Nurse EducatorPub Date : 2025-06-24DOI: 10.1097/NNE.0000000000001928
Megan Gross
{"title":"One Piece at a Time: Incorporation of Kintsugi to Reflect and Enhance Resiliency.","authors":"Megan Gross","doi":"10.1097/NNE.0000000000001928","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1097/NNE.0000000000001928","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54706,"journal":{"name":"Nurse Educator","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-06-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144512822","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 : 2025-06-24DOI: 10.1097/NNE.0000000000001933
Karen Schofield, Jordan Budwick, Laura Gardner, Christelle Isaac, Anita Stephen, Bryce Catarelli
{"title":"Reconnecting With Purpose: Leveraging Alumni as Guest Instructors in Open Lab.","authors":"Karen Schofield, Jordan Budwick, Laura Gardner, Christelle Isaac, Anita Stephen, Bryce Catarelli","doi":"10.1097/NNE.0000000000001933","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1097/NNE.0000000000001933","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54706,"journal":{"name":"Nurse Educator","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-06-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144512824","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 : 2025-06-24DOI: 10.1097/NNE.0000000000001929
Herica Torres Alzate
{"title":"Practical AI Prompt Design in Nursing Education using the NURSE Framework.","authors":"Herica Torres Alzate","doi":"10.1097/NNE.0000000000001929","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1097/NNE.0000000000001929","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54706,"journal":{"name":"Nurse Educator","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-06-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144509463","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 : 2025-06-20DOI: 10.1097/NNE.0000000000001917
Santina Abbate, Carol Della Ratta
{"title":"Transforming Undergraduate Evidence-Based Practice Education: Active Learning With Clinical Partner Engagement.","authors":"Santina Abbate, Carol Della Ratta","doi":"10.1097/NNE.0000000000001917","DOIUrl":"10.1097/NNE.0000000000001917","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Despite evidence-based practice (EBP) concepts having a presence in undergraduate curricula, many practicing nurses do not meet EBP competency.</p><p><strong>Problem: </strong>Schools of nursing are addressing this gap as major curricular revisions with a competency focus are underway to promote \"practice ready\" graduates.</p><p><strong>Approach: </strong>This article describes a semester-long EBP activity that involves team-based active learning within a large classroom environment and leverages academic-practice partner engagement to enhance undergraduate student learning and EBP competency attainment.</p><p><strong>Outcomes: </strong>This multifaceted active learning class, which included an experiential component, engaged students with a real clinical issue and led to strong performance on end-of-semester EBP assessments, demonstrating their ability to develop evidence-based solutions.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Combining active learning methods with practice partner collaboration in a large class setting is an innovative approach to advance undergraduate student EBP competency while addressing practice partner clinical issues.</p>","PeriodicalId":54706,"journal":{"name":"Nurse Educator","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-06-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144334463","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 : 2025-06-20DOI: 10.1097/NNE.0000000000001915
Melissa D Harlan, Elizabeth Skrovanek, Salina Torgerson, Zachary Perpetua, Valerie O'Loughlin, Christoph Hudack, Alissa Yen, Dianxu Ren, Paula Sherwood
{"title":"Meaningful Mentorship: Evaluation of a Mentorship Program to Reduce Burnout in Nursing Students and Graduate Nurses.","authors":"Melissa D Harlan, Elizabeth Skrovanek, Salina Torgerson, Zachary Perpetua, Valerie O'Loughlin, Christoph Hudack, Alissa Yen, Dianxu Ren, Paula Sherwood","doi":"10.1097/NNE.0000000000001915","DOIUrl":"10.1097/NNE.0000000000001915","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Mentorship effectively supports nurses in clinical practice, increasing mentees' clinical competence and confidence while reducing stress, thereby mitigating burnout.</p><p><strong>Problem: </strong>Nursing mentorship programs primarily focus on graduate nurses. It is unknown whether extending mentorship to nursing students results in positive outcomes.</p><p><strong>Approach: </strong>A multicomponent program was developed for undergraduate/graduate nursing students, graduate nurses, and included establishing a mentor-mentee pair, mentoring toolkit, and professional development lectures.</p><p><strong>Outcomes: </strong>Mentor and mentee reports demonstrate program feasibility and acceptability. Both groups reported high satisfaction with their counterparts at 3, 6, 9, and 12 months post-implementation. Burnout decreased significantly (P < .01) in mentors and mentees from baseline at 6 and 12 months.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Establishment of multicomponent mentorship programs in nursing education and practice shows promise in leading to positive outcomes, including reduced burnout, for nursing students, graduate nurses.</p>","PeriodicalId":54706,"journal":{"name":"Nurse Educator","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-06-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144337269","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 : 2025-06-12DOI: 10.1097/NNE.0000000000001916
