The current master's and doctoral nursing programs in the United States are not meeting the supply and demand for the nursing education workforce. Preparing a greater number of highly qualified evidence-based nurse educators would help mitigate the crisis of turning away nursing applicants due to the lack of faculty. This podcast with Dr. Tara King presents an innovative approach to preparing nurse educators in a Doctor of Nursing Education Program. Article: https://journals.lww.com/nurseeducatoronline/fulltext/9900/meeting_supply_and_demand_for_nurse_educators__a.363.aspx 

National data suggest that only 9.4% of nurses currently practicing in the United States are male. To put this into context, US Census data from 1900 indicate that men comprised 9% of the total population of nurses during the turn of the 20th century. While the number of men entering the field of nursing has steadily increased, the proportion of men in the profession has grown by less than 1% over the last 120 years. This podcast with Drs. Mott and MacWilliams presents strategies to increase the number of men in the nursing profession. Article: https://journals.lww.com/nurseeducatoronline/fulltext/9900/experiences_of_undergraduate_male_students_in.318.aspx 

Cocreation is a collaborative process that uses problem-based learning to construct new initiatives. Thirty second-year prelicensure nursing students cocreated simulations and associated lesson plans for a simulated practice placement. In this podcast, Joelle Salje describes this initiative and the process students used to develop their simulated clinical placement. Learn more in her article.

If you are teaching DNP students or guiding their projects, this podcast is for you. Dr. Curry Bordelon describes his school’s use of OVID Synthesis as a project management tool for DNP projects. Ovid Synthesis reduces project variation and ensures learners use best practice models for implementation across all DNP project courses. He also explains how Ovid Synthesis has facilitated communication and coordination between faculty and students. Ovid Synthesis for Academic Programs | Ovid | Wolters Kluwer

How do you address bias in your curriculum?  Curricular approaches that prepare future nurses to address implicit bias in clinical settings remain an urgent need. Responding to these calls for educational action is especially challenging because competencies to counter bias and racism in healthcare settings are not clearly defined. In this podcast, Dr. Rebecca O’Connor and Dr. Kenya Beard describe equityXdesign and how they used it to develop the Implicit Bias Clinical Education Program to prepare students to interrupt bias in clinical settings. You also will learn how equityXdesign can be used to design or reenvision your nursing curricula. Their article is open access.

To prepare family nurse practitioner (FNP) students to assume roles in a complex, technologically driven healthcare system, educators are increasing the use of simulation. Dr. Mary Ann Dugan, Chelsea Lebo, and Ashley Stallworth describe the face-to-face and virtual simulations they developed to help students navigate both in-person and telehealth patient visits. Article: https://journals.lww.com/nurseeducatoronline/fulltext/9900/nurse_practitioner_student_simulations_to_navigate.359.aspx 

Nurse practitioners (NPs) need to acquire prescribing competencies during their nursing program so they are prepared to provide safe care to patients. Many NP students have anxiety about prescribing, even after they have completed a course in advanced pharmacology. Drs. Phillips, George, and Munn describe the structure, topics, and outcomes of a prescribing workshop they offer for NP students.

Electronic medical records enhance the delivery of safe patient care. The American Association of Colleges of Nursing highlight that graduates must be versed in data management, retrieval, analysis, and evaluation to guide practice decisions. Dr. Jenny Allert and Mallory Brunel collaborated with clinical sites and developed an innovative teaching strategy that helps prelicensure students to manage data from a QI perspective

Two leaders in nursing and healthcare education at Metropolia University of Applied Sciences in Helsinki, Finland, describe initiatives to develop solutions to complex healthcare problems in their local community. Metropolia combines expertise from business, culture, technology, healthcare, and social services to build sustainable innovations through their Innovation Hubs. Solutions are created through bold thinking about wellbeing, environmental responsibility, person-centered social and healthcare services, and corporate training needs. Anita Ahlstrand and Nea Lehtimäki share how development and collaboration in real-world healthcare settings facilitate student development of essential competencies for the workforce. Read more their work at Metropolia: https://www.metropolia.fi/en/rdi/innovation-hubs

Laurie Robinson, MSN, developed case studies that integrated the Clinical Judgment Measurement Model. She describes the cases, which were used by beginning nursing students prior to their initial clinical practice, and the outcomes of her study. 

Shannon Vandenberg, RN, PhD(c), a nursing instructor at the University of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada, is an expert in planetary health and nursing. She discusses why planetary health is important for the nursing profession and how educators can incorporate planetary health into the curriculum. 

Nursing students are diverse in culture, abilities, and challenges. Universal Design for Learning is a logical and social model to support diverse learning methods. Accessibility tools help measure the efficacy of faculty efforts to make nursing courses accessible to all. This podcast with experts from the University of Nebraska, Dr. Suhasini Kotcherlakota, Patrick Rejda, Dr. Kevin Kupzyk, and Dr. Lynnette Stamler, presents the development of an accessibility tool for a Learning Management System in nursing education. Be sure to read the article, which is open access. 

Nurse educators play a significant role in setting an example for students early in their careers. Educators can make mistakes, and it is critical to role model moral courage by acknowledging these mistakes. Rachael Salguero and Karen Hunt, who teach at MGH Institute of Health Professions, developed this innovative teaching strategy to foster students' development of moral courage by openly encouraging students to “call in” the educator if they identify an error or have a concern based on words or behavior.   

