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Virtually Nursing: Emerging Technologies in Nursing Education

Video Author: Cynthia L. Foronda, PhD, RN, CNE, ANEF
Published on: 01.18.2017
Associated with: Nurse Educator. 42(1):14-17, January/February 2017

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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Co-creating Partnership Agreements With Students

Creator: Kimberly Belcik, PhD

Duration: 2:43

Learn how to co-create a true partnership with your students in this video. Dr. Belcik explains the rationale for partnerships and her use of them in her teaching.

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Threshold Concepts in Doctoral Education: A Framework for Writing Development in Novice Nurse Scientists

Creator: Deborah E. Tyndall, PhD, RN, Nicole I. Caswell, PhD

Duration: 02:49

Pedagogical practices for writing development in doctoral programs are often the by-product of completing dissertation research. Students would benefit from deliberate strategies to assist them in developing their writing skills. In this video and article, the authors share their framework for doctoral education to assist students with mastery of threshold concepts in writing. Threshold concepts in writing are examined for their applicability to the evolution of writing in PhD nursing students as they begin to think and write like nurse scientists.

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Online Clinical Post Conference: Strategies for Meaningful Discussion Using VoiceThread

Creator: Jaime Hannans, RN, PHD, CNE

Duration: 1:42

Dr Hannans developed an innovative approach to clinical post conferences, offering them online using VoiceThread after the clinical practicum. This innovation provides time for student reflection, while retaining the value of facial cues, tone, and peer-peer connections occurring during traditional face-to-face conference. Make time to watch this video and read the article.

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Practical Nurses' Lived Experience of Returning to School

Creator: Kathryn Chachula, RN, MN, PhD(c)

Duration: 5:06

The lived experience of licensed practical nurses (LPNs) pursuing Bachelor of Nursing (BN) degrees is not commonly studied in Canada. The goal of this study was to understand the transition experience of LPNs who bridged into a BN program. The authors found 5 themes: seeking advancement; stepping back into the student role; juggling work, school, and family; struggling to be understood; and seeing things differently. LPN-to-BN students would benefit from a stand-alone bridge course to situate them within the BN program. Learn more about this study in the video and article.

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Concept-Based Curricula: A National Study of Critical Concepts

Creator: Jennifer Brussow, Karin Roberts, Sheryl Sommer, Matthew Scaruto, and Christine Mills

Duration: 3:27

Many nursing programs have adopted or are transitioning to a concept-based curriculum (CBC). The authors conducted a national study to develop a list of concepts and exemplars for a CBC. They share their findings and present a leveled approach to positioning exemplars within the curriculum. The authors discuss the findings in this video. Their article is Open Access so read and share with your faculty and colleagues.

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Effects of a Cognitive Behavioral-based Stress Management Program on Stress Management Competency, Self-Efficacy and Self-Esteem Experienced by Nursing Students

Creator: Ulrik Terp, MSc, Fredrik Hjärthag, PhD, and Birgitta Bisholt, PhD, RN

Duration: 2:45

Nursing students’ exposure to stress negatively affects both academic and clinical performance. The authors describe their study of the effects of a 10-week cognitive behavioral therapy–based stress management program. There were positive effects of the training program compared with a control group. Students’ perceived stress management competency, self-efficacy, and self-esteem were higher 1 year after the intervention. Don’t miss seeing this video and reading the article.

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Preceptorship in a Nurse Practitioner Program: The Student Perspective

Creator: Karen Poole and Karen McQueen

Duration: 4:56

There has been limited evaluation of preceptorship with nurse practitioner (NP) students. The authors conducted a study to learn about the preceptorship experience from the perspective of NP students. Watch this video and read the article to learn about this study and how you can improve the preceptorship experiences for NP students.

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Writing Journal Articles: Tips for your Success Series Video 1: Getting Started: Purpose, Readers, Selecting a Journal

Creator: Marilyn Oermann

Duration: 20:20

This is the first video in our writing for publication series. The purpose of the manuscript and intended readers guide your selection of a journal for submission. Learn about directories of nursing and other journals and sending a query email.