Stephanie Wood, Andrea Smith, Amy Curtis, Katilya Ware, Chih-Hsuan Wang, Caralise W Hunt
{"title":"Advancing Equity in Nursing Education: Implementation, Revision, and Evaluation of Holistic Admissions in a College of Nursing.","authors":"Stephanie Wood, Andrea Smith, Amy Curtis, Katilya Ware, Chih-Hsuan Wang, Caralise W Hunt","doi":"10.1097/NNE.0000000000001916","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1097/NNE.0000000000001916","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Holistic admissions in nursing education consider a range of criteria. Faculty wanted to move to an admissions process that valued attributes in alignment with the mission and vision of the college.</p><p><strong>Purpose: </strong>Describe the implementation, evaluation, and revision of a holistic admissions process in a prelicensure baccalaureate program.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Implementation, revision, and evaluation of the holistic admission process are described. Three research questions were used to evaluate holistic admissions data using a longitudinal approach.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Implementation of holistic admissions led to an increase in the number of underrepresented students admitted to the nursing program. No significant differences were noted between underrepresented and non-underrepresented students on admission metrics. Graduation rates and NCLEX pass rates were similar for underrepresented and non-underrepresented student groups.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Study findings support the effectiveness of a holistic admissions process in increasing diversity within the nursing program while maintaining academic and professional success.</p>","PeriodicalId":54706,"journal":{"name":"Nurse Educator","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144327765","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 : 2025-06-03DOI: 10.1097/NNE.0000000000001910
Joel Sebastian Zugai, Yenna Salamonson, Rebecca Bosworth, Alex Chan, Catherine Stephen, Liesa Clague, Brandon Smith
{"title":"Pedagogical Merit of Storytelling in Nursing Education: A Qualitative Study of Student Perspectives.","authors":"Joel Sebastian Zugai, Yenna Salamonson, Rebecca Bosworth, Alex Chan, Catherine Stephen, Liesa Clague, Brandon Smith","doi":"10.1097/NNE.0000000000001910","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1097/NNE.0000000000001910","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Nurse educators use storytelling in their teaching in an ad hoc manner. The utility and implementation of storytelling in the classroom setting need to be better established.</p><p><strong>Purpose: </strong>To establish nursing students' perception of educators' use of storytelling in the classroom.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>This study was an exploratory qualitative investigation, involving the analysis of free-text responses from an anonymous survey. Survey responses were analyzed through thematic analysis.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Educators' stories were highly valued by students, as they effectively bridged theory and practice and established a classroom atmosphere conducive to meaningful learning experiences. Stories effectively engaged students' interest and attention and appealed to students' preferred learning style.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Stories assist students to scaffold new information onto their own preexisting knowledge, and new information is retained.</p>","PeriodicalId":54706,"journal":{"name":"Nurse Educator","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144217546","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 : 2025-05-27DOI: 10.1097/NNE.0000000000001896
Megan Lippe, Carrie Jo Braden, Sara L Gill
{"title":"Re-Envisioning Philosophy of Nursing Science Education to Advance PhD Student Development.","authors":"Megan Lippe, Carrie Jo Braden, Sara L Gill","doi":"10.1097/NNE.0000000000001896","DOIUrl":"10.1097/NNE.0000000000001896","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>A strong foundation in philosophy, theory, and disciplinary knowledge is essential for nurse scientists who engage in rigorous research to advance the discipline. Doctoral education curriculum should meet the learning needs of upcoming generations of technology-proficient students.</p><p><strong>Purpose: </strong>To describe a PhD program's innovative revision of the philosophy of nursing science course.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>The analyze, design, develop, implement, and evaluate instructional design model and 4 elements of the transformative doctoral education model guided the redesign.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Course content revisions resulted in 5 modules that developed students' identity as a nurse scientist, personal philosophy of nursing science, and understanding of philosophical paradigms. Course assignments fostered student skill development in scholarly writing and presentations. Student and program faculty supported positive course outcomes.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>The revised philosophy of nursing science course facilitated doctoral students' development as future nurse scientists and philosophers.</p>","PeriodicalId":54706,"journal":{"name":"Nurse Educator","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144095883","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}