Dr. Joanne Noone and Dr. Teri Murray describe the current state of academic review of faculty activities related to diversity, equity, and inclusivity (DEI) and explain how faculty can describe their DEI contributions in their annual review, promotion, and tenure documents. They make recommendations to schools of nursing to introduce and gradually expand recognition of DEI contributions and support faculty as they expand their efforts to integrate DEI into their daily teaching, research, service, and practice.

Dr. Karen Schwab, Director of Pediatric Services at Wellness 360 Pediatrics and Associate Clinical Professor at University of Texas (UT) Health, San Antonio, describes an innovative model for a faculty-practice pediatric clinic and how nursing students learn through service in the clinic’s telehealth and mobile units. Students participate in the care of vulnerable patient populations, manage the day-to-day function of the clinics, acquire work experience, and fulfill clinical and immersion hours. Learn more about this faculty practice and its significant impact on students, faculty, and patients at https://wellness360.uthealthsa.org/

Psychological Capital (PsyCap) consists of a set of internal resources an individual can access to navigate challenges and enhance job performance, satisfaction, and overall success. External factors within the academic environment may influence PsyCap. This podcast with Dr. Ashley Singh presents how PsyCap can be used in nursing academia to promote relationship-building, hope, resiliency, efficacy, and self-reflection in the faculty role.

Join this podcast with Dr. Rhonda Lanning to learn how she incorporated artificial intelligence (AI) into a course assignment that assesses therapeutic communication. Students used Yoodli, a free AI speech coach to create an audio recording of an interview, provide transcripts, and share time-stamped feedback about communication including use of filler words and inclusive language, rephrasing suggestions, and pacing.

Social Media is an Internet platform that enables others to communicate thoughts and ideas from person to person or with communities of interest. Instagram is one type of social media allowing users to use videos and images to communicate with others. This podcast with Dr. Jasmine Bonder discusses how Instagram is being used to help students and community members learn from a global perspective. The following is an example of an Instagram to promote learning: https://www.instagram.com/dr._jasmine_/  

Dr. Colleen Paramesh describes a peer mentoring strategy she developed for DNP students and how she used it to guide the DNP project. Learn about the outcomes of this strategy for both mentor and mentee.

Individuals who identify as transgender and gender diverse require informed and compassionate health care, yet there is a lack of research about which educational strategies to use. Dr. Becky Mueller shares her study that evaluated a multimodal approach to educate NP students about care of transgender and gender diverse patients. The educational intervention included guided readings, a transgender patient panel, standardized patient simulation, and group discussion. The Sexual Orientation Counselor Competency Scale was administered pre- and postintervention. Results demonstrated increases in knowledge, skills, and attitudes and a high level of satisfaction for the overall program, but especially for the patient panel and standardized patient encounter. This educational intervention also can be used in prelicensure nursing education.

Karen Hunt and Amanda Cornine share how they use word clouds to promote students' sense of belonging and academic persistence. This is a low cost, active learning strategy that you can use in all of your courses.

Drs. Betty Napoleon and Christine Kuchenrither explain how they use debates to teach ethics in nursing. These debates also prepare students for navigating issues they may encounter in nursing.

Nursing graduates need to provide care to diverse patient populations while working within the interdisciplinary care team. The Care of Marginalized Patient Populations Panel presented nursing students with the opportunity to engage with health care professionals from across disciplines who specialize in the care of diverse and marginalized patient populations. This podcast with Dr. Christopher Martin provides an exemplar for nurse educators to engage their students through the experiences and expertise of health care professionals from across settings. 

Dr. Michele Roberts has designed innovative simulations for teaching empathy to nursing students. She tested an intervention to foster empathy that uses storytelling. Learn more about this use of simulation and her fascinating nursing education study.

If you are guiding DNP projects, or if you conduct evidence-based practice, quality improvement, and other team-based projects, this podcast is for you! Dr. Bethany Robertson describes how schools and health systems are using Ovid Synthesis https://synthesis.ovid.com/cem/  for conducting, storing, and disseminating these projects. She also explains how Ovid Synthesis can be used for mapping competencies based on the AACN Essentials.  

Dr. Sarah Urban describes their national initiative for faculty to develop the skills for integrating Next Generation NCLEX preparation into their courses. Her school developed a collaborative approach across the curriculum with online modules and multiple hands-on activities. Learn more details about this in the podcast.

Are you looking for new teaching tools for your skills and other labs? Do you want to standardize the teaching done by multiple instructors in your labs? Dr. Susan Seibert describes the Review Do Document structure she developed for labs and how it has improved the instruction of skills across multiple lab sections.

Active learning develops students' critical thinking and communication skills, ensuring a safe learning environment. Incorporating principles of practice testing in active learning promotes student learning. This podcast with Drs. Genevieve Elrod and Kellie Riley presents a teaching strategy to promote student-centered learning using gaming as a framework. The outcomes of this strategy is a reduction in stress prior to an exam and enhanced ownership of learning and application of content and concepts.

Dr. Valerie Seney discusses a teaching strategy she developed to enhance the empathy of nursing students when caring for patients with substance use disorder (SUD). Learn about this strategy, what inspired Dr. Seney to develop it, and how you can use it in your own courses not only for teaching about SUD but also for other patient conditions.

