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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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A Five-Year Evaluation of Faculty Use of Practical Within-Course Writing Development Strategies in a DNP Program
Creator: Hampton, Michelle DeCoux, PhD, RN
Duration: 3:17
Nursing students are often underprepared for the rigors of graduate writing. Dr. Michelle Hampton used a prospective, repeated-measures design to evaluate 5 years of faculty-implemented writing development strategies in a DNP program. Faculty adopted 12 strategies that addressed skill building in content, construction, format, plagiarism, and citation use. The most frequently used strategies were rubrics, plagiarism detection software, multistep assignments, and examples of well-written papers, all strategies that increased in use over the 5-year study. If you teach in a DNP program, do not miss watching this video and reading the article.
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Effect of Psychoacoustic Learning on Cardiac Auscultation Proficiency in Nurse Practitioner Students
Creator: Cyphers, Natalie A., PhD, RN; Mest, Carol G., PhD, RN, ANP-BC; Doyle-Tadduni, Mary Elizabeth, PhD, MBA, RN
Duration: 4:50
Assessment is a vital role of all nurses, yet cardiac murmur identification remains difficult for students. A psychoacoustic approach involves repetition of cardiac sounds to facilitate auditory perceptual learning. The purpose of this study by Dr. Cyphers and her team was to determine the effectiveness of a psychoacoustic learning modality for identification of cardiac murmurs by nurse practitioner students. A repeated-measures design was used. Findings indicated that a psychoacoustic learning approach helps students develop their proficiency in cardiac assessment. In this video and article, you will be introduced to psychoacoustic learning and how to use this approach in teaching assessment in nursing.
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Educational Preparation for Clinical Practice: Reflections of Newly Graduated Registered Nurses
Creator: Hatzenbuhler, Nicole J., MSN, RN; Klein, Julie E., PhD, RN, CNE
Duration: 2:06
This qualitative study explored the perceptions of newly graduated RNs about how their educational experiences as prelicensure students prepared them to enter the nursing workforce. Interviews with 10 RNs revealed that nursing programs did not adequately prepare them for their multifaceted roles and responsibilities. Nursing faculty should implement practice-oriented educational experiences to facilitate students to assume professional roles and responsibilities when they enter the nursing workforce. The authors describe their study in this video (be sure to read the full article).
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Influencing the Binge Drinking Culture on a College Campus
Creator: Kessler, Theresa A., PhD, RN, ACNS-BC, CNE; Kurtz, Christine P., DNP, RN, PMHCNS-BC, CNE
Duration: 3:07
The college years are a time of transition in which students experiment with behaviors including use of alcohol. Using a nursing student-faculty collaborative model, students evaluate a mass media campaign with social norming messages and education to influence the drinking culture on a college campus. Students observed the mass media messages, with 81.9% viewing posters. A significant decrease in binge drinking was reported. The mass media campaign, led by nursing students and faculty, was effective at influencing the drinking culture on a college campus.
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Student-Created Practice Exams for Nursing Courses
Creator: Laura Vogelsang, MN, RN
Duration: 2:01
When preparing for exams and ultimately for the NCLEX-RN, students often approach their faculty for practice questions. Although incorporating questions into a lecture may be an effective teaching strategy, usually the number of questions is limited because, once they are used in class, they are no longer valid for an examination. In this course, students developed their own questions related to content that had been covered in class in exchange for 1 bonus mark on their most recent quiz. Learn more about this in the video and read the author’s Teaching Tips.
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Clinical Immersion: An Approach for Fostering Cross-Disciplinary Communication and Innovation in Nursing and Engineering Students
Creator: Geist, Melissa J., EdD, APRN-BC, CNE
Duration: 6:05
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Canine Outreach Promoting Engagement (COPE): Effect of Meaningful Activities on Students' Attitudes toward Cognitively Impaired Older Adults
Creator: Yordy, B. Morgan, DNP, RN; Pope, W. Stuart, DNP, RN; Wang, Chih-Hsuan,
Duration: 2:56
Animal-assisted activities (AAAs) show promise in providing emotional and social benefits to older adults and may be used as a tool to promote therapeutic communication between students and cognitively impaired older adults. Nursing students participated in a program incorporating AAAs to enhance social engagement of cognitively impaired older adults in a community respite program and enhance their comfort when caring for this population. Learn more about this innovative community health clinical experience in the video and by reading the article.
