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Episodes
Standardizing Clinical Placement Education Statewide
24 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Although clinical compliance requirements are similar for each hospital, each institution requires students to complete their education materials, res...
Enhancing Student Competence in Physical Assessments Through Video Self-Evaluation
24 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
How do students learn physical assessments most effectively and transfer these skills to clinical practice? Traditionally, students learn to conduct ...
Simulation-Based Integration of Transgender Patient Care and CPR Competency
24 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Logan Camp-Spivey describes a simulation they developed that focuses on care of a transgender patient in an emergency situation. The simulation wa...
Integration of Nurse Residency Program Credit into RN-BSN Curriculum
24 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The school of nursing and affiliated medical center partnered to align the Nurse Residency Program with an undergraduate elective course in nursing le...
An Apprenticeship Practice Partnership Model
10 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The need to better prepare nursing graduates with essential competencies for beginning practice led to the creation of a unique nursing program that u...
Student Experiences in the First Semester of their Graduate Nursing Program
10 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Graduate education in nursing presents challenges and opportunities for growth. Dr. Gray shares her qualitative study on the experiences of nurses du...
Increasing Nurse Practitioner Case Presentation Competency Through Simulation
10 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This podcast with Drs. Bethany Gilbert and Kimberly Budisalich explores how focused simulation enhances nurse practitioner competence in clinical c...
Prelicensure Nursing Education in Singapore: Innovation in Curriculum and Teaching
09 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Lydia Lau, Deputy Head, describes the undergraduate curriculum at Alice Lee Centre for Nursing Studies, National University of Singapore (NUS). In...
Engaging Latino Festivalgoers about Alcohol Use Disorder
27 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Alcohol use is common worldwide. Faculty constructed a learning experience for students at a Latino Festival to help them and festivalgoers understan...
Faculty Podcast Toolkit
27 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Podcasts are a popular educational tool that can be used to deliver content in asynchronous online education. Creating the content and accompanying le...
Workplace Violence and Multi-Patient Simulation
27 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Workplace violence is an ever-present problem in the clinical setting. This podcast presents a simulation experience that enables students to assess ...
Tracking Clinical Judgment Development in Clinical Education with the Lasater Clinical Judgment Rubric
21 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Clinical judgment is a cornerstone of safe, effective nursing practice and a critical competency for prelicensure nursing students. Despite its impo...
It Depends: Understanding and Learning to Manage Uncertainty in Practice
13 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Nurses consistently encounter uncertainty in clinical practice, which impacts decision-making. Uncertainty can lead to self-doubt and inaction, parti...
Teaching Time Management as a Self-Care Strategy
13 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
When talking to students and faculty as part of a new student success initiative, self-care and time management were identified as 2 pressing concerns...
Teaching Nursing Students Effective AI Prompt Engineering: The CARE Framework
13 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Effective artificial intelligence (AI) prompting is essential for students to use AI to enhance critical thinking and clinical decision-making skills....
Integrating Emotional Intelligence into Nursing Education
13 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Nadine Wodwaski discusses how she scaffolded emotional intelligence throughout the curriculum in a traditional undergraduate program. This strate...
Academic-Practice Partnerships: Evaluating the Academy of Clinical Essentials Clinical Model
29 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Abby Gramlick-Mueller and Mrs. Casey Olson describe the Academy of Clinical Essentials (ACE) model, an innovative academic-practice partnership....
Leveraging Virtual Simulation to Engage Distance Learners and Advance Competency-Based Nursing Education
29 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Virtual simulation enables NP students to use critical thinking, clinical reasoning, and problem-solving to manage complex problems in diverse popula...
AI as a Simulated Preceptor: Enhancing Case Presentation Skills in NP Education
29 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Artificial intelligence (AI) can act as a virtual nursing preceptor, providing students with a safe place to practice thinking like a nurse practitio...
