Incivility in Nursing Education: Generational Differences
The purpose of this study was to investigate differences in the experiences of incivility of 2 generations of associate degree nursing faculty. A quantitative study was conducted using the Incivility in Nursing Education Survey to determine whether a difference exists between Baby Boomer (n=50) and Generation X (n=21) faculty's experience of incivility. Results indicate significant difference in reported student disruption, frequency of disruptive student behaviors, and number of student threats reported by the 2 generations. (Source: Teaching and Learning in Nursing)
Source: Teaching and Learning in Nursing - September 22, 2017 Category: Nursing Authors: Katrice Ziefle Source Type: research
Systematic Plan of Evaluation Part I: Assessment of End-of-Program Student Learning Outcomes
This article outlines the essential elements and structure of a systematic plan of evaluation for a nursing program, and it describes assessment and evaluation processes for end-of-program student learning outcomes. (Source: Teaching and Learning in Nursing)
Source: Teaching and Learning in Nursing - September 21, 2017 Category: Nursing Authors: Sharon F. Beasley, Suzette Farmer, Nell Ard, Keri Nunn-Ellison Source Type: research
Preparing Tomorrow's Nurses for Collaborative Quality Care Through Simulation
Simulations were introduced into a 2nd semester associate degree nursing program as a teaching strategy designed to enhance learning, promote critical thinking, and bridge the gap between theory and practice. Minimizing error, promoting quality care, and establishing teamwork were among the main objectives. Decision making and completion of assignments and activities were shared. Simulation helps nursing students to build communication skills and collaborate characteristics essential to working within the interprofessional team in today's health care climate. (Source: Teaching and Learning in Nursing)
Source: Teaching and Learning in Nursing - September 18, 2017 Category: Nursing Authors: Barbara Griffiths Source Type: research
Multiple Modalities for APA Instruction: Addressing Diverse Learning Styles
Colleges and universities are increasingly offering online coursework as a means to meet the demand for a nursing population with advanced degrees. In concordance with progress toward advanced degrees, advanced writing skills are expected from students. Online faculty members are therefore charged with the task of developing such writing skills in students. The effective instruction of writing skills requires multiple instructional modalities for a typically diverse online student community. Findings based on student surveys indicate that a video series can help meet the needs of an online student population representing m...
Source: Teaching and Learning in Nursing - August 30, 2017 Category: Nursing Authors: Miriam R.B. Abbott, Peggy Shaw Source Type: research
Podcasting in Nursing Education: Using Commercially Prepared Podcasts to Spark Learning
Nurse educators increasingly rely on emerging educational technologies, including a recent expansion in the use of audio podcasting. However, most published literature focuses on the use of instructor-generated audio podcasts. A pilot study was conducted to explore the use of commercially prepared podcasts to spark student learning and critical thinking. All respondents in this study reported that the podcasting assignment sparked learning and/or inspired critical thinking or reflection on the topic. (Source: Teaching and Learning in Nursing)
Source: Teaching and Learning in Nursing - August 26, 2017 Category: Nursing Authors: Jennifer L. Hargett Source Type: research
Buffering the Stress of Programmatic Accreditation
Accreditation, a public measure of program quality, is essential in today's competitive higher education environment. State board of nursing prelicensure program approval and a program's reputation are affected by the accreditation decision of a nursing program-accrediting agency. Writing the accreditation self-study and hosting the program site visit are often stressful experiences for the nursing program administrators, faculty, and students involved in these processes. The Neuman Systems Model can be used to objectively develop protective buffers for the stressors associated with programmatic accreditation. (Source: Tea...
Source: Teaching and Learning in Nursing - August 22, 2017 Category: Nursing Authors: Janet H. Davis Source Type: research
Using Narrative Inquiry to Explore the Experience of One Ethnically Diverse ESL Nursing Student
Nursing education is tasked with the responsibility to ensure that the future nursing workforce mirrors the diversity of the patients it serves, but high attrition of ethnically diverse nursing students continues to plague prelicensure nursing programs. A great deal of quantitative evidence exists about variables that correlate to the higher attrition rate of ethnically diverse students. What is missing in the literature is the voice of the individual student solicited through a constructivist ontological lens. (Source: Teaching and Learning in Nursing)
Source: Teaching and Learning in Nursing - August 17, 2017 Category: Nursing Authors: Nadja James Source Type: research
Phlebotomy-Related Self-Efficacy in Long Island Nursing Students: A Pilot Study
Hands-on phlebotomy training is often absent from undergraduate nursing curricula. Hands-on skill training improves student nurses' self-efficacy, resulting in positive outcomes for the novice nurse and patients. A quantitative pilot study was implemented to determine if a 3-hr hands-on phlebotomy training seminar would affect the self-efficacy of undergraduate nursing students. Self-efficacy scores were higher in the intervention group than the comparison group. A hands-on phlebotomy training seminar should be offered as an elective for undergraduate nursing students to improve levels of self-efficacy. (Source: Teaching a...
