Artificial Intelligence: Reshaping Nursing Lectures
Nurse Educator Tips for Teaching
Release Date: 04/30/2025
Experiential Learning in Community Health: Adverse Childhood Events and Trauma-informed Care
Nurse Educator Tips for Teaching
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 .
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Debriefing for Skill Mastery in Nursing
Nurse Educator Tips for Teaching
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 Nurse Educator.
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Learning Activity Using Photography
Nurse Educator Tips for Teaching
In this podcast and , 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. Jester explains how this activity can be adapted for other courses including those offered online.
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Summary Versus Synthesis: An In-Class Exercise
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Drs. Pamela Miller and Theresa Marcotte designed an 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.
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Building a Consortium to Address Graduate Nursing Student Academic Preparedness
Nurse Educator Tips for Teaching
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 within the United States. The onboarding program was evaluated initially in a , which became the...
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Evaluating Stigma Toward Individuals With Substance Use Disorder
Nurse Educator Tips for Teaching
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 how to do this in the curriculum. Learn more about this project and strategies you can use in your...
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Improving Communication-specific Developmental Screening Skills of Nurse Practitioner Students
Nurse Educator Tips for Teaching
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.
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Graduate QSEN Competencies and the AACN Essentials
Nurse Educator Tips for Teaching
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 about how you can access their crosswalk tool that shows an increase in complexity of expectations for contemporary nursing practice.
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Human-Centered Design in Graduate Nursing Education
Nurse Educator Tips for Teaching
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 .
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Triage Tabletop Simulation for Developing Prioritization Skills
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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 to determine the order in which they would visit their patients based on acuity while keeping other...
info_outlineWith 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.