Active learning strategies for responding to bias often involve students role-playing potentially triggering scenes. A virtual escape room was developed to encourage the same level of active learning, while removing students from the need to playact distressing explicit and implicit bias. The escape room includes several virtual environments depicting different varieties of bias and prompting student responses. In this podcast and article, Juliann Stanis discusses the virtual escape room and why she developed it ..read more

The increasing trend of human and natural disasters in the world has given rise to the importance of disaster preparedness in nursing education. Dr. Jessica Gregg describes an innovative strategy she developed in which students create their own disaster simulations. Students were assigned to the roles of patient, narrator, or triaging nurse who was faced with limited resources and supplies. Learn more in this podcast and teaching tip ..read more

Dr. Beth Tremblay and Dr. Janice Hawkins describe their approach to integrating climate and health topics in prelicensure education with their “energy efficiency treasure hunt” and Climate for Health Ambassador Training. In this podcast, they share specific topics, tools, and teaching strategies you can use to thread climate education throughout nursing education curricula. Article ..read more

Drs. Catarelli and Booker describe the Innovation Studio they developed for teaching prelicensure students about evidence-based practice. Students self-selected a team and worked collaboratively through the steps of EBP to develop an innovative solution to clinical problem. This was followed by a Shark Tank, where the selected teams pitched their clinical product or prototype to local nursing leaders and alumni. Learn more about this engaging and interactive strategy in the podcast and the authors’ Teaching Tip ..read more

Nursing education is moving toward competency-based education (CBE) and assessment. In this podcast, Dr. Gerry Altmiller discusses CBE and explains how to develop strategies for measuring competence. She shares a study that used screen-based virtual patient simulation as a strategy for assisting learners in developing competencies and for assessing outcomes. Learn more about CBE and assessment in their article ..read more

Examinations have long been used in nursing education. Of concern is the fairness to students in the class when a student takes an examination after the originally scheduled date. Students who take examinations late may benefit from additional time to study resulting in an improvement in their score. In this podcast, Briauna Cole and Kelly Lovan-Gold discuss the findings to a study comparing scores between students who took examinations on time and those taking make-up examinations. Find out if it makes a difference in scores in the podcast and by reading the article ..read more

Clinical elective courses provide additional specialty knowledge for prelicensure nursing students; however, it is unknown how these courses impact nurses' clinical practice after graduation. Drs. Lisa Lewis and Michelle Hartman describe their study on the impact of these electives on new graduates' clinical practice. Half of the new graduates worked in clinical  areas that were the same, or related to, the elective they took. Graduates felt that taking the elective improved their confidence in the clinical setting and provided increased knowledge that put them at an advantage over t ..read more

Faculty awareness of and responses to nursing students’ psychological distress may decrease their experience of negative mental health well-being. Drs. Stubin and Ruth-Sahd describe their exploratory mixed-methods study with 989 undergraduate nursing students from across the U.S. Students’ resilience strategies and supportive faculty actions were predictors of lower depression, anxiety, and stress in students. In this podcast, you also will learn about supportive strategies you can use with students. Read their article for more specifics about the study ..read more

In this podcast and article, Drs. Karen Weeks, Elizabeth Herron, and Holly Buchanan explain how they link simulation, class, and clinical practice to competencies in their new model of simulation-based educational experience. Not only did they evaluate the outcomes among prelicensure students, but they followed students into practice as new graduates to examine the impact of this model.  ..read more

Self-reflection is a valuable method that nurse educators can use to develop clinical judgment skills among prelicensure nursing students. Little research exists on improving clinical judgment in second-degree nursing students in the clinical setting. In this podcast and article, Dr. Jennifer Maffucci presents how shared reflective practices in the clinical setting show promise for increasing clinical judgment and supporting a competency-based curriculum ..read more