Nurse Educator Tips for Teaching

Nurse educators play a significant role in setting an example for students early in their careers. Educators can make mistakes, and it is critical to role model moral courage by acknowledging these mistakes.Rachael Salguero and Karen Hunt, who teach atMGH Institute of Health Professions, developed this innovative teaching strategy to foster students' development of moral courage by openly encouraging students to “call in” the educator if they identify an error or have a concern based on words or behavior.

Dr. Joanne Noone and Dr. Teri Murray describe the current state of academic review of faculty activities related to diversity, equity, and inclusivity (DEI) and explain how faculty can describe their DEI contributions in their annual review, promotion, and tenure documents. They make recommendations to schools of nursing to introduce and gradually expand recognition of DEI contributions and support faculty as they expand their efforts to integrate DEI into their daily teaching, research, service, and practice.

Dr. Karen Schwab, Director of Pediatric Services at Wellness 360 Pediatrics and Associate Clinical Professor at University of Texas (UT) Health, San Antonio, describes an innovative model for a faculty-practice pediatric clinic and how nursing students learn through service in the clinic’s telehealth and mobile units. Students participate in the care of vulnerable patient populations, manage the day-to-day function of the clinics, acquire work experience, and fulfill clinical and immersion hours. Learn more about this faculty practice and its significant impact on students, faculty, and patients at https://wellness360.uthealthsa.org/

Psychological Capital (PsyCap) consists of a set of internal resources an individual can access to navigate challenges and enhance job performance, satisfaction, and overall success. External factors within the academic environment may influence PsyCap. This podcast with Dr. Ashley Singh presents how PsyCap can be used in nursing academia to promote relationship-building, hope, resiliency, efficacy, and self-reflection in the faculty role.

Join this podcast with Dr. Rhonda Lanning to learn how she incorporated artificial intelligence (AI) into a course assignment that assesses therapeutic communication. Students used Yoodli, a free AI speech coach to create an audio recording of an interview, provide transcripts, and share time-stamped feedback about communication including use of filler words and inclusive language, rephrasing suggestions, and pacing.

Social Media is an Internet platform that enables others to communicate thoughts and ideas from person to person or with communities of interest. Instagram is one type of social media allowing users to use videos and images to communicate with others. This podcast with Dr. Jasmine Bonder discusses how Instagram is being used to help students and community members learn from a global perspective. The following is an example of an Instagram to promote learning:

https://www.instagram.com/dr._jasmine_/

Dr. Colleen Paramesh describes a peer mentoring strategy she developed for DNP students and how she used it to guide the DNP project. Learn about the outcomes of this strategy for both mentor and mentee.

Individuals who identify as transgender and gender diverse require informed and compassionate health care, yet there is a lack of research about which educational strategies to use. Dr. Becky Mueller shares her study that evaluated a multimodal approach to educate NP students about care of transgender and gender diverse patients. The educational intervention included guided readings, a transgender patient panel, standardized patient simulation, and group discussion. The Sexual Orientation Counselor Competency Scale was administered pre- and postintervention. Results demonstrated increases in knowledge, skills, and attitudes and a high level of satisfaction for the overall program, but especially for the patient panel and standardized patient encounter.

This educational intervention also can be used in prelicensure nursing education.

Karen Hunt and Amanda Cornine share how they use word clouds to promote students' sense of belonging and academic persistence. This is a low cost, active learning strategy that you can use in all of your courses.

Drs. Betty Napoleon and Christine Kuchenrither explain how they use debates to teach ethics in nursing. These debates also prepare students for navigating issues they may encounter in nursing.