and read the article to learn about this creative, inexpensive approach to providing a cultural clinical experience for nursing students. using resources on one’s very own campus.

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Reverse Engineering: Strategy to Teach Evidence-Based Practice to Online RN-BSN Students

Creator: Jodie Gary, PhD, RN

Duration: 3:03

Learn about reverse engineering and how the faculty used it to introduce RN to BSN students to nursing research and evidence-based practice (EBP). Reverse engineering of a nursing practice guideline offered a method for teaching these students an appreciation of research and supporting nursing practice with best evidence.

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Improving Adjunct Nursing Instructors' Knowledge of Student Assessment in Clinical Courses

Creator: Kelly Vowell Johnson, EdD, RN

Duration: 3:17

Many schools of nursing use adjunct and part time nurse educators to teach clinical courses. Dr. Johnson reports on the outcomes of a faculty development workshop to prepare these educators for evaluating their students in the clinical setting. The instructors valued using a student-oriented learning outline, gained knowledge about assessment, and indicated they would engage in activities to increase their knowledge of assessment. Watch this video and read Dr. Johnson’s article to gain some tips for preparing clinical educators in your nursing program.

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Reverse Case Study: A New Perspective on an Existing Teaching Strategy

Creator: Benjamin Smallheer

Duration: 2:45

The reverse case study is different from a traditional unfolding case, in which a single scenario is presented. A reverse case study incorporates students into the development of the scenario and decisions about details of the case. Learn more about this teaching method and how Dr. Smallheer uses it in his teaching.

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Differences in Drinking Patterns between Female Nursing and Non-Nursing Students

Creator: Desiree Hensel

Duration: 2:45

This study compared the drinking patterns of 123 female nursing students with those of 185 female students of other majors enrolled beyond the freshman year at a large public university. High-risk drinking patterns did not vary significantly between the 2 groups, suggesting that students' drinking patterns reflected the norms of their institution. Prevention strategies geared at campus culture and that target students still enrolled in prerequisites may be needed to reduce alcohol abuse in nursing students.

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Hybrid and Flipped Strategies in a Blended RN-BSN Program: Determining Student and Faculty Perceptions

Creator: Theresa Buxton

Duration: 2:27

The author describes the process used to develop the RN-BSN program with a hybrid and flipped format. The faculty integrated many innovative teaching methods in the new program, and both students and faculty were satisfied with it.

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Teaching Strategies to Increase Cultural Awareness in Nursing Students

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Duration: 3:23

Dr. Lonneman describes 6 teaching strategies for raising nursing students? cultural awareness, a key aspect of cultural competence. In the article he also reports on the effectiveness of an educational intervention he developed using these strategies.

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Nursing Students' Attitudes Toward Poverty: Does Experiential Learning Make a Difference?

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Duration: 3:00

The number of people living in poverty is growing, and it is important for nursing students to understand issues of social justice. Undergraduate nursing students completed the Attitude Toward Poverty-Short Form to determine if an experiential activity changed their attitudes from a behavioral to a structural perspective of poverty. Participants in the experimental group demonstrated a more structural perspective of poverty than did those in the control group. The author identifies implications for teaching nursing students.

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Operationalizing the Student Electronic Portfolio for Doctoral Nursing Education

Creator: Melissa Ann Willmarth-Stec

Duration: 1:16

E-portfolios can provide documentation of competencies and achievement of program outcomes while showcasing the student’s achievement. Implementation of the e-portfolio requires careful decision making about software selection, set up, portfolio components, and evaluation. The authors describe the implementation of an e-portfolio in a DNP program and provide lessons learned during the implementation stage.

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Nursing Education Progression: Associate Degree Nursing Faculty Perspectives

Creator: Dale O’Neal, MSN, MSEd, RN
Meg Zomorodi, PhD, RN, CNL
Jennie Wagner, EdD, RN, IBCLC

Duration: 3:23

The author discusses the attitudes, influences, and practices of associate degree nursing (ADN) faculty in relation to advising students about nursing education progression. ADN faculty have a sense of moral and personal responsibility to encourage students to continue their education. Lack of faculty knowledge of program details and multiple demands on their time influence their advising practices.