Dismantling racism in health care and education is predicated on our ability to increase diversity in the health care workforce, particularly in nursing. Yet, the lack of nurses from historically and systemically excluded groups persists. Stress and trauma can be impediments to academic success for students historically excluded from nursing. In this podcast Drs. Najjar and Noone discuss the implementation of a trauma-informed approach to help students learn within a culture of mutual trust, respect, and collaboration, and one that embraces diversity.

Dr. Mary Ann Dugan and Ms. Chelsea Lebo describe an  innovative teaching strategy they developed for nurse practitioner (NP) students. Each student manages care of a patient for 3 consecutive episodic visits in a telehealth simulation using Zoom and standardized patients. Each visit is 20 minutes in length. After students complete a visit, they write a subjective, objective, assessment, and plan (SOAP) note and make a call to a pharmacist for a prescription (audio submission). They describe the strategy in their article.

DNP-prepared faculty entering an academic role are expected to maintain a clinical practice, teach/advise students, and fulfill service obligations, often leaving minimal time to build a program of scholarship. Dr. Jayne Dunlap, Dr. Tracy Brewer, and Dean Rosalie Mainous describe a new model they developed to provide external mentorship for DNP-prepared faculty to facilitate their scholarship. This model builds on the archetype of external mentors for PhD researchers. Read their article in Nurse Educator: it is Open Access.

In this podcast Dr. Beth Phillips, Nikita Khalid, and Nicole Zapparrata describe ATI's Engage Fundamentals. This is an online interactive educational program that can be used in place of textbooks for nursing students. Be sure to also read their article in Nirse Educator: "Benefits of an online interactive educational program over traditional textbooks." The article is open access so you can read it for free.

Effective communication is essential to foster relationship-centered nursing care. Students should learn to adapt communication techniques within context and address sensitive topics. This includes competency with therapeutic communication techniques such as empathy, paraphrasing, and asking clarifying questions. This podcast with Dr. Seibert, Ms. Davis, and Dr. Carter presents a teaching strategy that actively engages students in a role-play scenario to promote effective communication in a foundation nursing course.

Free riding, characterized by a lack of equal contributions to a group assignment, poses a significant challenge to the equitable distribution of credit and recognition in assigning a grade for a group project.  Such behavior may generate frustration and resentment among diligent students. This podcast with Dr. Margaret Jeanne Calcote and Dr. Candon Garbo presents 3 teaching tips to prevent free-riding when students are engaging in group work.

The “Wellness Wheel” recognizes the multifaceted approach that is an effective way to work toward mental well-being. It is a visual tool that helps understand the factors (emotional, intellectual, physical, social, environmental, financial, and spiritual) that affect mental health. The Wellness Wheel prompts introspection, self-reflection, and should lead to goal setting. This podcast with Dr. Catherine Stubin discusses how the “Wellness Wheel” strategy helps prepare students for nursing practice

Over the last 5 years, evidence about the common practice of assigning learners to the observer role in simulation has proliferated. The majority of evidence supports that there is no significant difference in cognitive knowledge outcomes between participant and observer roles in simulation when observers have direction and clear objectives. This podcast with Dr. Brandon Kyle Johnson and Dr. Mary Fey presents a strategy in which observers take active and engaging roles in simulation. The podcast focuses on a “Fiction Contract” to prepare students for a real-life simulation scenario. Learn more by reading their article.

The American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) released a faculty practice tool kit drawing on recommendations from the National Academy of Medicine's The Future of Nursing 2020-2030 report, new AACN Essentials, and AACN Advancing Healthcare Transformation report, reaffirming their support that nurse educators engage in all forms of practice. This podcast with Dr. Kelly Gonzales presents the results of a study about the need to incorporate faculty practice experiences within an academic setting for nursing practitioner faculty. Concepts from the results of the study can be applied to other nursing faculty.

Dr. Colleen Moss created a simulation to prepare neonatal nurse practitioner students to care for infants with fragile skin. The simulation is low tech and can be adapted for other skills. Learn more about this creative simulation.

If you want to know more about ChatGPT and artificial intelligence, don't miss this podcast with Candise Branum (Foley Library) and Martin Schiavenato (School of Nursing), Gonzaga University. They used ChatGPT to answer a PICO question, and they share their results. They also discuss students' use of AI to generate essays, issues related to AI use in nursing education, and some solutions.

Dr. Janet Reed explains how she uses generative artificial intelligence (AI) in her courses, the challenges she has experienced with AI, and future uses of generative AI in nursing education.

The National Council of State Boards of Nursing published the 2021 NCLEX statistics noting a significant downward trend in the first-time pass rates for associate degree in nursing programs over the last 2 years. One program's 2020-2021 NCLEX-RN results for first-time testers fell below the state-required 80% at 68.09% (32 out of 47 students). In this podcast Dr. Kaitlin Cobourne presents curriculum strategies that resulted in dramatic improvement in first-time NCLEX pass rates in their ADN program.

Population health has been revived in this venue of health care involvement in the community and social determinants of health. Dr. Susan Harrington presents the findings of her study to define population health and identify topics to include in the undergraduate curriculum. She also shares teaching strategies and skills and competencies needed by new nurses for implementation of population health to improve health outcomes.

If you are looking for strategies for teaching clinical judgment, listen to this podcast with Dr. Laura Calcagni. She discusses an active learning strategy she developed for clinical teaching and shares the research findings on its outcomes. This strategy works.

