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Nurse Educator Tips for Teaching

Whether you are a beginning or an experienced nurse educator, you will get new ideas for your teaching in this podcast. Experts share teaching strategies you can use with your nursing students.

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Experiencing Patient Report Before the First Day of...

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2026/04/20

The first day of clinical practice can be an anxiety-provoking experience for students. Nursing faculty can be proactive in reducing anxiety by engaging them in a role-play scenario about what to expect during clinical. Role-play is a proven teaching strategy that helps students learn in a safe environment under faculty guidance and with well-defined boundaries. Dr. Sonique Sailsman discusses this role play in the podcast and teaching tip.

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01:35

Gallery Walk to Promote Critical Thinking

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2026/04/15

Novice students struggle to apply complex concepts to patient care. The Gallery Walk is a strategy that engages students, promotes critical thinking and clinical reasoning, and helps students prioritize in patient care. In this podcast and article, Kathleen McAdory presents the Gallery Walk that is used with novice students but can be used conceptually in any teaching context.

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27:04

Building Empathy Through Equine Experiences

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2026/04/15

In this podcast with Dr. Morgan Yordy, you will learn about her 2-hour elective course, titled Animal Assisted Therapy, that explores the human-animal bond, the roles of animals in communities, and their impact on health and wellness. The course is open to all majors and is especially popular among pre-health care students. One assignment of students is a field trip to a local farm, which provides equine programming for children with physical, emotional, and psychological needs.

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23:34

Planetary Health in Health Professions Education

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2026/04/15

Climate and planetary health shape the environments in which people live and, therefore, are central to nursing's mission to protect health and reduce inequities. Climate change drives heat-related illness, extreme weather, poor air quality, shifting infectious diseases, and food and water insecurity—all of which increase disease burden and disproportionately harm vulnerable populations. Nurses are often the first and most trusted professionals to encounter these impacts, but they frequently lack

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17:59

Neurodiversity: Effective Teaching Strategies for...

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2026/04/15

Neurodiversity is an umbrella term that describes a wide range of variation in cognition, learning, and behaviors. In this podcast and article, Drs. Cummings and Serembus share inclusive and engaging teaching strategies for neurodivergent students. The strategies incorporate principles of Universal Design for Learning, support social-emotional learning, and provide a sensory-friendly environment that improves learning outcomes of all students.

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21:15

NurseKind AI: New technology for nurse educators

Nurse Educator Tips for Teaching ·

2026/04/15

NurseKind AI (nursekindai.com) transcribes and analyzes real audio recordings of nursing student interactions and gives scored feedback on empathy, therapeutic communication, and clinical judgment in about 90 seconds. Simulation tools cover clinical knowledge through text-based scenarios. NurseKind AI covers the other side: how students actually talk to patients, whether they listen, and whether empathy comes through in the conversation. Built by a psychiatric nurse practitioner and nursing faculty

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31:32

Multiple Intelligences Guided AI-Assisted Learning

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2026/04/01

Dr. Sotos Djiovanis and Donna Ramos developed a series of AI-assisted formative assignments for in-class group learning in a health assessment course, guided by Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences. The goal was to develop learners' knowledge of course material and learn best practices for using AI generators to create study aids. The in-class work focused on written, pictorial, and video AI-generated content in different weeks. Groups were assigned different topical objectives to develop

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23:28

Communication Pedagogy with AI-Generated Responses

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2026/04/01

The educational experiences of current nursing students, shaped by unprecedented access to advanced technologies, have made face-to-face communication and therapeutic relationship-building more challenging. Drs. Nelson and Serratt describe their qualitative study on the effectiveness, usability, and trustworthiness of a generative AI tool in helping nursing students improve communication in emotionally intense situations. The study demonstrated AI's potential to support therapeutic communication

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18:52

Extending the Classroom With Instagram for Q&A and...

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2026/04/01

Dr. Cassie Moffitt created a private Instagram account where students can anonymously ask clarifying questions related to class content. Since most students already use Instagram, the platform was an accessible choice. Each day, the faculty member posts a story with a question box. Students submit questions anonymously, which are answered in the order received through follow-up stories. To ensure continued access, responses are saved as permanent reels. Dr. Moffitt provides other examples of the

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16:31

The "Art" of Ethics: A Creative Strategy for Teaching...

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2026/03/18

Ethical principles are difficult concepts for students to grasp. In this episode and article, Dr. Valerie Wright discusses an innovative strategy she developed using art as a means to engage students and promote active learning in a leadership course.

