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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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
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
Utilizing StoryCare: A Story Based Simulation Program to Improve Team Effectiveness and Patient Outcomes
Using storytelling to recreate an experience to teach, engage and develop others, complemented with reflected learning can result in behavioral changes which lead to improved outcomes. Utilizing storytelling as anContinue reading
Introducing Evidence-Based Practice Using a Common Referent: Internet Shopping
This teaching strategy uses simple language and a common referent to convey complex concepts practically to facilitate students’ application. Following Knowles Adult Learning Theory, the course faculty developed this teachingContinue reading
Nurturing Affective Development and Reflective Thought: Two Immersive COVID-19 Themed, Instructor-led Scenarios
Pre-licensure education is a complex process that involves the acquisition of knowledge, psychomotor skill, and affective ability within the didactic classroom nursing skills lab, and clinical settings, respectively. Although studentsContinue reading
Teaching SBAR using Story: Online and in Clinical Learning
Purpose: In this assignment, learners complete an online asynchronous SBAR reporting practice session using pre-recorded clinical stories followed by application to situations encountered in clinical practice. This strategy can beContinue reading
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
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