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Writing Journal Articles: Tips for your Success Series Video 2: Next Steps: Manuscript Format and Content

Creator: Marilyn Oermann

Duration: 15:58

This is the 2nd video in our writing for publication series. Learn about the journal’s Information for Authors and why important, formats for writing different types of manuscripts (research reports, reviews, quality improvement, and educational topics), and reporting guidelines. References and tables/figures also are discussed.

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Writing Journal Articles: Tips for your Success Series Video 3: Submission, Responding to Reviews, and Other Tips

Creator: Marilyn Oermann

Duration: 32:35

This is the final video in our writing for publication series. In this video you will get some additional tips on writing your manuscript and will learn about peer review and responding to reviewers’ comments. Other topics include authorship criteria, copyright, open access, and avoiding “predatory journals.”

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The Art of Pharmacology: Creative Study Guide Posters

Creator: Brenna Quinn, PhD, RN, NCSN, CNE

Duration: 1:17

Pharmacology is often a challenging course for nursing students. Nurse educators may find study guide posters as a valuable activity to help students learn about medications and as a teaching method that is easy to implement. Students develop posters to display sample medication names, indications for use, mechanism of action, side effects, and patient teaching points/nursing considerations. They include at least 1 poem, 1 acronym, and 1 drawing to convey the drug information. Learn more about this teaching strategy by watching the video and reading the teaching tip.

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Multiple Patient Simulation: An Exemplar for Designing an Effective Experience

Creator: Nancy Sullivan, DNP, RN

Duration: 5:08

The use of the multiple patient simulation (MPS) has grown in nursing education as a strategy to help close the education-practice gap and better prepare students for the reality of hospital practice. Watch this video to learn how the faculty implemented a MPS experience for students. Also read the article where they explain the design/timing, type and number of patient cases, scheduling, faculty resources, and setting. This MPS experience was originally developed for a group of 125 nursing students but can be modified for larger or smaller groups, and can be used with new graduate orientation to the work setting.

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Crowdfunding Platforms for Nursing Research

Creator: Amanda Hopkins, PhD, RN and Wendy Kooken, PhD, RN

Duration: 1:49

Funding for nursing education research is scarce. One alternate means of funding is through crowdfunding. Crowdfunding is a general term for obtaining monetary donations from many people for a variety of reasons. In this video learn how these nurse educators engaged in a successful, donation-based crowdfunding project to fund their nursing education study.

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Academic-Practice Partnerships to Reduce the Shortage of Operating Room Nurses

Creator: Linda Plank, PhD, RN, NEA-BC

Duration: 4:52

The operating room (OR) is a unique practice environment for nurses; however, many nursing programs no longer include OR nursing in the curriculum. This is unfortunate because ORs in the U.S. are experiencing shortages of nurses. Watch this video to learn how this school provided learning experiences in the OR for students through an academic-practice partnership. In the article Dr Plank also discusses varies types of OR experiences for students that schools might consider.

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Teaching Tip: Reviewing Prior Cardiac Knowledge Using the Headbands Game

Creator: Michelle Kaulback, EdD, MSN, FNP-BC

Duration: 1:57

To prepare students for a discussion of cardiac conditions, the instructor reviews content through the Headbands Game. Students are divided into teams of 4 prior to the class. PowerPoint slides were created with a variety of cardiac medication classifications, heart valves, heart chambers, and cardiac electrical pathways. One word pertaining to the cardiac content is placed on each slide, automatically timed to advance after 15 seconds. One student from each team sits in front of the screen facing their teammates. Teammates describe the word using clues. Interested in learning more about the Headbands Game and seeing students play it? Watch this video now.

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Peer Teaching in High Fidelity Simulation: Participant Experiences and Reflections

Creator: Martha Kay Lawrence, PhD, RN

Duration: 2:50

Peer teaching provides students with opportunities to experience the educator role and increase their self-confidence and problem-solving skills. To address the shortage of meaningful leadership experiences for senior nursing students, faculty implemented an alternative leadership experience involving senior students taking on the role of peer teachers in the simulation laboratory. Learn more about this innovative peer teaching strategy: watch the video and then read the full article.

