Students complete this assignment using the discussion board found on their course site. This online format provides an excellent platform for students to interact, share and discuss clinical experiences. ThisContinue reading
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SOAP Note Assignments to Demonstrate FNP Independent Practice Readiness
Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP) students need to be proficient in assessment of patients and identification and management of the most common primary care acute and chronic disease processes. Competency basedContinue reading
Utilizing movie watching to enhance student’s psychiatric nursing clinical knowledge, skills, and attitudes.
Students are often afraid or uncomfortable in their psychiatric nursing clinical rotation. Often, their clinical exposure is limited to one semester and a particular population group, either inpatient or outpatient.Continue reading
Clinical Focus: Interprofessional and Patient-Centered Care
Strategy Overview: Recognizing the value of members of the health care team, ensuring the patient and/or family are active partners, and participating in a team-based approach to care are basicContinue reading
Medication Administration Map
The most common medications novice nursing students are administering in their first clinical experiences are: -anticoagulants -anti infectives – diuretics – opioids – mental health medications – antihypertensives – antidiabetics
Strategies to Decrease Student Anxiety and Improve Patient Safety in a Critical Care Clinical Setting
The start of a critical care clinical rotation can be an exciting time for many nursing students. For some, however, the prospect of caring for critically ill patients in anContinue reading
Critical Care Guidelines and Values: The Basics for Nursing Students
The Critical Care Guidelines and Values: The Basics for Nursing Students pocket card is a clinical tool for use with prelicensure nursing students. Incorporating the card in the clinical settingContinue reading
Introduction of the Clinical Practice Guideline to Undergraduate Nursing Students
The purpose of this teaching strategy is to introduce undergraduate nursing students to Clinical Practice Guidelines. This can be implemented in any class but best complements a Nursing Research orContinue reading
5 Minute Hand-off Report Rubric
New nurses (Del Bueno, 2005 and Kavanagh & Szweda, 2017) exhibit unsafe behaviors and a lack of critical thinking/clinical judgement that these researchers note can result in a “failure toContinue reading
Ten Minute Expert: Evidence-Based Bedside Teaching Bundle
The Ten Minute Tip teaching strategy innovates the use of bundling to combine effective teaching strategies that may be applied to diverse content successfully at the bedside. Essential bundle componentsContinue reading