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How to Use a Patient Blog to Teach Empathy in a Nursing Flipped Classroom

When patients share their healthcare journey online, they provide rich opportunities for learning about the emotional, spiritual and psychosocial complications of a disease. 📝 The...

Guidelines for Group Work in a Nursing Active Learning Classroom

These guidelines for group work 🧑‍🧑‍🧒‍🧒 will help you get started or fine-tune your nursing flipped classroom. ...

An 80's Game Show Concept to Build Recall Skills in Nursing Students

A twist on the classic 80’s TV show will have students laughing and learning. While the monetary reward is not the same, the learning rewards...

Turn the Tables: Have Students Create the Study Guide 📝

Students often ask me for a study guide before an exam. What better way than to have them create one! 📝 ...

Would You Give This Med? An interactive nursing pharmacology activity

Deciding when to give and hold meds is tough. This is a simple yes/no format game that gives the data and asks, “Would you give this...

The Compass Points Activity for Nursing Exam Review

🧭 A quick exam review activity that uses low-tech tools to create student engagement. Also, can be used in clinical orientation or as a review...

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 Create Engaging Nursing Lectures

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 🧩 ...

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Teaching and Learning Lessons for Nurse Educators from the Olympics

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. ...

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Teaching Medication Errors in Nursing Education: An Incident Report Template

A nursing incident report template can be an excellent way to expose students to failure and successfully navigate a mistake. ...

Teaching Students to Think Backward with Fishbone Analysis for Active Learning in Nursing Education

Nurse educators are challenged with connecting knowledge to practice. The Fishbone Analysis is an awesome clinical judgment activity. 🐟 ...

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How to Create a Virtual Escape Room for Nursing Education Using Google Forms

This online activity is versatile and can be used in the classroom, clinical settings, simulations, orientation, or interviews. 🎉 Get a framework to create an...

Clinical Decision Cards Promote Clinical Judgment in Nursing Students

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...

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Using an Empathy Map to Teach Caring in Nursing Education

Caring is a cornerstone of nursing. So how do we teach it? 💫 Using an Empathy Map brings active learning to the art of caring. ...