The state of pilot studies in nursing education

A pilot study, an important research strategy, can yield helpful information about proposed study procedures. However, published pilot studies often fail to highlight this information. This study, the first of a two-phase undertaking, reports the evaluation of a sample of published pilot studies addressing nursing education topics between 2018-2019.

Conference Identifier: NERC20B16

Enhancing clinical teaching effectiveness by implementing nurse faculty development about emotional intelligence

The scholarly project provided an educational session about emotional intelligence (EI) to clinical faculty members. This training discussed the history of emotional intelligence, scenarios and practice questions of how to utilize EI more effectively to improve clinical teaching effectiveness.

Conference Identifier: NERC20B01

Integrative reviews part 1: A method of synthesizing diverse nursing education literature

The expanding science of nursing education has revealed the need to condense and synthesize nursing education literature. An integrative review is one of several strategies used to condense and synthesize diverse sources of knowledge about problems and phenomena in clinical nursing and nursing education. During this session, integrative reviews will be distinguished from other types of reviews, and the integrative review process will be described along with tips for enhancing methodological rigor and ensuring the accuracy and usefulness of findings.

Conference Identifier: NERC20B15

AGACNP student led interdisciplinary teams: An IPE approach to TeamSTEPPS in the simulation learning center

To meet the needs of an evolving health care system, nurse practitioners (NP) must be prepared to lead teams. Course faculty for AG-ACNP and simulation collaborated to develop an interprofessional educational intervention that allowed NP students to practice leadership and teamwork with BSN students and licensed respiratory therapists using simulation.

Conference Identifier: NERC20B04

Student nurses’ perceptions about the culture of nursing and why it matters to nursing education

Contemporary knowledge about the culture of nursing is limited. This focused ethnography study describes both pre-nursing and senior nursing students perceptions about the culture of nursing and learning that culture, as well as implications of those perceptions on nursing education, and the profession of nursing.

Conference Identifier: NERC20B12

Predicting students’ academic and licensure success: A review of methods for high-stakes faculty decision making

Do you ever wish you had a clear-cut method for evaluating the predictive validity and classification accuracy of standardized exams when establishing admission, progression, and high-stakes testing policy for your nursing students? If you or your faculty colleagues have struggled to establish evidence-based admissions criteria or to evaluate what standardized test score threshold is most predictive of NCLEX-RN outcomes within your program, this session is for you. The purpose of this session is to explore powerful but accessible methods for evaluating the accuracy of binary (e.g., yes/no, pass/fail) decisions including diagnostic/classification accuracy and ROC (receiver operating characteristics) curves. In addition to a detailed discussion and demonstration of various software tools, attendees will be provided access to a detailed spreadsheet application for use in their own programs.

Conference Identifier: NERC20B13

Nursing tutorials for student success

Nursing programs have developed strategies to meet the educational needs of all students. Despite these efforts, many students may require academic support along the trajectory from student to graduate nurse. Nursing Tutorials is a faculty led support program open to all students which takes place after classes each week.

Conference Identifier: NERC20B02

Design thinking for BSN honors students: Building collaborative skills for innovative problem-solving

Can using design thinking as a process help BSN students become better at collaborating for problem-solving? This presentation describes qualitative research that showed changes in BSN students’ perspectives about innovation and collaboration during a course that required students to use design thinking to find solutions to clinical problems.

Conference Identifier: NERC20B02

Climate change as a scaffold for interprofessional learning in nursing education

Participants will learn how to develop and implement an immersive and interprofessional course preparing students and leaders to address the complex health and ethical challenges of climate change in collaborative teams.

Conference Identifier: NERC20B05

Congruence in clinical evaluation in nursing education

Many people are involved in nursing student clinical evaluation, including students, preceptors, and clinical nursing faculty. This presentation will analyze research on the congruence among different evaluators. Implications to increase accuracy in this essential activity will be discussed.

Conference Identifier: NERC20B16