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

Building social presence in the online environment

Social presence allows the student to view the professor and peers as ‘real’ in the class room. The new graduate student can be provided unique attention and a sense of social presence within the asynchronous learning system to promote the missing sense of community.

Conference Identifier: NERC20B07

Understanding factors that promote or inhibit faculty engagement

In this innovative project, faculty in a large DNP Online Program experienced engagement with faculty colleagues and students while knowledge and skills specific to course outcomes were met against set criteria used in the brick and mortar model.

Conference Identifier: NERC20B07

Let’s check in: Engaging student and faculty in an innovative and collaborative online learning environment

This symposium will engage nurses across roles working in the online academic environment,in a dialogue specific to challenges and opportunities inherent in designing and sustaining a collaborative learning environment. Presenters will share findings and strategies from their current innovative strategy in a large Online Program in the U.S.

Conference Identifier: NERC20B07

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