Green Zone Training (GZT) is a program to help educators, administrators, and staff better understand the military student experience and learning more about their unique characteristics and academic needs. This podcast with Dr. Janice Hawkins discusses the implementation of GZT in a large university and school of nursing.

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Promoting Military Student Success through Faculty Green Zone Training

Microlearning is a pedagogy that focuses on learning a small amount of content at a time. Dr. Tennyson discusses the implementation of microlearning in a nurse practitioner program that is supported by principles of adult education and constructivist learning theory. Her model can be applied to any nursing education context. There is an emphasis of technology and social media as a tool to implement microlearning.

Microlearning Strategies in Nurse Practitioner Education

Samuel Byiringiro, MS, RN, shares his expereince in using Twitter in a PhD course and how educators can harness social media to promote learning.

Using Twitter in a PhD Nursing Course

The transition from student to the practice setting is stressful as a graduate nurse. Faculty should have conversations with students about having a healthy work environment after graduation to promote position satisfaction, patient safety, and the achievement of positive patient outcomes. Don’t miss this podcast with the experts: Cory Church, Texas Tech University, Sheri Cosme, Director, Practice PTAP and ANCC, and Meagan White, Senior Operations Manager, PTAP and ANCC.

Helping Students Identify a Healthy Transition to Practice Work Environment

Faculty are often required to publish their scholarship in peer-reviewed journals and need to be aware of predatory journals. This podcast with Dr. Yondell Masten will help authors to identify predatory journals, which do not follow sound ethical processes. 

Predatory Publications

Benefits of Escape Rooms include development of trust among students, critical thinking, conflict resolution, and communication skills, all framed around safe, quality patient care. This podcast with Dr. Denise Dawkins explains how to create an Escape Room using Zoom in a large didactic nursing course.

How to Create a Zoom Escape Room for a Large Didactic Nursing Course

Faculty created a simulation boot camp to orient novice nurse educators to simulation. Faculty complete a full-day of didactic class sessions, role play, stations for operation of the manikin, moulage and simulation activities. This podcast with Dr. Janice Palmer shares the simulation preparation model that could be replicated in other nursing education programs.

Simulation Boot Camp for New Nurse Educators

Telehealth has emerged as an effective way to communicate, collaborate, and manage patient-centered care. This podcast with Dr. Joyce Victor presents a creative simulation to help novice students, who have no clinical experience, care for a patient using telehealth in a simulated experience. The podcast presents benefits of the simulated learning experience that led to the achievement of course outcomes.

Telehealth Simulation: An Online Clinical Experience

Drs. Elizabeth Riley and Fermin Renteria explain how to do two-stage collaborative testing in nursing courses. They also share the outcomes of their study using this type of testing in their course. Read more about this in their article: https://journals.lww.com/nurseeducatoronline/Fulltext/2021/07000/2_Stage_Collaborative_Testing_Results_in_Improved.27.aspx

Two-stage Collaborative Testing

Dr. Aaron Sebach presents a two-pronged approach to help DNP students to learn how to write in a formal manner that combines the expertise of the English Department and DNP faculty. The English Department provides substantial writing experiences for students to prepare them for their professional roles while the nursing faculty spend the majority of their time helping them to embrace these roles.

Promoting Role Development and Writing Skills for DNP Students.

As a result of COVID-19, schools of nursing rapidly shifted to virtual clinical practice for students. What is the impact of these and other changes in students' education during the pandemic on their transition into practice. Susan Smith and Martha Buckner share the results of their study of 340 new graduate nurses at an academic medical center. You can read their article at the Nurse Educator website.

Impact of COVID on New Graduate Nurses' Transition to Practice

It’s been a difficult year for nursing students, faculty, and the profession, and the entire world as a result of COVID-19. Nursing students experienced grief and loss in different ways. This podcast with Dr. Alexis Hodges presents strategies that nursing faculty can use to help students cope with grief and loss in the promotion of self-care, especially in an online learning environment. The need for faculty to communicate caring and compassion is emphasized.

Nursing Students’ Experiences during the COVID-19 Pandemic

In this podcast Drs. George, Phillips, and Munn explain how to use debate as a teaching method in an online nursing course. They share topics their FNP students debated, how debates assisted in developing an online community, and student outcomes.

Using Debates in Online Courses

Nursing students experience high stress that can impact their academic success. An  animal-assisted intervention such as petting a dog can help reduce that stress. Dr. Debby Hall presents her research on using a therapy dog to reduce nursing students' stress.

Therapy Dog Effects on Nursing Student Stress

Dominique Rislund and Alexandra Hodson explain how they use video OSCEs (objective structured clinical examinations) in their prelicensure program at the University of Regina (Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada).

Video OSCE

Whether you are a beginning or an experienced nurse educator, you will get new ideas for your teaching in this podcast. Experts share teaching strategies you can use with your nursing students.

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