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22:33

Promoting Self-care and Well-being among Advanced...

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2026/03/18

The focus on self-care and self-advocacy in nursing is particularly significant for students in advanced practice nursing (APN) programs given the high rates of burnout among APNs. Drs. Davis, Lysaght, and Mullins designed and implemented coursework to prepare graduate nursing students in their APN program for the demands of clinical practice. One of their assignments used a 2-part interactive case study to explore self-care and personal well-being of an APN working in a busy primary care setting

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18:24

iCare Compassionately: Model for Integrating...

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2026/03/18

Compassionate care is essential for positive patient outcomes and nurse well-being. Current models are largely practice-focused and not integrated into a nursing curriculum. Thus, new nurses are often unprepared to deliver compassionate care. In this podcast and article, Dr. Lori Brodie discusses a strategy to nurture compassion as a professional identity.

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27:01

Build Your Dream Unit Teaching Strategy

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2026/03/04

Dr. Kelly Pruden shares her innovative "Build Your Dream Unit – Nurse Recruitment Challenge," where students design an innovative clinical unit and then compete to recruit peers to work there. In this activity, small groups design a specialty unit (eg, ICU, Labor & Delivery, Medical-Surgical) incorporating evidence-based principles of healthy work environments, nurse well-being, and recruitment strategies. Dr. Pruden believes nursing students deserve to practice leadership long before they inherit

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17:15

Know, Want, Learn, Apply, and Question (KWLA+Q) Strategy

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2026/03/04

The Know, Want, Learn, Apply, and Question (KWLA+Q) strategy is an effective tool for fostering student engagement in online discussion threads. KWLA+Q not only enhances student participation and collaborative learning but also supports faculty in creating a responsive and dynamic online learning environment. Drs. Pascucci and Michaels describe the strategy and give examples of its use in online discussions. They provide more detail in their article.

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Enhancing Awareness of Unconscious Bias During...

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2026/03/04

Unconscious bias refers to attitudes and beliefs about certain people or groups of people that affect understanding, decisions, and actions. Early-semester nursing students are perfectly positioned to learn about unconscious bias and strategies to mitigate it. In the podcast and article, Dr. Natasha Morris shares a simple exercise she developed for students to highlight these biases. During a post-clinical conference, students are presented with a scenario where the world is ending, and a shelter

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14:43

Veteran to BSN Pathway Initiative

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2026/03/04

Dr. Deborah Sikes describes the Veteran to BSN Pathway initiative designed to help military veterans transition into professional nursing through a BSN program. The program builds on veterans' prior military training, healthcare experience, and leadership skills. She discusses how they evaluated and translated these into academic credit, advanced placement, and targeted support services.

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17:18

Use of the Stay SAFE Interruption Management Strategy

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2026/02/25

Interruptions can increase risks for errors. The Stay SAFE interruption management strategy aims to mitigate errors. Dr. Ginger Schroers describes her multisite study to determine nursing students' interruption management behaviors before and at multiple assessments after learning Stay SAFE. Four study sites (and 60 students) were included. Data were collected over 10 months via direct observation, self-report, and semi-structured interviews. Prelicensure nursing students independently completed 8

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37:36

Teaching Racism, Health Care, and Social Justice to...

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2026/02/18

Students and faculty at a large public university identified a gap in advanced practice nursing education and created a course focused on structural racism and its impact on health outcomes. In this podcast and article, Lisa Mihaly, Linda Stephan, Denisse Porter, Cara McGuinness, and Dr. Alicia Swartz explain the development of the course: Racism, Health Care, and Social Justice. The authors discuss challenges and benefits of teaching this course remotely. Their article includes a table with the

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12:20

Transitioning Simulation Education Objectives to CBE

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2026/02/18

Transitioning to competency-based education in nursing simulation education requires a systematic approach to curriculum assessment. Using the University's Online Simulation System, 2 experts selected American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) behavioral performance indicators that best matched behavioral outcomes associated with simulation student roles in 5 scenarios. In this podcast and article, Dr. Anita Stephen describes the 3-phased approach they used to align cognitive simulation

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19:36

Online Competency-Based NP Education

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2026/02/18

Dr. Teresa Conklin discusses the shift toward competency-based education and shares strategies that graduate nursing educators can use to provide proficiency-centered experiences for NP students. In her article she describes the role of an Accessibility Committee to apply the Americans with Disabilities Act standards to universal design of digital materials.

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