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March/April 2019 - Volume 44 - Issue 2

  • Marilyn H. Oermann, PhD, RN, ANEF, FAAN
  • 0363-3624
  • 1538-9855
  • 6 issues / year
  • Nursing 54/118
  • 1.245
Incivility in health care can have a detrimental impact on individuals, teams, and organizations. Learn how to combine cognitive rehearsal, simulation, evidence-based scripting, deliberate practice, and debriefing to prepare nursing students to address uncivil encounters. This article includes specific examples of each strategy. In an innovative clinical immersion, nursing and engineering student teams rotate through hospital units to identify problems and develop solutions using Makerspace. What are outcomes of using a flipped classroom? Find out in a  systematic review published in this issue. Other articles present a study on psychoacoustic learning, a capstone simulation for leadership development, virtual reality simulation, an innovative academic-practice partnership, and other innovations for your courses. Share the issue with your colleagues.

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Marilyn H. Oermann, Editor-in-Chief

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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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​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. After watching the video, please read the article.
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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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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.
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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.