In this podcast Dr. Beth Phillips, Nikita Khalid, and Nicole Zapparrata describe ATI's Engage Fundamentals. This is an online interactive educational program that can be used in place of textbooks for nursing students. Be sure to also read their article in Nirse Educator: "Benefits of an online interactive educational program over traditional textbooks." The article is open access so you can read it for free.  

Benefits of delivering simulation and the processes that developers undertook to create simulations on diverse topics have been extensively published. What has not been largely examined is how to develop simulations regarding care provisions to Indigenous peoples, to teach students about care delivery with consideration of cultural practices of diverse groups that have and continue to experience inequities within the Canadian health care system. In this podcast. Dr. Kateryna Metersky presents a simulation strategy to help students embrace cultural humility. Embracing cultural humility helps the nurse and patient to have a collaborative relationship based on mutual respect.

Since the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been an increase in mental health disorders and the need for more accessible mental health services. The use of mobile mental health apps has potential to help support a growing population in need of mental health services. In this podcast, Jasmine Bratton-Robinson presents a teaching strategy using mobile apps to help students understand and apply mental health concepts to the practice setting. This learning experience promotes reflection and critical thinking about the mental health issues patients and the community experience.

Nursing students need preparation to care for families in the obstetric clinical setting where sensitive topics and experiences are routine. Concerns frequently cited by students include providing care during labor and birth, lack of confidence with newborn care, and feeling generally unprepared for the clinical experience. This podcast with Amy White and Lara Rivera presents a teaching strategy aimed at reducing student anxiety and enhancing their self-confidence prior to an obstetrics clinical rotation. 

Lena Brokob explains how she uses ChatGPT to develop case studies for teaching clinical judgment and preparing students for NCLEX. She also describes using ChatGPT for developing PPT and other teaching materials. Learn about benefits of AI for teaching in nursing and challenges in its use. 

Nursing would not be nursing without the work and vision of Florence Nightingale. Unfortunately, with an increasingly crowded curriculum, most nursing students are only exposed to the work of Nightingale peripherally and not given the impetus or opportunity to read her seminal work in depth. Dr. Monika Schuler discusses how Nightingale’s foundational work using the evidence promotes safe patient care and can be applied to any context, including creating a trusting educational environment for students.

Do you teach beginning students? Need a creative teaching strategy to actively engage students? Listen to this podcast with Dr. Lisa Shustack. She has developed an innovative strategy to teach vital signs and critical thinking in a flipped classroom. This strategy can be adapted to other content areas and skills, and can be used with other levels of students.

Dr. John Taylor describes a strategy he developed to prepare students for answering matrix items on the Next Generation NCLEX.

Dr. Adelita Cantu describes a teaching strategy she developed for beginning nursing students to learn about population health. The strategy involves a tour of the Holocaust Memorial and reflective writing assignment. Learn more about this strategy and how you can use it in your own courses.

The COVID-19 pandemic has been a defining event for the next generation of the nursing workforce. Complex pandemic practice environments have raised concerns for the preparation and support of novice nurses, even as a multitude of nurses leave the profession. This podcast with Dr. Normadeane Armstrong presents the results of a qualitative study focusing on students and new graduates’ experiences of the impact of the pandemic in their perception of nursing as a profession. The podcast also presents implications for future research and the need for students to learn coping and self-efficacy skills in nursing practice. The podcast emphasizes the need for student and nurses in practice to have a tool kit to help them cope with moral distress.

Navigating a faculty meeting can be challenging for new nurse educators. A faculty meeting typically includes words, phrases, and rules that are unfamiliar. This podcast with Dr. Will Brewer presents the detaildand outcomes of a simulated faculty meeting that was established to help train and build confidence in students enrolled in a master of science in nursing education program. 

Little research exists on mentoring programs for nurse practitioner (NP) students. This podcast with Dr. Covelli presents the results of a pilot project aimed to develop, implement, and evaluate a distance program with NP alumni mentoring students across the United States. Most mentees wanted more job-hunting and resume-writing tips; mentors were interested in receiving strategies for mentoring and calendar reminders of important school events. Alumni were interested in helping prepare future NPs by serving as mentors but needed training.

Drs. Lindsay Iverson and Theresa Jizba describe their use of the ELNEC Graduate Curriculum to teach NP students about primary palliative care. Students gained important knowledge about palliative care and importantly developed essential competencies for patient care. 

Nursing programs regularly conduct assessments to gather input from faculty, students, and staff about the effectiveness of the curriculum and the quality of education and academic climate. Process improvements based on these data are made. In the podcast Dr. Danette Cruthirds, Godsgrace Tettyefio, and Dr. Dina Kurzweil describe the creation of an animation to help students appreciate the importance of their feedback in the evaluation process.

In this podcast Dr. Myriam Jean Cadet presents a creative teaching strategy to promote student learning. PlayPosit is an interactive video tool that can be used for formative evaluation to guide the teaching process and support students' achievement of the course learning outcomes. Formative evaluation aids faculty in assessing students' learning, providing constructive feedback to students, and improving own teaching techniques. Faculty can adjust their instructional strategies to help students achieve the course learning outcomes.

Low numbers of new graduate nurses entering careers in primary care are insufficient to meet the demand of the current nursing shortage. Drs. Dolansky and Mitchell describe the Enhancing Nurse Roles in Community Health Fellowship. This Fellowship focuses on increasing undergraduate students' exposure to population health concepts by providing opportunities to practice in primary care settings.    

