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Active learning strategies for responding to bias often involve students role-playing potentially triggering scenes. A virtual escape room was developed to encourage the same level of active learning, while removing students from the need to playact distressing explicit and implicit bias. The escape room includes several virtual environments depicting different varieties of bias and prompting student responses. In this podcast and article, Juliann Stanis discusses the virtual escape room and why she developed it.

The increasing trend of human and natural disasters in the world has given rise to the importance of disaster preparedness in nursing education. Dr. Jessica Gregg describes an innovative strategy she developed in which students create their own disaster simulations. Students were assigned to the roles of patient, narrator, or triaging nurse who was faced with limited resources and supplies. Learn more in this podcast and teaching tip.

Dr. Beth Tremblay and Dr. Janice Hawkins describe their approach to integrating climate and health topics in prelicensure education with their “energy efficiency treasure hunt” and Climate for Health Ambassador Training. In this podcast, they share specific topics, tools, and teaching strategies you can use to thread climate education throughout nursing education curricula.
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In this podcast, Dr. Lesley Bonfe and Dr. Emily Carroll share their teaching strategy to build communication competencies based on the SBAR format. Learn more about how they use a consistent rubric over two years of a nursing program to assess progressive levels of competency development in prioritizing and communicating patient information to healthcare colleagues and family members.
Article: https://journals.lww.com/nurseeducatoronline/citation/9900/raising_the_sbar.300.aspx

Drs. Catarelli and Booker describe the Innovation Studio they developed for teaching prelicensure students about evidence-based practice. Students self-selected a team and worked collaboratively through the steps of EBP to develop an innovative solution to clinical problem. This was followed by a Shark Tank, where the selected teams pitched their clinical product or prototype to local nursing leaders and alumni. Learn more about this engaging and interactive strategy in the podcast and the authors’ Teaching Tip.

Nursing education is moving toward competency-based education (CBE) and assessment. In this podcast, Dr. Gerry Altmiller discusses CBE and explains how to develop strategies for measuring competence. She shares a study that used screen-based virtual patient simulation as a strategy for assisting learners in developing competencies and for assessing outcomes.
Learn more about CBE and assessment in their article.