Supporting Students' Self-Regulated Learning and Reducing Program Attrition
29 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
High attrition rates in Health and Illness and Pharmacology courses led the authors to develop a mid-curricular summer bridge program for students to ...
Experiencing Patient Report Before the First Day of Clinical Practice
20 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The first day of clinical practice can be an anxiety-provoking experience for students. Nursing faculty can be proactive in reducing anxiety by engag...
Gallery Walk to Promote Critical Thinking
15 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Novice students struggle to apply complex concepts to patient care. The Gallery Walk is a strategy that engages students, promotes critical thinking ...
Building Empathy Through Equine Experiences
15 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this podcast with Dr. Morgan Yordy, you will learn about her 2-hour elective course, titled Animal Assisted Therapy, that explores the human-anima...
Planetary Health in Health Professions Education
15 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Climate and planetary health shape the environments in which people live and, therefore, are central to nursing's mission to protect health and reduc...
Neurodiversity: Effective Teaching Strategies for Nursing Students
15 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Neurodiversity is an umbrella term that describes a wide range of variation in cognition, learning, and behaviors. In this podcast and article, Drs. ...
NurseKind AI: New technology for nurse educators
15 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
NurseKind AI (nursekindai.com) transcribes and analyzes real audio recordings of nursing student interactions and gives scored feedback on empathy, th...
Multiple Intelligences Guided AI-Assisted Learning
01 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Sotos Djiovanis and Donna Ramos developed a series of AI-assisted formative assignments for in-class group learning in a health assessment course...
Communication Pedagogy with AI-Generated Responses
01 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The educational experiences of current nursing students, shaped by unprecedented access to advanced technologies, have made face-to-face communication...
Extending the Classroom With Instagram for Q&A and Pharmacology Review
01 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Cassie Moffitt created a private Instagram account where students can anonymously ask clarifying questions related to class content. Since most st...
The "Art" of Ethics: A Creative Strategy for Teaching Ethical Principles
18 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Ethical principles are difficult concepts for students to grasp. In this episode and article, Dr. Valerie Wright discusses an innovative strateg...
Promoting Self-care and Well-being among Advanced Practice Nursing Students
18 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The focus on self-care and self-advocacy in nursing is particularly significant for students in advanced practice nursing (APN) programs given the hig...
iCare Compassionately: Model for Integrating Compassionate Care into Nursing Education
18 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Compassionate care is essential for positive patient outcomes and nurse well-being. Current models are largely practice-focused and not integrated in...
Build Your Dream Unit Teaching Strategy
04 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Kelly Pruden shares her innovative "Build Your Dream Unit – Nurse Recruitment Challenge," where students design an innovative clinical unit an...
Know, Want, Learn, Apply, and Question (KWLA+Q) Strategy
04 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The Know, Want, Learn, Apply, and Question (KWLA+Q) strategy is an effective tool for fostering student engagement in online discussion threads. KWLA+...
Enhancing Awareness of Unconscious Bias During Post-Clinical Conference
04 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Unconscious bias refers to attitudes and beliefs about certain people or groups of people that affect understanding, decisions, and actions. Early-sem...
Veteran to BSN Pathway Initiative
04 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Deborah Sikes describes the Veteran to BSN Pathway initiative designed to help military veterans transition into professional nursing through a...
Use of the Stay SAFE Interruption Management Strategy
25 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Interruptions can increase risks for errors. The Stay SAFE interruption management strategy aims to mitigate errors. Dr. Ginger Schroers describes her...
Transitioning Simulation Education Objectives to CBE
18 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Transitioning to competency-based education in nursing simulation education requires a systematic approach to curriculum assessment. Using the Univ...
Online Competency-Based NP Education
18 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Teresa Conklin discusses the shift toward competency-based education and shares strategies that graduate nursing educators can use to provide pro...
National Survey of Pay Disparity Between Nursing Faculty and Clinical Nurses
17 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Nursing education programs across the US continue to face ongoing shortages of nursing faculty. This study examined salary differences between nursing...
