Nurse EducatorPub Date : 2025-10-17DOI: 10.1097/NNE.0000000000002013
Shona Rue, Jennifer Vanderlaan, Nazia S Khan
{"title":"Mock Calls: Simulated Nurse-Physician Communication to Improve Clinical Competence.","authors":"Shona Rue, Jennifer Vanderlaan, Nazia S Khan","doi":"10.1097/NNE.0000000000002013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1097/NNE.0000000000002013","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54706,"journal":{"name":"Nurse Educator","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145309940","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nurse EducatorPub Date : 2025-10-17DOI: 10.1097/NNE.0000000000002020
Nadine Wodwaski, Elaine Webber
{"title":"Empowering Future Nurses: Integrating Emotional Intelligence Into Nursing Education.","authors":"Nadine Wodwaski, Elaine Webber","doi":"10.1097/NNE.0000000000002020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1097/NNE.0000000000002020","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Active learning strategies (ALS) focusing on the development of emotional intelligence (EI) support the growth of interpersonal and emotional competencies in nursing. These competencies are central to the development of resilience and formation of professional nursing identity.</p><p><strong>Problem: </strong>Despite the recognized importance of EI, traditional nursing education often prioritizes technical skills and clinical knowledge, with limited focus on the intentional development of emotional and interpersonal competencies.</p><p><strong>Approach: </strong>This article explores the integration of reflection, emotionally focused simulations, and communication-based exercises into a BSN (Bachelor of Science in Nursing) curriculum. Incorporating Goleman's EI model and Kolb's experiential learning cycle in the implementation of ALS is a novel approach to developing EI competencies in undergraduate nursing students.</p><p><strong>Outcomes: </strong>These learning methods can help students strengthen their emotional awareness, communication skills, and self-regulation. They offer practical tools to support professional identity, resilience, and the delivery of person-centered care.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Embedding EI into nursing education through active learning fosters competencies essential for delivering compassionate, safe, and effective care. This model is adaptable across diverse learning environments.</p>","PeriodicalId":54706,"journal":{"name":"Nurse Educator","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145309980","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nurse EducatorPub Date : 2025-10-16DOI: 10.1097/NNE.0000000000002017
Tara O'Brien, Devyn Brown, Tara Spalla King
{"title":"Assessing Evidence-Based Practice Shifts Among Doctor of Nursing Education Students.","authors":"Tara O'Brien, Devyn Brown, Tara Spalla King","doi":"10.1097/NNE.0000000000002017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1097/NNE.0000000000002017","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Nurse educators are critical in advancing evidence-based practice (EBP) in academic and clinical settings. However, limited research exists on how doctoral education influences their EBP beliefs and implementation behaviors.</p><p><strong>Purpose: </strong>This study evaluated changes in EBP beliefs and implementation among Doctor of Nursing Education (DNE) students over time.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Using a pre/post single-group design, surveys were administered during the first-year EBP course and again during the second-year Capstone course. Instruments included the EBP Beliefs and EBP Implementation Scales for Educators.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Thirteen DNE students participated; 11 completed both surveys. Belief scores significantly improved (M 83.5-97.5; P = .004; g = 1.6), as did implementation scores (M 17.5-42.4; P = .004; g = 1.7).</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The findings of this study suggest that the DNE curriculum effectively strengthens educators' EBP beliefs and implementation. The longitudinal assessment demonstrated meaningful gains in applying evidence-based teaching strategies.</p>","PeriodicalId":54706,"journal":{"name":"Nurse Educator","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145310013","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nurse EducatorPub Date : 2025-10-16DOI: 10.1097/NNE.0000000000002023
Kumhee Ro