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Implementing Collaborative Learning in Prelicensure Nursing Curricula: Student Perceptions and Learning Outcomes

Creator: Anne M. Schoening, PhD, RN, CNE
Other Authors: M. Susan Selde, MS
Joely T. Goodman, MSN, RN
Joyce C. Tow, PhD(c), APRN-WHNP-BC
Cindy L. Selig, DNP, APRN, RNC-OB, CPLC
Chris Wichman, PhD
Amy Cosimano, EdD, RN

Duration: 3:39

This study evaluated learning outcomes and student perceptions of collaborative learning in an undergraduate nursing program. Participants in this 3-phase action research study included students enrolled in a traditional and an accelerated nursing program. The number of students who passed the unit examination was not significantly different between the 3 phases. Students had positive and negative perceptions about the use of collaborative learning.

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Interprofessional Education Activity among Undergraduate Nursing and Pharmacy Students in the Middle East

Creator: Kerry Wilbur
Zohra Hasnani-Samnani

Duration: 3:50

Over the past decade, Qatar has invested heavily in both health and educational infrastructure, leading to new education programs for health care providers, including nursing and pharmacy. As these curricula emerge, there is a unique opportunity to develop and incorporate interprofessional health education within this specific cultural context. The authors describe an interprofessional education initiative between the nursing and pharmacy education programs in Qatar.

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Predictors of Successful Clinical Performance in Associate Degree Nursing Students

Creator: Eileen Rice, PhD, RN

Duration: 4:09

This study explored self-efficacy and emotional intelligence (EI) as predictors for successful clinical performance in nursing students. Students (n = 56) from 5 associate degree in nursing schools in 2 Northeastern states participated in the study. There were significant relationships among EI, self-efficacy, and student-rated clinical competence. The findings from this study support the importance of fostering clinical self-efficacy and building EI abilities in nursing students.

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Cultivating a Culture of Medication Safety in Prelicensure Nursing Students

Creator: Peggy A. Bush, PhD, RPh,

Duration: 2:38

Safety education in nursing has traditionally focused at the level of individual nurse-patient interactions. Students and novice clinicians lack clinical experience to create context and understand the complexity of the health care system and safety science. Using the QSEN quality and safety competency as a framework, the objective of this education project was to design comprehensive, engaging, learner-centered, online modules that increase knowledge, skills and attitudes about medication safety.

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Institutional Support for Diverse Populations: Perceptions of Hispanic and African-American Students and Program Faculty

Creator: Mary Lou Bond, PhD, RN, CNE, ANEF, FAAN
Carolyn L. Cason, PhD, RN
Susan M. Baxley, PhD, RN

Duration: 3:44

This article reports the results of a survey of 90 minority students, 80 faculty members, and 31 administrators from schools of nursing in Texas to determine perceived barriers and needed supports for program completion. The findings provide a baseline for making improvements in and establishing best practices for minority student recruitment and retention.

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Using Gagne's 9 Events of Instruction to Enhance Student Performance and Course Evaluations in Undergraduate Nursing Course

Creator: Amy Miner, MSN, RN
Jennifer Mallow, PhD, FNP-BC
Laurie Ann Theeke, PhD, FNP-BC
Emily Barnes, DNP, FNP-BC

Duration: 3:46

Teaching large numbers of students can be a challenge for both teachers and students. This article presents the impact of using Gagne's 9 events of instruction on student learning and course evaluations over a 3-semester period. Student evaluations indicated enhanced teacher mastery, effectiveness, and enthusiasm.

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Simulation: Rehearsing Lines or Clinical Reasoning?

Creator: Rene Ridley, PhD, RN

Duration: 3:43

Simulations give students an opportunity to be part of an unknown experience, similar to a movie goer’s first exposure to a popular movie. While students are encouraged to withhold their experience from other students so that all can benefit from the impact of new learning opportunities, reality tells us that students typically share simulation “spoilers.” In an attempt to give a fresh opportunity for students to “watch the movie without reading the book or synopsis,” the author directed the standardized patient in the simulation to go in a new direction.