In this podcast Thye Peng Ngo and J'Andra Antisdel report on their study with nearly 1,000 prelicensure nursing students about the students' sleep quality during the COVID-19 pandemic. Students who had hybrid courses (remote combined with  in person) had the worst sleep quality. Learn about strategies we can use as faculty to improve students' sleep quality.

Are you satisfied with your faculty role? What about your work-life balance? Learn about an important study by Dr. Ryan Crawford that examined demographic differences in satisfaction and work-life balance of prelicensure nursing faculty.

Nursing programs are challenged with retaining nurse faculty due to many complex factors, one being the problem of suboptimal transition to the role. This podcast with Dr. Amber Brice Young discusses the results of a study about an innovative strategy to assess the impact of an onboarding and orientation program, the Teaching Excellence Program (TEP), on the transition of newly hired nurse faculty. TEP focuses on the Scholarship of Teaching to slowly orient and mentor newly hired faculty to the multiple roles they have in an academic setting.

If you are teaching online, don't miss this podcast with Dr. Beth Marquez. She describes their Let's Check in for Success strategy and its key initiatives for developing a collaborative learning environment for students and faculty.

Nursing schools need to provide students with the appropriate tools to develop competencies and resources to actualize moral courage to advance health equity and social mission. This podcast with Dr. Asefeh Faraz Covelli describes themes from a study involving 6 nursing programs that exemplify a variety of ways that social mission goals are pursued in different contexts. While each school approaches social mission differently, there are commonalities across cases including a number of necessary factors for schools to advance their social mission goals. Diversity, equity, inclusion, and social determinants of health were integral to the study.

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 (CRSs) such as Pear Deck, Kahoot, or Classtime. This podcast describes how these interactive and engaging technologies promote knowledge, application, and analysis of patient-centered scenarios in didactic settings. The scenarios and technologies help students to critically thinking using a Clinical Judgment Model.

Students in virtual classes need learning experiences that support critical thinking and involve appropriate case studies for knowledge application. Engaging remote learners can be challenging for nurse educators. With an increase in virtual learning, nurse educators are seeking activities that support engagement and improve critical thinking. This podcast with Caroline Littleton presents an active and engaging learning experience to promote critical thinking and clinical reasoning using Stop Action Videos in a virtual learning environment.

Drs. DiClemente and Ursuy describe an innovative and much needed clinical teaching strategy they developed for prelicensure students. They explain the impetus for developing the strategy and describe the strategy, how they integrated it within courses, and how they prepared clinical educators for using it.

Drs. Amalia Gedney-Lose and Dan Crawford describe an innovative learning activity they developed for FNP students. In this activity, students interact with children in a simulated environment. Learn about the benefits for students and key takeaways.

This podcast with Dr. Jane Dickinson presents the results of a study to determine whether 4 concepts representing the focus of the discipline—context, holism, health, and caring—were present in program and course descriptions in 300 four-year BSN programs in the US. Preliminary results indicated that discipline-specific concepts are missing from many programs. The study serves as a model for nursing programs to identify concepts to be included in course descriptions. Learn more about this study in a video at the Nurse Educator website and article.

Polypharmacy is frequently associated with geriatric patients who are at a higher risk of medication nonadherence and adverse drug events. Medication nonadherence is a common problem for clinicians who provide care for older adult patients. This podcast with Dr. Jennifer Kim discusses the structure of a high impact simulation experience for nurse practitioner students with a geriatric focus.

Dr. Lisa Diamond uses art as a teaching strategy in her NP courses. Learn more about this strategy in this podcast.

Whether you are teaching a large or small class, in person or online, don't miss this podcast with Dr. Amy Mackos. She explains how she used the muddiest points strategy in her online pathophysiology course. 

Drs. Stacy Huber and Tina Antill Keener describe their course on developing nursing students' caring behaviors and compassion. The Nurses' Role in the Patient Experience course includes innovative learning activities and assignments. As one of the assignments, students read excerpts from 2 books, and the book authors share their experiences as patients in an online discussion.

Dr. Michele Roberts describes the SAMR model and explains why it is a good framework for integrating technology in nursing education.

Despite recommendations to include disability content in nursing education, nursing students have little exposure to disability education. The authors developed a tabletop simulation for teaching disabilities to nursing students. A community advisory group was created to advise the development of this project and included individuals with disabilities, their family members, and people who work with individuals with disabilities in community settings. The authors also share strategies for integrating disability content into a nursing curricuum.   

Dr. Mary Beth Maguire describes a benchmark study to measure the quality of care students deliver in simulation. The purpose was to compare national Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) survey data with data received from standardized patients (SPs). Findings suggest HCAHPS data can be used to model correlates of the quality of care SPs receive from students during simulation events.

Studies demonstrate considerable prejudice toward transgender individuals, creating barriers to health care. This podcast with Dr. Gerry Altmiller presents the results of a study aimed at helping students to identify their biases in a simulation experience to enhance the care of people who represent the transgender community.

ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence-driven, pretrained, deep learning language model, can generate natural language text in response to a given query. Its rapid growth has led to concerns about ethical use in academia. This podcast with Drs Sun and Hoelscher presents the benefits and limitations of using ChatGPT in academia and the clinical practice setting from a legal and ethical perspective. The authors emphasize the need for policies and procedures to guide faculty and nurses in  clinical practice setting about the proper and efficient use of these technologies

The statistical methods portion of the DNP project can be challenging for students. A school of nursing, in collaboration with the University's Department of Research, created a statistical methods algorithm for students to use while developing their DNP project. Drs. Johnston, Astrella, and Grimm explain the algorithm and its use.

