Healthcare informatics is an integral part of clinical nursing practice because it supports the delivery of evidence-based, quality, safe care (Forman et al., 2020). Current studies indicate that nurse educatorsContinue reading
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Connecting QSEN Competencies to Identify Barriers and Empower Active Participation of a Patient in Their Own Health Care
The QSEN written project provides an opportunity for nursing students to apply QSEN competencies in recognizing and addressing physiological, psychosocial, developmental, cultural, and socioeconomic barriers patients face with their healthContinue reading
Policy Review
This teaching strategy is designed to teach students how to verify if policies utilized in healthcare facilities are congruent with current evidence-based practice. The policy is selected from a clinicalContinue reading
Literature Review
This teaching strategy is designed to teach students how to develop research skills through the development of a problem statement and formal review of literature related to the problem statement.Continue 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.
Quality Improvement Project for Prelicensure Nursing Students
This teaching strategy is designed to teach prelicensure students how to implement and evaluate a quality improvement project. It can be implemented in any class but lends itself to anContinue reading
Clinical Readiness Practice and Evaluation
This learning strategy allows novice or beginner nursing students to simulate performing an anterior and posterior assessment. QR codes, their Smartphones, and ear buds are used to simulate a stethoscope.Continue reading
Incorporation of QSEN Competencies in Clinical
The QSEN project provides direction for the nursing faculty to transform students’ critical thinking and clinical reasoning. Incorporating QSEN competencies into an ADN clinical project fosters awareness for positive outcomesContinue reading
Infusing Quality Improvement into clinical education
This strategy may be used to educate students on how patient safety may be improved through quality improvement audits and the Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) cycle. The audit subjects were chosen inContinue reading
Medication Error Reporting Form
The Medication Error Reporting Form was created to help students link the process of medication math problems in the classroom with potential patient outcomes as a result of calculation errors.Continue reading