TchRN

Yavapai College in Prescott

We are embarking on curriculum revision at my ADN program in Arizona and are looking at QSEN competencies and the recommendations from the IOM report on nursing to guide our framework. Hope this helps. Good luck on your dissertation!

I'm a simulation guru in our the program where I teach and I'm just doing an informal study on how other RN programs are utilizing simulations...We do not evaluate or "grade" our simulation experiences. They are considered a formative learning experience. We use them in lieu of one first semester clinical day, two days in second semester and then third semester does a couple of simulation days for a peds experience. I'm just wondering how other programs are currently using sims? I am a proponent of evaluating students if this is to be a clinical experience, but others are opposed to this. I see some students not taking it seriously, some students who perform very poorly during this experience with no recourse, and others who shine. Thanks for your input!

I am wondering how educators deal with students who speak English as their second language when they are extremely difficult to understand? Appropriate, effective communication is such a critical component of nursing and there is absolutely no way to be a good nurse without it. Any pointers for helping students succeed who are struggling with English? THANKS!

I teach skills in an RN program as well as clinical. I'm continuously referring to the nursing process in my demonstrations of skills. I ask the students to give me examples of nursing diagnoses that would be appropriate for the particular skill I'm teaching. I then talk about the assessments necessary to that skills and then, of course, the interventions that are related. In clinical, I challenge my students to identify for me the main nursing focus of their day, i.e., safety because a patient was confused and trying to get out of bed. Then they have to share with their peers in post-conference discussion, all the things they did to keep their patient safe (their goal) during their shift. I generally see good care plans from my students in clinical. Hope this helps.