Source: Teaching and Learning in Nursing - July 28, 2017 Category: Nursing Authors: Christine M. Nebocat Source Type: research
Accommodations Part II: Navigating Accommodations for Disabilities in Nursing Education
In Part I of this series, we reviewed the history of the laws related to persons with disabilities, the evolution of these laws, and basic terminology and implications of the laws. Part II of this series will discuss the specifics of accommodations in nursing education, including a review of key legal cases and considerations to assure equal opportunities for qualified applicants. (Source: Teaching and Learning in Nursing)
Source: Teaching and Learning in Nursing - July 28, 2017 Category: Nursing Authors: Sandra Y. Walker Tags: Legal Issues in Nursing Education Source Type: research
Improving Nursing Students' Comfort Dealing With Intimate Partner Violence
Many nurses will encounter victims of intimate partner violence during their career. The purpose of this article is to discuss the use of a simulated experience using standardized patients to provide prelicensure nursing students with an opportunity to assess for intimate partner violence. Through this simulated experience, students identify victims of intimate partner violence and implement appropriate interventions in a safe learning environment. (Source: Teaching and Learning in Nursing)
Source: Teaching and Learning in Nursing - July 26, 2017 Category: Nursing Authors: Paige Johnson, Michele Montgomery Source Type: research
Reenergized
The other day, I had an epiphany and I thought I would share it with all of you. I was on my way to a 1-day regional conference that I really did not want to go to. I was tired, stressed out, and had 20 other things I thought I should be doing. However, I had committed to attending and did not want to let my colleagues down. It was a statewide conference where it was important that associate degree nursing education was represented, and I felt that I had to attend. As I traveled there, I was feeling burnt-out, annoyed, and resentful that this was taking up my time. (Source: Teaching and Learning in Nursing)
Source: Teaching and Learning in Nursing - July 21, 2017 Category: Nursing Authors: Christy Dryer Tags: President ’s Message Source Type: research
Transitioning to Concept-Based Teaching: A Qualitative Descriptive Study From the Nurse Educator's Perspective
The purpose of this study was to describe the experience of faculty in associate degree nursing programs who transitioned from traditional pedagogy to teaching in a concept-based curriculum. The transition experience of nurse educators is not well documented in the literature. Nineteen faculty from across the United States were interviewed. Five themes emerged during data analysis: recognizing fears, facing conflict, working out of one's comfort zone, seeing successes, and self-talk and questioning self. (Source: Teaching and Learning in Nursing)
Source: Teaching and Learning in Nursing - July 6, 2017 Category: Nursing Authors: William H. Deane Source Type: research
Nursing Students' Knowledge and Attitudes Toward Infant Sleep Safety
This study evaluated nursing students' knowledge and beliefs of current American Academy of Pediatrics recommendations on Infant Safe Sleep (ISS). A questionnaire was distributed to accredited nursing programs. Responses were compared to evaluate student knowledge of safe sleep recommendations prior to and after pediatric/maternal child education. We reported that nursing students in associate's degree programs have significant gaps in their knowledge regarding ISS even after receiving training. (Source: Teaching and Learning in Nursing)
Source: Teaching and Learning in Nursing - July 5, 2017 Category: Nursing Authors: Adriane Burgess, Theodore Bell, Jane Cirelli, Beverly J. Clymer, Michael H. Goodstein Source Type: research
Student and Faculty Transition to a New Online Learning Management System
Online learning is rapidly emerging within nursing education. The purpose of this project was to provide a unified and consistent user interface in the new Canvas ™ learning management system (LMS) for students and faculty and to promote super users who would assist faculty in a seamless transition from Oncourse™ to Canvas™. (Source: Teaching and Learning in Nursing)
Source: Teaching and Learning in Nursing - July 5, 2017 Category: Nursing Authors: Deborah S. Judge, Bethany Murray Source Type: research
Another sign of quality
Associate degree nursing (ADN) programs have a long history of advocating quality as demonstrated by the graduates of their programs. ADN programs are approved by the state boards of nursing in their respective states, and this approval is essential and requires meeting high standards, but each state board of nursing has different standards and criteria for programs to meet leading to issues of inconsistency between states. However, nursing education programs are fortunate because there is a national standard for all nursing programs to achieve and that is national nursing accreditation. (Source: Teaching and Learning in Nursing)
Source: Teaching and Learning in Nursing - July 3, 2017 Category: Nursing Authors: Donna Meyer Tags: Reflections from 40,000 feet Source Type: research