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Creator: A Capstone Simulation for Leadership Development: Bridging Theory to Practice
Duration: 4:32
New graduate nurses are expected to be practice-ready upon graduation. However, transitioning from the role of student to one of leadership in the professional nurse's role is a complex experience. Learn about the Mock Hospital, a comprehensive capstone simulation that immerses senior nursing students into the leadership role of the professional nurse. This is a must-watch video and be sure to read the article.
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NNE-2017-378R1 Evans, Vanden Bosch et al. Flipping the Classroom in Health Care Higher Education: A Systematic Review
Creator: Flipping the Classroom in Health Care Higher Education: A Systematic Review
Duration: 4:32
The flipped classroom is an approach to teaching with independent and asynchronous study of content by students and active learning during scheduled class times. This systematic review examined research on flipped classrooms in health professions education. The majority of the studies in the review noted a significant improvement in at least 1 student academic outcome using the flipped classroom compared with traditional lecture. The review did not reveal compelling evidence for the effectiveness of this method above that of traditional classroom approaches.
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An Academic-Practice Partnership: Fostering Collaboration and Improving Care Across Settings
Creator: Roach, Ashley, MS, RN, CNL; Hooke, Sherrill, MEd, RN, CGRN, CCCTM
Duration: 2:58
Through the Veterans Affairs Nursing Academic Partnership (VANAP), nursing students and faculty participated in practice innovations in a Veterans Affairs Health Care System. Students were placed in both inpatient and outpatient settings. Through activities such as postconferences and population-based projects, they joined forces with Veterans Affairs staff on issues that affected veterans' health care. Student placements in settings across the care continuum improved communication between the settings. The enhanced partnership between the 2 organizations addressed a relevant, meaningful patient care issue.
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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
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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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A Five-Year Evaluation of Faculty Use of Practical Within-Course Writing Development Strategies in a DNP Program
Creator: Hampton, Michelle DeCoux, PhD, RN
Duration: 3:17
Show More 
Show Less 
Nursing students are often underprepared for the rigors of graduate writing. Dr. Michelle Hampton used a prospective, repeated-measures design to evaluate 5 years of faculty-implemented writing development strategies in a DNP program. Faculty adopted 12 strategies that addressed skill building in content, construction, format, plagiarism, and citation use. The most frequently used strategies were rubrics, plagiarism detection software, multistep assignments, and examples of well-written papers, all strategies that increased in use over the 5-year study. If you teach in a DNP program, do not miss watching this video and reading the article.
Play Video | + Favorites
Effect of Psychoacoustic Learning on Cardiac Auscultation Proficiency in Nurse Practitioner Students
Creator: Cyphers, Natalie A., PhD, RN; Mest, Carol G., PhD, RN, ANP-BC; Doyle-Tadduni, Mary Elizabeth, PhD, MBA, RN
Duration: 4:50
Show More 
Show Less 
Assessment is a vital role of all nurses, yet cardiac murmur identification remains difficult for students. A psychoacoustic approach involves repetition of cardiac sounds to facilitate auditory perceptual learning. The purpose of this study by Dr. Cyphers and her team was to determine the effectiveness of a psychoacoustic learning modality for identification of cardiac murmurs by nurse practitioner students. A repeated-measures design was used. Findings indicated that a psychoacoustic learning approach helps students develop their proficiency in cardiac assessment. In this video and article, you will be introduced to psychoacoustic learning and how to use this approach in teaching assessment in nursing.
Play Video | + Favorites
Educational Preparation for Clinical Practice: Reflections of Newly Graduated Registered Nurses
Creator: Hatzenbuhler, Nicole J., MSN, RN; Klein, Julie E., PhD, RN, CNE
Duration: 2:06
Show More 
Show Less 
This qualitative study explored the perceptions of newly graduated RNs about how their educational experiences as prelicensure students prepared them to enter the nursing workforce. Interviews with 10 RNs revealed that nursing programs did not adequately prepare them for their multifaceted roles and responsibilities. Nursing faculty should implement practice-oriented educational experiences to facilitate students to assume professional roles and responsibilities when they enter the nursing workforce. The authors describe their study in this video (be sure to read the full article).