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Implementing High Fidelity Simulations with Large Groups of Nursing Students

Creator: Barbara Hooper, DNP, MSN, RN, NE-BC

Duration: 4:26

Simulations are conducted typically with a small group of students. This article describes the process for implementing 6 high-fidelity simulations with a large group of nursing students.

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Using High-Fidelity Simulation in an Undergraduate Intensive Care Course for Nursing Students in Turkey

Creator: Aysel Badir, PhD, RN

Duration: 3:33

Using high-fidelity simulations to facilitate student learning is an uncommon practice in Turkish nursing programs. The aim of this study was to understand students’ perceptions of the use of simulation in nursing. This study revealed that high-fidelity simulation is an ideal method of promoting learning by helping students transfer theory into practice, build confidence and teamwork, and raise professional awareness.

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Flipping the Classroom with Team-Based Learning in Undergraduate Nursing Education

Creator: Carol Della Ratta, RN MS CCRN

Duration: 3:48

Learn about using team-based learning within a flipped classroom. Students used classroom time to solve problems while developing professional competencies.

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Infusing Interprofessional Education into the Nursing Curriculum

Creator: Joan Sistrunk Cranford, EdD, RN, and Theresa Bates, MSN, RN

Duration: 3:29

Education for interprofessional collaboration should begin early in the nursing program with a gradual infusion of interprofessional competencies into the curriculum. The faculty developed a program for students in nursing, physical therapy, nutrition, and respiratory care. Learn more about their program and the process they used to develop it.

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Time to Adjust: Team-Based Learning 2 Years Later

Creator: Heidi A. Mennenga

Duration: 4:37

The author transitioned her community health nursing course from traditional lecture to team-based learning (TBL). She describes the implementation of TBL over a 2-year period. Read the full article in the March/April 2015 issue of Nurse Educator.

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Teaching Students to work with Vulnerable Populations through a Patient Advocacy Course

Creator: Janet R. Beulow

Duration: 4:27

In their study in the September/October 2014 issue of Nurse Educator, Meghan L. Bell and Janet R. Beulow describe how a patient advocacy service-learning course increased nursing students’ awareness and proficiency in working with the challenges faced by low-income, vulnerable individuals as they attempt to improve their lives and health.

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Digital Storytelling: An Innovative Technological Approach to Nursing Education

Creator: Deborah M. Price, DNP, RN
Linda Strodtman, PhD, RN
Elizabeth Brough, PhD, RN

Duration: 2:36

Students (N = 134) created a 5-minute narrated digital story using VoiceThread technology. Through the writing and sharing of digital stories, they embraced the personal and complex nature of palliative care.

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Integrating an Academic Electronic Health Record in a Nursing Program: Creating a Sense of Urgency and Sustaining Change

Creator: Jennifer L. Titzer and Constance F. Swenty

Duration: 4:13

Nurse educators recognize the need for deliberate and strategic integration of informatics in nursing programs. In this video Jennifer L. Titzer and Constance F. Swenty describe how their faculty integrated an academic electronic health record into the curriculum using Kotter’s framework. This video and article in our Technology Corner in the September/October 2014 issue provide guidelines for you to use in your own nursing programs.

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Longitudinal Study of Stress, Self-care, and Professional Identity among Nursing Students

Creator: Desiree Hensel, PhD, RN

Duration: 3:23

An important outcome of nursing education is the acquisition of an identity consistent with the profession’s core knowledge, skills, values, and attitudes. Hensel and Laux conducted a longitudinal study to describe factors associated with the acquisition of a professional identity over the course of prelicensure education. Learn more about this important study in the September/October 2014 issue of Nurse Educator (39:5).

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Learning Repository to Share Resources among Nursing Faculty

Creator: Suhasini Kotcherlakota, Ph.D.

Duration: 2:39

The authors developed a learning repository website for sharing exemplar teaching strategies and collaborating among faculty. They demonstrate their website in this video. Read the >article for free.

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