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Recommended Resources for Nurse Educators (That I Actually Use & Love!)

This article explores all my favorite, recommended resources for nurse educators, including tools, podcasts, books, and creators that support engaging, effective, and low-prep teaching. ...

Ideas & Inspiration for Using Clinical Decision Cards

This article includes instructions and ideas for using a deck of Clinical Decision Cards. There are five easy-to-implement, practical ways to use the cards in...

Clinical Decision Cards

Many of the ideas here have focused on active teaching techniques in the classroom. Clinical Decision Cards are a way to promote active learning and clinical judgment...

3 Misconceptions About Active Learning—and How to Move Past Them

🔎 Uncover 3 common myths about active learning for nurse educators and how you can overcome them. ...

“Would You Give This Med?” An Interactive Nursing Pharmacology Activity

Determining whether to give or hold a medication can be challenging for nursing students. This engaging yes/no format activity simplifies the process, presenting clinical data...

Save Time, Teach Better: Ideas for Just-in-Time Clinical Paperwork Review

Get ideas to save time, provide timely feedback and improve patient outcomes related to clinical paperwork. ...

Clear Concepts: Using Visual Organizers to Simplify Nursing Education

Explore 4 templates and learn about the theories that support visual organizers as a learning tool. 🧰 ...

Active Learning in Action: Using the Jigsaw Structure in Nursing Education

Learn a simple, easy-to-use active learning teaching technique that promotes student independence and peer teaching 🧩 ...

Teaching and Learning Lessons from the Olympics: 🏅Insights for Nursing Education

A few lessons on teaching and learning for nursing educators after the Olympics 🏅 ...

Three Activities to Practice Retrieval for Nurse Educators

Retrieval practice is an essential skill to bridge the academic-practice gap and allow students to apply what they learn in theory to clinical situations. ...

Advanced Learning Stations - A “Moving Case Study” as a Tool for Nurse Educators

👟 An advanced technique for using stations in a sequential order as part of a case study. ...

Learning Stations - Ideas for Nurse Educators in an Active Learning Classroom

Get started using stations as an embodied education practice. 🤸🏾♀️🤸🏾♀️ ...

Energize your Classroom: Three Simple Active Learning Techniques for Nursing Instructors

How embodied education can be used as an active learning tool 👁️ ...

3 Lesson Learned from a Planning a Summit for Nurse Educators

What I learned in the process of a big project ...

Orchestrating Orientation Day: Two Active Learning Tactics for Nursing Instructors to use at Clinical Orientation

While getting to know the clinical paperwork and doing a walk-through of the unit are important, this article has fresh ideas to invigorate the orientation...

Unlocking the Feynman Technique as an Active Learning Tool

A study technique developed by a world-renowned physicist who was a keen observer of how humans learned. The Feynman Technique can be used in class or taught...

The Feedback Sandwich: A Positive Approach to Giving Feedback in Nursing Education

Feedback is an essential tool for the growth and development of new nurses. However, giving feedback can be challenging, especially if it is negative or...

How to Build an Active Learning Classroom

A step-by-step guide to starting or refining an active learning classroom. It does not have to be a complete overhaul, just one activity at a...