Learn how a nurse educator and a teaching and learning librarian at Western Washington University created an innovative approach to teaching digital information literacy. In this podcast, Emily Spracklin and Christine Espina used professional fact-checker strategies, a reflection notebook, and an information literacy framework to develop student competency in information evaluation skills. Read their article for more details about how they teach students to sift credible information from a myria...
Jun 25, 2025•20 min
Interprofessional education (IPE) is important for health professions students, but advanced practice nursing students often lack opportunities to practice interprofessional care in ambulatory scenarios. A team of health professions educators designed an interprofessional simulation focused on the ambulatory care setting and implemented it with health science students at a large midwestern university. Family and psychiatric-mental health nurse practitioner students, along with students from unde...
Jun 25, 2025•22 min
Are you using video announcements in your online courses? If not, listen to this podcast with Dr. Darci McCall and read her article . Video announcements are an effective way to enhance connection and improve the learner’s experience in an online course. Unlike text-based communication, these humanize the instructor, bringing presence and authenticity to the virtual classroom. Incorporating video announcements into a course is a simple but valuable addition. By strengthening instructor presence ...
Jun 25, 2025•23 min
Learn how one prelicensure course in community and population health helps students develop empathy in marginalized populations and practice trauma-informed care with all patients. Dr. Jennifer Forbush describes a collaboration with local teachers to facilitate social and emotional learning in at-risk highschoolers. Find out more about her teaching strategy in her Nurse Educator article ....
Jun 11, 2025•9 min
Feedback alone does not satisfy the need for structured debriefing, which is part of good simulation. In this podcast, Ashley McMath explains how she used Socratic questioning during debriefing to help students uncover their thinking behind their actions and foster an environment of open dialogue and reflection. Read more about the debriefing strategy in her article Nurse Educator....
Jun 11, 2025•7 min
In this podcast and article , Dr. Megan Jester describes an innovative learning activity in which students share photographs (taken as part of class) that represent the mental health continuum. The activity begins with a faculty-led lecture introducing the mental health continuum. In groups, students walk around campus, taking photos of objects that reflect the continuum. Groups then create and share a PowerPoint slide featuring their selected object and write a social media statement. Dr. Jeste...
Jun 11, 2025•21 min
Drs. Pamela Miller and Theresa Marcotte designed an in-class exercise to help students understand the differences between an article summary and a synthesis of information from several articles. Using a PICOT question, students perform a critical analysis of specific content in 3 journal articles. This activity is a competency-based strategy that could be employed in entry-level and graduate courses....
Jun 11, 2025•15 min
The transition from clinical practice to graduate studies can be daunting to some practicing nurses. It is well documented that graduate nursing students lack academic preparation for rigorous scholarly work. Drs. Kimberly Douglas and Edmund Pajarillo describe a national onboarding consortium of graduate nursing faculty that uses a model onboarding program to address graduate students’ academic preparedness. The program is easily adopted to support students from various backgrounds and regions w...
May 28, 2025•23 min
Did you know that 17% of individuals in the US live with substance use disorder (SUD)? Nursing curricula may not adequately address SUD, and stigma can impact patients’ care. Their project measured stigma toward people with SUD among prelicensure nursing students. Students with personal experience had lower stigma scores than those without this experience. In this podcast, Drs. Jennifer Crook and Sarah Febres-Cordero explain the importance of preparing students to care for patients with SUD and ...
May 28, 2025•21 min
This podcast with Drs. Leslie Lopez and Melissa Nunn presents a learner-led clinical simulation to improve communication-specific developmental screening skills of nurse practitioner students. The simulation prepares students to care diverse patients with an emphasis on the pediatric population.
May 28, 2025•26 min
Transitioning current curriculum to the 2021 AACN Essentials, or redesigning curriculum to align with the competency-based Essentials, can be challenging. A group of nurse educators created a crosswalk between the QSEN graduate competency statements and the Essentials to support this transition. Learn more in this podcast and their article about how you can access their crosswalk tool that shows an increase in complexity of expectations for contemporary nursing practice....
May 14, 2025•13 min
Teaching nursing students how to conduct a human-centered design project fosters their creative self-efficacy and cultivates design thinking. In this podcast, Dr. Jeana Holt describes how she implemented experiential learning based on a human-centered design approach to solving patient care problems. More details about her project and future directions for work in human-centered design are explained in her article ....
May 14, 2025•10 min
A tabletop simulation, called Triage Tabletop, was developed by Dr. Laura Liggett and Brandi Snow to offer acute care nurse practitioner (NP) students an opportunity to experience clinical decision-making when triaging patients in the hospital setting. They join us in this podcast to explain this teaching strategy. During an on-campus clinical immersion, students were divided into groups of 4 to 5 each to act as rounding hospitalist NPs with a census of 8 patients. The students worked together t...
May 14, 2025•19 min
Nurses play a critical role in reducing health inequities in people experiencing homelessness (PEH), a key social determinant of health. The authors developed and validated competencies; associated knowledge, skills, and attitudes; and concepts, content, and learning activities to serve as an educational framework in providing care for PEH. Learn more about these competencies in this podcast with Rachel Richmond, Joanne Noone, Heather Voss, Aina Hale, and Marilyn Gran-Moravec. Be sure to read th...
Apr 30, 2025•16 min
Interprofessional team training (IPTT) prepares students from health care professions for team-based care. In this podcast with Dr. Allison Shorten, you will learn why IPTT is important. In their study with 866 students from 11 professions, they compared in-person and online delivery of IPTT: both groups improved, but the in-person delivery resulted in the greatest improvement. However, as Dr. Shorten explains, advantages from in-person delivery should be weighed against online logistical advant...
