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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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Integrating Complex Pain Concepts into Prelicensure...

Nurse Educator Tips for Teaching ·

2025/08/20

An unfolding case study for a complex concept such as chronic pain management can be scaffolded across a curriculum to better prepare future nurses for practice. This podcast with Dr. Kari Firestone presents a 4-term unfolding case study that was developed to address gaps in students’ learning. It was aligned with the American Association of College of Nursing Essentials and followed a patient from acute to chronic pain transition. Details are provided in their article.

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11:53

Connecting the Courses

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2025/08/06

Are your students unclear about the purpose of evidence-based practice (EBP) and need to learn this content? Listen to this podcast with Dr. Cassandra Ford and read her article. She developed a strategy to help students connect EBP to other nursing courses: the Course Connection Table. She shares the Course Connection Table with readers.

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22:34

Unit-Based Report Cards to Bridge Classroom and...

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2025/08/06

Nurse educators often face challenges in highlighting the clinical relevance of evidence-based practice (EBP) and quality improvement (QI) in undergraduate nursing courses. To address this, faculty collaborated with clinical partners to create a novel strategy aimed at bridging the gap between classroom learning and clinical application. Students used unit-based report cards for a fictional hospital, EBP General Hospital, modeled after real-world trends in patient outcomes established within the

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15:18

Enhancing Nurse Practitioner Education to Care for...

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2025/08/06

Critical care nurse practitioners have few opportunities to care for obstetric patients in the critical care setting and, therefore, may lack competence and confidence in caring for them. In this podcast, Jennifer Brower and Caitlin Luebcke describe their work and insights from an integration of obstetric-focused, multimodal instruction in an acute care nurse practitioner program. They share more details about their strategies for integration of a critical care obstetric curriculum in a nurse

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13:03

Student-Created Slideshows to Foster Belonging and...

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2025/07/23

Fostering a sense of belonging in the classroom is important for student engagement. An impactful way to build this sense of belonging is by opening class with a student-created slideshow. Students contribute a single PowerPoint slide featuring something that bring them joy, such as photos of family, friends, pets, hobbies, or favorite quotes. The educator then compiles these slides into a continuous presentation that plays as students arrive to class. By including each student’s unique

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15:37

Promoting Clinical Reasoning With One-On-One Focused...

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2025/07/23

Individual simulation allows students to think critically, perform nursing care, and intervene on abnormal findings, while simultaneously allowing faculty to provide appropriate coaching. Faculty developed 2 formative, individual, simulation activities incorporating multiple practice opportunities over time, clinical coaching, meaningful feedback, and reflection to enhance clinical reasoning and judgment development. The authors describe these individualized simulations and their outcomes in the

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15:25

Transforming RN-Baccalaureate Education Using...

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2025/07/23

Unique features of RN-Baccalaureate programs can make implementation of the AACN Essentials more challenging. In this podcast, you’ll learn about findings from a needs assessment conducted by members of the National RN-Baccalaureate (RN-B) Faculty Forum. They explain some of the major challenges RN-B programs face related to the Essentials, and they describe resources such as a curricular mapping tool and checklist that RN-B educators can use to facilitate program alignment with AACN Essentials

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12:27

Clinical Judgment Pause Technique

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2025/07/23

Nursing clinical judgment is a concept that resonates with nurse educators. This topic coincides with the National Council of State Board of Nursing clinical judgment model, the American Association of Colleges of Nursing Essentials, state boards of nursing, and employer and public importance. As such, it is vital to incorporate clinical judgment into nursing education. This podcast with Dr. Sara Lewandowski presents an engaging and active learning experience to promote effective assessment and

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20:26

Resilience of Prelicensure Nursing Faculty

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2025/07/09

Nursing faculty vacancies reduce the numbers of students entering the nursing profession, exacerbating the health care workforce crisis. Resilience, known to mitigate occupational burnout, may play a role in retaining existing prelicensure nursing faculty. Dr. Hope Jones describes their study on faculty resilience. They found that compassion satisfaction and perceived support were significant predictors of resilience. Dr. Jones shares implications for schools of nursing. More details are shared in

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19:28

Preparing Students for their First Job

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2025/07/09

Drs. Cori Heier and Ashley McMath share their active learning strategy to prepare students for applying for their first job. The strategy has 3 components: resume building by analyzing 5 de-identified RN resumes, critiquing them in small groups, and creating their own resumes; analysis of 4 pictures of people dressed in various attires for their nursing job interview; and a interview “speed dating” session. Learn more in their article.

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18:16

Write a Daily Prescription for Self-Care and Well-Being

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2025/07/09

To prepare the next generation of nurses with strong skills in self-care to enhance their well-being and increase resilience, strategies for self-care practices should be introduced in the undergraduate program. In this podcast, Drs. Ludy Llasus and Patricia Nill discuss an in-class activity that creates space for students to write a self-care prescription to cultivate personal and professional resilience, focusing on fostering their well-being. Learn about this strategy in their teaching tip.

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21:16

Development of a Virtual Pediatric Holistic Comfort...

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2025/07/09

Guided by the tenets of Kolcaba’s holistic comfort theory, Dr. April Braswell explains how they developed, implemented, and evaluated a simulated online pediatric advanced practice health center. The Pediatric Comfy Care Clinic (PCCC) was created to enhance person-centered diagnostic reasoning and holistic advanced management skills for family nurse practitioner students. Learn more about the PCCC in their article.

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SIFT-ing Through Misinformation: Reflection Notebooks...

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2025/06/25

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

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21:38

An Interprofessional Ambulatory Care Simulation for...

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2025/06/25

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

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22:31

Engaging Online Nursing Students Through Video...

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2025/06/25

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 and

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08:44

Experiential Learning in Community Health: Adverse...

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2025/06/11

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.

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Debriefing for Skill Mastery in Nursing

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2025/06/11

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.

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20:31

Learning Activity Using Photography

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2025/06/11

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. Jester

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14:51

Summary Versus Synthesis: An In-Class Exercise

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2025/06/11

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.

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22:42

Building a Consortium to Address Graduate Nursing...

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2025/05/28

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

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