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Dr. Rebecca Fenton, in her pediatric course, prepares nursing students to do vision and hearing screenings for school-aged children. She follows the Texas screening guidelines, and manual. Following this training, students are able to get their certifications in visual and hearing screening. Learn more about this in the podcast.

Finding strategies to engage students in the application of nursing ethics is challenging. To provide a safe venue for students to wrestle with ethically wrought patient scenarios, faculty created vignettes based on personal clinical experiences that present numerous ethical dilemmas. These vignettes help students to use critical thinking and communication skills and to develop self-awareness of personal bias. Susan Siebert and Ashley Carter explain their teaching strategy in this podcast.

Julie Blazek and Dr. Toni Morris discuss the benefits of exposing prelicensure students to primary care nursing. They describe their academic minor in primary care, curriculum revision to include experiences in primary care, and collaboration with clinical partners.

Rana Najjar, Joanne Noone, and Karen Reifenstein discuss supporting an inclusive environment through correct name pronunciation. They share key times and strategies to pronounce names correctly.

Academic nursing has a long history of partnering with practice-based settings to provide clinical learning experiences for nursing students; however, these placements are not easily obtained, especially in pediatrics. The COVID-19 pandemic required a pediatric hospital and 3 academic nursing programs to rethink clinical instruction through an academic-practice partnership. This podcast with Drs. Simmy King, Bethany Cieslowski, Denise Pope, and Devora Winkfield presents the structure and outcomes of the partnership to help promote student learning in a BSN program.

Continued restrictions imposed on face-to-face learning related to the pandemic resulted in a decision to permanently transition a graduate nursing education advanced assessment course from a hybrid to an online learning modality. This podcast with Drs. Barnes and Vance presents the process of transitioning from a hybrid format to a totally online format in a physical assessment course for advanced practice nursing students. Student-centered learning, faculty presence, student and faculty engagement, student-to-student engagement, and critical thinking are emphasized.