Play Video | + Favorites
Influencing the Binge Drinking Culture on a College Campus
Creator: Kessler, Theresa A., PhD, RN, ACNS-BC, CNE; Kurtz, Christine P., DNP, RN, PMHCNS-BC, CNE
Duration: 3:07
Show More 
Show Less 
The college years are a time of transition in which students experiment with behaviors including use of alcohol. Using a nursing student-faculty collaborative model, students evaluate a mass media campaign with social norming messages and education to influence the drinking culture on a college campus. Students observed the mass media messages, with 81.9% viewing posters. A significant decrease in binge drinking was reported. The mass media campaign, led by nursing students and faculty, was effective at influencing the drinking culture on a college campus.
Play Video | + Favorites
Student-Created Practice Exams for Nursing Courses
Creator: Laura Vogelsang, MN, RN
Duration: 2:01
Show More 
Show Less 
When preparing for exams and ultimately for the NCLEX-RN, students often approach their faculty for practice questions. Although incorporating questions into a lecture may be an effective teaching strategy, usually the number of questions is limited because, once they are used in class, they are no longer valid for an examination. In this course, students developed their own questions related to content that had been covered in class in exchange for 1 bonus mark on their most recent quiz. Learn more about this in the video and read the author’s Teaching Tips.
Play Video | + Favorites
Clinical Immersion: An Approach for Fostering Cross-Disciplinary Communication and Innovation in Nursing and Engineering Students
Creator: Geist, Melissa J., EdD, APRN-BC, CNE
Duration: 6:05
Show More 
Show Less 
Nurses are uniquely positioned to be bedside innovators to improve patient care delivery. A faculty team from nursing and chemical engineering developed a course that brought together students from each discipline for a cross-disciplinary, team-based clinical immersion. During each clinical immersion, the student teams rotated through various hospital units where they identified problems and worked together in the university's makerspace (iMaker Space) to design and build prototypes to improve health outcomes. Read the article and then watch the video to learn more about this innovative clinical course.
Play Video | + Favorites
Canine Outreach Promoting Engagement (COPE): Effect of Meaningful Activities on Students' Attitudes toward Cognitively Impaired Older Adults
Creator: Yordy, B. Morgan, DNP, RN; Pope, W. Stuart, DNP, RN; Wang, Chih-Hsuan,
Duration: 2:56
Show More 
Show Less 
Animal-assisted activities (AAAs) show promise in providing emotional and social benefits to older adults and may be used as a tool to promote therapeutic communication between students and cognitively impaired older adults. Nursing students participated in a program incorporating AAAs to enhance social engagement of cognitively impaired older adults in a community respite program and enhance their comfort when caring for this population. Learn more about this innovative community health clinical experience in the video and by reading the article.
Play Video | + Favorites
NNE-2018-019R1 Strickland et al. A Capstone Simulation for Leadership Development: Bridging Theory to Practice
Creator: A Capstone Simulation for Leadership Development: Bridging Theory to Practice
Duration: 4:32
Show More 
Show Less 
New graduate nurses are expected to be practice-ready upon graduation. However, transitioning from the role of student to one of leadership in the professional nurse's role is a complex experience. Learn about the Mock Hospital, a comprehensive capstone simulation that immerses senior nursing students into the leadership role of the professional nurse. This is a must-watch video and be sure to read the article.
Play Video | + Favorites
NNE-2017-378R1 Evans, Vanden Bosch et al. Flipping the Classroom in Health Care Higher Education: A Systematic Review
Creator: Flipping the Classroom in Health Care Higher Education: A Systematic Review
Duration: 4:32
Show More 
Show Less 
The flipped classroom is an approach to teaching with independent and asynchronous study of content by students and active learning during scheduled class times. This systematic review examined research on flipped classrooms in health professions education. The majority of the studies in the review noted a significant improvement in at least 1 student academic outcome using the flipped classroom compared with traditional lecture. The review did not reveal compelling evidence for the effectiveness of this method above that of traditional classroom approaches.
Play Video | + Favorites
Co-creating Partnership Agreements With Students
Creator: Kimberly Belcik, PhD
Duration: 2:43
Show More 
Show Less 
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.