Dr. Rebecca Kronk describes their online genomics competency course developed for doctoral students and nurses. Course development was funded by NIH with the aim to prepare nurses with genomics knowledge and competencies. The course is online and asynchronous - and FREE. You  will receive CE hours for completing the course. Learn more in this podcast!

An innovative remote learning intervention, PICO Pal, was developed to promote students' interactive learning, collaboration, and information literacy. PICO Pal used Apple Numbers to facilitate remote group work on a PICOT poster.

There is a growing interest in faculty practice. Dr. Kelly Gonzales describes the Faculty Practice Mentoring Program, its components, and outcomes.

Communication and trust-building are important in caring for patients who experience the multiple dimensions of suffering at the end of life. Communication, collaboration, and trust building in end-of-life care are facilitated when nurse educators expose their students to culturally sensitive scenarios in simulation and face-to-face interactions with patients and families. This podcast with Dr. Zainab Osakwe provides listeners with strategies to thread cultural education and sensitivity in the curriculum. Case studies are effective learning activities for students. An emphasis is placed on developing partnerships with community agencies to help students learn about culturally sensitive and equitable care. The concepts covered in this podcast focus on palliative care at the end of life for diverse patient populations, but can be generalized to all patients across the lifespan.

Many nurse educators find it challenging to incorporate inclusivity into the classroom in an effort to translate it to nursing practice. Rachael Salguero and Julika Wocial share an innovative strategy in this podcast. They add an inclusive language tip of the day at the start of every class to bring attention to this terminology.

Partnerships between health care systems and schools of nursing are being encouraged on multiple fronts. One creative and easy way to support nurses and build relationships between the school and health care facilities is to provide breakroom baskets. These baskets include small items to help nurses during their long shifts at the hospital. This podcast with Drs. Terri Clark and Jenny Pappas discusses the implementation of breakroom baskets to celebrate the nursing profession and market nursing as a chosen profession. This is a good way to say thank you to nurses for supporting students in the clinical setting.

Dr. Kateryna Metersky developed the CLLEAR framework to give structure to her online nursing classes. The framework, based on best practices in nursing education, stands for Connect, Look Back, Learn, Empower, Apply, and Reconnect. She describes each component of the framework and its use for teaching in nursing.

The Future of Nursing Report 2020-2030 calls for nursing education to integrate the social determinants of health in the curriculum to prepare future nurses to take an active role in identifying and addressing health inequities. This podcast with Dr. Emerson Ea presents ways that deep thinking helps students to plan care for patients from various populations.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, nurse educators had to adapt quickly to required changes in nursing education following isolation mandates. Educators worked diligently to provide a quality remote/online educational experience with limited resources. This podcast with Drs. Amy Mersiovsky and Dawn Reiss presents themes identified in a scoping review including teaching pedagogy, technology challenges, online teaching role, learning environment, leadership, clinical education, and well-being.

In this podcast, Dr. Ruth Woroch describes an innovative teaching strategy for nurse practitioner (NP) students. Students participate in longitudinal scenarios over multiple semesters where the patient (a standardized patient) is seen multiple times by the students. The scenarios are complex, and patients have multiple co-morbidities. Dr. Woroch explains why the faculty developed these scenarios and their implementation in the curriculum.

Kristin Petrovic explains the integration of nursing ethics with critical and open pedagogy in nursing education. She also shares key teaching strategies that faculty can adopt for their classrooms. Learn more about this new framework in the podcast.

Dr. Rebecca Fenton, in her pediatric course, prepares nursing students to do vision and hearing screenings for school-aged children. She follows the Texas screening guidelines, and manual. Following this training, students are able to get their certifications in visual and hearing screening. Learn more about this in the podcast.

Finding strategies to engage students in the application of nursing ethics is challenging. To provide a safe venue for students to wrestle with ethically wrought patient scenarios, faculty created vignettes based on personal clinical experiences that present numerous ethical dilemmas. These vignettes help students to use critical thinking and communication skills and to develop self-awareness of personal bias. Susan Siebert and Ashley Carter explain their teaching strategy in this podcast.

Julie Blazek and Dr. Toni Morris discuss the benefits of exposing prelicensure students to primary care nursing. They describe their academic minor in primary care, curriculum revision to include experiences in primary care, and collaboration with clinical partners.

Rana Najjar, Joanne Noone, and Karen Reifenstein discuss supporting an inclusive environment through correct name pronunciation. They share key times and strategies to pronounce names correctly.

Academic nursing has a long history of partnering with practice-based settings to provide clinical learning experiences for nursing students; however, these placements are not easily obtained, especially in pediatrics. The COVID-19 pandemic required a pediatric hospital and 3 academic nursing programs to rethink clinical instruction through an academic-practice partnership. This podcast with Drs. Simmy King, Bethany Cieslowski, Denise Pope, and Devora Winkfield presents the structure and outcomes of the partnership to help promote student learning in a BSN program.

Continued restrictions imposed on face-to-face learning related to the pandemic resulted in a decision to permanently transition a graduate nursing education advanced assessment course from a hybrid to an online learning modality. This podcast with Drs. Barnes and Vance presents the process of transitioning from a hybrid format to a totally online format in a physical assessment course for advanced practice nursing students. Student-centered learning, faculty presence, student and faculty engagement, student-to-student engagement, and critical thinking are emphasized.

