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March/April 2023 - Volume 48 - Issue 2

  • Marilyn H. Oermann, PhD, RN, ANEF, FAAN
  • 0363-3624
  • 1538-9855
  • 6 issues / year
  • 2.518
    5-year Impact Factor: 2.520
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Health care systems are facing historic staffing crises and need efficient pipelines of qualified students. Accelerated second-degree students are helping to address these needs. Authors discuss challenges in second-degree education, present strategies to optimize student pipelines, and recommend graduate-level second-degree programs. An article describes a peer review process used with a group of faculty champions who were learning to write Next Generation NCLEX (NGN) items. Champions were oriented to the peer review process and completed reviews of NGN items using the Clinical Judgment Item Peer Review Form, which is available to readers in Supplemental Digital Content. You can use this peer review process in your own program. Also read about the development of clinical judgment using virtual reality and other strategies.

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Marilyn H. Oermann, Editor-in-Chief
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Collective competence, the effective team management of patient care situations, is partially dependent on nurses' individual confidence and clinical judgment competence. The purpose of this study was to describe individual and team-based facilitators and barriers to collective competence in teams of senior baccalaureate-level prelicensure nursing students during a team-based simulation. Closed-loop communication and role assignment were facilitators of collective competence when present and barriers when absent. Learn more about this study in the article ​and video.
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Many nurse educators find it challenging to incorporate inclusivity into the classroom. Terms that are inaccurately defining individuals, and are not inclusive, are embedded into everyday language. An innovative teaching tip is to add an inclusive language tip of the day at the start of every class to bring attention to this terminology. The integration of an inclusive language tip at the beginning of each class cultivates an inclusive learning environment, empowers students, and raises awareness to the power of words. Learn more about this strategy in the video and teaching tip.​
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Health systems are facing historic staffing crises, and they require efficient pipelines of qualified students into practice. Accelerated second-degree students are helping to address pressing health care market needs. The author discusses the second-degree program landscape, including challenges in second-degree education; compares graduate-level second-degree entry against other pathway options; and presents strategies to optimize and sustain second-degree student pipelines based on these insights. Learn more in the video and be sure to read the full article.​​​
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 To prepare students for Next-Generation NCLEX (NGN), you can effectively bring clinical practice to the classroom by using group and individual activities and classroom response systems (CRS) such as Pear Deck, Kahoot, or Classtime. The nursing faculty created 6-part case studies using a CRS (covering each step of the NCBSN Clinical Judgement Model) as team-based learning activities. This resulted in mastery of these concepts and item types on course examinations. Watch this video and read the teaching tip to learn more. In the article the authors provide examples in Supplemental Digital Content. 
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 Nursing students should be taught how to conduct a best possible medication history (BPMH) before entering clinical practice. A standardized patient-facilitated home visit simulation was used in a prelicensure nursing program to practice a BPMH while using effective patient communication skills. Learn about the outcomes of this simulation in the video and article​.

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