The S-A-F-E-T-Y! card is a clinical tool to promote quality, safe care specifically designed for the beginning prelicensure nursing student. As students begin to establish a knowledge base of informationContinue reading
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Building the Bridge from Evidence-Based Practice to Five Moments of Hand Hygiene Compliance
The purpose of this teaching strategy is to introduce undergraduate nursing students through guided observation, the rate of evidence-based practice, World Health Organization’s (WHO’s) “Five Moments of Hand Hygiene” isContinue reading
Virtual Critical Care Transport Communication Simulation
This simulation was originally written for student participants, but was converted to a virtual format to meet clinical or lab program requirements during the Covid-19 pandemic. The simulation actors areContinue reading
A Virtual Encounter with Mental Illness
A Virtual Encounter with Mental Illness reflective assignment offers prelicensure students the opportunity to have a psychiatric clinical experience by imagining their responses to patient encounters as they hear realContinue reading
The Med Room: Learning expectations of safe medication preparation and administration
Intended audience: undergraduate nursing students who have not entered the clinical setting. Crucial conversations and preparation are key to student learning. Working directly with an instructor can produce anxiety andContinue 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
Draw your Day Room
The strategy for this activity is to give the students a chance to assume the role of a nurse in a safe and non-punitive environment. The students are given instructionContinue reading
Patient Prioritization: A Neurology Simulation
The Simulation activity provides an opportunity for nursing faculty to further develop student’s clinical reasoning, critical thinking, and professional behaviors in determining priorities in safe nursing practice. This active learningContinue reading
Unfolding Case Study to Teach Assessment and Care of the High-Risk Newborn
Research shows that unfolding case studies can be used as formative assessment technique to aid with experiential learning (Kaylor & Strickland, 2015). The purpose of this assignment was to createContinue reading
Perioperative Unfolding Case Study
The Perioperative Unfolding Case Study can be used for classroom or lab experiences. It follows a patient through the preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative setting, allowing learners to gather information andContinue reading