This strategy allows graduate APRN students to practice principles of palliative communication for patients with chronic illness disease trajectory through an unfolding, two-scenario high fidelity simulation of the same patient.Continue reading
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Strategies
Vaccination Think, Pair, Share Activity
The think, pair, share learning activity allows students to identify appropriate vaccinations by utilizing high-quality sources of information, such as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) website. FourContinue reading
Simulation of Skills Fair Day
Each clinical semester, beginning in semester 2 of this concept-based curriculum, students learn skills that complement exemplars learned through didactic lecture and the clinical experience. The simulation of skills dayContinue reading
An Interprofessional Simulation of Opioid Overdose in the Community and Acute Care Setting
This simulation utilizes a standardized patient to promote interprofessional collaboration between nursing and forensic biology students, the county sheriff, and community emergency medical personnel including a sexual assault nurse examiner.Continue reading
Humanizing task trainers to inform patient-centered care
Low fidelity task trainers are a cost-effective tool to teach skills. However, practicing skills on task trainers focuses learner attention on the task to the exclusion of the other aspectsContinue reading
Just Call Me Amy: An Immersive Role Play to Discuss Appropriate Patient-Centered Care for Transgender Patients
Strategy Overview Whether in the educational (i.e. classroom or clinical pre-/post-conference discussion), or work-place (i.e. staff development exercise) settings, the QSEN competencies provide an ideal framework to promote opportunities forContinue reading
IV Push Evidence-Based Practice Checklist
There is a lack of standardized IV Push medication preparation and administration teaching strategies in nursing programs throughout the United States. This lack of standardization creates an alarming variation inContinue reading
Simulating an Evidence-based Practice Committee to Teach Pre-licensure Students the Evidence-based Practice Process
Purpose The purpose of this group activity is to build on previous learning related to evidence-based practice that occurred during the term. Learners function as members of an Evidence-based PracticeContinue reading
Personality Disorders in the Media
This project encourages students to apply psychiatric concepts to a fictional character from a media source. The student selects any fictional character (could be from a TV show, movie, book,Continue reading
Case Study: Focus on Teamwork/Collaboration, Quality Improvement, and Safety in Caring for a Newly-Diagnosed Schizophrenic Patient
The QSEN competencies provide an ideal framework to promote opportunities for analysis, reflective thought, and discussion. In the case of this scenario, the lead characters in a primary are settingContinue reading