Graduate students in Dr. Lisa Diamond's courses write poems to promote their learning about course content. In this podcast she discusses using poetry in nursing courses and the importance of arts and humanities in nursing education.

In 2023, the NCSBN will launch the updated licensure examination, Next-Generation (NGN) NCLEX, which will use new test item formats to evaluate new graduate nurses' clinical decision-making processes at a more advanced level. In this podcast Dr. Wands presents a gaming strategy to help faculty embrace and develop confidence writing NGN test items at a high cognitive level to promote critical thinking and clinical reasoning using the National Council of State Boards of Nursing Detailed Test Plan and nursing process as frameworks.

Safe patient care is closely linked to clinical judgment. Concerns about inadequate practice readiness and the impending inclusion of clinical judgment items on the NextGen NCLEX have resulted in increasing interest in and publications about teaching clinical judgment. However, little is known about actual current practices for teaching this skill. This podcast with Drs. Ann Nielson, Kathie Lasater, Lisa Gonzalez, and Janet Monagle presents a discussion on the need for programs to have a clinical judgment model as a curricular framework and selected teaching strategies to promote critical thinking, clinical reasoning, and clinical judgment. They share results from their national survey.

Medication reconciliation is a formal process of creating a complete and accurate listing of a patient’s prescription and non-prescription medications. Drs. Stansell, Paris, and Clark discuss the use of simulation in the medication reconciliation process in novice nursing students. Critical thinking, communication, safety, and interprofessional collaboration are frameworks for this high impact and engaging learning experience.

An understanding of health promotion in nursing programs is often evaluated through formative assessments such as quizzes and examinations. There is a need for more contemporary methods of teaching and active learning. This podcast with Dr. Crystal Walker presents a teaching tip using social media platforms to help students achieve the knowledge, skills, and attitudes to promote healthy behaviors in patients.

Dr. Amy Manderscheid describes her innovative Call Light Challenge teaching strategy to engage beginning students in clinical practice. She explains how students accrue points, how the point system is designed, outcomes  of this strategy, and adapting it for your own courses. 

The American Association of Colleges of Nursing adopted the new Essentials and competency-based education (CBE) to ensure that nursing programs are addressing domains, competencies, and sub-competencies and have clearly defined CBE learning statements and assessment tools. This podcast with Mary Stachowiak, DNP, RN, CNL, presents a framework and tools that nursing programs can use as they engage in curriculum assessment and evaluation.

Drs. Eda Ozkara San, Gina Robertiello, Jennifer Nahum, and Beth Latimer discuss their integration of disability content in nursing simulation. They developed an innovative tabletop simulation as part of their pediatric nursing course. They also share strategies for integrating disability content throughout the curriculum with a focus on outcomes and competencies.

An innovative remote learning intervention, PICO Pal, was developed for prelicensure nursing students to promote interactive learning, collaboration, and information literacy. PICO Pal used Apple Numbers to facilitate remote group work on a PICOT poster. Daria Waszak, Kady Martini, and Missi Stec describe PICO Pal.

Prelicensure nursing students experience a great deal of stress and anxiety while in school. in this podcast, Drs. Bussard and Mohoney present the value of a relaxation room to help students with their anxiety and promote success in their studies.

Dr. Sandra Davis discusses how she creates podcasts to help her students understand difficult or challenging concepts in an easier to understand manner. The podcast discusses the value of giving content and concepts to students in a conversational manner.  The conversational approach is a form of Socratic learning, which is a high impact teaching strategy.

Tik Tok is a social media platform for sharing short videos. This podcast with Dr. Gapp explains how TiK Tok was used with novice nursing students to engage them in learning. The podcast presents selected short vignettes that faculty can use when using Tik Tok technology.

Dr. Angela MacDonald explains why we need effective and equitable academic policies in schools of nursing. She discusses the need for data to inform policies (and provides an example) and identifies types of data faculty might use when making decisions about academic policies.

Dr. Kristi Miller describes a video she developed with embedded medication and other errors for teaching nursing students about patient safety. She discusses how she uses this video in her course.

Dr. Melissa Harlan and Dr. Susan Miller describe their innovative evolving case studies. With these case studies, students progress through six phases, which simulate a clinical practice day. They used Excel to build the EMR for the case. There are multiple ways faculty can use these evolving case studies in their courses.

At Villanova University, Dr. Ruth McDermott-Levy has developed learning opportunties for nursing students with immigrant groups. In this podcast you will learn about the outcomes students achieve from these experiences and benefits for immigrants and the community. Dr. McDermott-Levy and her team studied nursing students' self-efficacy in working with immigrant clients - be sure to read the article in the July-August issue of Nurse Educator (pp. 225-229).

Prelicensure students struggle with developing clinical judgment skills. The National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN) Clinical Judgment Model can be used in a simulation to promote critical thinking, clinical judgment, and decision making. This podcast with Dr. David Want presents a clinical scenario using the Model, focusing on the debriefing that has the most learning impact. A secondary focus of this podcast is enhancing facilitator and faculty education about the use of the Model to promote interrater reliability in the teaching and learning experience.