Relationship Between Professional Quality of Life, Grit, and Compassionate Teaching in RN to BS Nursing Students
05 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Research indicates that compassionate teaching (CT) positively correlates with professional quality of life among RN to BSN students and can enhance ...
Interactive 360-Degree Videos for Nursing Education
05 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In today's technology-driven world, nurse educators face the challenge of creating engaging learning experiences. Using 360-degree camera technology,...
Developing Course-Specific Clinical Evaluation Tools to Assess Competencies
04 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Rebecca Davis describes the clinical evaluation tool that faculty developed to assess clinical competencies based on the AACN Essentials. The tool...
Entry and Exit Tickets
04 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
First-semester nursing students often struggle to connect health assessment and skills lab content with clinical expectations. To bridge this gap, Dr....
Mixed Reality Approach to IV Simulation With Bimanual Haptic Feedback
21 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Peripheral intravenous catheter (PIVC) insertion is an essential skill for nurses. Students, however, face challenges in learning PIVC insertion due i...
Engaging Students in Defensive Documentation
21 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Nursing students need to develop strong documentation skills. In this podcast and article, Lacy Hester describes an interactive classroom activity sh...
Less Reading, More Learning: Boosting Engagement by Scaling Back Homework
21 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Generation Z health professions students often struggle to stay engaged with large volumes of assigned readings, especially when the reading involves ...
Alumni as Guest Instructors in Open Lab
21 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Nursing faculty teaching in a prelicensure nursing program implemented a unique way to engage alumni by hosting them as guest instructors during Open...
NP Residency Days as a Transition-to-Practice Clinical Teaching Strategy
07 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Nurse Practitioner Residency Days addresses the disconnect between classroom education and real practice. Implementing NP Residency Days into practic...
From Boomer to Zoomer: Bridging Generational Divides in Nursing Education
07 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Nurse educators interact with multiple generations of learners and colleagues. Each generation is unique, which can create divides. In this podcast an...
Media Competency Training Program for Doctoral Nursing Students
07 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Despite playing an important role in patient care and advocacy, nurses are consistently underrepresented and quoted in health care media coverage. To ...
Interprofessional Peer Teaching
02 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this podcast and article, Drs. Susan Seibert and Stephanie Rexing describe an innovative teaching strategy with nursing and occupational therapy (...
Intervention for Enhancing Advanced Physical Exam Skills in Graduate Education: The SMOR Toolkit
22 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Traditional methods used to teach health assessment skills and diagnostic reasoning in an advanced health assessment and differential diagnosis cours...
Resilience Among Newly Graduated Nurses
22 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Resilience supports nursing students as they transition into professional practice, yet limited evidence describes how resilience evolves over time. D...
Emotional Intelligence: Impact of a Single Educational Intervention
22 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Tonya Anthony developed an intervention for beginning nursing students to develop their emotional intelligence (EI). She describes this interventi...
Teaching Teams Reimagined for Competency-Based Education
10 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
If you are looking for a new approach for team teaching, this podcast is for you! Often, teaching teams distribute the course content and then functio...
Predictive Validity of Preadmission Assessment on Early Nursing Academic Readiness
10 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Many nursing programs have high rates of students who fail or do not complete their program for other reasons. Retention is a problem when nurses are ...
Nursing the Innovator Within: Building Forward Thinking Nurses Now
10 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Nursing education focuses on the development and demonstration of clinical judgment, which includes creating plans of care that meet the needs of the...
A Trauma-Informed Approach in Nursing Education
26 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Lori McElroy begins this podcast by describing the effects of trauma on nursing students' academic progression and well being and explains why us...
Implementation, Revision, and Evaluation of Holistic Admissions in a College of Nursing
26 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Holistic admissions in nursing education consider a range of criteria. In this podcast and article, Stephanie Wood and Andrea Smith discuss the imple...