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Using the Levels of Sickness Teaching Strategy to Engage Students in Recognizing Clinical Deterioration

Creator: Diane Toto, RN, MSN

Duration: 4:21

Students lack experience in making connections between signs and symptoms and the patient’s acuity level. Many students fail to notice when a patient is deteriorating. The Levels of Sickness Teaching Strategy helps students recognize clinical deterioration in a timely manner by understanding the meaning of a wide range of signs and symptoms. This teaching strategy, referred to as the Sick tool, can be used in the classroom, simulation, and clinical settings. Learn about this strategy by watching this video and reading the article.

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An Innovative End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium Curriculum that Prepares Nursing Students to Provide Primary Palliative Care

Creator: Polly Mazanec, PhD

Duration: 6:02

Patients facing serious, life-limiting illnesses and their families benefit from receiving palliative care. Prelicensure nursing students can be educated to provide this primary care to patients. Dr. Mazanec describes the development and implementation of the ELNEC (End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium) curriculum, an innovative online curriculum that prepares students with essential primary palliative nursing knowledge and skills. After watching this video, be sure to read the article, which provides resources you can use in your own nursing program.

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Successful Pairing of Deliberate Practice with Reciprocal Peer Teaching

Creator: Kristin Maynard, MSN, APRN, FNP-BC

Duration: 2:50

If you teach skills to nursing students, do not miss this video and the related Teaching Tip: the author describes the learning activity she developed to teach suturing to nurse practitioner students. Deliberate practice was paired with reciprocal peer teaching (RPT) to produce an environment of active learning while achieving the learning objectives. Principles of deliberate practice do not require the instructor be the one providing the feedback. With this in mind, students observed and assisted each other in the process of skill acquisition. RPT promotes increased student engagement by assigning the students an active role in the learning activity.

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Evaluating the Clinical Judgment of Prelicensure Nursing Students in the Clinical Setting

Creator: Wendy Manetti, PhD, RN, CRNP

Duration: 3:48

Assessing clinical judgment for safe nursing practice is a challenge. The author used the Lasater Clinical Judgment Rubric (LCJR) to evaluate clinical judgment of junior and senior nursing students in the clinical setting. Juniors demonstrated an accomplished level on the total scale and all 4 subscales, whereas seniors had exemplary clinical judgment on the total scale and 3 of 4 subscales. Learn more about this study from the author’s video and article.

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Online Clinical Post Conference: Strategies for Meaningful Discussion Using VoiceThread

Creator: Jaime Hannans, RN, PHD, CNE

Duration: 1:42

Dr Hannans developed an innovative approach to clinical post conferences, offering them online using VoiceThread after the clinical practicum. This innovation provides time for student reflection, while retaining the value of facial cues, tone, and peer-peer connections occurring during traditional face-to-face conference. Make time to watch this video and read the article.

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Practical Nurses' Lived Experience of Returning to School

Creator: Kathryn Chachula, RN, MN, PhD(c)

Duration: 5:06

The lived experience of licensed practical nurses (LPNs) pursuing Bachelor of Nursing (BN) degrees is not commonly studied in Canada. The goal of this study was to understand the transition experience of LPNs who bridged into a BN program. The authors found 5 themes: seeking advancement; stepping back into the student role; juggling work, school, and family; struggling to be understood; and seeing things differently. LPN-to-BN students would benefit from a stand-alone bridge course to situate them within the BN program. Learn more about this study in the video and article.

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Concept-Based Curricula: A National Study of Critical Concepts

Creator: Jennifer Brussow, Karin Roberts, Sheryl Sommer, Matthew Scaruto, and Christine Mills

Duration: 3:27

Many nursing programs have adopted or are transitioning to a concept-based curriculum (CBC). The authors conducted a national study to develop a list of concepts and exemplars for a CBC. They share their findings and present a leveled approach to positioning exemplars within the curriculum. The authors discuss the findings in this video. Their article is Open Access so read and share with your faculty and colleagues.

Play Video | + Favorites

Effects of a Cognitive Behavioral-based Stress Management Program on Stress Management Competency, Self-Efficacy and Self-Esteem Experienced by Nursing Students

Creator: Ulrik Terp, MSc, Fredrik Hjärthag, PhD, and Birgitta Bisholt, PhD, RN

Duration: 2:45

Nursing students’ exposure to stress negatively affects both academic and clinical performance. The authors describe their study of the effects of a 10-week cognitive behavioral therapy–based stress management program. There were positive effects of the training program compared with a control group. Students’ perceived stress management competency, self-efficacy, and self-esteem were higher 1 year after the intervention. Don’t miss seeing this video and reading the article.

