Washington, D.C. health policy immersion experience of doctoral nursing students: A phenomenological study

Today’s political environment calls for nursing professionals to increase their awareness and efforts of advocacy to ensure ethical health policy. This study looked to determine the effect a week-long Washington, D.C. Immersion had on doctoral nursing students and its future impact regarding political awareness and engagement in health policy.

Conference Identifier: NERC20C07

Increasing experiential learning in healthcare policy within a BSN prelicensure curriculum

This project implemented an evidence-based educational initiatives developed for baccalaureate nursing students to increase their political knowledge, skills, and astuteness. Experiential learning interventions were used to help students place healthcare policy content within the context of active learning experiences.

Conference Identifier: NERC20C07

Undergraduate nursing students’ perceptions of nursing education research: A pilot study

This presentation will discuss the results from a pilot study exploring nursing students’ perceptions of nursing education research. Nursing students’ identified barriers and facilitators to participation in nursing education research will be presented. The findings from this study have the potential influence how nursing education research is conducted.

Conference Identifier: NERC20C04

Improving nursing students’ attitude towards research course: Incorporating immediate feedback assessment technique

Students’ often lack the clinical context to value a course in Nursing Research, having preformed negative attitudes. Incorporating the evidence based teaching strategy of the Immediate Feedback-Assessment Technique (IFAT) can lessen anxiety, increase learning, and promote engagement, leading to an improved attitude. Presentation demonstrates examples of IFAT.

Conference Identifier: NERC20C04

Social empathy: Pathway to developing change agents and social justice advocates

Immersion programs foster social empathy. This study analyzed reflections from a social justice course taught inside a state prison. Findings suggest social empathy is a precursor to social justice advocacy. Themes included: student transformation, shared connection, and a desire to advocate for social justice and compassionate care for incarcerated individuals.

Conference Identifier: NERC20C12

Utilizing simulation in the large classroom to enhance interprofessional education activities for nursing students

This presentation describes a creative interprofessional experience for students from multiple disciplines using simulation technology in the large classroom setting. Students were assigned to multidisciplinary groups and collaborated to develop a plan of care for a complex patient. Students were engaged and provided positive evaluative remarks regarding the learning experience.

Conference Identifier: NERC20C10

Student satisfaction and engagement in graduate online pathophysiology delivered using adaptive learning platform

Adaptive learning platforms deliver content in a personalized way to students based on prior knowledge adjusting content delivery based on individual preferences and differences in knowledge acquisition. The purpose of this project was to compare a course developed in an adaptive learning platform to one in a traditional LMS only.

Conference Identifier: NERC20C08

The Psychological Safety Assessment Survey in simulation-based prelicensure nursing education: Is the model supported?

Psychological Safety (PS), deemed essential for quality simulation-based nursing education, remains unmeasured. This presentation disseminates findings of a narrative literature review of nursing education literature supporting the model used to ground the Psychological Safety (PS) assessment survey. This survey, untested in nursing education, demonstrated reliability and validity in organizational behavior.

Conference Identifier: NERC20C02

Using the nursing process to enhance critical thinking: A qualitative study

Integrating critical thinking strategies into nursing curricula is one method that can be used to meet the call to reform nursing education. The purpose of this presentation is to report research findings of teaching strategies that use the nursing process to develop critical thinking in the classroom.

Conference Identifier: NERC20C03

The predictive strength of academic achievement in passing the Philippine nurse licensure examination

This study predicts the strength of classroom (Nursing Care Management (NCM) courses), clinical (Related Learning Experiences (RLE) courses), and pre-board performance of nursing graduates in a Private University Pangasinan.

Conference Identifier: NERC20C09