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Accelerated BSN Programs For Those Who Want To Move Into Nursing

by VickyRN, MSN, DNP, RN

Accelerated BSN programs are an innovative approach to nursing education, available for individuals who hold a non-nursing bachelor's or higher degree and who...

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What are the Advantages and Disadvantages of an Associate Degree in Nursing?
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Entry into RN Practice: Associate Degree Nursing (ADN)

by VickyRN, MSN, DNP, RN

There are multiple entry levels into the profession of registered nursing. The various entry points are associate-degree in nursing (ADN), bachelor of science...

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Effective PowerPoint Presentations

by VickyRN, MSN, DNP, RN

"Oh no, not another PowerPoint presentation!" you mutter softly to yourself as you slip into a seat in the back of the dark auditorium. Unfortunately, your...

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Desired Characteristics of Effective Nurse Educators - My Ideal Nu…

by VickyRN, MSN, DNP, RN

As nurse faculty, we constantly strive to be the most effective instructors that we can be. The effective nurse educator, whether operating in the clinical...

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Should Nurse Educators be the 5th APN specialty area?
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Nurse Educator Role - A Fifth Advanced Practice Nursing Specialty?

by VickyRN, MSN, DNP, RN

Advanced practice nurses (APNs) are defined as registered nurses "possessing advanced specialized clinical knowledge and skills through master's or doctoral...

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The Clinical Post Conference - A Few Guidelines

by VickyRN, MSN, DNP, RN

The clinical post conference has a unique focus in nursing education: the student's own behavior and experience. Ideally, it should provide a nurturing setting...

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The Psychomotor Domain

by VickyRN, MSN, DNP, RN

Psychomotor learning is one of the three domains, or broad categories, of educational behaviors. It is based on manual or physical skills and includes fine and...

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Teaching and Learning in the Affective Domain

by VickyRN, MSN, DNP, RN

The affective domain describes a person's emotional attributes. As educators, why should we be concerned with the affective domain and how can these factors...

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Performance Based Development System (PBDS)

by VickyRN, MSN, DNP, RN

Few subjects have stirred up as much controversy within the nursing community as the Performance Based Development System (PBDS) nursing "competency"...

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Novice: The First Stage on Your Journey

by VickyRN, MSN, DNP, RN

The novice stage - we've all experienced it. It's a time of stretching and rapid personal and professional growth. The stretching can be humbling and painful,...

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Cheating in the Classroom

by VickyRN, MSN, DNP, RN

Cheating is always a potential problem in the university or college setting. It is very problematic for students, in that their learning is being circumvented....

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Analysis of Covariance

by VickyRN, MSN, DNP, RN

Analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) is a statistical technique that blends analysis of variance and linear regression analysis. It is a more sophisticated method of...

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Multiple Linear Regression

by VickyRN, MSN, DNP, RN

Regression analysis is a broad term for statistical techniques used to model and analyze numerical data consisting of values of a dependent variable y (also...

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Logistic Regression

by VickyRN, MSN, DNP, RN

Regression analysis is used to predict a continuous dependent variable from a number of independent variables. If the dependent variable is dichotomous, then...

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Active Learning Strategy: The One-Minute Paper

by VickyRN, MSN, DNP, RN

As teachers, gauging our students' comprehension of class content can be challenging. Sadly, low scores on the first exam often serve as the wake-up call that...

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From Teaching to Learning - The Advantages of Passive vs. Active L…

by VickyRN, MSN, DNP, RN

Passive Learning is the mode of learning most commonly present in classrooms.

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The Clinical Reflection

by VickyRN, MSN, DNP, RN

A clinical reflection is a descriptive "story" that nursing students write about their clinical day. As simple as this journaling exercise seems, it is a...

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Gerontological Nursing: The Interrelationship Between Theory, Prac…

by VickyRN, MSN, DNP, RN

This paper discusses the interrelationship between nursing theory, research, and practice in the specialty area of gerontological nursing. Knowledge needs...

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Mixed Between-Within Subjects ANOVA

by VickyRN, MSN, DNP, RN

Mixed between-within subjects ANOVA (also known as a split-plot ANOVA) combines two different types of one-way ANOVA into one study: between-groups ANOVA and...

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T-Tests and One-Way ANOVA

by VickyRN, MSN, DNP, RN

T-tests and analysis of variance (ANOVA) are widely used statistical methods to compare group means. Both are parametric statistical techniques, in that these...

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