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Preceptorship in a Nurse Practitioner Program: The Student Perspective

Creator: Karen Poole and Karen McQueen

Duration: 4:56

There has been limited evaluation of preceptorship with nurse practitioner (NP) students. The authors conducted a study to learn about the preceptorship experience from the perspective of NP students. Watch this video and read the article to learn about this study and how you can improve the preceptorship experiences for NP students.

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Writing Journal Articles: Tips for your Success Series Video 1: Getting Started: Purpose, Readers, Selecting a Journal

Creator: Marilyn Oermann

Duration: 20:20

This is the first video in our writing for publication series. The purpose of the manuscript and intended readers guide your selection of a journal for submission. Learn about directories of nursing and other journals and sending a query email.

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Writing Journal Articles: Tips for your Success Series Video 2: Next Steps: Manuscript Format and Content

Creator: Marilyn Oermann

Duration: 15:58

This is the 2nd video in our writing for publication series. Learn about the journal’s Information for Authors and why important, formats for writing different types of manuscripts (research reports, reviews, quality improvement, and educational topics), and reporting guidelines. References and tables/figures also are discussed.

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Writing Journal Articles: Tips for your Success Series Video 3: Submission, Responding to Reviews, and Other Tips

Creator: Marilyn Oermann

Duration: 32:35

This is the final video in our writing for publication series. In this video you will get some additional tips on writing your manuscript and will learn about peer review and responding to reviewers’ comments. Other topics include authorship criteria, copyright, open access, and avoiding “predatory journals.”

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The Art of Pharmacology: Creative Study Guide Posters

Creator: Brenna Quinn, PhD, RN, NCSN, CNE

Duration: 1:17

Pharmacology is often a challenging course for nursing students. Nurse educators may find study guide posters as a valuable activity to help students learn about medications and as a teaching method that is easy to implement. Students develop posters to display sample medication names, indications for use, mechanism of action, side effects, and patient teaching points/nursing considerations. They include at least 1 poem, 1 acronym, and 1 drawing to convey the drug information. Learn more about this teaching strategy by watching the video and reading the teaching tip.

Play Video | + Favorites

Multiple Patient Simulation: An Exemplar for Designing an Effective Experience

Creator: Nancy Sullivan, DNP, RN

Duration: 5:08

The use of the multiple patient simulation (MPS) has grown in nursing education as a strategy to help close the education-practice gap and better prepare students for the reality of hospital practice. Watch this video to learn how the faculty implemented a MPS experience for students. Also read the article where they explain the design/timing, type and number of patient cases, scheduling, faculty resources, and setting. This MPS experience was originally developed for a group of 125 nursing students but can be modified for larger or smaller groups, and can be used with new graduate orientation to the work setting.

Play Video | + Favorites

Crowdfunding Platforms for Nursing Research

Creator: Amanda Hopkins, PhD, RN and Wendy Kooken, PhD, RN

Duration: 1:49

Funding for nursing education research is scarce. One alternate means of funding is through crowdfunding. Crowdfunding is a general term for obtaining monetary donations from many people for a variety of reasons. In this video learn how these nurse educators engaged in a successful, donation-based crowdfunding project to fund their nursing education study.

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Academic-Practice Partnerships to Reduce the Shortage of Operating Room Nurses

Creator: Linda Plank, PhD, RN, NEA-BC

Duration: 4:52

The operating room (OR) is a unique practice environment for nurses; however, many nursing programs no longer include OR nursing in the curriculum. This is unfortunate because ORs in the U.S. are experiencing shortages of nurses. Watch this video to learn how this school provided learning experiences in the OR for students through an academic-practice partnership. In the article Dr Plank also discusses varies types of OR experiences for students that schools might consider.

Play Video | + Favorites

Teaching Tip: Reviewing Prior Cardiac Knowledge Using the Headbands Game

Creator: Michelle Kaulback, EdD, MSN, FNP-BC

Duration: 1:57

To prepare students for a discussion of cardiac conditions, the instructor reviews content through the Headbands Game. Students are divided into teams of 4 prior to the class. PowerPoint slides were created with a variety of cardiac medication classifications, heart valves, heart chambers, and cardiac electrical pathways. One word pertaining to the cardiac content is placed on each slide, automatically timed to advance after 15 seconds. One student from each team sits in front of the screen facing their teammates. Teammates describe the word using clues. Interested in learning more about the Headbands Game and seeing students play it? Watch this video now.

