Nurse Educator Tips for Teaching

Dr. Rachel Cox Simms describes learning activities she developed for her prelicensure courses using generative AI technology. Learn more about 3 of these stratgies in her article.

Faculty and administrators often struggle to process and understand student course evaluation data. Drs. Stephen McGhee and Dianne Morrison-Beedy explain how data visualization techniques can be used to analyze course evaluation data, identify patterns, and highlight potential areas for course revision. Learn more about this in their article.

In this podcast, Dr. Lisa Lewis describes her study that examined the economic impact of nursing student course repetition. She used a multicase study methodology to calculate the costs for students and the nursing program. Students who repeated courses had a loss of income and also incurred other expenses.

Gaslighting is a painful and damaging form of psychological abuse and fosters self-doubt, rumination, hypervigilance, and withdrawal from personal and social situations. Gaslighting can lead to post traumatic stress disorder. In this podcast Dr. Cynthia Clark discusses behaviors associated with gaslighting as a form of bullying and strategies to manage gaslighting in the academic setting to promote a healthy work environment.

Without highly qualified nurse anesthesia educators and administrators, the health care system will be threatened by an inadequate supply of certified registered nurse anesthetists (CRNAs). A Task Force of the American Association of Nurse Anesthesiologists analyzed reasons for high faculty turnover and developed 2 recommendations to support nurse anesthesia faculty and administrators: create a robust faculty development program and a repository of resources for educators. In this podcast, Drs.Cormac O'Sullivan and Laura Bonanno describe the findings of their survey and the resource repository developed by the Task Force. The content of the repository and types of resources in it are described in the accompanying article, which is open access – share the article widely. Although this project was geared to CRNA faculty, it is applicable to any school of nursing committed to preparing new educators.

Dr. Autherine Abiri explains the process of curriculum mapping of social determinants of health (SDoH) and why this is important in nursing education. She also provides examples of successful curriculum mapping initiatives of SDoH.

Inspired by Mask-Ed character role-play, a novel interactive neurological case study was introduced in a didactic undergraduate health assessment course. The role-play integrated real-time decision-making by students using the Kahoot! participant response system within a live, unfolding case study presentation. Dr. Sotos Djiovnais describes this innovative strategy using Live, Masked Role Play in this podcast and article.

Nursing students struggle with prioritizing multiple-response or select-all-that-apply questions. In a newly designed course for students to synthesize nursing content, an activity was created to help them in answering these types of questions. The activity required students to read the question and then write the answer choices instead of choosing from answers already provided. Learn more about this activity from the author Dr. Susan Kelly in this podcast and article.

Scholars have been advocating for a revolutionary change in nursing education to meet the increasingly complex demands in health care for many years. This podcast with Dr. Elizabeth Wells-Beede presents a scoping review of nurse educator competencies relative to the preparation for nurses for the academic role. Mentorship is a significant theme in this review.

Article at:

https://journals.lww.com/nurseeducatoronline/pages/articleviewer.aspx?year=2023&issue=09000&article=00002&type=Fulltext

Dr.Julia Rogers and Mr. Abel Reyes discuss their collaborative partnership between the College of Nursing and the College of Engineering, computer science department, to develop this tutorial. Through this collaboration, the authors developed, evaluated, and refined a 3D AR visualization tool for advanced pathophysiology. An iterative design was used, which is a methodology that is based on a cyclic process of analyzing and refining an activity or process and typically applied in software development to identify the optimum programming solution.

Their article has multiple supplemental files that show the 3D AR visualization tool.