Play Video | + Favorites
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
Show More 
Show Less 
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.
Play Video | + Favorites
Online Clinical Post Conference: Strategies for Meaningful Discussion Using VoiceThread
Creator: Jaime Hannans, RN, PHD, CNE
Duration: 1:42
Show More 
Show Less 
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.
Play Video | + Favorites
Practical Nurses' Lived Experience of Returning to School
Creator: Kathryn Chachula, RN, MN, PhD(c)
Duration: 5:06
Show More 
Show Less 
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.
Play Video | + Favorites
Concept-Based Curricula: A National Study of Critical Concepts
Creator: Jennifer Brussow, Karin Roberts, Sheryl Sommer, Matthew Scaruto, and Christine Mills
Duration: 3:27
Show More 
Show Less 
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
Writing Journal Articles: Tips for your Success Series Video 1: Getting Started: Purpose, Readers, Selecting a Journal
Creator: Marilyn Oermann
Duration: 20:20
Show More 
Show Less 
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.
Play Video | + Favorites
Writing Journal Articles: Tips for your Success Series Video 2: Next Steps: Manuscript Format and Content
Creator: Marilyn Oermann
Duration: 15:58
Show More 
Show Less 
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.
Play Video | + Favorites
Writing Journal Articles: Tips for your Success Series Video 3: Submission, Responding to Reviews, and Other Tips
Creator: Marilyn Oermann
Duration: 32:35
Show More 
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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
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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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Crowdfunding Platforms for Nursing Research
Creator: Amanda Hopkins, PhD, RN and Wendy Kooken, PhD, RN
Duration: 1:49
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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
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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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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
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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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Evaluating the Clinical Judgment of Prelicensure Nursing Students in the Clinical Setting
Creator: Wendy Manetti, PhD, RN, CRNP
Duration: 3:48
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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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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
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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
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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
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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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Students' Mid-Program Content Area Performance as a Predictor of End-of-Program NCLEX Readiness
Creator: Jennifer A. Brussow, PhD, Michelle Dunham, PhD
Duration: 3:22
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Many programs have implemented end-of-program predictive testing to identify students at risk of NCLEX-RN failure. Unfortunately, for many students, end-of-program testing comes too late. The authors studied the relationships between 9 content area assessments and an end-of-program assessment shown to be predictive of NCLEX-RN success. Results indicate that scores on assessments for content areas such as medical surgical nursing and care of children are predictive of end-of-program test scores, suggesting that instructors should provide remediation at the first sign of lagging performance.
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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
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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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The Clinical Instructor Program: Improving Self-Efficacy for Nurse Educators
Creator: Jeannie B. Weston
Duration: 5:12
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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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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
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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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Process Matters: Reporting the Successes and Challenges of Recruiting and Retaining Participants for Nursing
Creator: Christy Raymond, BScN, MEd, PhD, RN
Duration: 4:13
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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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
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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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Faculty Clinical Site Visits in Nurse Practitioner Education: Student Perspective
Creator: Arlene Pericak, DA, RN, FNP-C, FAANP
Duration: 2:40
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Assessing student learning during a site visit in an advanced practice nursing course is important for academic success; however, a gap in the literature exists on students’ perspectives of faculty site visits in nurse practitioner education. Watch this video to learn about the authors’ study on students’ perceptions of the most useful aspects of the site visit, suggestions for improving site visits, and changes made in the practicum after the site visit. Then be sure to read the full 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
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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
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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
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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
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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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Scaffolding and Sequencing Core Concepts to Develop a Simulation-Integrated Nursing Curricula
Creator: Alaina Herrington and Tonya Schneidereith
Duration: 3:14
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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
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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
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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
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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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Innovative Implementation of Social Determinants of Health in a New Concept Based Curriculum
Creator: Kim A. Decker, PhD, RN, CNS
Duration: 2:25
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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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Concept-Based Curriculum: Changing Attitudes and Overcoming Barriers
Creator: Susan Hendricks, EdD, MSN, RN, and Virginia Wangerin, PhD, RN, CNE
Duration: 3:11
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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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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
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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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Using Innovative Teaching Strategies to Improve Nursing Student Confidence and Competence in Providing Spiritual Care
Creator: Joan Connors and Palmira Good
Duration: 7:23
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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
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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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Transforming Nursing Education with Apple Technology
Creator: Angela Clark
Duration: 3:51
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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
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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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Transition Program to Promote Incoming Nursing Student Success in Higher Education
Creator: Christine Latham
Charmaine Lim
Emily Nguyen
Duration: 6:52
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This video and article share best practices for addressing concerns of first-generation and minority students as they begin their nursing program. An interactive, peer-developed, 2-day program was implemented to create a sense of community and relieve students’ anxiety. The program focused on students’ needs and provided engagement, networking, and first-hand experience with resources and methods to reduce cultural dissonance. Participation included critiquing modeling of proper clinical attire, meeting with peer mentors, and locating important campus resources. The program, was conducted by minority students under the supervision and guidance of faculty mentors.