Play Video | + Favorites

Peer Teaching in High Fidelity Simulation: Participant Experiences and Reflections

Creator: Martha Kay Lawrence, PhD, RN

Duration: 2:50

Peer teaching provides students with opportunities to experience the educator role and increase their self-confidence and problem-solving skills. To address the shortage of meaningful leadership experiences for senior nursing students, faculty implemented an alternative leadership experience involving senior students taking on the role of peer teachers in the simulation laboratory. Learn more about this innovative peer teaching strategy: watch the video and then read the full article.

Play Video | + Favorites

An Innovative End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium Curriculum that Prepares Nursing Students to Provide Primary Palliative Care

Creator: Polly Mazanec, PhD

Duration: 6:02

Patients facing serious, life-limiting illnesses and their families benefit from receiving palliative care. Prelicensure nursing students can be educated to provide this primary care to patients. Dr. Mazanec describes the development and implementation of the ELNEC (End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium) curriculum, an innovative online curriculum that prepares students with essential primary palliative nursing knowledge and skills. After watching this video, be sure to read the article, which provides resources you can use in your own nursing program.

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Simulation Innovation to Redesign the Baccalaureate Curriculum to Address Population Health

Creator: Ann Marie P. Mauro, PhD, RN, CNL, CNE, FAAN and Debora Tracey, DNP, RN, CNE

Duration: 4:50

Prelicensure nursing curricula need to be redesigned to integrate and achieve key population health competencies. Nursing students in generic and second-degree programs had improved learning outcomes and significant increases in population health competencies across the curriculum using simulation-based learning activities developed through an academic-practice partnership. Learn more about how this school of nursing integrated population health: watch the video and read the article.

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Classroom Participation: A Model of Feminist Pedagogy

Creator: Mary Tedesco-Schneck, PhD, RN, CPNP

Duration: 4:35

Nursing faculty need to provide students with problem-solving skills during their formative academic years, and feminist pedagogy supported by classroom participation may foster these skills. Through the lens of feminist pedagogy, factors that influence classroom participation of nursing students were identified using the College and University Classroom Environment Inventory. Watch this video to learn about the study and implications for teaching, and be sure to read the article.

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Educating Future Health Care Professionals about Cybercivility: Needs Assessment Study

Creator: Jennie De Gagne, PhD, DNP, RN-BC, CNE, ANEF, FAAN

Duration: 3:54

Cyberincivility is a contemporary issue in nursing and health professions education. Studies regarding cybercivility, particularly from an interprofessional education standpoint, are few. In this video, Dr. De Gagne, the leading researcher on cyberincivility in nursing education, explains why she is passionate about this topic. She shares her findings on a study that assessed the knowledge, experience, and perceptions about cyberincivility among students in 4 health care disciplines. After watching the video, make sure you read the article.

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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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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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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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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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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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Mentoring Non-Tenure Track Nursing Faculty: A Systematic Review

Creator: Deborah Cullen, Susan M. McLennon, Taylor Hartman, Carol Sheih, Caitlin Pike, and Hena Shah

Duration: 3:11

Mentoring is critical for nursing faculty, but what mentoring strategies work best? The purpose of this systematic review was to evaluate the effectiveness of mentoring strategies for nursing faculty progression and productivity in the nontenure track. Sixty articles were included in the review. Findings revealed that nontenure track nursing faculty require planned programs and mentoring strategies unique to their role and abilities. Schools of nursing can improve on faculty progression, scholarship, and career growth by providing structured mentoring activity. Learn about mentoring strategies in this video from the authors, then follow up by reading the article.

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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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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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Clinical Hours in Nurse Practitioner Programs Equals Clinical Competence: Fact or Misnomer?