{"title":"Beyond Algorithms: An Ecological Framework to Address the AI Policy Gap in Nursing Education.","authors":"Kumhee Ro","doi":"10.1097/NNE.0000000000002023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1097/NNE.0000000000002023","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54706,"journal":{"name":"Nurse Educator","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145310037","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nurse EducatorPub Date : 2025-10-16DOI: 10.1097/NNE.0000000000002032
Melinda Lofton Sills
{"title":"Cultivating Emotional Intelligence in Nursing Students Through Structured Reflection and Application.","authors":"Melinda Lofton Sills","doi":"10.1097/NNE.0000000000002032","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1097/NNE.0000000000002032","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54706,"journal":{"name":"Nurse Educator","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145310015","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nurse EducatorPub Date : 2025-10-16DOI: 10.1097/NNE.0000000000002019
Wendy D Greenwood, Alison F Pittman, Susan J McKee, Chelsey Rosen
{"title":"\"It Depends:\" Understanding and Learning to Manage Uncertainty in Practice.","authors":"Wendy D Greenwood, Alison F Pittman, Susan J McKee, Chelsey Rosen","doi":"10.1097/NNE.0000000000002019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1097/NNE.0000000000002019","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Nurses consistently encounter uncertainty in clinical practice, which impacts decision-making. Uncertainty can lead to self-doubt and inaction, particularly in students and novice nurses.</p><p><strong>Problem: </strong>While students and novice nurses desire clear answers, nursing practice inherently involves conflicting and incomplete data. Nurse educators require clear guidelines on how to help students deal with uncertainty in nursing practice.</p><p><strong>Approach: </strong>This article proposes teaching activities to improve student tolerance of uncertainty and confidence in decision-making. These strategies incorporate interactive unfolding clinical scenarios using color-coded cards for students to demonstrate clinical reasoning in the face of uncertainty.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Implementing these strategies exposes students to real-world uncertainty, fostering confidence and sound clinical judgment. This directly supports the development of essential competencies for nursing practice.</p>","PeriodicalId":54706,"journal":{"name":"Nurse Educator","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145310022","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nurse EducatorPub Date : 2025-10-15DOI: 10.1097/NNE.0000000000002007
Rebecca A Carson, Michael Maymi, Jessica D Murphy, Danielle K Sebbens, Remi M Hueckel
{"title":"Faculty Podcast Toolkit: Innovations for Competency-Based Education.","authors":"Rebecca A Carson, Michael Maymi, Jessica D Murphy, Danielle K Sebbens, Remi M Hueckel","doi":"10.1097/NNE.0000000000002007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1097/NNE.0000000000002007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54706,"journal":{"name":"Nurse Educator","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145294333","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nurse EducatorPub Date : 2025-10-15DOI: 10.1097/NNE.0000000000001996
Bethany Cieslowski, Mindi Anderson, Kristen M Brown, Frank Guido-Sanz, Beth Fentress Hallmark, Elizabeth Wells-Beede, Jason Konzelmann, William B Belk, Samantha Smeltzer, Sindhu Mallala, Mary Lee Carter, Zaleha Abdullah Mahdy, Janine Doran, Deb Derner, Jennifer Polson, Kim Burtch, Tracy Chesney, Corbin Rickerby, Andrea M Landis, Amar P Patel
{"title":"Extended Reality in Health Care Simulation: Current State, Challenges, and Future Directions.","authors":"Bethany Cieslowski, Mindi Anderson, Kristen M Brown, Frank Guido-Sanz, Beth Fentress Hallmark, Elizabeth Wells-Beede, Jason Konzelmann, William B Belk, Samantha Smeltzer, Sindhu Mallala, Mary Lee Carter, Zaleha Abdullah Mahdy, Janine Doran, Deb Derner, Jennifer Polson, Kim Burtch, Tracy Chesney, Corbin Rickerby, Andrea M Landis, Amar P Patel","doi":"10.1097/NNE.0000000000001996","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1097/NNE.0000000000001996","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Extended reality (XR) technologies are increasingly integrated into health care simulations. XR enables immersive, interactive, and multisensory learning experiences that enhance skill acquisition, knowledge retention, and interprofessional collaboration.</p><p><strong>Problem: </strong>Despite growing interest, educators should address challenges, such as cognitive load management, inconsistent standards, accessibility barriers, and cost-effectiveness, to optimize the potential of XR.