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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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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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16:42

National Survey of Pay Disparity Between Nursing...

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2026/02/17

Nursing education programs across the US continue to face ongoing shortages of nursing faculty. This study examined salary differences between nursing faculty and other nurses using 2022 National Sample Survey of Registered Nurses data and identified specific factors contributing to these disparities. The adjusted annual salary of nursing faculty was $18,346 less than staff nurses, $19,863 less than charge nurses, and $27,526 less than front-line managers. Persistent salary disparities between

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24:59

Relationship Between Professional Quality of Life,...

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2026/02/05

Research indicates that compassionate teaching (CT) positively correlates with professional quality of life among RN to BSN students and can enhance student resilience and well-being. Faculty who integrate CT into the learning environment help students prepare for practice in stressful healthcare settings. In this podcast and article, Dr. Lisa Ruth-Sahd discusses the outcomes of a mixed-methods research study that nursing faculty can use when teaching RN-to-BSN students. Trauma-informed teaching

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23:36

Interactive 360-Degree Videos for Nursing Education

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2026/02/05

In today's technology-driven world, nurse educators face the challenge of creating engaging learning experiences. Using 360-degree camera technology, interactive videos were developed with academic, hospital, health department, and rehabilitation partners. In this podcast and article, Drs. Sue Owens, Lenna Westerkamp, Pam Smyth, and Shannon Love discuss this initiative and the impact of this technological approach on student learning.

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18:18

Developing Course-Specific Clinical Evaluation Tools...

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2026/02/04

Dr. Rebecca Davis describes the clinical evaluation tool that faculty developed to assess clinical competencies based on the AACN Essentials. The tool is structured as a developmental rubric, allowing documentation of each learner's progress toward independence in clinical practice. Faculty identified challenges, however, when assessing competency with a one-size-fits-all clinical evaluation tool, particularly in specialty courses with unique populations and limited clinical practice. This led to

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17:53

Entry and Exit Tickets

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2026/02/04

First-semester nursing students often struggle to connect health assessment and skills lab content with clinical expectations. To bridge this gap, Dr. Pendergraft-Horne and Cory Smith implemented structured entry and exit tickets in labs, guided by the Transparency in Learning and Teaching framework and Bloom's higher-order thinking skills. These tools fostered accountability, clinical application, and inclusive practice. In this podcast and article, they describe this innovative strategy.

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19:50

Mixed Reality Approach to IV Simulation With Bimanual...

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2026/01/21

Peripheral intravenous catheter (PIVC) insertion is an essential skill for nurses. Students, however, face challenges in learning PIVC insertion due in part to limited opportunities for hands-on practice with real patients. Traditional training methods with low-fidelity task trainers lack variability and depend on costly consumable products. To address this gap, Dr. Jeremy Jarzembak and his team developed a bimanual haptic feedback mixed reality IV simulator. This technology simulates IV needle

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16:54

Engaging Students in Defensive Documentation

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2026/01/21

Nursing students need to develop strong documentation skills. In this podcast and article, Lacy Hester describes an interactive classroom activity she developed that immerses students in a realistic legal scenario where they need to defend their own clinical documentation. Using de-identified notes from students' previous simulations, skills labs, and patient care assignments, students critically review the notes and rewrite entries using correct terminology and format. Students learn to justify

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14:31

Less Reading, More Learning: Boosting Engagement by...

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2026/01/21

Generation Z health professions students often struggle to stay engaged with large volumes of assigned readings, especially when the reading involves dense academic texts or unfamiliar vocabulary. Rather than relying solely on independent, out-of-class reading, consider incorporating guided in-class readings as an active learning strategy. Break readings into manageable segments and structure your class to alternate between brief reading periods (5-10 minutes) and guided discussion. This approach

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18:56

Alumni as Guest Instructors in Open Lab

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2026/01/21

Nursing faculty teaching in a prelicensure nursing program implemented a unique way to engage alumni by hosting them as guest instructors during Open Lab experiences. Karen Schofield, Christelle Isaac, and Dr. Bryce Catarelli discuss challenges and benefits to implementing this innovative concept. Additional information can be found in their article.

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19:39

NP Residency Days as a Transition-to-Practice...

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2026/01/07

Nurse Practitioner Residency Days addresses the disconnect between classroom education and real practice. Implementing NP Residency Days into practicum courses gives students real-word clinical challenges and scenarios reflecting the role of the first-year NP. Dr. Emily Lee describes NP Residency Days in this podcast. Read more in her article in Nurse Educator.

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17:28

From Boomer to Zoomer: Bridging Generational Divides...

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2026/01/07

Nurse educators interact with multiple generations of learners and colleagues. Each generation is unique, which can create divides. In this podcast and article, Dr. Jennifer Chicca shares strategies educators can use to bridge these generational divides.

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13:25

Media Competency Training Program for Doctoral...

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2026/01/07

Despite playing an important role in patient care and advocacy, nurses are consistently underrepresented and quoted in health care media coverage. To address this, Dr. Rachel Malloy developed a media training program for doctoral students based on the 10 published media competencies for nurses. In this podcast and article, she explains why media training for nurses is important, describes the training program, and reports on the outcomes of the program.

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21:15

Interprofessional Peer Teaching

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2026/01/02

In this podcast and article, Drs. Susan Seibert and Stephanie Rexing describe an innovative teaching strategy with nursing and occupational therapy (OT) students. The students were paired in interdisciplinary dyads – one OT student and one nursing student. The nursing students taught and demonstrated key clinical skills (the accurate measurement of blood pressure, radial pulse, respiratory rate, and pulse oximetry) to the OT students. In turn, the OT students provided instruction on assessing range

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41:47

Intervention for Enhancing Advanced Physical Exam...

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2025/12/22

Traditional methods used to teach health assessment skills and diagnostic reasoning in an advanced health assessment and differential diagnosis course limit skill acquisition and personalized feedback. Integrating small-group learning, online simulations, and reflective practice may improve competency outcomes. Drs. Rashmi P. Momin and Kala Christopherson describe a multimodal intervention – the Small-group Learning, Mega Skills Lab, Online Escape Rooms, and Reflection (SMOR) Toolkit – that they

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18:57

Resilience Among Newly Graduated Nurses

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2025/12/22

Resilience supports nursing students as they transition into professional practice, yet limited evidence describes how resilience evolves over time. Dr. Randall and colleagues explored facilitators and barriers to resilience in nursing students as they transition from school to clinical practice (described in their article). In this podcast, Dr. Randall discusses new graduate nurse resilience and the use of photovoice and virtual focus groups to collect these data.

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16:21

Emotional Intelligence: Impact of a Single...

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2025/12/22

Dr. Tonya Anthony developed an intervention for beginning nursing students to develop their emotional intelligence (EI). She describes this intervention, which included a presentation by two experts in EI, role play, video clips, and other active learning strategies. Dr. Anthony explains how she integrated the intervention in the course and reviews the outcomes with listeners.

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27:26

Teaching Teams Reimagined for Competency-Based Education

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2025/12/10

If you are looking for a new approach for team teaching, this podcast is for you! Often, teaching teams distribute the course content and then function independently to teach and grade their assigned content. Drs. Cori Heier and Kristin Ashley describe their new model for team teaching. Two faculty members are responsible for the lecture component of the class, and a third faculty member creates and facilitates in-class activities (every 15 minutes) for the content.

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