Creator: Cathy R. Fulton, RN, ANP-BC, FNP-BC
Carol Clark, DNP, RN, FNP-BC
Stephanie Dickinson, MStat

Duration: 3:17

An assumption in nursing education is that clinical experience equals competent practice. Knowing the extent of learning acquired during these experiences is important, and in graduate nursing education, this is not always known. In this video, the authors describe a study on the nature of clinical hours that nurse practitioner students complete during practicum courses and explored activities of students when not engaged in direct patient care. This is a must read article if you are teaching in an advanced practice nursing program.

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The Nurse Educator Institute: An Innovative Strategy to Develop Nursing Faculty

Creator: Camille Reese and Mona Brown Ketner

Duration: 4:47

Nurse educators from the Northwest Area Health Education Center developed a Nurse Educator Institute to prepare clinicians to serve as clinical instructors in schools of nursing. They developed 4 modules that include key content areas for effective teaching in the clinical setting. Participants have options to practice skills they learn during the program.

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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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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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Enhancing Interprofessional Collaboration with Team-Based Learning

Creator: Marijean Buhse, PhD, Rn, NP-BC and Carol Della Ratta, PhD, RN, CCRN

Duration: 2:10

Interprofessional education (IPE) has gained momentum across health profession schools. Exploring interprofessional experiences in the classroom setting may further enhance collaborative skills while advancing clinical knowledge. In this video and article, the authors describe an innovative approach to IPE to teach chronic care concepts to graduate nursing, physician assistant, and public health students. Enhancing IPE with a team-based learning approach resulted in improved knowledge of chronic care management, student perceptions of mutual respect, and perceived development of communication and teamwork skills.

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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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Use of Low-fidelity Simulation within a Medication Calculation Nursing Course to Enhance Students' Understanding of Accuracy

Creator: Melissa Baginski, MSN

Duration: 2:41

The authors created a medication calculation simulation for their prelicensure students to provide the opportunity for dosage calculation practice with authentic circumstances, foster an enhanced perspective of the importance of accuracy required for calculating dosages, and improve dosage calculation accuracy itself. For authenticity, they prepared each patient in the simulation to appear as lifelike as possible, having personal possessions at the bedside and therapies such as oxygen, IVs, casts, and wound dressings. Watch this video (and read the article) to learn how to prepare this simulation on medication calculation.

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Innovative Implementation of Social Determinants of Health in a New Concept Based Curriculum

Creator: Kim A. Decker, PhD, RN, CNS

Duration: 2:25

Learn how nursing faculty incorporated concepts of social determinants of health, using various community clinical experiences, throughout their prelicensure nursing program. A primary goal of their new concept-based curriculum is to prepare students for practice in the changing health care environment by integrating community health concepts throughout the curriculum. These concepts are framed within the social determinants of health. Get ideas for your own nursing program from this video and article.

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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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Engaging Students in the Development of an Interprofessional Population Health Management Course

Creator: Meg Zomorodi, PhD, RN, CNL
Lorraine Alexander, DrPH, MPH
Lisa de Saxe Zerden, PhD, MSW
Betty Nance-Floyd, PhD, RN, CNE, CNL

Duration: 5:41

Preparing practitioners to work collaborativelyin teams requires new models to train and socialize health care professionals and students. The authors developed an innovative learning experience where graduate students from 6 health professions worked together with faculty to develop a 3-credit population health management course. The course was then offered the following semester. The authors describe this unique learning experience in the video: be sure to read the article too.

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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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Student Success Survey: Supporting Academic Success for At-Risk Nursing Students Through Early Intervention

Creator: Rhonda McLain, PhD, RN

Duration: 4:38

Diversity in the nursing workforce has a positive impact on the quality of care provided to minority patients. Although the number of students from diverse backgrounds entering nursing programs has increased, the attrition rate of these students remains high. McLain discusses this situation and describes a self-assessment tool that can be used by faculty advisors to determine the individual academic needs of students.

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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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Perceptions of Family Nurse Practitioner Clinical Preceptors about Usefulness of Onsite Clinical Site Visits

Creator: Dr. Ragan Johnson

Duration: 3:04

Clinical site visits are important for evaluating graduate nursing students' clinical performance. This study examined the perceptions of preceptors of FNP students about site visits. Preceptors believe faculty should make at least 1 face-to-face site visit to observe a student during the semester. No preference for telephone or mobile technology for conducting site visits was identified. The study provides important considerations when designing guidelines for faculty site visits.