</p><p><strong>Approach: </strong>The authors in this Technology Overview synthesize evidence and provide expert discussion to explore the current state, challenges, and future directions of XR.</p><p><strong>Outcomes: </strong>The resulting recommendations highlight best practices in XR integration, including guidance on modality selection, curricular alignment, strategies to minimize cognitive overload, and future trends.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>XR has the potential to enhance nursing and health care education by supporting immersive, scalable, and learner-centered experiences. The future of XR depends on strategic efforts to enhance realism, usability, and integration. Priorities include intuitive design, adaptive artificial intelligence, advanced haptics, cost-effectiveness, and improved accessibility to support learning.</p>","PeriodicalId":54706,"journal":{"name":"Nurse Educator","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145294387","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nurse EducatorPub Date : 2025-10-14DOI: 10.1097/NNE.0000000000002008
Janet M Reed, Michelle Aebersold, Kathie Lasater
{"title":"From Noticing to Clinical Judgment: Exploring Anxiety in Virtual Reality Nursing Simulation.","authors":"Janet M Reed, Michelle Aebersold, Kathie Lasater","doi":"10.1097/NNE.0000000000002008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1097/NNE.0000000000002008","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Professional noticing is the first step of clinical judgment and a core competency for nurses. Immersive virtual reality (VR) simulations offer students individualized practice and feedback in noticing, which anxiety may impact.</p><p><strong>Purpose: </strong>To describe the relationship between facilitating and debilitating anxiety and noticing among students in VR simulation.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>This was a cross-sectional single-site quantitative study, using individual VR simulations with prelicensure nursing students. Outcomes were measured using the Achievement Anxiety Test and Lasater Clinical Judgment Rubric (LCJR).</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>There were no significant correlations between LCJR noticing scores and either type of anxiety: debilitating anxiety scores: (rs [31] = -0.035, P = .854), facilitating anxiety (rs [31] = 0.18, P = .32).</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>This study suggests that anxiety, whether debilitating or facilitating, is not significantly associated with noticing in VR simulation.</p>","PeriodicalId":54706,"journal":{"name":"Nurse Educator","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145287775","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nurse EducatorPub Date : 2025-10-13DOI: 10.1097/NNE.0000000000002014
Sheila S Gentry, Lauren Niles, Misty Smith
{"title":"An Apprenticeship Practice Partnership Model: An Innovative, Collaborative Solution.","authors":"Sheila S Gentry, Lauren Niles, Misty Smith","doi":"10.1097/NNE.0000000000002014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1097/NNE.0000000000002014","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Leaders in academia and health care recognize the need for practice-ready nurses to address the nursing shortage, reduce onboarding time, and improve the satisfaction and retention of registered nurses.</p><p><strong>Problem: </strong>Historically, nurse leaders have developed programs, such as nurse residency programs, to address these issues. However, additional innovative approaches are needed to address the pervasive nursing shortage.</p><p><strong>Approach: </strong>The need to better prepare nursing graduates with essential competencies for beginning practice led to the creation of a unique nursing program that uses an apprenticeship model, combining academic and practice partners.</p><p><strong>Outcomes: </strong>Implementation of the apprenticeship program has led to a 100% NCLEX-RN (National Council Licensure Examination for Registered Nurses) pass rate for graduates of the program and a high program retention rate (92%). Health care system leaders report an 80% to 83% 2-year post-graduation retention rate for nursing graduates.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Amidst a pervasive nursing shortage, continued efforts and strategies are needed to build the nursing profession. The apprenticeship program provides a robust and innovative option for second-degree students interested in earning a bachelor of science in nursing.</p>","PeriodicalId":54706,"journal":{"name":"Nurse Educator","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145281900","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}