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
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Coding Practice Using ICD-10 for Nurse Practitioner Students
Family Nurse Practitioner students have little opportunity to work with ICD-10 coding prior to clinical experiences. Feedback from FNP students identified a need to incorporate more background information and introductionContinue reading
Systems Thinking for Quality Improvement: Innovative Teaching Strategy for Advanced Practice
Interview with a nurse executive to evaluate and reflect on the role of leadership using systems thinking for safety and quality improvement for advanced practice.
Circle of Objects Activity: Reflecting on Cultural Heritage
The Circle of Objects is a teaching strategy that can be used as a way to acknowledge cultural differences and facilitate reflection of one’s own heritage, which is an essentialContinue reading
The Faculty Checklist Manifesto: Utilizing a QSEN based orientation checklist for the first day of a clinical rotation
Relevance Standardized Checklists for clinical orientation are not found in the nursing journal literature. Therefore, many clinical faculty will develop their own checklist as well as, perform a scavenger huntContinue reading
Rapid Cycle Learning in Simulation- Utilizing a postpartum hemorrhage scenario
Preparation: Students are to complete the assigned textbook reading and a case study article provided prior to the exercise on PPH; etiology, signs and symptoms, nursing assessments, and treatment options.Continue reading
Mind Mapping: An Active Classroom Learning Strategy
The purpose of this in-class mind mapping activity is to introduce nursing students in a nursing course to explore a variety of concepts of nurses’ ways of knowing in professionalContinue reading
“Elder” Centered Care: Flipping the concept map
This clinical activity is used to teach students to create an elder centered plan of care. In preparing to understand more about elders the student will review the following learningContinue reading
Respectful Conversations for Difficult Situations
Tool Overview: Video 1: Overview of Incivility and Bullying in Healthcare https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DOQ593cHfE Incivil and Bullying Behaviors Exercise Language of Collaboration Exercise Self-Reflection Exercise Video 2: Approach to Respectful Conversations https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbP3O_UC1LEContinue reading
Mr. Potato Head: A LEAN, Mean Quality Improvement Teaching Machine!
This is a simulation teaching strategy used to illustrate Quality Improvement. This strategy can be used with: 1. Medical Students, Residents, Faculty, Nurses, other health care providers and team membersContinue reading