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
Tag: RN to BSN
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
Escape Game for Postpartum Hemorrhage for Nursing Education
As part of a national effort to improve early acknowledgment and intervention to postpartum hemorrhage (PPH), complicated by the fact that nursing students and graduate nurses are held accountable forContinue reading
Simulating a Quality Improvement Project Design
This strategy is used as four separate assignments that build upon each other over the course of several weeks and can span the length of a semester. This is anContinue 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
Care for the COVID In-patient: Common Practices in End-of Life Care
Due to the COVID pandemic, staff of all disciplines was reassigned to the acute COVID units. Many staff had no prior exposure to potential traumatic incidences and end-of-life care. ThroughContinue 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
Triage Simulation to enhance communication and clinical reasoning skills
This simulation activity provides an opportunity for nursing students to apply QSEN competencies in recognizing and addressing physiological, psychosocial, developmental, cultural, and socioeconomic barriers this patient scenario includes. This simulationContinue reading
TouchPoint: Undergraduate Senior Immersion Activity
Strategy Overview TouchPoint is an innovative approach to the face-to-face clinical post-conference for pre-licensure BSN nursing students in an immersion experience. The design and purpose of these faculty-moderated sessions areContinue 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