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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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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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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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Implementation of a State Legislative Fellowship for Doctor of Nursing Practice Students

Creator: Sharron J. Crowder, PhD, NJ

Duration: 3:12

Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) students need to be effective health policy leaders and contribute their expertise to legislative discussions. As faculty, we need to prepare students with these competencies. Dr. Crowder describes a state legislative fellowship based on Kolb’s experiential learning theory. Watch this video and read the article to learn how to develop legislative experiential learning opportunities for your students.

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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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Is Cognitive Test-taking Anxiety Associated with Academic Performance among Nursing Students?

Creator: Susan M. Duty, ScD, RN
Jocelyn Loftus, MSN, RN
Ladonna Christian, MSN, RN

Duration: 4:38

Are your students stressed when taking tests in your course? Does that anxiety affect their grades? Watch this video and read the article to learn more about the relationship of test anxiety and academic performance among nursing students. Modest but statistically significant lower examination grade T scores were observed for students with high compared with low levels of cognitive test anxiety. High levels of anxiety were associated with reduced academic performance.

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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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Implementation of Mock Competency Skill Assessments to Improve Student Outcomes

Creator: Camille Payne

Duration: 5:00

In this study, laboratory faculty developed a creative pedagogical strategy to reduce nursing student stress during assessment of skill performance. Mock competencies were structured so that students participated in peer-to-peer evaluations in simulated competency assessments. This pedagogical strategy had an impact on first-round pass rates for skills competency assessments. Read the article in the November December 2015 issue.

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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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Effects of an Experiential Learning Simulation Design on Clinical Nursing Judgment Development

Creator: Joyce Victor-Chmil

Duration: 2:44

Simulation design should be theory based and its effect on outcomes evaluated. This study applied a model of experiential learning to design a simulation experience, examined how this design affected clinical nursing judgment development, and described the relationship between clinical nursing judgment development and student performance when using the experiential learning design. Findings suggest that using an experiential learning simulation design results in more highly developed nursing judgment and competency in simulation performance.

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Journal Club for Prelicensure Nursing Students

Creator: Rachel Scherzer, MSN, RN, ACNP-BC
Kathryn Shaffer, EdD, RN, CNE
Kathryn Maceyko, BSN, RN
Jessica Webb, BSN, RN

Duration: 7:41

Nurse educators need new strategies that will engage students in the application of research and evidence-based practice. In this video and article the faculty members describe how they attempted to achieve these goals by forming an extracurricular student-run journal club.

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Preparing Nursing Students for Leadership using a Disaster-Related Simulation

Creator: Sherry L. Farra, RN, PhD, CNE
Sherrill J. Smith, RN, PhD, CNL, CNE

Duration: 4:34

Increasing numbers and severity of disasters across the globe require nurses be prepared to provide leadership in disaster situations. To address this need, the authors developed a combination of didactic and simulation exercises to provide a daylong experience for students, emphasizing application of nursing leadership skills in disasters.

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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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Baby Boy Jones Interactive Case-Based Learning Activity: A Web-Delivered Teaching Strategy

Creator: Lisa M. Cleveland, PhD

Duration: 2:30

The authors describe the development of a Web-delivered, case-based learning activity focused on neonatal infection. The online case was created using e-learning authoring software and delivered through a learning management system. With this technology they were able to engage large cohorts of students in the case learning activity.

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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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Unprofessional Content Posted Online Among Nursing Students

Creator: Suzanne Marnocha, PhD, RN, CCRN

Duration: 4:19

This study investigated the posting of unprofessional content online among nursing students. Surveys of 293 schools of nursing revealed that 77% had encountered at least 1 incident of students posting such content. The greatest concerns were about content that students posted related to educational and professional affiliations and to patient confidentiality.

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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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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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Multidimensional Approach to Improve Quality Related to Students' Hand Hygiene Practices

Creator: Kathryn Whitcomb

Duration: 3:46

A multidimensional approach to improve nursing students’ hand hygiene compliance was used by faculty in the school’s simulation center and clinical area. Their approach showed positive, sustainable improvement in students’ hand hygiene compliance. View the video now and read the article in the November/December 2014 issue of Nurse Educator (Volume 39, Issue 6).

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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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