Improving Doctoral Students' Writing: A Checklist for Quality Literature Reviews
26 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Doctoral students often face challenges when attempting to write a quality literature review. The process may feel overwhelming to students as they m...
Impact of Augmented Reality on Observer Engagement and Simulation Effectiveness
26 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Augmented reality (AR) is an emerging interactive technology that can be employed in simulation to enhance student learning. Most of the studies on AR...
Enhancing Cultural Humility through AI-Generated Patient Education
12 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Integrating artificial intelligence (AI) into nursing education presents both opportunities and challenges, particularly in fostering culturally comp...
Competency Framework Development for Genomics Nurse Educators
12 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Many nurses lack confidence in applying genomics in practice, highlighting the need for improved genomics nursing education. The International Societ...
Moments That Shape Professional Identity in Prelicensure Nursing Students
12 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Fostering a strong professional identity (PI) during nursing education can help mitigate burnout and reduce turnover as nurses. In this podcast, Dr. B...
Scaffolding Case Studies: Advancing Competency-Based Nurse Practitioner Education
29 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Scaffolding is the technique of providing support and gradually withdrawing support until an individual can perform a task independently. This approa...
Learning Outcomes From Health Professions Students Who Generate Multiple-Choice Questions
29 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Multiple-choice questions (MCQs) are the foundation for certification exams. MCQ writing by students is an evidence-based learning modality; however, ...
An Escape Game for Neonatal Nurse Practitioner Students: Is Time on Your Side?
29 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In an effort to engage Neonatal Nurse Practitioner (NNP) students and provide the students with an innovative method of learning difficult concepts, ...
Integrating Forensic Nursing Principles in an Undergraduate Curriculum
15 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Drs. Lori Moore, Ashleigh Bowman, Candice Selwyn, Bailey Mosley, and Jennifer Anderson describe forensic nursing and why this content is important for...
Open Educational Resources
15 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Open Educational Resources (OERs) are high-quality, freely accessible educational tools that promote accessibility and foster global knowledge sharin...
Teaching Up: Addressing Hierarchical Challenges in Clinical Education
15 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In clinical education, "teaching up" refers to instances when students tactfully share updated clinical information with preceptors who may not be up ...
Taking a Closer Look at Incivility in Prelicensure Nursing Education
01 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Incivility in undergraduate nursing education is a complex, multifaceted issue. Student-to-faculty incivility can be characterized by behaviors that ...
Guided Writing Strategy
01 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The authors developed a guided writing method for an undergraduate nursing course by incorporating 3 active learning strategies: in-class writing work...
Fostering an Attitude of Gratitude in Nursing Students
01 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
For nursing students, a gratitude jar promotes mindfulness and gratitude by encouraging reflection on the positive aspects of their lives. Dr. Catheri...
SimZones Approach to a Competency-Based Objective Structured Clinical Examination
17 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this podcast, Dr. Laura Klenke-Borgmann describes their reverse-engineered roadmap, using the SimZone system, to develop a competency based educati...
Using Trauma Informed Approaches to Enhance Teaching and Learning
17 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Students from diverse racial-ethnic groups or those who have encountered racism, discrimination, violence, or community unrest are more likely to expe...
Learn about Nursology.net
17 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this podcast, Faith A. Tissot, RN, MSN-Ed, CCRN, a PhD student at Texas Woman's University, Houston, Texas, explains Nursology.net and the many res...
Simulation Sequencing
17 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Standards for simulated patient encounters have been developed; however, the sequencing of simulation experiences has not been well-established. Seque...
Empathetic Communication Through a Choose your Own Adventure Game
03 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Empathetic communication is a cornerstone of high-quality, patient-centered nursing care, especially in palliative end-of-life situations. Students r...
Aligning DNP Student and Faculty Scholarship Outcomes Through a Faculty Retreat
03 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Many faculty teaching in DNP programs lack preparation for guiding DNP student scholarship. A large multicampus college of nursing invested in an inte...