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Content Validation of a QSEN Based Clinical Evaluation Instrument
Creator: Gerry Altmiller
Duration: 3:38
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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
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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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Use of a Needs Assessment in the Development of an Interprofessional Faculty Development Program
Creator: Jeri L. Bigbee, PhD, RN
Duration: 3:12
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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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Engaging Nursing Students in an Edible Pharmacological Concepts Lesson: Cookies in the Curriculum
Creator: Brenda Leda Quinn
Duration: 2:27
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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
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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
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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
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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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Developing a Foundation for Interprofessional Education within Nursing and Medical Curricula
Creator: Trisha Leann Horsley, PhD, RN, CHSE, CNE
Trent Reed, DO, FACEP
Duration: 3:51
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Effective teamwork is essential to foster patient safety and promote quality patient care. The authors describe how a nursing and a medical school collaborated to systematically integrate interprofessional education (IPE) simulations into the curricula so that every graduate from the respective schools received TeamSTEPPS® education and participated in a standardized IPE simulation experience. Watch the video and read the article to get new ideas on IPE.
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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
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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
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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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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
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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
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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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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
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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
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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
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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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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
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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
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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
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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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Multi-Institutional Collaboration to Promote Undergraduate Clinical Research Nursing
Creator: Shelby Garner
Duration: 3:46
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Clinical research nursing is distinct from nursing research and includes the coordination and delivery of care for patients enrolled in clinical research trials. Watch this video to learn more about the authors’ innovative elective in clinical research nursing. It was developed collaboratively by stakeholders at a university, research institute, and national organization to provide experiential learning for undergraduate nursing students.
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Differences in Drinking Patterns between Female Nursing and Non-Nursing Students
Creator: Desiree Hensel
Duration: 2:45
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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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Teaching Strategies to Increase Cultural Awareness in Nursing Students
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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
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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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Patient Deception: Nursing Students' Beliefs and Attitudes
Creator: Drew Curtis, PhD
Duration: 3:08
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This study examined nursing students’ beliefs about indicators of deception and their attitudes toward patient deception. Nursing students (n=58) from various nursing programs completed a Detection of Deception Questionnaire and Attitudes Toward Patient Deception Scale. Nursing students have a number of inaccurate beliefs about deception and possess negative attitudes toward patients who lie. Implications for nursing education are discussed by the author.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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Cultivating a Culture of Medication Safety in Prelicensure Nursing Students
Creator: Peggy A. Bush, PhD, RPh,
Duration: 2:38
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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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Improving Teaching Assistants' Orientation in a School of Nursing: A Lean Approach
Creator: Pamela M. Aaltonen, PhD, RN, Karen J. Foli, PhD, RN, Kristen F. Kirby, MSN, RN, FNP-C,
Duration: 6:52
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Newly hired teaching assistants (TAs) in schools of nursing have varying levels of experience in academic institutions. Therefore, the orientation of TAs is important at a micro level (student instruction) and macro level (mission of the organization). The authors describe a Lean approach to strengthening TA orientation and reducing waste and inconsistency. Developed solutions and tools through the lens of quality improvement are discussed.
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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
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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
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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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Unprofessional Content Posted Online Among Nursing Students
Creator: Suzanne Marnocha, PhD, RN, CCRN
Duration: 4:19
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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Teaching Students to work with Vulnerable Populations through a Patient Advocacy Course
Creator: Janet R. Beulow
Duration: 4:27
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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