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July/August 2018 - Volume 43 - Issue 4

  • Marilyn H. Oermann, PhD, RN, ANEF, FAAN
  • 0363-3624
  • 1538-9855
  • 6 issues / year
  • Nursing 54/118
  • 1.245

Evaluation of student performance in clinical practice remains a challenge. It is often difficult to collect sufficient data on each student in a clinical group to rate their performance. Seldomridge and Walsh examined the presence of grade inflation in clinical courses 9 years after implementing strategies to improve grading precision. The results showed statistically lower grades after the interventions, suggesting some reduction in grade inflation but not to the extent anticipated. The authors provide practical suggestions for changing the way clinical experiences are planned and evaluated. Have you tried using examination wrappers? If not, be sure to read the article by Butzlaff et al. The authors used wrappers after each exam to help students reflect on their test performance. Using examination wrappers encouraged students to self-evaluate and adjust their study strategies. School counselors can influence career development among middle and high school students interested in nursing. Williams and Dickstein-Fischer examined 204 school counselors' perceptions about nursing and the types of secondary educational preparation that students needed for a career in nursing. Another article presents an educational model to increase the number and diversity of RN-BSN graduates in a rural community. If this is a goal in your school, don't miss reading this article. Prisons provide an ideal learning experience to prepare prelicensure nursing students. Bouchaud et al share results from a retrospective analysis of the perceptions and experiences of nursing students during their community clinical rotation in an all-male maximum security prison. You will enjoy reading that article and the other articles in this issue of the journal. ​

Marilyn H. Oermann, Editor-in-Chief

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

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​NNE_Video_43.4_George.jpg​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.
​NNE_Video_43.3_Weston.jpg​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.
​NNE_Video_43.3_Grady.jpg​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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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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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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