Apr 30, 2025•22 min
With the explosion of artificial intelligence (AI), nurse educators are harnessing its impact in education. The most recent trend of AI usage has been with lecture slides. In this podcast, Dr. DeAnna Gapp explains how she uses AI to facilitate her work as a faculty member and presents strategies for using AI in preparing lectures. More examples are provided in Dr. Gapp’s teaching tip ....
Apr 30, 2025•24 min
In this podcast, Dr. Chelsea Mellett explains the relationships among professional identity, hope, and job satisfaction. Improving nurses’ professional identity can lead to higher job satisfaction and ultimately reduce nurse turnover. Learn about their study on the intersections between career motivation, professional identity formation, and belongingness in prelicensure nursing students and strategies you can use to improve students’ professional identity formation....
Apr 16, 2025•13 min
Allowing students to select from a variety of assessment strategies gives them an opportunity to create their own learning environment and choose their preferred pathway to academic success. Listen to this podcast to learn how Lisa Brennan used the VARK (visual, auditory, reading/writing/kinesthetic) framework to foster a sense agency to students in the assessment process. Read her article describing how you can use a similar strategy approach to assessment, or view her video if you prefer to en...
Apr 16, 2025•15 min
Nurse Educator is celebrating its 50th year of publishing articles addressing faculty and students' teaching and learning needs. This podcast presents the increasing need for males to select nursing as a profession from the personal perspective of Dr. Harrell Jordan, Dean, School of Nursing, Chamberlain University. Dr. Jordan discusses his experiences as a male in nursing and the continued need to recruit more males, including males of color, into the profession.
Apr 08, 2025•24 min
Nursing students are at risk for developing secondary traumatic stress (STS) while completing their clinical training. Kristen Oakley synthesized the research on the prevalence, severity, and experience of STS and its associated factors in prelicensure nursing students. Findings from their review of 25 studies revealed a range of STS symptom severity levels and associated factors; however, measurement is hampered by researchers’ use of other concepts, like compassion fatigue....
Apr 02, 2025•15 min
Dr. Curry Bordelon describes the integration of AI into a graduate nursing informatics course . Students used AI in each of the modules of the course.
Apr 02, 2025•29 min
Nursing students often have online experiences and various media interests that may influence their learning experience. Digital audio technology, such as podcasts, can be used as an adjunct to traditional teaching strategies to incorporate a variety of learning mediums. Faculty may produce podcasts or use artificial intelligence (AI). In this podcast and article , Dr. April Folgert and Kerry DeGroot present an engaging learning activity using AI to promote critical thinking....
Apr 02, 2025•19 min
Guidelines on how to sustain the outcomes of simulation training and evaluate training programs are limited. Dr. Jane Paige describes their study of the impact of a professional development workshop for individuals responsible for developing, sustaining, and evaluating simulation educator training programs. They used a longitudinal exploratory design, guided by the New World Kirkpatrick Model. Significant changes in knowledge, confidence, and commitment were observed over time. This is a good ex...
Apr 02, 2025•25 min
The use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools to prepare health professions admissions applications is increasing. These tools can improve writing but raise ethical concerns about application authenticity. Drs. Jill Brennan-Cook and Stephanie Gedzyk-Nieman share the results of their scoping review on the use of AI by applicants applying to nursing and other health professions programs and by admission reviewers. AI tools can enhance the efficiency of the admissions review process, but clear guid...
Mar 19, 2025•21 min
A school of nursing employed a nurse informaticist in its simulation laboratory to address the complexities of technology usage and aid in data analytics. Mr. Eric Hall describes his role as an informaticist in the simulation setting. Eric and Dr. Jo Ellen Holt share benefits and outcomes of this new role in simulation. Read more in their article .
Mar 19, 2025•18 min
When nurse educators foster a growth mindset, they help students understand that mindset and attitudes are developed through dedication and practice, rather than fixed traits. One strategy to address this challenge is to modify our language to use words that foster continuous growth. In assessments where students are at the practice level, the terminology of pass or fail can be replaced with pass or practice. By using this terminology, students view practice as a constructive avenue for growth i...
Mar 19, 2025•14 min
Faculty workload models related to DNP projects have not kept pace with increasing enrollment and program expectations. Dr. Sara Hubbell explains a new faculty workload that was developed related to DNP projects to reflect a more equitable and realistic model. The faculty developed the Collaborative Section-Based Faculty Workload Model that resulted in increases in faculty satisfaction, retention, and student mentorship, while maintaining DNP project rigor. You can learn more about this new Work...
Mar 19, 2025•17 min
Unfolding case studies help students apply their knowledge to real life patient scenarios. Traditional methods of presenting case studies in asynchronous online courses often include using written or video discussion boards, which require waiting for instructor feedback. This podcast with Dr. Michelle Neuman presents an innovative strategy to engage students in critical thinking and problem-solving activities using unfolding case studies in an asynchronous online learning environment. You can le...
Mar 05, 2025•12 min
For many undergraduate nursing students (64%), burnout begins during their educational program. Resilience is a known protective factor to buffer against stress exposure that leads to burnout, but a lack of formal resilience training for undergraduate nursing students persists. Equine-assisted learning interventions promote resilience and decrease stress and burnout in a diversity of populations. In this podcast (and article ), Dr. Shannon Burleson describes an equine-assisted learning intervent...
Mar 05, 2025•13 min
Moral distress is a phenomenon with known negative effects for health care professionals, including nurses. Moral distress is thought to occur when an individual knows the morally right thing to do but is unable to do it, based on internal and external constraints. This podcast with Dr. Kathy Forte (and their article ) presents a simulation experience for prelicensure students to help them experience a real-life ethical scenario from an ethical perspective....
Mar 05, 2025•16 min