This podcast with Dr. Katie Vanderzwan discusses 2 innovative curricular approaches implemented on the basis of Bloom's taxonomy to teach handoff education: experiential and virtual. The outcomes of the 2 curricular innovations were evaluated for handoff completion, accuracy, and quality, based on context. Communication, interprofessional collaboration, and critical thinking are integral to the learning experiences.

It is time consuming for nurse educators to provide feedback to students on drafts of their papers especially with large classes. Learn about a peer review activity in which students provide asynchronous online feedback to a peer on a written assignment. This strategy was developed and evaluated by Drs. Lynn Brown and Amy Cicchino, who share their technique and benefits for students in this podcast.

If you are not doing virtual post-exam reviews, you will after this podcast with Kaitlin Cobourne. You will learn about the process to use, considerations, how to prepare for a virtual post-exam review, amd strategies (e.g., student self reflection and exam wrappers).

Dr. Mindy Tait has developed a series of learning activities for her pharmacology course that prepare students for the Next Gen NCLEX. In this podcast she explains how she integrated highlighting tables into her pharmacology course.

Test item construction and analysis are always challenging for nursing faculty. Next generation NCLEX (NGN) requires graduates to think critically and use clinical judgment to identify safe, quality care. This podcast with Dr. Desiree Hensel presents strategies that nurse educators can use to create test items that prepare students for NGN.

In this podcast, Drs. Hays and Kruse describe how they integrated the standardized National HIV Curriculum (free for faculty and students) in their NP program. They also studied the effects of integrating the 6 core competencies from the HIV Curriculum on NP students' perceived knowledge about HIV care.

The average student has an attention span of approximately 10 to 15 minutes, requiring teachers to use active and engaging strategies to help learners think critically. This podcast with Dr. Jake Bush presents concepts that are critical to engage students in active learning. An emphasis is placed on the importance of using a flipped classroom to promote student accountability in their own learning with the teacher as a guide. There is an emphasis of using fun and humor in the learning experience.

Manisha Mittal, an instructional designer, explains how to use video feedback for written assignments. Video feedback is not only beneficial for students, it saves faculty time.

Clinical sites are increasingly difficult to secure due to shorter hospital stays, increased clinical site competition, and limited availability of practicum sites. Little is known about the use of schools for a pediatric clinical practicum. Using schools is thought to be a common practice, but findings of a national survey suggest otherwise. This podcast with Drs. Schultz and Krassa discusses school-based practicums that provide students with skills beyond acute care competencies.

Learn some new teaching strategies to link environmental issues to vulnerable populations. Jordan Ferris and Dr. Heidi Johnston present a number of innovative teaching methods to help students make these important connections. One of the strategies they use is ecological mapping. Learn more about this strategy in the podcast.

Contemporary health care environments require a diverse nursing workforce. This podcast with Drs. Mokel and Ro presents the results of an integrative research review about underrepresented faculty in schools of nursing. They discuss the importance of effective communication, role modeling, intentional presence, and mentoring. Nursing programs need to have policies, procedures, and programs that promote diversity of and mentoring for nursing faculty.

Nursing students often experience overwhelming stress and anxiety that stems from the rigor of their nursing program and work and personal responsibilities. This podcast with Dr. Hollis Franco presents strategies that reduce stress using mindfulness. Mindfulness is an intentional process of self-management and can be applied in any context. Mindfulness provides a holistic mechanism for nursing students to cope with stress and anxiety.

In this podcast with Dr. Michelle Freeman and Susan Dennison (University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada), you will learn about the school's medication incident reporting system. The authors explain why they focused on near misses, present the types and extent of near-miss medication errors made by students, and provide examples of these incidents. They also describe the learning outcomes for students as well as faculty.

If you need support for using technology in your courses, listen to this podcast with Katie Peterson and Kristina Fogelson. They pioneered a new role: E-Champion. E-Champions are unpaid student volunteers enrolled in the courses they support who (1) develop and share expertise of hardware and technology applications; (2) collaborate with faculty, students, and other E-Champions to provide technology support before, during, and after the class in the synchronous environment; and (3) provide feedback to optimize learning experiences for class participants. Learn about this new role to support faculty.

In this podcast, Dr. Callie Tennyson explains microlearning and how she uses social media in her courses. She provides guidelines and recommendations for educators who want to use social media as a teaching tool. 

Dr. Courtney Shihabuddin shares an innovative teaching strategy she developed using peer-assisted learing and near-peer learning with NP students. She also discusses the use of this strategy with other graduate nursing students.

Dean Maria Shirey and Drs. Whitney Pollio and Lynn Nichols describe their primary care nursing course for prelicensure students and the strategies they integrated in the course to build students' resiliency skills. Their goal is to prepare a resilient primary care RN workforce. Learn how they integrated resiliency training in their curriculum, provided a resiliency coach for students, and developed active learning strategies including a board game to engage students in primary care scenarios.  

Nurse educators are called to engage students in learning activities in class, online, clinical, and simulation. This podcast with Dr. Kathleen Rhodes presents a high impact teaching strategy that requires students to use clinical reasoning and decision-making while correlating patient-centered data to verbalize a rationale why answers to a scenario are correct or incorrect. This learning experience also promotes the socialization of students as they learn.

Telehealth has moved to the global forefront as an effective solution to address health care needs during the pandemic and currently. This podcast with Ms. Nancy Ochs presents one school of nursing’s integration of a telehealth simulation with communication, critical thinking, clinical reasoning, interprofessional collaboration, and relationship-building to address the multiple dimensions of a patient’s problems.