The Department of Nursing Professional Development (NPD) embarked on the journey to revamp orientation competencies to ensure nurses are providing evidence-based care, rooted in promoting quality and safety. NPD neededContinue reading
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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
Gertrude Smith: A Neuro Unfolding Role-Playing Case Study
Strategy Method: This specific unfolding role-playing case study allows ADN or BSN undergraduate nursing students and faculty the ability to focus on the QSEN competencies of patient-centered care, teamwork andContinue reading
Maintaining Quality and Safety During a Disaster
This strategy is based upon Sund’s (2013) “Start Triage Practice-Who Wants to be an EMT?” case study exercise. This can be implemented in a simulation lab in whatever method preferredContinue 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
Healthcare Technology Innovation Paper Assignment: Using Informatics to Promote Quality and Safety
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
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
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