How Night Clinicals for Students Build Resilient Nurses
03 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Integrating night shift clinical experiences into nursing programs offers unique benefits, fostering essential skills often overlooked during daytime...
Essential Primary Health Care Skills Virtual Simulations for Nurse Practitioner Education
03 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Practice-based learning is essential in nurse practitioner (NP) education; however, lack of clinical placement opportunities results in variability i...
Providing Constructive Feedback Through Peer Review Activities
20 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Student development of communication skills is essential for professional practice. To address this, a structured peer review process was implemented ...
Five-Minute Peer Writing Activity
20 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Classroom Assessment Techniques (CATs) engage learners at lower levels of Bloom's Taxonomy. In this podcast, Dr. Andrew Richards and Mr. Zachary Hall...
Textbook Selection in Nursing Education: An Updated Perspective
20 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Evidence-based guidelines about textbook selection in nursing are lacking. Lucille Downing discussed their study to identify the essential characteri...
Integrating Complex Pain Concepts into Prelicensure Nursing Education using An Unfolding Case Study
20 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
An unfolding case study for a complex concept such as chronic pain management can be scaffolded across a curriculum to better prepare future nurses fo...
Connecting the Courses
06 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are your students unclear about the purpose of evidence-based practice (EBP) and need to learn this content? Listen to this podcast with Dr. Cassandra...
Unit-Based Report Cards to Bridge Classroom and Clinical Practice for EBP and QI
06 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Nurse educators often face challenges in highlighting the clinical relevance of evidence-based practice (EBP) and quality improvement (QI) in undergra...
Enhancing Nurse Practitioner Education to Care for Acutely Ill Obstetric Patients
06 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Critical care nurse practitioners have few opportunities to care for obstetric patients in the critical care setting and, therefore, may lack compe...
Student-Created Slideshows to Foster Belonging and Engagement in the Classroom
23 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Fostering a sense of belonging in the classroom is important for student engagement. An impactful way to build this sense of belonging is by opening ...
Promoting Clinical Reasoning With One-On-One Focused Pediatric Simulations
23 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Individual simulation allows students to think critically, perform nursing care, and intervene on abnormal findings, while simultaneously allowing fa...
Transforming RN-Baccalaureate Education Using Insights from a National Faculty Needs Assessment
23 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Unique features of RN-Baccalaureate programs can make implementation of the AACN Essentials more challenging. In this podcast, you'll learn about fin...
Clinical Judgment Pause Technique
23 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Nursing clinical judgment is a concept that resonates with nurse educators. This topic coincides with the National Council of State Board of Nursing ...
Resilience of Prelicensure Nursing Faculty
09 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Nursing faculty vacancies reduce the numbers of students entering the nursing profession, exacerbating the health care workforce crisis. Resilience, k...
Preparing Students for their First Job
09 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Drs. Cori Heier and Ashley McMath share their active learning strategy to prepare students for applying for their first job. The strategy has 3 compon...
Write a Daily Prescription for Self-Care and Well-Being
09 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
To prepare the next generation of nurses with strong skills in self-care to enhance their well-being and increase resilience, strategies for self-car...
Development of a Virtual Pediatric Holistic Comfort Care Clinic
09 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Guided by the tenets of Kolcaba's holistic comfort theory, Dr. April Braswell explains how they developed, implemented, and evaluated a simulated onli...
SIFT-ing Through Misinformation: Reflection Notebooks to Teach Critical Digital Literacy
25 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Learn how a nurse educator and a teaching and learning librarian at Western Washington University created an innovative approach to teaching digital ...
An Interprofessional Ambulatory Care Simulation for Health Professions Students
25 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Interprofessional education (IPE) is important for health professions students, but advanced practice nursing students often lack opportunities to pra...
Engaging Online Nursing Students Through Video Announcements
25 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you using video announcements in your online courses? If not, listen to this podcast with Dr. Darci McCall and read her article. Video announceme...