Utilization of Phone Simulations to Assess Competency Within Nursing Education.

Background: Phone simulations offer educators unique opportunities for teaching and assessment with reduced scheduling and location barriers.

Problem: Challenges to learner assessments are multifaceted, including decreased availability of clinical sites, preceptors, and, at times, clinical instructors.

Approach: This article describes the creation and implementation of diverse phone simulations at multiple levels of nursing education and provides suggestions for broader replication and adaptation.

Development and Pilot Testing of a Multidimensional Learning Environment Survey.

Background: Multiple, complex factors comprise the learning environment and influence student learning outcomes, yet comprehensive evaluation of the learning environment in nursing schools is limited.

Purpose: The Learning Environment Survey (LES) was developed to facilitate nursing students' report of perceptions of the complex learning environment in nursing education.

Methods: Systematic exploration of the literature, conceptual operationalization of the learning environment, and development of an item pool were completed.

Speak-Up Culture in Academic Nursing: Empowering Junior Faculty.

Background: Faculty-to-faculty incivility in academic nursing is well documented, yet speaking up about the unprofessional behaviors of academic colleagues is still a challenge, particularly for junior faculty.

Method: A unique faculty development session presented an opportunity to explore junior faculty experiences and perceptions of incivility, with the objectives of addressing concerns in a safe environment, identifying appropriate responses and resources for managing incivility, and supporting decisional influences on speaking up.

Results: Junior faculty were valued for their unique perspectives of the institutional culture and empowered as members of speak-up culture in the academic setting.

Development of an interprofessional clinical learning environment report card.

Multiple factors in the learning environment can encourage or impede student learning. Unanswered questions regarding the shared learning environment for graduate nursing and medical education and the desire for an ongoing improvement process drove creation of an interprofessional collaborative and development of an Interprofessional Clinical Learning Environment Report Card (I-CLERC) at one U.S.

Collaborative Strategies for Management of Obstetric Hemorrhage.

Obstetric hemorrhage is a significant cause of perinatal morbidity and mortality that requires prompt recognition and collaborative intervention to prevent poor outcomes. Medical and surgical management goals include controlling bleeding, supporting tissue oxygenation and perfusion, and monitoring for coagulopathies and complications.

The power of nursing: An innovative course in values clarification and self-discovery.

Teaching for a practice is more than the dissemination of knowledge and information to the learner. Professional nursing education requires teachers to facilitate students' self-reflection and awareness and assimilation of core professional and personal values in order for the new nurse to anchor and internalize these values as part of a professional identity. To achieve this, nursing educators recognize the importance of learning opportunities centered in the affective domain and the importance of teaching for professional formation that supports nursing students' commitment to the values of their chosen community of practice.

Acute volume resuscitation following obstetric hemorrhage.

Hemorrhage remains a leading cause of pregnancy-related morbidity and mortality. A rapid collaborative approach to management of the woman experiencing excessive blood loss is required to optimize outcomes. Successful treatment of the hemorrhaging pregnant woman is dependent on early recognition of bleeding and clinical manifestations of shock, treatment of the underlying cause of the hemorrhage, and simultaneous restoration of adequate circulating volume as well as blood component therapy.

Assessing learning styles: practical tips for patient education.

Nurses must facilitate and support patient and family decision-making and improvement in health outcomes using instructional skills. Complex patient needs and nursing responsibilities necessitate thoughtful consideration for maximizing the effectiveness of patient teaching encounters. This article reviews assessment of patient learning styles in combination with context for an individualized approach, as well as motivation for adult learners as a framework for organization of patient teaching.

Burn injuries and pregnancy.

Although burn injuries during pregnancy are considered relatively rare, the exact incidence is not known. Multiple factors influence morbidity and mortality resulting from burn injuries during pregnancy. These factors include the depth and size of the burn, the woman's underlying health and age, and the estimated gestational age of the fetus.